John Waters (actor)

John Waters (born 8 December 1948) is an English-born Australian film, theatre and television actor, presenter, singer, songwriter, musician and playwright. He is the son of British actor Russell Waters. John Waters was part of the Australian children's television series Play School for 18 years.

Waters was born on 8 December 1948 in London, England. He grew up in Teddington.

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.

Since 1992 Waters has performed with a one-man show Looking Through a Glass Onion co-written with Stewart D'Arrietta, a tribute to John Lennon featuring Lennon's music, words and images. In addition to many Australian tours of the show he also played six months in the West End, London. In 2014 he played 120 performances at the Union Square Theatre in Manhattan.

Waters has released 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).

He appeared in a production of Hair in 1969/1971, Godspell and Dracula.

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.

Waters appeared as Pontius Pilate in the concert version of Tim Rice musical Jesus Christ Superstar with John Farnham, Kate Ceberano, Jon Stevens and Angry Anderson in 1992