John Waters
Known for: Directing
Born: April 22, 1946
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), Seri…
Known for
Mommie Dearest: Joan Lives On
2006
Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea
2006
The Wild World of Ted V. Mikels
2008
This Filthy World
2006
Divine Trash
2000
In Bad Taste
1999
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
2007
Scala!!!
2024
All the Dirt on 'A Dirty Shame'
2005
Wall Writers
2016
Whatever Happened to Gelitin
2016
Growing Up with John Waters
1993
I, of the Cyclops
2006
Gastronomic Getaway
1991
Memories of Oz
2001
It Came from... Baltimore!!
2005
Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution
2017
Jessica the Hippo
2007
In Conversation With Director John Waters, Actress Kathleen Turner and Actress Mink Stole
2016
The Mystery of the Pink Flamingo
2020
Crime and Beauty: Making ‘Female Trouble’
2018
Baltigore
Female Trouble: On-Set Footage
2018
Nuart Theatre No Smoking PSA
1982
Gays Against Guns
2026
The Big Wet
1993
Serial Mom: Surreal Moments
Return to Mortville
2026
Blood, Guts and Sunshine: The History of Horror Made in Florida
2021
Little Richard: I Am Everything
2023
My Life with the Waters
Love Letter to Edie
1975
Paul Bowles: The Cage Door Is Always Open
2013
I Am Divine
2014
Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore
2010
At the Video Store
2019
New Line Cinema: The First Generation and the Next Generation
2008
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
2006
Edith's Shopping Bag
1976
Way USA!
1988
Sickies Making Films
2018
Mugworth
2018
Coven of the Heathenites
2008
Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp
2020
As Time Goes By
2024
Velvet Vision: The Story of James Bidgood and the Making of Pink Narcissus
2025
Sarah Squirm: Live + in the Flesh
2025
Homer and Eddie
1989
Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story
2015
Lynch/Oz
2023
That Man: Peter Berlin
2006
Mary Woronov: Cult Queen
The Brandon Novak Story
The Sarnos: A Life in Dirty Movies
2013
Busby Berkeley's Kaleidoscopic Eyes
2006
TURA!
2025
Mansfield 66/67
2017
Meet The Kuchar Brothers
2006
Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi
2020
Divine Waters
1985
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
2006
It Came from Kuchar
2009
A History of Sex
2003
Fragments of Paradise
2022
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
2015
Tab Hunter Confidential
2015
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
2019
Closer Than That: A Documentary on Low
2004
Mangus!
2011
Sylvester: Mighty Real
2002
(buz'be bur'kle) n. A Study in Style
2006
Seed of Chucky
2004
Sweet and Lowdown
1999
Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat
2002
The Book of Harth
2022
Excision
2012
Suburban Gothic
2014
Inside Deep Throat
2005
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
2007
Frankenstein: A Modern Myth
2012
The Last Impresario
2014
The Velvet Underground
2021
Jingle Bell Rocks!
2013
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
2010
The Junior Defenders
2007
Mamie Exposed! The Life and Loves of the Last Blonde Bombshell
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
2006
Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press
2008
Beautiful Darling
2010
Footlight Parade: Music for the Decades
2006
Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story
2000
Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!
1996
Sympathy for the Devil: The True Story of The Process Church of the Final Judgment
2015
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019
It's Dorothy!
2025
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World
2026
Mansome
2012
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
2006
Anthem
1997
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
2020
Sniffing Out ‘Polyester’
2019
Doc of Chucky
2024
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off & On Broadway
2006
The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special - In 3D! On Ice!
2010
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
2009
God Save the Queens
1995
Living with Chucky
2022
Joel Calls Indie Film Type Dudes
2020
Don't Fall in Love with Yourself
2022
Tell Me Iggy
2022
Yesterday's Tomorrows
1999
A Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard
2025
Hairspray
2007
Something Wild
1986
Blank City
2011
The Roots of 'Hairspray'
2007
These Amazing Shadows
2011
The Cockettes
2002
The Advocate for Fagdom
2011
Jackass Number Two
2006
The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
1985
Each Time I Kill
2007
Starz Inside: In the Gutter
2008
Thinking XXX
2004
Forever Hollywood
1999
Cecil B. Demented
2000
Treasures Untold: The Making of Disney's 'The Little Mermaid'
2006
Mondo Trasho
1969
Anarchy TV
1998
You Can’t Stop the Beat: The Long Journey of "Hairspray"
2007
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
2007
Hairspray
1988
Abby Singer
2003
Welcome to Hollywood
2000
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip
2015
Pink Flamingos
1972
Pecker
1998
Serial Mom
1994
365 Day Project
2007
The Simpsons
1989
21 Jump Street
1987
The Daily Show
1996
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Frasier
1993
Finding Your Roots
2012
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993
The Henry Rollins Show
2006
'Til Death Do Us Part
2007
Pride
2021
So Graham Norton
1998
I Love the '70s: Volume 2
2006
Explained
2018
The Andy Warhol Diaries
2022
Offspring
2010
HitRECord on TV with Joseph Gordon-Levitt
2014
RuPaul Drives...
2013
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
Fish Hooks
2010
Indie Sex
2007
Search Party
2016
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
The Blacklist
2013
The New Yorker Presents
2016
Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow
2022
FEUD
2017
Clarence
2014
My Name Is Earl
2005
Saturday Night Live
1975
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
RuPaul's Drag Race
2009
Chucky
2021
The Incredibly Strange Film Show
1988
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Liverspots and Astronots
2018
HBO First Look
1992
Family Album
1994
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
2025
Helluva Boss
2020
Kevin
2026
Digman!
2023
The Colbert Report
2005
Tony Awards
1956
Late Night with David Letterman
1982
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
The Roseanne Show
1998
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The View
1997
Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time
2020
Eurotrash
1993