John Waters (actor)

John Russell Waters (born 8 December 1948) is an English-born film, theatre and television actor 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.

Career

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.

John Waters

John Samuel Waters, Jr. (born April 22, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, author, actor, stand-up comedian, journalist, visual artist, and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films. Waters's 1970s and early '80s films feature his regular troupe of actors known as the Dreamlanders—among them Divine, Mink Stole, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, and Edith Massey. Starting with Desperate Living (1977), Waters began casting real-life convicted criminals (Liz Renay, Patty Hearst) and controversial people (Traci Lords, a former pornographic actress).

Waters dabbled in mainstream filmmaking with Hairspray (1988), which introduced Ricki Lake and earned a modest gross of $8 million in the US. In 2002, Hairspray was adapted to a long-running Broadway musical, which itself was adapted to a hit musical film that earned more than $200 million worldwide. After the crossover success of the original film version of Hairspray, Waters' films began featuring familiar actors and celebrities such as Johnny Depp, Edward Furlong, Melanie Griffith, Chris Isaak, Johnny Knoxville, Martha Plimpton, Christina Ricci, Lili Taylor, Kathleen Turner, and Tracey Ullman.

John Waters (British Army officer, born 1935)

General Sir Charles John Waters GCB CBE (born 2 September 1935) is a former Commander-in-Chief, Land Forces.

Army career

Educated at Oundle School, John Waters was commissioned into the Gloucestershire Regiment in February 1956. He was made Commanding Officer of 1st Bn Gloucestershire Regiment in 1975. He was appointed Commander of 3rd Infantry Brigade in 1979, Deputy Commander of Land Forces in the Falklands during the Falklands War in 1982 and General Officer Commanding 4th Armoured Division in 1983. He went on to be Commandant of the Staff College, Camberley in 1986, General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland in 1988 and Commander in Chief, UK Land Forces in 1990. Finally he was made Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe from 1993 until 1994 when he retired.

Later career

In retirement he has been Deputy Chairman of the National Army Museum and he was also the Honorary Colonel of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry from 1992 to 1997.

References

John Waters (British Army officer, born 1774)

Lieutenant-General Sir John William Waters KCB (1774–1842) was a Welsh officer in the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars.

Waters joined the army in 1797; in 1805, was promoted captain, and in 1808, aide-de-camp to Brigadier Charles William Stewart (afterwards 3rd Marquis of Londonderry), after which he went to Portugal.

In 1809, Waters was attached to the Portuguese army. He served at Talavera, Busaco, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, and Vittoria, being mentioned in Wellington's Salamanca despatches. For his bravery in the field, he received a gold cross with four clasps, and was made C.B. in 1815.

Waters was at the battle of Waterloo as adjutant-general, where he was wounded. He was promoted colonel in 1821, and in 1841 lieutenant-general.

Biography

Waters was born in 1774 at Ty Fry, near Welsh St. Donats, Glamorganshire. His grandfather, Edward Waters of Pittcott, was Sheriff of Glamorganshire in 1754. His father, whose name is not ascertained, died young, leaving a large family. The Marquis of Bute obtained a commission for the son in the 1st (Royal Scots) Foot on 2 August 1797. He joined the second battalion in Portugal, and served with it in the expedition to the Helder in 1799, and the expedition to Egypt in 1801. He had become lieutenant on 15 February 1799, and in reward for his conduct during the mutiny at Gibraltar in 1802 the Prince Edward, Duke of Kent obtained a company for him in the York Rangers on 24 September 1803. He remained, however, with the Royal Scots, and went with it to the West Indies. On 28 February 1805 he was promoted captain in that regiment, to which two new battalions had been added, and soon afterwards he returned to England.