John Waters

Also Known As: John S. Waters, جان واترز

Biography: John Samuel Waters Jr. (born April 22, 1946) is an American filmmaker, writer, actor, and artist. He rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films, including Multiple Maniacs (1970), Pink Flamingos (1972) and Female Trouble (1974). Waters wrote and directed the comedy film Hairspray (1988), which was later adapted into a hit Broadway musical and a 2007 musical film. Other films he has written and directed include Desperate Living (1977), Polyester (1981), Cry-Baby (1990), Serial Mom (1994), Pecker (1998), and Cecil B. Demented (2000). His films contain elements of post-modern comedy and surrealism. As an actor, Waters has appeared in Sweet and Lowdown (1999), 'Til Death Do Us Part (2007), Mangus! (2011), Excision (2012), Suburban Gothic (2014), and has appeared in the Child's Play franchise with Seed of Chucky (2004) and third season of the television series Chucky (2024). He hosted and produced the television series John Waters Presents Movies That Will Corrupt You (2006). Throughout his career, Waters has often collaborated with actor and drag queen Divine and his regular cast of the Dreamlanders. More recently, he performs in his touring one-man show This Filthy World. Waters also works as a visual artist and across different media, such as installations, photography, and sculpture. The audiobooks he narrated for his books Carsick and Mr. Know-It-All were nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album in 2015 and 2020, respectively. In 2018, Waters was named an officer of the Order of Arts and Letters in France. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2023. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Waters, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Department: Directing

Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Adult: No

Birthday: April 22, 1946

Age: 79 years old

Gender: Male

Popularity:

3.24%

Known For:

Mommie Dearest: Joan Lives On
Seed of Chucky
Something Wild
The Velvet Underground
Thinking XXX
Blood, Guts and Sunshine: The History of Horror Made in Florida
Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea
Sweet and Lowdown
Weiner
The Wild World of Ted V. Mikels
Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat
Little Richard: I Am Everything
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Jingle Bell Rocks!
It Came from Kuchar
Homer and Eddie
This Filthy World
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story
Pink Flamingos
The Book of Harth
Divine Trash
Mangus!
Excision
My Life with the Waters
Obscene
Yesterday's Tomorrows
Mansome
The Advocate for Fagdom
Love Letter to Edie
Paul Bowles: The Cage Door Is Always Open
In Bad Taste
Lynch/Oz
A History of Sex
That Man: Peter Berlin
I Am Divine
Uncle Bob
Tell Me Iggy
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
Beautiful Darling
God Save the Queens
No Smoking in This Theater
Living with Chucky
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off & On Broadway
Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
Suburban Gothic
Mary Woronov: Cult Queen
The Brandon Novak Story
These Amazing Shadows
Fragments of Paradise
The Junior Defenders
Scala!!!
The Sarnos: A Life in Dirty Movies
At the Video Store
All the Dirt on 'A Dirty Shame'
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
New Line Cinema: The First Generation and the Next Generation
Sylvester: Mighty Real
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
Tab Hunter Confidential
A Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard
Each Time I Kill
Wall Writers
Blank City
365 Day Project
Hairspray
Footlight Parade: Music for the Decades
Busby Berkeley's Kaleidoscopic Eyes
(buz'be bur'kle) n. A Study in Style
TURA!
Mansfield 66/67
Jackass Number Two
Whatever Happened to Gelitin
Welcome to Hollywood
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
Edith's Shopping Bag
Abby Singer
Way USA!
Growing Up with John Waters
Meet The Kuchar Brothers
I, of the Cyclops
Gastronomic Getaway
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip
Memories of Oz
Sickies Making Films
Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story
Inside Deep Throat
It Came from... Baltimore!!
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
Forever Hollywood
Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution
The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
Mugworth
Starz Inside: In the Gutter
Coven of the Heathenites
There's a Hippo in my House
Serial Mom
In Conversation With Director John Waters, Actress Kathleen Turner and Actress Mink Stole
Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!
The Mystery of the Pink Flamingo
The Cockettes
Sympathy For The Devil: The True Story of The Process Church of the Final Judgment
Anthem
Pecker
Cecil B. Demented
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi
Frankenstein: A Modern Myth
Hairspray
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
Divine Waters
Mondo Trasho
Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp
Joel Calls Indie Film Type Dudes
Sniffing Out ‘Polyester’
Crime and Beauty: Making ‘Female Trouble’
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
Treasures Untold: The Making of Disney's 'The Little Mermaid'
Anarchy TV
Don't Fall in Love with Yourself
Doc of Chucky
Closer Than That: A Documentary on Low
As Time Goes By
It's Dorothy!