John Waters

Director

Born: April 22, 1946 (age 80)
From: Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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…

Filmography (153)

Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World (2026)
Self
Return to Mortville (2026)
Self
Gays Against Guns (2026)
Sarah Squirm: Live + in the Flesh (2025)
Stage Manager
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
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
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)
Director
At the Video Store (2019)
Self
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn (2019)
Self
Sniffing Out ‘Polyester’ (2019)
Self
Mugworth (2018)
Sir Butler