John Waters

John Samuel Waters Jr. (* 22. April 1946) ist ein US-amerikanischer Filmemacher, Autor, Schauspieler und Künstler. Er wurde in den frühen 1970er Jahren durch seine transgressiven Kultfilme berühmt, darunter Multiple Maniacs (1970), Pink Flamingos (1972) und Female Trouble (1974). Waters schrieb und inszenierte die Komödie Hairspray (1988), die später in ein erfolgreiches Broadway-Musical und einen Musicalfilm von 2007 adaptiert wurde. Weitere Filme, die er schrieb und inszenierte, sind Desperate Living (1977), Polyester (1981), Cry-Baby (1990), Serial Mom (1994), Pecker (1998) und Cecil B. Demented (2000). Seine Filme enthalten Elemente der postmodernen Komödie und des Surrealismus.

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Filmografie
Filme
2026 – Vincent Price: What Keeps Us Alive
2026 – Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World
2026 – Return to Mortville
2026 – Eddie Cochran: Don't Forget Me
2026 – Gays Against Guns
2025 – Sarah Squirm: Live + in the Flesh
2025 – TURA!
2025 – Velvet Vision: The Story of James Bidgood and the Making of Pink Narcissus
2025 – It's Dorothy!
2025 – L’estate di Joe, Liz e Richard
2024 – As Time Goes By
2024 – Doc of Chucky
2024 – Scala!!!
2023 – Lynch/Oz
2023 – Little Richard: Never Play by the Rules
2022 – Don't Fall in Love with Yourself
2022 – Fragments of Paradise
2022 – Living with Chucky
2022 – The Book of Harth
2022 – Tell Me Iggy
2021 – Blood, Guts and Sunshine: The History of Horror Made in Florida
2021 – The Velvet Underground
2021 – My Life with the Waters
2020 – The Mystery of the Pink Flamingo
2020 – Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp
2020 – Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi
2020 – Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
2020 – Joel Calls Indie Film Type Dudes
2019 – 30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019 – At the Video Store
2019 – Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
2019 – Sniffing Out ‘Polyester’
2018 – Mugworth
2018 – Crime and Beauty: Making ‘Female Trouble’
2018 – Female Trouble: On-Set Footage
2018 – Sickies Making Films
2017 – Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution
2017 – Mansfield 66/67
2016 – Hairspray Live!
2016 – Wall Writers
2016 – In Conversation With Director John Waters, Actress Kathleen Turner and Actress Mink Stole
2016 – Whatever Happened to Gelitin
2015 – Alvin und die Chipmunks - Road Chip
2015 – Sympathy for the Devil: The True Story of The Process Church of the Final Judgment
2015 – The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
2015 – Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story
2015 – Tab Hunter Confidential
2014 – Suburban Gothic
2014 – The Last Impresario
2014 – I Am Divine
2013 – Jingle Bell Rocks!
2013 – Paul Bowles: The Cage Door Is Always Open
2013 – The Sarnos: A Life in Dirty Movies
2012 – Frankenstein: A Modern Myth
2012 – Excision
2012 – Mansome
2011 – The Advocate for Fagdom
2011 – Blank City
2011 – Mangus!
2011 – These Amazing Shadows
2010 – William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
2010 – Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore
2010 – Beautiful Darling
2010 – The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special - In 3D! On Ice!
2009 – It Came from Kuchar
2009 – For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
2008 – The Wild World of Ted V. Mikels
2008 – Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press
2008 – Starz Inside: In the Gutter
2008 – New Line Cinema: The First Generation and the Next Generation
2008 – Coven of the Heathenites
2007 – 365 Day Project
2007 – The Roots of 'Hairspray'
2007 – You Can’t Stop the Beat: The Long Journey of "Hairspray"
2007 – Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
2007 – The Junior Defenders
2007 – Jessica the Hippo
2007 – Hairspray
2007 – Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
2007 – Each Time I Kill
2007 – Schau mir in die Augen, Kleiner
2006 – This Filthy World
2006 – Treasures Untold: The Making of Disney's 'The Little Mermaid'
2006 – Jackass: Nummer Zwei
2006 – This Film Is Not Yet Rated
2006 – The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off & On Broadway
2006 – Midnight Movies
2006 – Mommie Dearest: Joan Lives On
2006 – (buz'be bur'kle) n. A Study in Style
2006 – 42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
2006 – Busby Berkeley's Kaleidoscopic Eyes
2006 – Footlight Parade: Music for the Decades
2006 – Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea
2006 – Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
2006 – Die Peter Berlin Story
2006 – I, of the Cyclops
2006 – Meet The Kuchar Brothers
2005 – It Came from... Baltimore!!
2005 – All the Dirt on 'A Dirty Shame'
2005 – Inside Deep Throat
2004 – Chucky’s Baby
2004 – Thinking XXX
2004 – Closer Than That: A Documentary on Low
2003 – Abby Singer
2003 – A History of Sex
2002 – Sylvester: Mighty Real
2002 – Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat
2002 – The Cockettes
2001 – Memories of Oz
2000 – Welcome to Hollywood
2000 – Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story
2000 – Cecil B.
2000 – Divine Trash
1999 – Sweet and Lowdown
1999 – In Bad Taste
1999 – Yesterday's Tomorrows
1999 – Forever Hollywood
1998 – John Waters' Pecker
1998 – Anarchy TV
1997 – Anthem
1996 – Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!
1995 – God Save the Queens
1994 – Serial Mom - Warum lässt Mama das Morden nicht?
1993 – The Big Wet
1993 – Growing Up with John Waters
1991 – Gastronomic Getaway
1989 – Homer und Eddie
1988 – Hairspray
1988 – Way USA!
1986 – Gefährliche Freundin
1985 – The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
1985 – Divine Waters
1982 – Nuart Theatre No Smoking PSA
1981 – Polyester
1977 – Desperate Living
1976 – Female Trouble
1976 – Edith's Shopping Bag
1975 – Love Letter to Edie
1972 – Pink Flamingos
1970 – Multiple Maniacs
1970 – The Diane Linkletter Story
1969 – Mondo Trasho
1968 – Eat Your Makeup
1967 – Roman Candles
1964 – Hag in a Black Leather Jacket
Baltigore
Mamie Exposed! The Life and Loves of the Last Blonde Bombshell
Mary Woronov: Cult Queen
New Line: Independent Legacies
The Brandon Novak Story Serien
2026 – Kevin
2025 – Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
2023 – Digman!
2022 – Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow
2022 – The Andy Warhol Diaries
2021 – Chucky
2021 – Pride
2020 – Helluva Boss
2020 – Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time
2018 – Liverspots and Astronots
2018 – Explained
2017 – Feud
2016 – Search Party
2016 – The New Yorker Presents
2015 – The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2014 – Clarence
2014 – Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 – HitRECord on TV with Joseph Gordon-Levitt
2013 – The Blacklist
2013 – RuPaul Drives...
2012 – Finding Your Roots
2011 – American Horror Story
2010 – Der Fisch-Club
2009 – Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009 – RuPaul's Drag Race
2007 – Indie Sex
2007 – 'Til Death Do Us Part
2007 – The Graham Norton Show
2006 – I Love the '70s: Volume 2
2006 – The Henry Rollins Show
2005 – The Colbert Report
2005 – My Name Is Earl
2003 – Real Time with Bill Maher
1999 – Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1998 – The Roseanne Show
1998 – So Graham Norton
1997 – The View
1996 – E! True Hollywood Story
1996 – The Daily Show
1994 – Family Album
1993 – Eurotrash
1993 – Frasier
1993 – Late Show with David Letterman
1993 – Homicide
1992 – HBO First Look
1990 – The Word
1989 – Die Simpsons
1988 – The Incredibly Strange Film Show
1987 – 21 Jump Street
1982 – Late Night with David Letterman
1975 – Saturday Night Live
1956 – Tony Awards

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