John Waters

🎂 Data nașterii: 1946-04-22 (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 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.

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John Waters

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Mommie Dearest: Joan Lives On

Fiul lui Chucky

Ceva sălbatic

The Velvet Underground

Gândind XXX

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

Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea

Acorduri și dezacorduri

The Wild World of Ted V. Mikels

Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat

Little Richard: I Am Everything

Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream

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Jingle Bell Rocks!

It Came from Kuchar

Homer and Eddie

This Filthy World

William S. Burroughs: A Man Within

Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story

Flamingii roz

The Book of Harth

Divine Trash

Mangus!

Excizie

My Life with the Waters

Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press

Yesterday's Tomorrows

Mansome

The Advocate for Fagdom

Love Letter to Edie

Paul Bowles: The Cage Door Is Always Open

In Bad Taste

Lynch/Oz

A History of Sex

That Man: Peter Berlin

I Am Divine

Tell Me Iggy

Schau mir in die Augen, Kleiner

Beautiful Darling

God Save the Queens

Living with Chucky

The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off & On Broadway

Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore

42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage

Suburban Gothic

Mary Woronov: Cult Queen

The Brandon Novak Story

Aceste umbre uimitoare

Fragments of Paradise

The Junior Defenders

Scala!!!

The Sarnos: A Life in Dirty Movies

At the Video Store

All the Dirt on 'A Dirty Shame'

The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin

New Line Cinema: The First Generation and the Next Generation

Sylvester: Mighty Real

Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema

Tab Hunter Confidential

L’estate di Joe, Liz e Richard

Each Time I Kill

Wall Writers

365 Day Project

Blank City

Hairspray

Footlight Parade: Music for the Decades

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

Busby Berkeley's Kaleidoscopic Eyes

TURA!

Mansfield 66/67

Jackass Number Two

Whatever Happened to Gelitin

Welcome to Hollywood

Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

Edith's Shopping Bag

Abby Singer

Growing Up with John Waters

Way USA!