John Waters

Full filmography

• Kevin (2026) as Armando (voice)
• Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World (2026) as Self
• Return to Mortville (2026) as Self
• Gays Against Guns (2026)
• Everybody's Live with John Mulaney (2025) as Self - Writer and Film Director
• Sarah Squirm: Live + in the Flesh (2025) as Stage Manager
• Room Temperature (2025) Thanks
• TURA! (2025) as Self
• It's Dorothy! (2025) as Self
• Velvet Vision: The Story of James Bidgood and the Making of Pink Narcissus (2025) as Self
• Marisa y Gomoso (2025) Thanks
• A Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard (2025) as Self
• As Time Goes By (2024)
• Doc of Chucky (2024) as Self
• Scala!!! (2024) as Self
• Digman! (2023) as Magnus (voice)
• Little Richard: I Am Everything (2023) as Self
• Lynch/Oz (2023) as Host (Chapter 3: 'Kindred') (voice)
• The Andy Warhol Diaries (2022) as Self
• Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow (2022)
• Living with Chucky (2022) as Self
• The Book of Harth (2022) as Self
• Don't Fall in Love with Yourself (2022) as Self (Archival)
• Fragments of Paradise (2022) as Self
• Tell Me Iggy (2022) as Self
• Chucky (2021) as Wendell Wilkins
• The Velvet Underground (2021) as Self
• Pride (2021) as Self
• Blood, Guts and Sunshine: The History of Horror Made in Florida (2021) as Self [archival]
• My Life with the Waters (2021) as Self
• Helluva Boss (2020) as Rolando (voice)
• Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time (2020) as Self - Host
• Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness (2020) as Host
• Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp (2020) as Host
• Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi (2020) as Host
• Joel Calls Indie Film Type Dudes (2020)
• The Mystery of the Pink Flamingo (2020) as Himself
• Permanent Green Light (2019) Thanks
• Sniffing Out ‘Polyester’ (2019) as Self
• Sniffing Out ‘Polyester’ (2019) Thanks
• Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn (2019) as Self
• At the Video Store (2019) as Self
• 30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing (2019) as Self
• 30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing (2019) Director
• Explained (2018) as Narrator (voice)
• Liverspots and Astronots (2018) as O-Dor
• Mugworth (2018) as Sir Butler
• Sickies Making Films (2018) as Self
• Female Trouble: On-Set Footage (2018)
• Crime and Beauty: Making ‘Female Trouble’ (2018)
• FEUD (2017) as William Castle
• Mansfield 66/67 (2017) as Self
• Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution (2017) as Self
• Search Party (2016) as Sheffield
• Wall Writers (2016) as Narrator (voice)
• Hairspray Live! (2016) Associate Producer
• Hairspray Live! (2016) Original Story
• The New Yorker Presents (2016) as Self
• In Conversation With Director John Waters, Actress Kathleen Turner and Actress Mink Stole (2016) as Self
• Whatever Happened to Gelitin (2016) as Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015) as Self - Guest
• Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (2015) as First Class Passenger
• Tab Hunter Confidential (2015) as Self
• Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story (2015) as Self
• Kiddie Flamingos (2015) Director
• Kiddie Flamingos (2015) Writer
• Sympathy for the Devil: The True Story of The Process Church of the Final Judgment (2015) as Self
• The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin (2015)
• Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014) as Self - Guest
• Clarence (2014) as Captain Tom (voice)
• HitRECord on TV with Joseph Gordon-Levitt (2014) as Self
• I Am Divine (2014) as Self
• Suburban Gothic (2014) as Cornelius
• The Last Impresario (2014) as Self
• The Blacklist (2013) as John Waters
• RuPaul Drives... (2013) as Self - Guest
• Jingle Bell Rocks! (2013) as Self
• The Sarnos: A Life in Dirty Movies (2013) as Self
• Paul Bowles: The Cage Door Is Always Open (2013) as Self
• Finding Your Roots (2012) as Self
• Excision (2012) as William
• Mansome (2012) as Self
• Frankenstein: A Modern Myth (2012) as Self - Director
• These Amazing Shadows (2011) as Self
• Blank City (2011) as Self
• The Advocate for Fagdom (2011) as Self
• Mangus! (2011) as Jesus Christ
• Fish Hooks (2010) as Ezekiel Freshwater / Hair Man (voice)
• Fish Hooks (2010) as The Yeti Lobster (voice)
• Offspring (2010)
• Beautiful Darling (2010) as Self
• The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special - In 3D! On Ice! (2010) as Self
• Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore (2010)
• Putty Hill (2010) Thanks
• William S. Burroughs: A Man Within (2010) as Self
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (2009) as Self - Guest
• RuPaul's Drag Race (2009) as Self - Guest Judge
• RuPaul's Drag Race (2009) as Self - Special Guest
• It Came from Kuchar (2009) as Self
• For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism (2009) as Self
• Starz Inside: In the Gutter (2008) as Self
• New Line Cinema: The First Generation and the Next Generation (2008) as Self
• Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press (2008) as Self
• The Wild World of Ted V. Mikels (2008) as Narrator
• Coven of the Heathenites (2008) as Self
• The Graham Norton Show (2007) as Self - Guest
• Indie Sex (2007) as Self
• Hairspray (2007) as Flasher
• Hairspray (2007) Original Film Writer
• An American Crime (2007) Thanks
• You Can’t Stop the Beat: The Long Journey of "Hairspray" (2007) as Self
• The Junior Defenders (2007) as Narrator
• The Roots of 'Hairspray' (2007) as Self
• 'Til Death Do Us Part (2007)
• Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story (2007) as Self
• Here’s Looking at You, Boy (2007) as Self
• 365 Day Project (2007) as Self
• Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (2007) as Self
• Jessica the Hippo (2007) as Narrator (Voice)
• Each Time I Kill (2007) as Movie Watcher
• Jackass Number Two (2006) as Self
• The Henry Rollins Show (2006)
• I Love the '70s: Volume 2 (2006) as Self
• This Filthy World (2006) as Self
• This Filthy World (2006) Screenplay
• 42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage (2006) as Self
• This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006) as Self - Director of 'A Dirty Shame'
• That Man: Peter Berlin (2006) as Self
• Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema (2006) as Self
• Busby Berkeley's Kaleidoscopic Eyes (2006)
• Meet The Kuchar Brothers (2006)
• Footlight Parade: Music for the Decades (2006)
• The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off & On Broadway (2006) as Self
• (buz'be bur'kle) n. A Study in Style (2006) as Self
• Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream (2006) as Self
• Mommie Dearest: Joan Lives On (2006)
• Treasures Untold: The Making of Disney's 'The Little Mermaid' (2006) as Self
• Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea (2006) as Self - Narrator (voice)
• I, of the Cyclops (2006)
• The Colbert Report (2005) as Self - Guest
• My Name Is Earl (2005) as Walter Hamerick
• Inside Deep Throat (2005) as Self
• It Came from... Baltimore!! (2005) as Self
• All the Dirt on 'A Dirty Shame' (2005) as Self
• Seed of Chucky (2004) as Pete Peters
• Thinking XXX (2004) as Self
• A Dirty Shame (2004) Director
• A Dirty Shame (2004) Writer
• Closer Than That: A Documentary on Low (2004) as Himself
• Real Time with Bill Maher (2003) as Self - Guest
• Abby Singer (2003) as John Waters (uncredited)
• A History of Sex (2003) as Self
• The Cockettes (2002) as Self
• Sylvester: Mighty Real (2002) as Self
• Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat (2002) as The Reverend
• Memories of Oz (2001) as Self
• Welcome to Hollywood (2000) as John Waters
• Cecil B. Demented (2000) as Reporter
• Cecil B. Demented (2000) Director
• Cecil B. Demented (2000) Writer
• Divine Trash (2000) as Self
• Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story (2000) as Self
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) as Pornmonger Man
• Forever Hollywood (1999) as Self
• Sweet and Lowdown (1999) as Mr. Haynes
• Yesterday's Tomorrows (1999) as Self
• In Bad Taste (1999) as Self
• So Graham Norton (1998) as Self - Guest
• Pecker (1998) as Pervert on Phone (voice) (uncredited)
• Pecker (1998) Director
• Pecker (1998) Screenplay
• Anarchy TV (1998)
• The Roseanne Show (1998) as Self - Guest
• Whipped (1998) Thanks
• The View (1997) as Self
• Anthem (1997) as Self
• The Daily Show (1996) as Self - Guest
• The Daily Show (1996) as Self
• E! True Hollywood Story (1996)
• Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow! (1996)
• God Save the Queens (1995)
• Serial Mom (1994) as Ted Bundy (voice) (uncredited)
• Serial Mom (1994) Director
• Serial Mom (1994) Writer
• Family Album (1994) as Vincent
• Late Show with David Letterman (1993) as Self - Guest
• Frasier (1993) as Roger (voice)
• Homicide: Life on the Street (1993) as R. Vincent Smith
• Eurotrash (1993)
• The Big Wet (1993) as Narrator
• Growing Up with John Waters (1993) as Self
• HBO First Look (1992)
• Poison (1991) Thanks
• Gastronomic Getaway (1991)
• The Word (1990)
• Cry-Baby (1990) Director
• Cry-Baby (1990) Writer
• The Simpsons (1989) as John (voice)
• Homer and Eddie (1989) as Robber #1
• Hairspray (1988) as Dr. Fredrickson
• Hairspray (1988) Director
• Hairspray (1988) Co-Producer
• Hairspray (1988) Writer
• The Incredibly Strange Film Show (1988) as Self
• Way USA! (1988)
• 21 Jump Street (1987) as Mr. Bean
• Something Wild (1986) as Used Car Guy
• Divine Waters (1985) as Self
• The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1985)
• Late Night with David Letterman (1982) as Self - Guest
• Nuart Theatre No Smoking PSA (1982) as Self
• Nuart Theatre No Smoking PSA (1982) Director
• Polyester (1981) Director
• Polyester (1981) Producer
• Polyester (1981) Writer
• Desperate Living (1977) Director
• Desperate Living (1977) Writer
• Desperate Living (1977) Additional Photography
• Desperate Living (1977) Producer
• Edith's Shopping Bag (1976) as Self
• Female Trouble (1976) Director
• Female Trouble (1976) Editor
• Female Trouble (1976) Director of Photography
• Female Trouble (1976) Producer
• Female Trouble (1976) Writer
• Saturday Night Live (1975) as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
• Love Letter to Edie (1975) as Self
• Pink Flamingos (1972) as Mr. J (narration) (uncredited)
• Pink Flamingos (1972) Producer
• Pink Flamingos (1972) Director
• Pink Flamingos (1972) Editor
• Pink Flamingos (1972) Director of Photography
• Pink Flamingos (1972) Writer
• Multiple Maniacs (1970) Original Music Composer
• Multiple Maniacs (1970) Director of Photography
• Multiple Maniacs (1970) Editor
• Multiple Maniacs (1970) Writer
• Multiple Maniacs (1970) Director
• Multiple Maniacs (1970) Producer
• The Diane Linkletter Story (1970) Writer
• The Diane Linkletter Story (1970) Director of Photography
• The Diane Linkletter Story (1970) Editor
• The Diane Linkletter Story (1970) Director
• The Diane Linkletter Story (1970) Producer
• Mondo Trasho (1969) as Reporter (voice) (uncredited)
• Mondo Trasho (1969) Original Music Composer
• Mondo Trasho (1969) Producer
• Mondo Trasho (1969) Writer
• Mondo Trasho (1969) Director of Photography
• Mondo Trasho (1969) Director
• Mondo Trasho (1969) Editor
• Eat Your Makeup (1968) Director
• Eat Your Makeup (1968) Writer
• Eat Your Makeup (1968) Editor
• Eat Your Makeup (1968) Producer
• Eat Your Makeup (1968) Director of Photography
• Dorothy, the Kansas City Pot Head (1968) Director
• Dorothy, the Kansas City Pot Head (1968) Writer
• Roman Candles (1967) Director
• Roman Candles (1967) Writer
• Roman Candles (1967) Editor
• Roman Candles (1967) Director of Photography
• Roman Candles (1967) Producer
• Hag in a Black Leather Jacket (1964) Director
• Hag in a Black Leather Jacket (1964) Editor
• Hag in a Black Leather Jacket (1964) Director of Photography
• Hag in a Black Leather Jacket (1964) Producer
• Hag in a Black Leather Jacket (1964) Writer
• Tony Awards (1956) as Self - Presenter
• New Line: Independent Legacies as Self
• Baltigore as The Broker
• Mamie Exposed! The Life and Loves of the Last Blonde Bombshell
• Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance Director
• Serial Mom: Surreal Moments as Self
• Mary Woronov: Cult Queen as Self
• The Brandon Novak Story as Self