John Waters

John Waters

Directing

Born April 22, 1946 · Baltimore, Maryland, USA

21 films as director · Active 1964–2019

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)…

Known for

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

1999

The Simpsons

The Simpsons

1989

The Daily Show

The Daily Show

1996

The Daily Show

The Daily Show

1996

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

2009

The Blacklist

The Blacklist

2013

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Late Night with Seth Meyers

2014

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015

Directed(21)

30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing

201930/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing★ 5.3

Kiddie Flamingos

2015Kiddie Flamingos★ 8.0

A Dirty Shame

2004A Dirty Shame★ 5.3

Cecil B. Demented

2000Cecil B. Demented★ 6.4

Pecker

1998Pecker★ 6.1

Serial Mom

1994Serial Mom★ 6.7

Cry-Baby

1990Cry-Baby★ 6.5

Hairspray

1988Hairspray★ 6.8

Nuart Theatre No Smoking PSA

1982Nuart Theatre No Smoking PSA

Polyester

1981Polyester★ 7.0

Desperate Living

1977Desperate Living★ 6.4

Female Trouble

1976Female Trouble★ 6.9

Pink Flamingos

1972Pink Flamingos★ 6.1

The Diane Linkletter Story

1970The Diane Linkletter Story★ 5.0

Multiple Maniacs

1970Multiple Maniacs★ 6.2

Mondo Trasho

1969Mondo Trasho★ 5.2

Dorothy, the Kansas City Pot Head

1968Dorothy, the Kansas City Pot Head★ 4.0

Eat Your Makeup

1968Eat Your Makeup★ 7.4

1967Roman Candles★ 6.8

Hag in a Black Leather Jacket

1964Hag in a Black Leather Jacket★ 6.9

Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance

—Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance

Acting(192)

2026Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the WorldSelf

2026Return to MortvilleSelf

2026KevinArmando (voice)

2026Gays Against Guns

2025Sarah Squirm: Live + in the FleshStage Manager

2025Velvet Vision: The Story of James Bidgood and the Making of Pink NarcissusSelf

2025It's Dorothy!Self

2025A Summer with Joe, Liz and RichardSelf

2025Everybody's Live with John MulaneySelf - Writer and Film Director

2024As Time Goes By

2024Doc of ChuckySelf

2024Scala!!!Self

2023Lynch/OzHost (Chapter 3: 'Kindred') (voice)

2023Little Richard: I Am EverythingSelf

2023Digman!Magnus (voice)

2022Don't Fall in Love with YourselfSelf (Archival)

2022Fragments of ParadiseSelf

2022Living with ChuckySelf

2022The Book of HarthSelf

2022Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow

2022Tell Me IggySelf

2022The Andy Warhol DiariesSelf

2021Blood, Guts and Sunshine: The History of Horror Made in FloridaSelf [archival]

2021The Velvet UndergroundSelf

2021ChuckyWendell Wilkins

2020The Mystery of the Pink FlamingoHimself

2020Helluva BossRolando (voice)

2020Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and CampHost

2020Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-FiHost

2020Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight MadnessHost

2020Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All TimeSelf - Host

2020Joel Calls Indie Film Type Dudes

201930/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand ReleasingSelf

2019At the Video StoreSelf

2019Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy CohnSelf

2019Sniffing Out ‘Polyester’Self

2018MugworthSir Butler

2018Liverspots and AstronotsO-Dor

2018Crime and Beauty: Making ‘Female Trouble’

2018Female Trouble: On-Set Footage

2018ExplainedNarrator (voice)

2018Sickies Making FilmsSelf

2017Queercore: How to Punk a RevolutionSelf

2017FEUDWilliam Castle

2017Mansfield 66/67Self

2016Search PartySheffield

2016Wall WritersNarrator (voice)

2016In Conversation With Director John Waters, Actress Kathleen Turner and Actress Mink StoleSelf

2016Whatever Happened to GelitinSelf

2016The New Yorker PresentsSelf

2015Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road ChipFirst Class Passenger

2015Sympathy for the Devil: The True Story of The Process Church of the Final JudgmentSelf

2015The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin

2015The Late Show with Stephen ColbertSelf - Guest

2015Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes StorySelf

2015Tab Hunter ConfidentialSelf

2014Suburban GothicCornelius

2014The Last ImpresarioSelf

2014ClarenceCaptain Tom (voice)

2014I Am DivineSelf

2014Late Night with Seth MeyersSelf - Guest

2014HitRECord on TV with Joseph Gordon-LevittSelf

2013Jingle Bell Rocks!Self

2013The BlacklistJohn Waters

2013RuPaul Drives...Self - Guest

2013Paul Bowles: The Cage Door Is Always OpenSelf

2013The Sarnos: A Life in Dirty MoviesSelf

2012Frankenstein: A Modern MythSelf - Director

2012ExcisionWilliam

2012MansomeSelf

2012Finding Your RootsSelf

2011The Advocate for FagdomSelf

2011Blank CitySelf

2011Mangus!Jesus Christ

2011These Amazing ShadowsSelf

2010William S. Burroughs: A Man WithinSelf

2010Fish HooksThe Yeti Lobster (voice)

2010Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore

2010Beautiful DarlingSelf

2010The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special - In 3D! On Ice!Self

2009It Came from KucharSelf

2009Watch What Happens Live with Andy CohenSelf - Guest

2009For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film CriticismSelf

2009RuPaul's Drag RaceSelf - Guest Judge

2008The Wild World of Ted V. MikelsNarrator

2008Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove PressSelf

2008Starz Inside: In the GutterSelf

2008New Line Cinema: The First Generation and the Next GenerationSelf

2008Coven of the HeathenitesSelf

2007365 Day ProjectSelf

2007You Can’t Stop the Beat: The Long Journey of "Hairspray"Self

2007The Roots of 'Hairspray'Self

2007Spine Tingler! The William Castle StorySelf

2007The Junior DefendersNarrator

2007Jessica the HippoNarrator (Voice)

2007Indie SexSelf

2007HairsprayFlasher

2007Jack Smith and the Destruction of AtlantisSelf

2007Each Time I KillMovie Watcher

2007'Til Death Do Us Part

2007The Graham Norton ShowSelf - Guest

2007Here’s Looking at You, BoySelf

2006This Filthy WorldSelf

2006Treasures Untold: The Making of Disney's 'The Little Mermaid'Self

2006Jackass Number TwoSelf

2006This Film Is Not Yet RatedSelf - Director of 'A Dirty Shame'

2006The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off & On BroadwaySelf

2006I Love the '70s: Volume 2Self

2006Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the MainstreamSelf

2006Mommie Dearest: Joan Lives On

2006The Henry Rollins Show

200642nd Street: From Book to Screen to StageSelf

2006Footlight Parade: Music for the Decades

2006(buz'be bur'kle) n. A Study in StyleSelf

2006Busby Berkeley's Kaleidoscopic Eyes

2006Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton SeaSelf - Narrator (voice)

2006Fabulous! The Story of Queer CinemaSelf

2006That Man: Peter BerlinSelf

2006Meet The Kuchar Brothers

2006I, of the Cyclops

2005The Colbert ReportSelf - Guest

2005My Name Is EarlWalter Hamerick

2005It Came from... Baltimore!!Self

2005All the Dirt on 'A Dirty Shame'Self

2005Inside Deep ThroatSelf

2004Seed of ChuckyPete Peters

2004Thinking XXXSelf

2004Closer Than That: A Documentary on LowHimself

2003Abby SingerJohn Waters (uncredited)

2003Real Time with Bill MaherSelf - Guest

2003A History of SexSelf

2002Sylvester: Mighty RealSelf

2002Blood Feast 2: All U Can EatThe Reverend

2002The CockettesSelf

2001Memories of OzSelf

2000Welcome to HollywoodJohn Waters

2000Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin StorySelf

2000Cecil B. DementedReporter

2000Divine TrashSelf

1999Sweet and LowdownMr. Haynes

1999Law & Order: Special Victims UnitPornmonger Man

1999In Bad TasteSelf

1999Yesterday's TomorrowsSelf

1999Forever HollywoodSelf

1998PeckerPervert on Phone (voice) (uncredited)

1998The Roseanne ShowSelf - Guest

1998So Graham NortonSelf - Guest

1997The ViewSelf

1996E! True Hollywood Story

1996Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!

1996The Daily ShowSelf - Guest

1995God Save the Queens

1994Family AlbumVincent

1994Serial MomTed Bundy (voice) (uncredited)

1993The Big WetNarrator

1993FrasierRoger (voice)

1993Late Show with David LettermanSelf - Guest

1993Homicide: Life on the StreetR. Vincent Smith

1993Growing Up with John WatersSelf

1992HBO First Look

1991Gastronomic Getaway

1989The SimpsonsJohn (voice)

1989Homer and EddieRobber #1

1988The Incredibly Strange Film ShowSelf

1988HairsprayDr. Fredrickson

198721 Jump StreetMr. Bean

1986Something WildUsed Car Guy

1985The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

1985Divine WatersSelf

1982Nuart Theatre No Smoking PSASelf

1982Late Night with David LettermanSelf - Guest

1976Edith's Shopping BagSelf

1975Saturday Night LiveSelf - Cameo (uncredited)

1975Love Letter to EdieSelf

1972Pink FlamingosMr. J (narration) (uncredited)

1969Mondo TrashoReporter (voice) (uncredited)

1956Tony AwardsSelf - Presenter

My Life with the WatersSelf

Mary Woronov: Cult QueenSelf

The Brandon Novak StorySelf

BaltigoreThe Broker

Mamie Exposed! The Life and Loves of the Last Blonde Bombshell

Serial Mom: Surreal MomentsSelf

New Line: Independent LegaciesSelf

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