Basic Information About John Waters
Category | Celebrities βΊ Directors |
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Professions | Film director, Film Producer, Screenwriter, Actor, Writer, Visual Artist, Stand-up comedian, Cinematographer, Voice Actor, Film Editor |
Net worth | $50,000,000 |
Date of birth | 1946-04-22 (78 years old) |
Place of birth | Baltimore |
Nationality | United States of America |
Curiosities and Trademarks | All his movies are set in Baltimore Frequently casts Patricia Hearst Casts Mink Stole and Mary Vivian Pearce in nearly all of his films Transgressive films that combine outrageous subject matter with a sense of bad taste Many of his characters have alliterated names (Dawn Davenport, Francine Fishpaw, Tracy Turnblad, Penny Pingleton, Sylvia Stickles). Pencil-thin moustache and camp personality His mainstream films satirize mid-century suburban America with a camp sense of humor Tall slender frame Sarcastic sense of humor |
Gender | Male |
Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) |
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What Movie Awards did John Waters win?
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Golden Globe |
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John Waters roles
Movie / Series | Role |
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Excision | William |
Hairspray | Writer |
Hairspray | Flasher |
Cry-Baby | Director |
Cry-Baby | Writer |
Hairspray | Director |
Hairspray | Writer |
Hairspray | Dr. Fredrickson |
Pink Flamingos | Director |
Pink Flamingos | Writer |
Pink Flamingos | Mr. J (voice) (uncredited) |
Seed of Chucky | Pete Peters |
A Dirty Shame | Director |
A Dirty Shame | Writer |
Serial Mom | Director |
Serial Mom | Writer |
Serial Mom | Ted Bundy (voice) (uncredited) |
Female Trouble | Director |
Female Trouble | Writer |
Suburban Gothic | Cornelius |
Polyester | Director |
Polyester | Writer |
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip | First Class Passenger |
Pecker | Director |
Pecker | Writer |
Pecker | Pervert on Phone (voice) (uncredited) |
Cecil B. Demented | Director |
Cecil B. Demented | Writer |
Cecil B. Demented | Reporter (uncredited) |
Something Wild | Used Car Guy |
Jackass Number Two | Self |
The Blacklist | John Waters 1 episode, 2018 |
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Pornmonger Man 2 episodes, 2020-2021 |
21 Jump Street | Mr. Bean 1 episode, 1990 |
The Simpsons | John 1 episode, 1997 |
Saturday Night Live | Self (uncredited) unknown episodes |
Frasier | Roger 1 episode, 1998 |
Superjail! | Quetzalpacatlan 1 episode, 2011 |
My Name Is Earl | Walter Hamerick 1 episode, 2007 |
Mr. Pickles | Dr. Kelton 1 episode, 2014 |
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self - Guest 1 episode, 2016 |
Homicide: Life on the Street | Bartender / ... 1 episode, 1993-1995 |
The Daily Show | Self - Guest 5 episodes, 1997-2013 |
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | Self - Guest 4 episodes, 1994-1998 |
Mickey Mouse | Wadworth Thorndyke the Third 2 episodes, 2013-2018 |
Clarence | Captain Tom 1 episode, 2016 |
Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Guest 5 episodes, 1994-2001 |
John Waters's Quotes
- "My hobby is extreme Catholic behavior -- BEFORE the Reformation." (2000)
- "If you can make someone laugh who's dead set against you, that's the first step to winning them over to your side." (2000)
- Some call me director, producer, filmmaker. I prefer to call myself pube-king.
- Strive for art in reverse.
- To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about. If someone vomits watching one of my films, it's like getting a standing ovation. But one must remember that there is such a thing as good bad taste and bad bad taste.
Interesting Facts about John Waters
- His favorite childhood memory was seeing real blood on the seat of a wrecked car when visiting a scrap yard and fantasizing about lethal car crashes.
- As a youth he would watch adult-only films at the local drive-in, with binoculars.
- He is obsessed with true-crime and used to regularly attend gory trials all over the US, where he often saw the same faces in the public galleries.
- Older brother of Steve Waters.
- Subscribes to more than 80 magazines. Also goes to see just about every movie that comes out and hardly ever rents movies.
- Has taught classes at the Patuxent Institution, a correctional facility located halfway between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. The classes are meant as rehabilitation therapy for convicted killers, in which they learn to write about their violent fantasies rather than act them out.
- Waters has always been very gracious in acknowledging his creative influences, such as Russ Meyer, Otto Preminger, Liberace, William Castle, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Jayne Mansfield, Robert Bresson, and Pier Paolo Pasolini.
- As a youth, he made as much as $50 a week doing puppet shows for the neighborhood children, and was often hired to entertain at birthday parties. He stated that many of his puppet shows were inspired by the gimmick-heavy films of William Castle.
- Bears such a strong resemblance to actor Steve Buscemi that as a joke, John Waters sent out cards with a photo of Buscemi made up to look like Waters.
- Big fan of 1950s director Douglas Sirk and actually got to meet him while in Europe.
- Grew his thin pencil-line mustache in honor of Little Richard.
- Member of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 48th Cannes International Film Festival in 1995.
- Waters originally wanted a man named "Mr. Ray" to be the narrator of Pink Flamingos (1972). Mr. Ray was famous for his hair-weave radio ads and for his Baltimore accent. Mr. Ray refused, so Waters recorded the voice-over himself, imitating Mr. Ray's voice as "Mr. J."
- There is a special section of his immense book collection devoted to Liberace.
- Was supposed to have a cameo in American Splendor (2003), as the David Letterman guest holding a alligator.
- Maintains a home in north Baltimore, Maryland.
- One of his closest friends is Baltimore based casting director Pat Moran.
- Was member of the dramatic jury at the Sundance Film Festival in 2002.
- Attended Calvert Hall College High School in Towson, Maryland.
- Was considered for the role of Det. John Munch on Homicide: Life on the Street (1993).
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