John Waters

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There are two artists named John Waters. 1. John Russell Waters (born 8 December 1948 in London), the son of Scottish actor Russell Waters. As a teenager he was singer and bass-player with blues band 'The Riots', before travelling to Australia, where he landed the lead role of Claude in the 1969 Sydney production of Hair. He moved into work as a film and television actor in Australia, and became known for his varied performances both as character actor and leading man in TV series such as "Rush" for the ABC network, and "All the Rivers Run" for HBO. John featured in the "New Wave" of Australian cinema of the seventies in movies that included "Summerfield", "The Getting of Wisdom", "End Play" and "Breaker Morant". John remained in music through his theatre work; in Godspell, Two Gentlemen of Verona, A Little Night Music, Jacques Brel, They're Playing Our Song with Jacki Weaver, as well as the classic leading roles of Henry Higgins, Captain Von Trapp and Fagin. He also starred in a highly successful tour of The Woman in Black. John currently appears on Australia's TEN Network as Darcy, the patriarch of an eccentric family of big personalities in the hugely successful comedy/drama "Offspring". He was most recently seen as psychopathic criminal Edgar Thompson in ABC TV's hit dramedy, "Rake". In 1992 John and Stewart D'Arrietta devised and first performed Looking Through a Glass Onion, later named Lennon: Through a Glass Onion, as a theatrical interpretation of John Lennon's life

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