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.
Fotos
Películas (162)
Vincent Price: What Keeps Us Alive
2026
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World
2026 · Self
Return to Mortville
2026 · Self
Eddie Cochran: Don't Forget Me
2026 · Self
Gays Against Guns
2026
Sarah Squirm: Live + in the Flesh
2025 · Stage Manager
Room Temperature
2025 · Thanks
TURA!
2025 · Self
Velvet Vision: The Story of James Bidgood and the Making of Pink Narcissus
2025 · Self
It's Dorothy!
2025 · Self
A Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard
2025 · Self
Marisa y Gomoso
2025 · Thanks
As Time Goes By
2024
Doc of Chucky
2024 · Self
Scala!!!
2024 · Self
Lynch/Oz
2023 · Host (Chapter 3: 'Kindred') (voice)
Little Richard: I Am Everything
2023 · Self
Don't Fall in Love with Yourself
2022 · Self (Archival)
Fragments of Paradise
2022 · Self
Living with Chucky
2022 · Self
The Book of Harth
2022 · Self
Tell Me Iggy
2022 · Self
Blood, Guts and Sunshine: The History of Horror Made in Florida
2021 · Self [archival]
The Velvet Underground
2021 · Self
My Life with the Waters
2021 · Self
The Mystery of the Pink Flamingo
2020 · Himself
Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp
2020 · Host
Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi
2020 · Host
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
2020 · Host
Joel Calls Indie Film Type Dudes
2020
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019 · Self, Director
At the Video Store
2019 · Self
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
2019 · Self
Sniffing Out ‘Polyester’
2019 · Self, Thanks
Permanent Green Light
2019 · Thanks
Mugworth
2018 · Sir Butler
Crime and Beauty: Making ‘Female Trouble’
2018
Female Trouble: On-Set Footage
2018
Sickies Making Films
2018 · Self
Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution
2017 · Self
Mansfield 66/67
2017 · Self
Hairspray Live!
2016 · Associate Producer, Original Story
Wall Writers
2016 · Narrator (voice)
In Conversation With Director John Waters, Actress Kathleen Turner and Actress Mink Stole
2016 · Self
Whatever Happened to Gelitin
2016 · Self
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip
2015 · First Class Passenger
Sympathy for the Devil: The True Story of The Process Church of the Final Judgment
2015 · Self
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
2015
Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story
2015 · Self
Tab Hunter Confidential
2015 · Self
Kiddie Flamingos
2015 · Writer, Director
Suburban Gothic
2014 · Cornelius
The Last Impresario
2014 · Self
I Am Divine
2014 · Self
Jingle Bell Rocks!
2013 · Self
Paul Bowles: The Cage Door Is Always Open
2013 · Self
The Sarnos: A Life in Dirty Movies
2013 · Self
Frankenstein: A Modern Myth
2012 · Self - Director
Excision
2012 · William
Mansome
2012 · Self
The Advocate for Fagdom
2011 · Self
Blank City
2011 · Self
Mangus!
2011 · Jesus Christ
These Amazing Shadows
2011 · Self
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
2010 · Self
Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore
2010
Beautiful Darling
2010 · Self
Putty Hill
2010 · Thanks
The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special - In 3D! On Ice!
2010 · Self
It Came from Kuchar
2009 · Self
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
2009 · Self
The Wild World of Ted V. Mikels
2008 · Narrator
Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press
2008 · Self
Starz Inside: In the Gutter
2008 · Self
New Line Cinema: The First Generation and the Next Generation
2008 · Self
Coven of the Heathenites
2008 · Self
365 Day Project
2007 · Self
You Can’t Stop the Beat: The Long Journey of "Hairspray"
2007 · Self
The Roots of 'Hairspray'
2007 · Self
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
2007 · Self
The Junior Defenders
2007 · Narrator
Jessica the Hippo
2007 · Narrator (Voice)
An American Crime
2007 · Thanks
Hairspray
2007 · Flasher, Original Film Writer
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
2007 · Self
Each Time I Kill
2007 · Movie Watcher
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
2007 · Self
This Filthy World
2006 · Self, Screenplay
Treasures Untold: The Making of Disney's 'The Little Mermaid'
2006 · Self
Jackass Number Two
2006 · Self
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
2006 · Self - Director of 'A Dirty Shame'
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off & On Broadway
2006 · Self
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
2006 · Self
Mommie Dearest: Joan Lives On
2006
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
2006 · Self
Busby Berkeley's Kaleidoscopic Eyes
2006
Footlight Parade: Music for the Decades
2006
(buz'be bur'kle) n. A Study in Style
2006 · Self
Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea
2006 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
2006 · Self
That Man: Peter Berlin
2006 · Self
Meet The Kuchar Brothers
2006
I, of the Cyclops
2006
It Came from... Baltimore!!
2005 · Self
All the Dirt on 'A Dirty Shame'
2005 · Self
Inside Deep Throat
2005 · Self
Seed of Chucky
2004 · Pete Peters
Thinking XXX
2004 · Self
A Dirty Shame
2004 · Director, Writer
Closer Than That: A Documentary on Low
2004 · Himself
Abby Singer
2003 · John Waters (uncredited)
A History of Sex
2003 · Self
Sylvester: Mighty Real
2002 · Self
Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat
2002 · The Reverend
The Cockettes
2002 · Self
Memories of Oz
2001 · Self
Welcome to Hollywood
2000 · John Waters
Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story
2000 · Self
Cecil B. Demented
2000 · Reporter, Director, Writer
Divine Trash
2000 · Self
Sweet and Lowdown
1999 · Mr. Haynes
In Bad Taste
1999 · Self
Yesterday's Tomorrows
1999 · Self
Forever Hollywood
1999 · Self
Pecker
1998 · Pervert on Phone (voice) (uncredited), Director, Screenplay
Anarchy TV
1998
Whipped
1998 · Thanks
Anthem
1997 · Self
Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!
1996
God Save the Queens
1995
Serial Mom
1994 · Ted Bundy (voice) (uncredited), Director, Writer
The Big Wet
1993 · Narrator
Growing Up with John Waters
1993 · Self
Poison
1991 · Thanks
Gastronomic Getaway
1991
Cry-Baby
1990 · Director, Writer
Homer and Eddie
1989 · Robber #1
Hairspray
1988 · Dr. Fredrickson, Director, Co-Producer, Writer
Way USA!
1988
Something Wild
1986 · Used Car Guy
The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
1985
Divine Waters
1985 · Self
Nuart Theatre No Smoking PSA
1982 · Self, Director
Polyester
1981 · Director, Producer, Writer
Desperate Living
1977 · Director, Writer, Additional Photography, Producer
Female Trouble
1976 · Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Producer, Writer
Edith's Shopping Bag
1976 · Self
Love Letter to Edie
1975 · Self
Pink Flamingos
1972 · Mr. J (narration) (uncredited), Editor, Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Writer
The Diane Linkletter Story
1970 · Producer, Writer, Editor, Director, Director of Photography
Multiple Maniacs
1970 · Original Music Composer, Writer, Director, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography
Mondo Trasho
1969 · Reporter (voice) (uncredited), Original Music Composer, Writer, Director, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography
Eat Your Makeup
1968 · Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor
Dorothy, the Kansas City Pot Head
1968 · Writer, Director
Roman Candles
1967 · Director, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography, Producer
Hag in a Black Leather Jacket
1964 · Director, Director of Photography, Producer, Writer, Editor
Mary Woronov: Cult Queen
· Self
The Brandon Novak Story
· Self
Baltigore
· The Broker
Mamie Exposed! The Life and Loves of the Last Blonde Bombshell
New Line: Independent Legacies
· Self
Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance
· Director
Series (54)
Kevin
2026 · Armando (voice)
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
2025 · Self - Writer and Film Director
Digman!
2023 · Magnus (voice)
Monster High
2022 · Scarecrow Von Twolegs (voice), Treat (voice)
Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow
2022
The Andy Warhol Diaries
2022 · Self
Chucky
2021 · Wendell Wilkins
Pride
2021 · Self
Helluva Boss
2020 · Rolando (voice)
Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time
2020 · Self - Host
Liverspots and Astronots
2018 · O-Dor
Explained
2018 · Narrator (voice)
FEUD
2017 · William Castle
Search Party
2016 · Sheffield
The New Yorker Presents
2016 · Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Self - Guest
Clarence
2014 · Captain Tom (voice)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Self - Guest
HitRECord on TV with Joseph Gordon-Levitt
2014 · Self
The Blacklist
2013 · John Waters
RuPaul Drives...
2013 · Self - Guest
Finding Your Roots
2012 · Self
American Horror Story
2011 · Mr. Phibes
Fish Hooks
2010 · The Yeti Lobster (voice), Ezekiel Freshwater / Hair Man (voice)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009 · Self - Guest
RuPaul's Drag Race
2009 · Self - Guest Judge, Self - Special Guest
Indie Sex
2007 · Self
'Til Death Do Us Part
2007
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · Self - Guest
I Love the '70s: Volume 2
2006 · Self
The Henry Rollins Show
2006
The Colbert Report
2005 · Self - Guest
My Name Is Earl
2005 · Walter Hamerick
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003 · Self - Guest
La Ley y el Orden: Unidad de Víctimas Especiales
1999 · Pornmonger Man
The Roseanne Show
1998 · Self - Guest
So Graham Norton
1998 · Self - Guest
The View
1997 · Self
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
The Daily Show
1996 · Self - Guest, Self
Film Independent Spirit Awards
1996 · Self - Host
Family Album
1994 · Vincent
Eurotrash
1993
Frasier
1993 · Roger (voice)
Late Show with David Letterman
1993 · Self - Guest
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993 · R. Vincent Smith
HBO First Look
1992
The Word
1990
Los Simpson
1989 · John (voice)
The Incredibly Strange Film Show
1988 · Self
21 Jump Street
1987 · Mr. Bean
Late Night with David Letterman
1982 · Self - Guest
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Self (uncredited)
Tony Awards
1956 · Self - Presenter