John Waters is one of Australia’s most recognised and respected film and theatre actors. He was born in London England on December 8 1948, the middle of five children of Scottish actor, Russell Waters. As a child John often hung around film studios while dad worked and even starred in a few young parts. He first faced a live audience as a singer and bass player with 60s R & R Band The Riots and appeared in Macbeth before travelling to Australia in 1968 with only a guitar and $90. He soon heard a US film called Adam’s Woman, starring Beau Bridges, was being filmed in NSW so he managed to get himself cast in a small role. Fellow cast members recommended he try auditioning for a musical. He did, and landed the lead role of Claude in Sydney’s 1969 production of the landmark rock musical, Hair. This was followed by the role of Judas in Godspell. This led to an acting career on stage, film and television that elevated him to his current status as Australia’s most versatile leading man. From the brooding Sgt. McKellar Of ABC TV’s Rush in 1974 which earned him a Logie Award for Best New Talent, through the Australian film boom that followed with films such as End Play, Summerfield, Breaker Morant, and on to the mini-series of the 80’s, All The Rivers Run, Nancy Wake and Alice To Nowhere. Not to be forgotten was his ten year stint as host of childrens ABC program PlaySchool. John has always intrigued audiences with his diversity. Since collecting Australia’s highest accolade as the Australian Film Institute’s Best Actor Award in 1988 for the film Boulevard of Broken Dreams, John has re-embraced musical theatre as Professor Higgins in My Fair Lady, and They’re Playing Our Song, and in productions of The Hunting of the Snark for Mike Batt, and A Little Night Music for the Sydney Theatre Company. He has also appeared in Love Letters at the Sydney Opera House and Children of a Lesser God. In 1995 he appeared in ReUnion a rock musical written and financed by himself and Stewart D’Arrietta. He won unanimous acclaim in the role of Pontius Pilate in the 1992 concert version of Jesus Christ Superstar with John Farnham, Kate Ceberano, Jon Stevens and Angry Anderson which successfully toured the nation. He has made guest appearances in various TV series, including Good Guys Bad Guys, The Man From Snowy River, All Together Now and Young Lions. John’s self written one man show Looking Through a Glass Onion, based on the life of John Lennon, toured nationally and regularly since 1992 and also played six months in London’s West End in 1995. IMDb Mini Biography By: Karina
John Waters Biography / Wiki
| Name | John Waters |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | London, England, UK |
| Date of Birth | December 08, 1948 |
| Age(as in 2023 Feb) | 74 |
| Deathday |
John Waters Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Weekend of Shadows | Rabbit | 1978-06-28 | In the 1930s, a farmer’s wife in a small town is murdered. Suspicion falls on a Polish labourer and a posse is formed to catch him…. |
| Boulevard of Broken Dreams | Tom Garfield | 1988-10-13 | A successful Australian writer discovers he has cancer and returns home to Melbourne to be with his estranged wife and daughter…. |
| Heaven Tonight | Johnny Dysart | 1990-11-12 | The film covers the conflict between a father and his son both being musicians. The father is the leader of a band making rock-music from the 60s but … |
| Carnivore Reflux | Narrator | 2006-02-15 | A gastronomical, phantasmagorical nightmare from another time about a little-known condition brought on by carnivorous gorging and excess. This ghastl… |
| High Country | Ben Lomax | 1984-08-29 | Following the death of his wife, mountain cattleman, Ben Lomax leaves the high country but is forced to return when he learns his prize stallion is to… |
| I Can’t Get Started | 1985-01-01 | Stalwart aussie actor John Waters is wannabe-novelist Robert Marks. No one can fault his persistence and application in the past – he really wants the… | |
| The Scalp Merchant | 1978-01-01 | Why is everyone out to sabotage him? Cliff Rowan has been hired to recover a stolen payroll hidden in the rugged Australian hills and mountains near h… | |
| Going Sane | Martin Brown | 1987-07-30 | A business executive leaves his wife and family when he discovers that he only has a short time left to live…. |
| Demolition | 1979-06-21 | When British Intelligence, following a series of experiments designed to increase alertness of long-distance lorry drivers through use of tonal repeti… | |
| The Prophecies of Nostradamus | Host | 1979-01-01 | An examination of the prophecies and predictions of the 16th-century mystic Michel Nostradamus…. |
| Ten Pound Poms | Narrator | 2007-11-01 | This heart-warming film traces the extraordinary story of Australia’s ‘Ten Pound Poms’ and their families from the post-war era through to the 1960s…. |
| Kapyong | Narrator | 2011-04-28 | On April 24, 1951, following a rout of the South Korean army, the Chinese People Volunteer Army pursued their enemy to the lines of Australian and Can… |
| Singapore Sling | John Stamford | 1994-03-09 | John Stamford, an expatriate Australian, now a private detective in Singapore, becomes involved in a fake pharmaceuticals case and a dangerous love tr… |
| The Mystery of a Hansom Cab | Mark Frettlby | 2012-10-28 | Melbourne, 1886. Two gentlemen climb into a hansom cab late one murky night. One man climbs out, the other travels on to St Kilda. On arrival, the dri… |
| End Play | Mark Gifford | 1976-01-01 | And just when you believe there is nothing more to fear, you will begin to experience the ultimate terror of the END PLAY…. |
| Bushfire Moon | Patrick O’Day | 1987-12-10 | In the Australian outback, a small boy determines to see that a nasty, curmudgeonly miser gets the Christmas spirit…. |
| Nancy Wake | Henri Fiocca | 1987-11-04 | The ‘White Mouse’ was at one point top of the Gestapo’s Most wanted list in France. A saboteur who went on to lead 7,000 resistance members and rescue… |
| Summerfield | David Abbott | 1977-09-30 | When teacher Simon arrives in a small, secluded village to take over the local school, he is surprised to discover that his predecessor has disappeare… |
| Which Way Home | Steve Hannah | 1991-01-28 | An American nurse is determined to smuggle a group of orphans out of Cambodia in the late 1970s, assisted by an Australian boat operator…. |
| The Perfectionist | Stuart Gunn | 1985-12-01 | Barbara and Steward are happily married and have three kids. But one day Barbara decides that her children are old enough now and she can quit as hous… |
| Captain Johnno | Frank | 1988-04-17 | A young deaf boy who calls himself “Captain Johnno” befriends Tony, an Italian fisherman in the small Australian fishing town they live in. Both feel … |
| Cass | Mike | 1978-10-30 | Torn by the conflict between society and her own life, as well as her failing marriage and love for another woman, Cass desperately tried to pull toge… |
| Three Summers | Eamon | 2017-11-02 | Set over three summers at The Westival, a fictional West Australian rural folk festival redoubtable local radio personality ‘Queenie’ describes as “… |
| Evil Never Dies | Professor Arkin | 2003-06-01 | After his wife is brutally murdered, a policeman transfers to patrol duty at a college, only to discover that the now-executed murderder may be brough… |
| Ebbtide | Michael Suresch | 1994-01-01 | Lawyer Jeff Warren takes over a compensation case after the sudden death of one of his legal partners. His subsequent investigations, and growing obse… |
| Breaker Morant | Cpt. Alfred Taylor | 1980-06-11 | During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as sca… |
| The Real Macaw | Dr. Lance Hagen | 1998-09-24 | An ancient talking macaw named Mac becomes the saving grace for an elderly man threatened with a nursing home, when it is discovered that the talking … |
| Passion Flower | Leslie Gaitland | 1987-03-04 | The movers and shakers in Singapore get involved in behind-the-scenes political and business activities, romantic entanglements, and murder. Nicol Wil… |
| The Sugar Factory | Sam Lejeune | 1999-03-04 | With his distinctive voice and unusual view of life, Harris takes us through his story: a harrowing journey of humour, grief, resolution and redemptio… |
| 2:22 | Bill | 2017-06-29 | Two planes almost collide after a blinding flash of light paralyzes air traffic controller Dylan Branson for a few seconds. Suspended from his job, Dy… |
| Centre Place | Jack Houghton | 2010-07-27 | Centre Place is a sophisticated romantic drama featuring Melbourne’s style, fashion and culture. Set in the very European boutiques, cafes and bars of… |
| The Adventures of Eliza Fraser | David Bracefell | 1976-12-16 | An old captain & his young wife share a lot of adventures after they’re shipwrecked and captured by Aborigines on an island near Australia…. |
| Jesus Christ Superstar | Pontius Pilate | 1992-06-06 | The 1992 Australian Cast Concert Tour of Jesus Christ Superstar was a phenomenal success with fans of stage and the artists involved. To date, the onl… |
| Chameleon II: Death Match | Henry Kubica | 1999-01-01 | In this sequel to the made-for-TV sci-fi thriller Chameleon, Bobbie Phillips returns as Kam, a beautiful but deadly (and genetically altered) governme… |
| Blaze | Magistrate | 2022-08-25 | After a young girl witnesses a violent crime, she summons an imaginary dragon to help process her anger and protect her on her journey into womanhood…. |
| Attack Force Z | Ted King | 1982-06-01 | Tim Burstall directs then-up-and-comers Mel Gibson and Sam Neill in this action-packed Cannes Film Festival selection about the grim realities of Worl… |
| Return to Nim’s Island | Booker | 2013-03-15 | Fourteen year old Nim, more determined than ever to protect her island and all the wildlife that call it home, faces off against resort developers and… |
| The Getting of Wisdom | Rev. Shepherd | 1977-08-25 | The Getting of Wisdom is based on the 1910 novel by Henry Handel Richardson (born Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson). Her novel is thought to be an a… |
| Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears | Professor Linnaeus | 2020-02-27 | After freeing a young Bedouin girl from her unjust imprisonment in Jerusalem, an Australian adventuress, together with her devoted police detective fr… |
| Grievous Bodily Harm | Morris Martin | 1988-10-26 | A schoolteacher (John Waters) becomes obsessed with the idea that his wife (Joy Bell) did not die in a car accident, as everyone else thinks…. |
| Stealth | Black Ops Doctor | 2005-07-27 | Deeply ensconced in a top-secret military program, three pilots struggle to bring an artificial intelligence program under control … before it initi… |
| Not Quite Hollywood | Self | 2008-08-28 | As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir’s “Picnic At Hanging Rock… |
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