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John Waters

John Waters

Total Box Office:
 $91.7M
Highest Rated:
100% I Am Divine (2013)
Lowest Rated:
0% Homer and Eddie (1989)
Birthday:
Apr 22
Birthplace:
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Bio:
Growing up in Baltimore in the 1950s, John Waters was not like other children; he was obsessed by violence and gore, both real and on the screen. With his weird counter-culture friends as his cast, he began making silent 8mm and 16mm films in the mid-'60s; he screened these in rented Baltimore…

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Movies

MOVIES   

Rating Title Credit Box Office Year
Adiós
  • Actor
-- 2013
The Rep
  • Actor
-- 2013
Paul Bowles: The Cage Door Is Always Open
  • Actor
-- 2013
Time Zero: The Last Year of Polaroid Film
  • Actor
-- 2013
Return To Nim's Island
  • Actor
-- 2013
100% I Am Divine
  • Actor
-- 2013
81% Excision
  • Actor
-- 2012
25% Mansome
  • Actor
$18.4k 2012
Of Dolls And Murder
  • Actor
-- 2011
79% Blank City
  • Actor
$0.1M 2011
77% Beautiful Darling
  • Actor
$13.4k 2011
The Advocate For Fagdom
  • Actor
-- 2011
75% These Amazing Shadows
  • Actor
-- 2011
The Smut Capital of America
  • Actor
-- 2010
87% William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
  • Actor
$46.4k 2010
Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore
  • Actor
-- 2010
Mangus!
  • Actor
-- 2010
Groupies (The Weston Group)
  • Actor
-- 2009
The Wiggles: Go Bananas!
  • Actor
-- 2009
Starz Inside: Ladies or Gentlemen
  • Actor
-- 2009
Starz Inside: In the Gutter
  • Actor
-- 2008
SqueezeBox!
  • Actor
-- 2008
The Wild World of Ted V. Mikels
  • Narrator
-- 2008
89% It Came from Kuchar
  • Actor
-- 2008
100% Spine Tingler: The William Castle Story
  • Actor
-- 2007
Indie Sex: Censored
  • Actor
-- 2007
100% John Waters: This Filthy World
  • Actor
-- 2007
In the Land of Merry Misfits
  • Narrator
-- 2007
92% Obscene
  • Actor
-- 2007
85% Jack Smith and the Destruction Of Atlantis
  • Actor
-- 2006
Wiggles - Here Comes Big Red Car
  • Actor
-- 2006
63% Jackass: Number Two
  • Actor
$72.8M 2006
86% This Filthy World
  • Actor
-- 2006
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
  • Actor
-- 2006
92% That Man: Peter Berlin
  • Actor
-- 2005
89% Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
  • Actor
-- 2005
84% This Film is Not Yet Rated
  • Actor
-- 2005
53% A Dirty Shame
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
$1.3M 2004
32% Seed Of Chucky
  • Pete Peters
$17.0M 2004
83% Inside Deep Throat
  • Actor
$0.5M 2004
96% Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea
  • Narrator
-- 2004
Hippos and Rhinos
  • Actor
-- 2003
Evil Never Dies
  • Prof. Arkin
-- 2003
Blood Feast 2 - All You Can Eat
  • Actor
-- 2002
89% The Cockettes
  • Director
  • Actor
-- 2002
Rivers Run, The: A Journey Of Faith & Hope
  • Actor
-- 2001
52% Cecil B. Demented
  • Screenwriter
  • Reporter
  • Director
-- 2000
Pie in the Sky - The Brigid Berlin Story
  • Actor
-- 2000
Forever Hollywood
  • Actor
-- 1999
78% Sweet and Lowdown
  • Mr. Haynes
-- 1999
Chameleon II: Death Match
  • Actor
-- 1999
80% Divine Trash
  • Actor
-- 1998
52% Pecker
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
-- 1998
The Real Macaw
  • Dr. Lance Hagen
-- 1998
80% Anthem
  • Actor
-- 1997
The Junior Defenders
  • Narrator
-- 1997
60% Serial Mom
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
-- 1994
Ebbtide
  • Michael Suresch
-- 1994
Which Way Home
  • Steve Hannah
-- 1990
Heaven Tonight
  • Johnny Dysart
-- 1990
76% Cry-Baby
  • Director
-- 1990
0% Homer and Eddie
  • Robber
-- 1989
Grievous Bodily Harm
  • Morris Martin
-- 1989
97% Hairspray
  • Screenwriter
  • The Psychiatrist
  • Director
-- 1988
Boulevard of Broken Dreams
  • Tom Garfield
-- 1988
True Colors
  • Actor
-- 1987
Miracle Down Under (Bushfire Moon) (The Christmas Visitor)
  • Patrick
-- 1987
Alice to Nowhere
  • Johnny
-- 1986
Passion Flower
  • Actor
-- 1986
Three's Trouble
  • Actor
-- 1985
All the Rivers Run
  • Brenton Edwards
-- 1984
Attack Force Z (The Z Men)
  • Sub-Lt. King
-- 1982
89% Polyester
  • Director
-- 1981
100% 'Breaker' Morant
  • Capt. Alfred Taylor
-- 1980
Cass
  • Actor
-- 1978
Getting of Wisdom
  • Rev. Shepherd
-- 1977
Scalp Merchant
  • Actor
-- 1977
70% Desperate Living (Edited Version)
  • Producer
  • Director
-- 1977
Demolition
  • Actor
-- 1977
Weekend of Shadows
  • Rabbit
-- 1977
Endplay
  • Mark Gifford
-- 1975
79% Female Trouble
  • Director
  • Producer
  • Screenwriter
-- 1975
82% Pink Flamingos
  • Director
  • Screenwriter
-- 1972
Diane Linkletter Story
  • Director
-- 1970
100% Multiple Maniacs
  • Director
  • Screenwriter
-- 1970
50% Mondo Trasho
  • Director
-- 1969
Nevada
  • Director
-- 1927
John Waters Archives
  • Director
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John Waters Opens Another Can of Hairspray Opens in new window
July 24, 2008

Knoxville, Posey Dig In To Waters' Christmas Fruitcake Opens in new window
May 8, 2008

John Waters: The Details Interview Opens in new window
April 23, 2008

RT on DVD: Live Free or Hairspray This Thanksgiving Opens in new window
November 20, 2007

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July 19, 2007

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