FILM DIRECTOR

John Waters

1946 - Today

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John Samuel Waters Jr. (born April 22, 1946) is an American filmmaker, writer, actor, and artist. He rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films, including Multiple Maniacs (1970), Pink Flamingos (1972) and Female Trouble (1974). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Waters has received more than 6,438,067 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). John Waters is the 490th most popular film director (down from 479th in 2019), the 3,111th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,064th in 2019) and the 126th most popular American Film Director.

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  • 6.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.61

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, John Waters ranks 490 out of 2,041. Before him are Elio Petri, Renny Harlin, Jörn Donner, Jim Abrahams, Louis Delluc, and Grigori Aleksandrov. After him are Curtis Hanson, Alf Sjöberg, Alexander Kluge, Richard Thorpe, Pierre Woodman, and Abel Ferrara.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, John Waters ranks 229. Before him are Miguel Reina, Grigory Margulis, Silvio Rodríguez, Alberto Colombo, Tom Savini, and Craig Venter. After him are Anatoliy Banishevskiy, Robert Metcalfe, Lesley Gore, Ron Kovic, Marián Čalfa, and Reggie Jackson.

Others Born in 1946

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Waters ranks 3,111 out of 20,380. Before him are Esther Lederberg (1922), Frances Sternhagen (1930), Larry Semon (1889), Annie Proulx (1935), Stephen Cole Kleene (1909), and Raymond Smullyan (1919). After him are Jedediah Smith (1799), Sun Ra (1914), Carmen Electra (1972), Harry Harlow (1905), Eric Stoltz (1961), and Carla Gugino (1971).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, John Waters ranks 126. Before him are Tom Holland (1943), John Hughes (1950), Robert Rossen (1908), Richard Lester (1932), Edward Zwick (1952), and Jim Abrahams (1944). After him are Curtis Hanson (1945), Richard Thorpe (1896), Abel Ferrara (1951), John Milius (1944), Sam Wood (1883), and Clarence Brown (1890).

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Filmography

Cry-Baby
Director
A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her society grandmother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.
Apr 6o 19906.528 / 10
Serial Mom
Director
Beverly is the perfect happy homemaker, along with her doting husband and two children, but this nuclear family just might explode when her fascination with serial killers collides with her ever-so-proper code of ethics.
Apr 13o 19946.748 / 10
Pink Flamingos
Director
Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".
Mar 17o 19726.2 / 10