John Waters
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- 22 aprile 1946 · Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Biografia
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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Filmografia
- Vincent Price: What Keeps Us Alive
- Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World · In persona
- Return to Mortville · In persona
- Kevin · Armando (Voce)
- Eddie Cochran: Don't Forget Me · In persona
- Gays Against Guns
- Sarah Squirm: Live + in the Flesh · Stage Manager
- Room Temperature · Ringraziamenti
- TURA! · In persona
- Velvet Vision: The Story of James Bidgood and the Making of Pink Narcissus · In persona
- It's Dorothy! · In persona
- L’estate di Joe, Liz e Richard · In persona
- Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney · In persona
- Marisa y Gomoso · Ringraziamenti
- As Time Goes By
- Doc of Chucky · In persona
- Scala!!! · In persona
- Lynch/Oz · Host (Chapter 3: 'Kindred') (Voce)
- Little Richard: I Am Everything · In persona
- Digman! · Magnus (Voce)
- Don't Fall in Love with Yourself · In persona
- Monster High · Scarecrow Von Twolegs (Voce), Treat (Voce)
- Fragments of Paradise · In persona
- Living with Chucky · In persona
- The Book of Harth · In persona
- Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow
- Tell Me Iggy · In persona
- I diari di Andy Warhol · In persona
- Blood, Guts and Sunshine: The History of Horror Made in Florida · Self [archival]
- The Velvet Underground · In persona
- Chucky · Wendell Wilkins
- Pride · In persona
- My Life with the Waters · In persona
- The Mystery of the Pink Flamingo · In persona
- Helluva Boss · Rolando (Voce)
- Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp · Host
- Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi · Host
- Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness · Host
- Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time · In persona
- Joel Calls Indie Film Type Dudes
- 30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing · In persona, Regia
- At the Video Store · In persona
- Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn · In persona
- Sniffing Out ‘Polyester’ · In persona, Ringraziamenti
- Permanent Green Light · Ringraziamenti
- Mugworth · Sir Butler
- Liverspots and Astronots · O-Dor
- Crime and Beauty: Making ‘Female Trouble’
- Female Trouble: On-Set Footage
- In poche parole · Narrator (Voce)
- Sickies Making Films · In persona
- Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution · In persona
- Feud · William Castle
- Mansfield 66/67 · In persona
- Hairspray Live! · Associate Producer, Soggetto
- Search Party · Sheffield
- Wall Writers · Narrator (Voce)
- In Conversation With Director John Waters, Actress Kathleen Turner and Actress Mink Stole · In persona
- Whatever Happened to Gelitin · In persona
- The New Yorker Presents · In persona
- Alvin Superstar - Nessuno ci può fermare · First Class Passenger
- Sympathy for the Devil: The True Story of The Process Church of the Final Judgment · In persona
- The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert · In persona
- Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story · In persona
- Tab Hunter Confidential · In persona
- Kiddie Flamingos · Regia, Sceneggiatura
- Suburban Gothic · Cornelius
- The Last Impresario · In persona
- Clarence · Captain Tom (Voce)
- I Am Divine · In persona
- Late Night with Seth Meyers · In persona
- HitRECord on TV with Joseph Gordon-Levitt · In persona
- Jingle Bell Rocks! · In persona
- The Blacklist · John Waters
- RuPaul Drives... · In persona
- Paul Bowles: The Cage Door Is Always Open · In persona
- I Sarno - Una vita nel porno · In persona
- Frankenstein: A Modern Myth · In persona
- Excision · William