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John Waters

Birth Name:John Samuel Waters

Birth Place:Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Profession Actor, Writer, Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Soundtrack, Editor, Music department

Director

14 Credits
A Dirty Shame
Cecil B. Demented
Pecker
Serial Mom
Cry-Baby
Hairspray
Polyester
Desperate Living
Female Trouble
Pink Flamingos
Multiple Maniacs
Mondo Trasho
Eat Your Make Up!
Hag in a Black Leather Jacket

original screenplay

1 Credit
Hairspray Live!

Writer

5 Credits
Hairspray
Desperate Living
Pink Flamingos
Multiple Maniacs
Hag in a Black Leather Jacket

written by

10 Credits
John Waters: This Filthy World
A Dirty Shame
Cecil B. Demented
Pecker
Serial Mom
Cry-Baby
Hairspray
Polyester
Female Trouble
Mondo Trasho

writer

5 Credits
Eat Your Make Up!
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Cecil B. Demented
Pecker
Serial Mom

Actor

43 Credits
Digman!
The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy
Helluva Boss
Monster High
Chucky
King Star King
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Search Party
Bubble Guppies
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
The Blacklist
Disney Mickey Mouse
Feud: Bette and Joan
Clarence
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip
Mr. Pickles
Suburban Gothic
Fish Hooks
Excision
Superjail!
Mangus!
'Til Death Do Us Part
Hairspray
In the Land of Merry Misfits
My Name Is Earl
Seed of Chucky
Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat
Cecil B. Demented
Sweet and Lowdown
Welcome to Hollywood
Pecker
Frasier
Anarchy TV
The Simpsons
Homicide: Life on the Street
Danielle Steel's 'Family Album'
Serial Mom
21 Jump Street
Homer & Eddie
Hairspray
Something Wild
Pink Flamingos
Mondo Trasho

associate producer

1 Credit
Hairspray Live!

co-producer

1 Credit
Hairspray

producer

8 Credits
Polyester
Desperate Living
Female Trouble
Pink Flamingos
Multiple Maniacs
Mondo Trasho
Eat Your Make Up!
Hag in a Black Leather Jacket

performer

1 Credit
Saturday Night Live

lyrics

1 Credit
Female Trouble

Cinematographer

7 Credits
Desperate Living
Female Trouble
Pink Flamingos
Multiple Maniacs
Mondo Trasho
Eat Your Make Up!
Hag in a Black Leather Jacket

Editor

6 Credits
Female Trouble
Pink Flamingos
Multiple Maniacs
Mondo Trasho
Eat Your Make Up!
Hag in a Black Leather Jacket

Self

117 Credits
Sarah Squirm: Live + in the Flesh
Everybody s Live with John Mulaney
TURA!
Doc of Chucky
Real Time With Bill Maher
Scala!!! or, The Incredibly Strange Rise and Fall of the World's Wildest Cinema and How It Influenced a Mixed-up Generation of Weirdos and Misfits
CBS Sunday Morning
Little Richard: I am Everything
Fragments Of Paradise
Living with Chucky
The Book Of Harth
Lynch/Oz
Gutfeld!
The Andy Warhol Diaries
The Velvet Underground
Pride
Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen
Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates Jr.
The Mystery of the Pink Flamingo
Explained
At the Video Store
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
Late Night With Seth Meyers
Sickies Making Films
Queercore: How To Punk A Revolution
Tavis Smiley
The Public Image is Rotten
Groundbreakers
Mansfield 66/67
Wall Writers
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
The New Yorker Presents
RuPaul's Drag Race
Seed Money: The Legend of Falcon Studios
Tab Hunter Confidential
Colbert Report
The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson
HitRecord on TV
The Last Impresario
The Daily Show
I Am Divine
The Sarnos: A Life in Dirty Movies
Frankenstein: A Modern Myth
The Rep
Paul Bowles: The Cage Door Is Always Open
The Culinary Adventures of Baron Ambrosia
Time Zero: The Last Year of Polaroid Film
Mansome
Of Dolls and Murder
Días de cine
The Advocate for Fagdom
Saturday Night Live
These Amazing Shadows
The Graham Norton Show
The Hour
Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore
Blank City
Beautiful Darling: The Life and Times of Candy Darling, Andy Warhol Superstar
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
Celebrity Ghost Stories
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
It Came From Kuchar
Starz Inside: Ladies or Gentlemen
The Wild World of Ted V. Mikels
Sex: The Revolution
Dead On: The Life and Cinema of George A. Romero
Squeezebox!
Guest of Cindy Sherman
Speechless
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
Ace of Cakes
Obscene
The Junior Defenders
HBO First Look
The Henry Rollins Show
Shootout
Here's Looking at You, Boy
Jackass Number Two
John Waters: This Filthy World
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
I Love the Holidays
Last Call With Carson Daly
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
That Man: Peter Berlin
Inside Deep Throat
Biography
Thinking XXX
The Graham Norton Effect
Dinner for Five
Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea
Abby Singer
Art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century
E! True Hollywood Story
So Graham Norton
The Cockettes
Politically Incorrect
Save Our History
Late Night With Conan O'Brien
Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story
Intimate Portrait
Forever Hollywood
The Roseanne Show
Behind the Music
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
Late Show With David Letterman
Divine Trash
Anthem
Split Screen
Ballyhoo! The Hollywood Sideshow
Eurotrash
American Cinema
Ricki Lake
Late Night with David Letterman
Divine Waters
Evening

archival material

1 Credit
I Am Divine

consultant

1 Credit
Hairspray

lyric adapter

1 Credit
Cry-Baby