Name John Waters Role Film actor | Spouse Zoe Burton (m. 2002) | |
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Full Name John Russell Waters Children Archie Waters, Rebecca Waters, Rusty Waters, Ivan Waters, Gloria Waters Movies and TV shows | ||
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John Russell Waters (born 8 December 1948) is an English-born film, theatre and television actor, singer, guitarist, songwriter and musician best known in Australia, to where he moved in 1968. He is the son of Scottish actor, Russell Waters. John Waters has been in the industry for over 40 years, and was part of the Australian children's television series, Play School, for almost 20 years.
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- Music
- Theatre
- Television
- Films
- Other work
- Awards
- Personal life
- Community work
- Filmography
- References
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Music
Waters was born in London, England. He first faced a live audience as a singer and bass guitar player with 1960s London-based blues band The Riots before travelling to Australia, initially for an extended working holiday and then eventually settling there permanently.
Waters is an accomplished musician, and since 1992 has toured many times with his one-man show Looking Through a Glass Onion. Co-written with friend and musician, Stewart D'Arrietta, the show is a tribute to John Lennon featuring numerous examples of Lennon's music, words and images. In addition to many Australian tours of this show it also played six months in the West End, London. In 2014, it played 120 performances at the Union Square Theatre in Manhattan.
Waters has released a number of CDs including The Story of Pilliga Pete and Clarrie the Cocky (2010), a family story and music CD written and narrated by Waters, Brel (2010) a live album sung in French and a tribute to the Belgian singer-songwriter Jacques Brel, the double live album, John Waters Looking Through A Glass Onion (2011) and his debut originals album Cloudland (2011).
Theatre
Waters first big break was in musicals, playing Claude in a Sydney production of Hair in 1969, then Judas in Godspell and Pontius Pilate in the Australian concert production of Jesus Christ Superstar.
He was in the original Australian production of They're Playing Our Song, which opened on 23 August 1980 at the Theatre Royal in Sydney. It starred Waters and Jacki Weaver, with Rhonda Burchmore as one of the Inner Voices. An Australian cast recording of the show was later released by Festival Records.
In 2000, Waters appeared in a production of The Sound of Music, in which he played the part of Captain von Trapp, alongside Lisa McCune as Maria.
In 2005, Waters starred in David Williamson's play Influence as shock jock Ziggi Blasko. The play was performed in Sydney during March/April 2005 and in Melbourne in June/July 2005.
In 2008, he played The Narrator in Richard O'Brien's Rocky Horror Show at Star City Casino, Sydney.
Waters has toured Australia in a critically acclaimed role alongside Brett Tucker in The Woman in Black.
In 2010 he starred in the Melbourne Theatre Company’s production of The Swimming Club, a play by Australian author Hannie Rayson.
In 2013 Waters starred in The Addams Family musical as Gomez Addams. The production premiered in Sydney on 24 March 2013 and closed on 9 June 2013.
Television
Many Australians still remember Waters best from his nearly 20-year stint on the Australian children's series Play School, appearing from 1972 until 1991. During his tenure with Play School, he narrated various children's video trailers for ABC-TV.
Among his best known television roles is that of the brooding Sergeant Robert McKellar in the 1974-76 television series Rush (revoiced and parodied by