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John Waters. 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 ...
- 1964–present
- Dreamland Productions
- John Samuel Waters Jr., April 22, 1946 (age 77), Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
John Waters. Actor: Pecker. 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 church halls to ...
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John Waters. Actor: Pecker. 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 church halls to underground audiences drawn by word of mouth and street ...
- April 22, 1946
Oct 4, 2023 · The new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures’ exhibition, “John Waters: Pope of Trash,” is the biggest retrospective of Waters’ work to date. Running until August 2024, it features over 400 ...
Nov 27, 2023 · Nov. 27, 2023 6 AM PT. John Waters, the man who calls himself a “filth elder,” has emerged as a kind of prescient oracle whose principles are threaded through eight books, 12 feature films ...
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Feb 17, 2022 · Waters had a recurring role in the recent final season of madcap millennial self-parody Search Party; one of its stars, John Early, told Seth Meyers that the director “created the entire ...
Sep 17, 2023 · The day after John Waters’s mother attended the opening of his 1969 film, “Mondo Trasho,” she called him in hysterics, saying, “You are going to end up in a mental institution, die from an ...