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John Waters Acting Filmography (130)

Gays Against Guns
2026
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World
2026·Self
A Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard
2025·Self
TURA!
2025·Self
It's Dorothy!
2025·Self
Velvet Vision: The Story of James Bidgood and the Making of Pink Narcissus
2025·Self
Sarah Squirm: Live + in the Flesh
2025·Stage Manager
Scala!!!
2024·Self
Doc of Chucky
2024·Self
As Time Goes By
2024
Little Richard - I Am Everything
2023·Self
Lynch/Oz
2023·Host (Chapter 3: 'Kindred') (voice)
The Book of Harth
2022·Self
Tell Me Iggy
2022·Self
Living with Chucky
2022·Self
Fragments of Paradise
2022·Self
Don't Fall in Love with Yourself
2022·Self (Archival)
The Velvet Underground
2021·Self
Blood, Guts and Sunshine: The History of Horror Made in Florida
2021·Self [archival]
The Mystery of the Pink Flamingo
2020·Himself
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
2020·Host
Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi
2020·Host
Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp
2020·Host
Joel Calls Indie Film Type Dudes
2020
At the Video Store
2019·Self
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
2019·Self
Sniffing Out ‘Polyester’
2019·Self
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019·Self
Sickies Making Films
2018·Self
Mugworth
2018·Sir Butler
Crime and Beauty: Making ‘Female Trouble’
2018
Female Trouble: On-Set Footage
2018
Mansfield 66/67
2017·Self
Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution
2017·Self
Wall Writers
2016·Narrator (voice)
Whatever Happened to Gelitin
2016·Self
In Conversation With Director John Waters, Actress Kathleen Turner and Actress Mink Stole
2016·Self
Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story
2015·Self
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
2015
Tab Hunter Confidential
2015·Self
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip
2015·First Class Passenger
Sympathy for the Devil: The True Story of The Process Church of the Final Judgment
2015·Self
I Am Divine
2014·Self
Suburban Gothic
2014·Cornelius
The Last Impresario
2014·Self
Jingle Bell Rocks!
2013·Self
Paul Bowles: The Cage Door Is Always Open
2013·Self
The Sarnos: A Life in Dirty Movies
2013·Self
Excision
2012·William
Mansome
2012·Self
Frankenstein: A Modern Myth
2012·Self - Director
Mangus!
2011·Jesus Christ
The Advocate for Fagdom
2011·Self
These Amazing Shadows
2011·Self
Blank City
2011·Self
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
2010·Self
Beautiful Darling
2010·Self
Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore
2010
The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special - In 3D! On Ice!
2010·Self
It Came from Kuchar
2009·Self
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
2009·Self
The Wild World of Ted V. Mikels
2008·Narrator
Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press
2008·Self
New Line Cinema: The First Generation and the Next Generation
2008·Self
Starz Inside: In the Gutter
2008·Self
Coven of the Heathenites
2008·Self
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
2007·Self
The Junior Defenders
2007·Narrator
Each Time I Kill
2007·Movie Watcher
365 Day Project
2007·Self
Hairspray
2007·Flasher
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
2007·Self
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
2007·Self
Jessica the Hippo
2007·Narrator (Voice)
Mommie Dearest: Joan Lives On
2006
Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea
2006·Self - Narrator (voice)
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
2006·Self
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
2006·Self - Director of 'A Dirty Shame'
This Filthy World
2006·Self
That Man: Peter Berlin
2006·Self
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off & On Broadway
2006·Self
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
2006·Self
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
2006·Self
Footlight Parade: Music for the Decades
2006
Busby Berkeley's Kaleidoscopic Eyes
2006
(buz'be bur'kle) n. A Study in Style
2006·Self
Jackass Number Two
2006·Self
Meet The Kuchar Brothers
2006
I, of the Cyclops
2006
Treasures Untold: The Making of Disney's 'The Little Mermaid'
2006·Self
All the Dirt on 'A Dirty Shame'
2005·Self
Inside Deep Throat
2005·Self
It Came from... Baltimore!!
2005·Self
Seed of Chucky
2004·Pete Peters
Thinking XXX
2004·Self
Closer Than That: A Documentary on Low
2004·Himself
A History of Sex
2003·Self
Abby Singer
2003·John Waters (uncredited)
Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat
2002·The Reverend
Sylvester: Mighty Real
2002·Self
The Cockettes
2002·Self
Memories of Oz
2001·Self
Divine Trash
2000·Self
Welcome to Hollywood
2000·John Waters
Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story
2000·Self
Cecil B. Demented
2000·Reporter
Sweet and Lowdown
1999·Mr. Haynes
Yesterday's Tomorrows
1999·Self
In Bad Taste
1999·Self
Forever Hollywood
1999·Self
Pecker
1998·Pervert on Phone (voice) (uncredited)
Anarchy TV
1998
Anthem
1997·Self
Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!
1996
God Save the Queens
1995
Serial Mom
1994·Ted Bundy (voice) (uncredited)
Growing Up with John Waters
1993·Self
The Big Wet
1993·Narrator
Gastronomic Getaway
1991
Homer and Eddie
1989·Robber #1
Way USA!
1988
Hairspray
1988·Dr. Fredrickson
Something Wild
1986·Used Car Guy
The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
1985
Divine Waters
1985·Self
Nuart Theatre no smoking PSA
1982
Pink Flamingos
1976·Mr. J (narration) (uncredited)
Edith's Shopping Bag
1976·Self
Love Letter to Edie
1975·Self
Mondo Trasho
1969·Reporter (voice) (uncredited)