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John Waters
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.
Release Date | Title | Character Name | Rating | Your Lists |
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June 4th, 2025 | A Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard | Self | 6 | |
January 5th, 2024 | Scala!!! | Self | 7.8 | |
May 15th, 2023 | Lynch/Oz | Host (Chapter 3: 'Kindred') (voice) | 6.9 | |
April 11th, 2023 | Little Richard: I Am Everything | Self | 6.7 | |
August 31st, 2022 | Fragments of Paradise | Self | 6.5 | |
August 13th, 2022 | Living with Chucky | Self | 6.5 | |
August 10th, 2022 | The Book of Harth | Self | 8.5 | |
May 23rd, 2022 | Tell Me Iggy | Self | 8 | |
November 8th, 2021 | Blood, Guts and Sunshine: The History of Horror Made in Florida | Self [archival] | 7 | |
October 15th, 2021 | The Velvet Underground | Self | 6.8 | |
October 11th, 2019 | At the Video Store | Self | 10 | |
June 24th, 2016 | Wall Writers | Narrator (voice) | 6.2 | |
September 8th, 2015 | The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin | TBD | 6 | |
May 30th, 2015 | Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story | Self | 5.8 | |
March 15th, 2015 | Tab Hunter Confidential | Self | 7.3 | |
July 19th, 2014 | Suburban Gothic | Cornelius | 5.5 | |
March 26th, 2014 | I Am Divine | Self | 7.3 | |
December 6th, 2013 | Jingle Bell Rocks! | Self | TBD | |
April 4th, 2013 | Paul Bowles: The Cage Door Is Always Open | Self | 5 | |
March 27th, 2013 | The Sarnos: A Life in Dirty Movies | Self | 5.9 | |
September 12th, 2012 | Excision | William | 6.2 | |
May 18th, 2012 | Mansome | Self | 4.8 | |
November 4th, 2011 | The Advocate for Fagdom | Self | 5.3 | |
April 6th, 2011 | Blank City | Self | 7.1 | |
April 1st, 2011 | Mangus! | Jesus Christ | 1 | |
January 22nd, 2011 | These Amazing Shadows | Self | 7.4 | |
November 5th, 2010 | William S. Burroughs: A Man Within | Self | 6.5 | |
June 1st, 2010 | Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore | TBD | 5.9 | |
April 2nd, 2010 | Beautiful Darling | Self | 6 | |
September 22nd, 2009 | It Came from Kuchar | Self | 7.1 | |
October 31st, 2008 | The Wild World of Ted V. Mikels | Narrator | 6 | |
September 26th, 2008 | Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press | Self | 4.4 | |
March 5th, 2008 | New Line Cinema: The First Generation and the Next Generation | Self | 10 | |
December 31st, 2007 | 365 Day Project | Self | 10 | |
October 23rd, 2007 | The Junior Defenders | Narrator | 5 | |
July 19th, 2007 | Hairspray | Flasher | 6.7 | |
March 30th, 2007 | Each Time I Kill | Movie Watcher | 6 | |
February 16th, 2007 | Here’s Looking at You, Boy | Self | 4.8 | |
November 24th, 2006 | This Filthy World | Self | 7.6 | |
August 1st, 2006 | The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off & On Broadway | Self | TBD | |
June 20th, 2006 | Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream | Self | 6.3 | |
June 6th, 2006 | Mommie Dearest: Joan Lives On | TBD | 10 | |
March 21st, 2006 | 42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage | Self | 6 | |
March 21st, 2006 | Footlight Parade: Music for the Decades | TBD | TBD | |
March 21st, 2006 | (buz'be bur'kle) n. A Study in Style | Self | 7.5 | |
February 24th, 2006 | Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea | Self - Narrator (voice) | 6.8 | |
February 12th, 2006 | Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema | Self | 5.4 | |
January 25th, 2006 | This Film Is Not Yet Rated | Self - Director of 'A Dirty Shame' | 7.1 | |
January 13th, 2006 | That Man: Peter Berlin | Self | 6.5 | |
November 12th, 2004 | Seed of Chucky | Pete Peters | 5.5 | |
October 27th, 2004 | Thinking XXX | Self | 5.5 | |
January 14th, 2003 | A History of Sex | Self | 5.5 | |
March 31st, 2002 | Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat | The Reverend | 4.8 | |
March 31st, 2000 | Divine Trash | Self | 7.2 | |
December 3rd, 1999 | Sweet and Lowdown | Mr. Haynes | 6.8 | |
September 3rd, 1999 | In Bad Taste | Self | 8 | |
August 9th, 1999 | Yesterday's Tomorrows | Self | 8.5 | |
June 23rd, 1995 | God Save the Queens | TBD | TBD | |
August 17th, 1989 | Homer and Eddie | Robber #1 | 5.6 | |
November 7th, 1986 | Something Wild | Used Car Guy | 6.6 | |
March 31st, 1976 | Pink Flamingos | Mr. J (narration) (uncredited) | 6.1 | |
TBD | My Life with the Waters | Self | TBD | |
TBD | Mary Woronov: Cult Queen | Self | TBD | |
TBD | The Brandon Novak Story | Self | TBD | |
July 3rd, 2026 | Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World | Self | TBD | |
February 23rd, 2026 | Gays Against Guns | TBD | TBD | |
December 12th, 2025 | Sarah Squirm: Live + in the Flesh | Stage Manager | 5.4 | |
August 1st, 2025 | TURA! | Self | 7 | |
July 6th, 2025 | Velvet Vision: The Story of James Bidgood and the Making of Pink Narcissus | Self | TBD | |
June 7th, 2025 | It's Dorothy! | Self | 4 | |
November 19th, 2024 | As Time Goes By | TBD | TBD | |
November 1st, 2024 | Doc of Chucky | Self | 7.8 | |
November 13th, 2022 | Don't Fall in Love with Yourself | Self (Archival) | 5 | |
November 20th, 2020 | The Mystery of the Pink Flamingo | Himself | 5.6 | |
June 23rd, 2020 | Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp | Host | 6.8 | |
May 19th, 2020 | Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi | Host | 6.4 | |
April 21st, 2020 | Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness | Host | 6.8 | |
March 23rd, 2020 | Joel Calls Indie Film Type Dudes | TBD | TBD | |
December 14th, 2019 | 30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing | Self | 5.3 | |
September 29th, 2019 | Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn | Self | 6.1 | |
September 17th, 2019 | Sniffing Out ‘Polyester’ | Self | TBD | |
November 2nd, 2018 | Mugworth | Sir Butler | TBD | |
June 26th, 2018 | Crime and Beauty: Making ‘Female Trouble’ | TBD | TBD | |
June 26th, 2018 | Female Trouble: On-Set Footage | TBD | TBD | |
February 22nd, 2018 | Sickies Making Films | Self | 5 | |
June 12th, 2017 | Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution | Self | 7 | |
January 29th, 2017 | Mansfield 66/67 | Self | 4.8 | |
May 9th, 2016 | In Conversation With Director John Waters, Actress Kathleen Turner and Actress Mink Stole | Self | TBD | |
March 10th, 2016 | Whatever Happened to Gelitin | Self | 2 | |
December 17th, 2015 | Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip | First Class Passenger | 6 | |
October 30th, 2015 | Sympathy for the Devil: The True Story of The Process Church of the Final Judgment | Self | 5.7 | |
June 26th, 2014 | The Last Impresario | Self | 5.5 | |
October 31st, 2012 | Frankenstein: A Modern Myth | Self - Director | 7 | |
January 10th, 2010 | The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special - In 3D! On Ice! | Self | 6.9 | |
March 1st, 2009 | For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism | Self | 5.7 | |
July 29th, 2008 | Starz Inside: In the Gutter | Self | 4.5 | |
January 1st, 2008 | Coven of the Heathenites | Self | TBD | |
November 8th, 2007 | Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story | Self | 7.8 | |
October 21st, 2007 | Jessica the Hippo | Narrator (Voice) | TBD | |
April 11th, 2007 | Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis | Self | 6.6 | |
October 3rd, 2006 | Treasures Untold: The Making of Disney's 'The Little Mermaid' | Self | TBD | |
September 22nd, 2006 | Jackass Number Two | Self | 6.6 | |
March 21st, 2006 | Busby Berkeley's Kaleidoscopic Eyes | TBD | TBD | |
January 1st, 2006 | Meet The Kuchar Brothers | TBD | TBD | |
January 1st, 2006 | I, of the Cyclops | TBD | TBD | |
July 12th, 2005 | It Came from... Baltimore!! | Self | 7.6 | |
June 14th, 2005 | All the Dirt on 'A Dirty Shame' | Self | 7.7 | |
February 11th, 2005 | Inside Deep Throat | Self | 6.5 | |
July 20th, 2004 | Closer Than That: A Documentary on Low | Himself | TBD | |
October 28th, 2003 | Abby Singer | John Waters (uncredited) | 6.8 | |
August 27th, 2002 | Sylvester: Mighty Real | Self | 10 | |
January 16th, 2002 | The Cockettes | Self | 6.7 | |
June 24th, 2001 | Memories of Oz | Self | 6.8 | |
October 27th, 2000 | Welcome to Hollywood | John Waters | 4.1 | |
September 8th, 2000 | Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story | Self | 6.6 | |
August 2nd, 2000 | Cecil B. Demented | Reporter | 6.4 | |
January 1st, 1999 | Forever Hollywood | Self | 8.3 | |
September 25th, 1998 | Pecker | Pervert on Phone (voice) (uncredited) | 6.1 | |
January 31st, 1998 | Anarchy TV | TBD | 5 | |
July 25th, 1997 | Anthem | Self | 5.4 | |
August 13th, 1996 | Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow! | TBD | TBD | |
April 13th, 1994 | Serial Mom | Ted Bundy (voice) (uncredited) | 6.7 | |
February 26th, 1988 | Hairspray | Dr. Fredrickson | 6.8 | |
January 1st, 1985 | Divine Waters | Self | 7.6 | |
March 14th, 1969 | Mondo Trasho | Reporter (voice) (uncredited) | 5.2 | |
TBD | Baltigore | The Broker | TBD | |
February 12th, 1982 | Nuart Theatre no smoking PSA | TBD | TBD | |
TBD | Mamie Exposed! The Life and Loves of the Last Blonde Bombshell | TBD | TBD | |
October 13th, 1993 | The Big Wet | Narrator | TBD | |
January 1st, 1993 | Growing Up with John Waters | Self | TBD | |
January 1st, 1991 | Gastronomic Getaway | TBD | 8.5 | |
January 1st, 1988 | Way USA! | TBD | TBD | |
March 13th, 1985 | The Ballad of Sexual Dependency | TBD | TBD | |
January 1st, 1976 | Edith's Shopping Bag | Self | 6.8 | |
January 1st, 1975 | Love Letter to Edie | Self | 6.5 | |
TBD | Serial Mom: Surreal Moments | Self | TBD |