John Waters

This Filthy World

2006

Self · Screenplay

Pecker

1998

Pervert on Phone (voice) (uncredited) · Director · Screenplay

Polyester

1981

Director · Producer · Writer

Desperate Living

1977

Director · Writer · Additional Photography · Producer

Female Trouble

1976

Director · Producer · Director of Photography · Editor · Writer

Pink Flamingos

1972

Mr. J (narration) (uncredited) · Director · Producer · Director of Photography · Editor · Writer

The Diane Linkletter Story

1970

Editor · Producer · Director · Director of Photography · Writer

Multiple Maniacs

1970

Original Music Composer · Director · Writer · Producer · Director of Photography · Editor

Mondo Trasho

1969

Reporter (voice) (uncredited) · Original Music Composer · Editor · Director of Photography · Producer · Writer · Director

Eat Your Makeup

1968

Director · Writer · Producer · Director of Photography · Editor

Roman Candles

1967

Director · Writer · Producer · Director of Photography · Editor

Hag in a Black Leather Jacket

1964

Director · Writer · Producer · Director of Photography · Editor

Kiddie Flamingos

2015

Director · Writer

A Dirty Shame

2004

Director · Writer

Cecil B. Demented

2000

Reporter · Director · Writer

Serial mother

1994

Ted Bundy (voice) (uncredited) · Director · Writer

Cry-Baby

1990

Director · Writer

Hairspray

1988

Dr. Fredrickson · Director · Co-Producer · Writer

Dorothy, the Kansas City Pot Head

1968

Director · Writer

30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing

2019

Self · Director

Nuart Theatre No Smoking PSA

1982

Self · Director

Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance

Director

Sarah Squirm: Live + in the Flesh

2025

Stage Manager

Lynch/Oz

2023

Host (Chapter 3: 'Kindred') (voice)

Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp

2020

Host

Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi

2020

Host

Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness

2020

Host

Mugworth

2018

Sir Butler

Wall Writers

2016

Narrator (voice)

Alvin et les Chipmunks : À fond la caisse

2015

First Class Passenger

Suburban Gothic

2014

Cornelius

Excision

2012

William

Mangus!

2011

Jesus Christ

The Wild World of Ted V. Mikels

2008

Narrator

The Junior Defenders

2007

Narrator

Jessica the Hippo

2007

Narrator (Voice)

Hairspray

2007

Flasher · Original Film Writer

Each Time I Kill

2007

Movie Watcher

Le Fils de Chucky

2004

Pete Peters

Abby Singer

2003

John Waters (uncredited)

Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat

2002

The Reverend

Welcome to Hollywood

2000

John Waters

Accords et désaccords

1999

Mr. Haynes

The Big Wet

1993

Narrator

Voyageurs sans permis

1989

Robber #1

Dangereuse sous tous rapports

1986

Used Car Guy

Baltigore

The Broker

Room Temperature

2025

Thanks

Marisa y Gomoso

2025

Thanks

Sniffing Out ‘Polyester’

2019

Self · Thanks

Permanent Green Light

2019

Thanks

Hairspray Live!

2016

Associate Producer · Original Story

Putty Hill

2010

Thanks

American Crime

2007

Thanks

Whipped

1998

Thanks

Poison

1991

Thanks

Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World

2026

Self

Return to Mortville

2026

Self

TURA!

2025

Self

Velvet Vision: The Story of James Bidgood and the Making of Pink Narcissus

2025

Self

It's Dorothy!

2025

Self

L’estate di Joe, Liz e Richard

2025

Self

Doc of Chucky

2024

Self

Scala!!!

2024

Self

Little Richard: I Am Everything

2023

Self

Don't Fall in Love with Yourself

2022

Self (Archival)

Fragments of Paradise

2022

Self

Living with Chucky

2022

Self

The Book of Harth

2022

Self

Tell Me Iggy

2022

Self

Blood, Guts and Sunshine: The History of Horror Made in Florida

2021

Self [archival]

The Velvet Underground

2021

Self

The Mystery of the Pink Flamingo

2020

Himself

At the Video Store

2019

Self

Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn

2019

Self

Sickies Making Films

2018

Self

Queercore: Quand les gays embrassent le punk

2017

Self

Mansfield 66/67

2017

Self

In Conversation With Director John Waters, Actress Kathleen Turner and Actress Mink Stole

2016

Self

Whatever Happened to Gelitin

2016

Self

Sympathy for the Devil: The True Story of The Process Church of the Final Judgment

2015

Self

Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story

2015

Self

Tab Hunter Confidential

2015

Self

The Last Impresario

2014

Self

I Am Divine

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

Frankenstein: A Modern Myth

2012

Self - Director

Mansome

2012

Self

The Advocate for Fagdom

2011

Self

Blank City

2011

Self

These Amazing Shadows

2011

Self

William S. Burroughs: A Man Within

2010

Self

Beautiful Darling

2010

Self

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

Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press

2008

Self

Starz Inside: In the Gutter

2008

Self

New Line Cinema: The First Generation and the Next Generation

2008

Self

Coven of the Heathenites

2008

Self

365 Day Project

2007

Self

You Can’t Stop the Beat: The Long Journey of "Hairspray"

2007

Self

The Roots of 'Hairspray'

2007

Self

Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story

2007

Self

Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

2007

Self

Schau mir in die Augen, Kleiner

2007

Self

Treasures Untold: The Making of Disney's 'The Little Mermaid'

2006

Self

Jackass deux, le film

2006

Self

This Film Is Not Yet Rated

2006

Self - Director of 'A Dirty Shame'

The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off & On Broadway

2006

Self

Midnight Movies : Six films devenus cultissimes

2006

Self

42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage

2006

Self

(buz'be bur'kle) n. A Study in Style

2006

Self

Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea

2006

Self - Narrator (voice)

Fabulous ! L'Histoire du cinéma gay

2006

Self

That Man: Peter Berlin

2006

Self

It Came from... Baltimore!!

2005

Self

All the Dirt on 'A Dirty Shame'

2005

Self

Inside Deep Throat

2005

Self

Thinking XXX

2004

Self

Closer Than That: A Documentary on Low

2004

Himself

A History of Sex

2003

Self

Sylvester: Mighty Real

2002

Self

The Cockettes

2002

Self

Memories of Oz

2001

Self

Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story

2000

Self

Divine Trash

2000

Self

In Bad Taste

1999

Self

Yesterday's Tomorrows

1999

Self

Forever Hollywood

1999

Self

Anthem

1997

Self

Growing Up with John Waters

1993

Self

Divine Waters

1985

Self

Edith's Shopping Bag

1976

Self

Love Letter to Edie

1975

Self

My Life with the Waters

Self

Mary Woronov: Cult Queen

Self

The Brandon Novak Story

Self

Serial Mom: Surreal Moments

Self

New Line: Independent Legacies

Self

Gays Against Guns

2026

As Time Goes By

2024

Joel Calls Indie Film Type Dudes

2020

Crime and Beauty: Making ‘Female Trouble’

2018

Female Trouble: On-Set Footage

2018

The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin

2015

Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore

2010

Mommie Dearest: Joan Lives On

2006

Footlight Parade: Music for the Decades

2006

Busby Berkeley's Kaleidoscopic Eyes

2006

Meet The Kuchar Brothers

2006

I, of the Cyclops

2006

Anarchy TV

1998

Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!

1996

God Save the Queens

1995

Gastronomic Getaway

1991

Way USA!

1988

The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

1985

Mamie Exposed! The Life and Loves of the Last Blonde Bombshell

New York Unité Spéciale

1999

Pornmonger Man

Les Simpson

1989

John (voice)

Blacklist

2013

John Waters

Frasier

1993

Roger (voice)

Chucky

2021

Wendell Wilkins

Helluva Boss

2020

Rolando (voice)

Search Party

2016

Sheffield

Clarence

2014

Captain Tom (voice)

Ça bulle

2010

The Yeti Lobster (voice) · Ezekiel Freshwater / Hair Man (voice)

Earl

2005

Walter Hamerick

Homicide

1993

R. Vincent Smith

21 Jump Street

1987

Mr. Bean

Kevin

2026

Armando (voice)

Digman!

2023

Magnus (voice)

Liverspots and Astronots

2018

O-Dor

En bref

2018

Narrator (voice)

FEUD

2017

William Castle

Album de famille

1994

Vincent

Le Daily Show

1996

Self - Guest · Self

Late Show with David Letterman

1993

Self - Guest

Late Night with Seth Meyers

2014

Self - Guest

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

2009

Self - Guest

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015

Self - Guest

RuPaul's Drag Race

2009

Self - Guest Judge · Self - Special Guest

The Colbert Report

2005

Self - Guest

Real Time with Bill Maher

2003

Self - Guest

La Vue

1997

Self

Saturday Night Live

1975

Self - Cameo (uncredited)

The Graham Norton Show

2007

Self - Guest

Late Night with David Letterman

1982

Self - Guest

Finding Your Roots

2012

Self

Tony Awards

1956

Self - Presenter

Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney

2025

Self - Writer and Film Director

Le Journal d'Andy Warhol

2022

Self

Pride

2021

Self

Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time

2020

Self - Host

The New Yorker Presents

2016

Self

HitRECord on TV with Joseph Gordon-Levitt

2014

Self

RuPaul Drives...

2013

Self - Guest

Indie Sex

2007

Self

I Love the '70s: Volume 2

2006

Self

The Roseanne Show

1998

Self - Guest

So Graham Norton

1998

Self - Guest

The Incredibly Strange Film Show

1988

Self

Eurotrash

1993

HBO First Look

1992

Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow

2022

Offspring

2010

'Til Death Do Us Part

2007

The Henry Rollins Show

2006

E! True Hollywood Story

1996

The Word

1990