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John Waters Acting Filmography (50)

The Rooster
2024·Norris
Better Man
2024·Michael Parkinson
Blaze
2022·Magistrate
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
2020·Professor Linnaeus
2:22
2017·Bill
Three Summers
2017·Eamon
Return to Nim's Island
2013·Booker
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
2012·Mark Frettlby
Kapyong
2011·Narrator
Centre Place
2010·Jack Houghton
Not Quite Hollywood
2008·Self
Ten Pound Poms
2007·Narrator
Carnivore Reflux
2006·Narrator
Telling Schoolgirl Tales: The Making of 'The Getting of Wisdom’
2006·Self
The Bouncer
2006·Dave
Stealth
2005·Black Ops Doctor
Evil Never Dies
2003·Professor Arkin
Totally Gay!
2003·Self
Chameleon II: Death Match
1999·Henry Kubica
The Sugar Factory
1999·Sam Lejeune
The Real Macaw
1998·Dr. Lance Hagen
Singapore Sling: Midnight Orchid
1995·John Stamford
Ebbtide
1994·Michael Suresch
Singapore Sling
1994·John Stamford
Jesus Christ Superstar
1992·Pontius Pilate
Which Way Home
1991·Steve Hannah
Heaven Tonight
1990·Johnny Dysart
The Rivers Run
1990·Brenton Edwards
Grievous Bodily Harm
1988·Morris Martin
Boulevard of Broken Dreams
1988·Tom Garfield
Captain Johnno
1988·Frank
The Christmas Visitor
1987·Patrick O'Day
Passion Flower
1987·Leslie Gaitland
The Last of the Mohicans
1987·Hawkeye Bumppo (voice)
Going Sane
1987·Martin Brown
The Perfectionist
1985·Stuart Gunn
I Can't Get Started
1985
High Country
1984·Ben Lomax
Attack Force Z
1982·Ted King
Breaker Morant
1980·Cpt. Alfred Taylor
Demolition
1979
The Prophecies of Nostradamus
1979·Host
Weekend of Shadows
1978·Rabbit
The Scalp Merchant
1978
Cass
1978·Mike
Summerfield
1977·David Abbott
The Getting of Wisdom
1977·Rev. Shepherd
The Adventures of Eliza Fraser
1976·David Bracefell
The Haunting of Hewie Dowker
1976·Hewie Dowker
End Play
1976·Mark Gifford