
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.

Yesterday's Tomorrows

At the Video Store

New Line Cinema: The First Generation and the Next Generation

365 Day Project

The Incredibly Strange Film Show

The Book of Harth

トゥルー・ハリウッド・ストーリー

ホミサイド/殺人捜査課

ザ・シンプソンズ

In Bad Taste

Tell Me Iggy

Gastronomic Getaway

Forever Hollywood

LAW & ORDER: 性犯罪特捜班

ぼくはクラレンス!

Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story

チャッキー

Scala!!!

Doc of Chucky

ヘルヴァ・ボス

そりゃないぜ!? フレイジャー

マイネーム・イズ・アール

ブラックリスト

This Filthy World

FEUD

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

Explained

ル・ポールのドラァグ・レース

All the Dirt on 'A Dirty Shame'

These Amazing Shadows

I Am Divine

Tab Hunter Confidential

It Came from... Baltimore!!

Divine Waters

21ジャンプストリート

グレアム・ノートン・ショー

Divine Trash

This Film Is Not Yet Rated

Blank City

Blood, Guts and Sunshine: The History of Horror Made in Florida

It Came from Kuchar

TURA!

Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution

Frankenstein: A Modern Myth

Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow

サタデー・ナイト・ライブ

The Colbert Report

Offspring

Lynch/Oz

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

Search Party

ヴェルヴェット・アンダーグラウンド

Memories of Oz

Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness

ヘアスプレー

Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp

The New Yorker Presents

ギター弾きの恋

シリアル・ママ

Pride

The Andy Warhol Diaries

ヘアスプレー

Little Richard: I Am Everything

ジャッカス ナンバー2 ザ・ムービー

Something Wild

Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea

Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

Living with Chucky

William S. Burroughs: A Man Within

Fragments of Paradise

The Cockettes

'Til Death Do Us Part

スイチュー! フレンズ

インサイド・ディープ・スロート

ザ・デイリー・ショー

Love Letter to Edie

セシル・B/ザ・シネマ・ウォーズ

Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi

HitRECord on TV with Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream

Abby Singer

So Graham Norton

ファインディング・ユア・ルーツ

Excision

That Man: Peter Berlin

Wall Writers

ピンク・フラミンゴ

Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn

Digman!

I love ペッカー

Real Time with Bill Maher

アルビン4 それいけ! シマリス大作戦

The Wild World of Ted V. Mikels

42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage

The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin

L’estate di Joe, Liz e Richard

Edith's Shopping Bag

Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story

The Henry Rollins Show

Liverspots and Astronots

Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore

The Sarnos: A Life in Dirty Movies

Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story

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

For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism

Beautiful Darling

The Mystery of the Pink Flamingo

Homer and Eddie

チャイルド・プレイ チャッキーの種

Each Time I Kill

Suburban Gothic

Thinking XXX

Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema

The Advocate for Fagdom

30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing

A History of Sex

レイト・ナイト・ウィズ・セス・マイヤーズ

Indie Sex

Mondo Trasho

Paul Bowles: The Cage Door Is Always Open

Sickies Making Films

Anthem

Don't Fall in Love with Yourself

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

ジョン・ムレイニーとライブで全員集合!

HBO First Look

Mansome

Mansfield 66/67

Schau mir in die Augen, Kleiner

Anarchy TV

Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat

Sarah Squirm: Live + in the Flesh

Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press

Family Album

Welcome to Hollywood

The Junior Defenders

Whatever Happened to Gelitin

Mangus!

It's Dorothy!

Mommie Dearest: Joan Lives On

Jingle Bell Rocks!

God Save the Queens

Mary Woronov: Cult Queen

The Brandon Novak Story

Footlight Parade: Music for the Decades

Way USA!

Growing Up with John Waters

Meet The Kuchar Brothers

I, of the Cyclops

The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

Mugworth

Coven of the Heathenites

Jessica the Hippo

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

Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!

Joel Calls Indie Film Type Dudes

Sniffing Out ‘Polyester’

Closer Than That: A Documentary on Low

As Time Goes By

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

The Fancy Gentleman

Baltigore

Female Trouble: On-Set Footage

Gays Against Guns

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

The Big Wet

Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World

I Love the '70s: Volume 2