JOHN WATERS (ACTOR)

'John Russell Waters' (born 8 December, 1945, London, England) is a famous film, theatre and television actor, best known in Australia, where he moved to in 1968.
His first big break was in musicals, playing Claude in a Sydney production of ''Hair'' in 1969, then Judas in ''Godspell''. Among his most famous roles are Sergeant Robert McKellar in the 1976 television series ''Rush'' (famously revoiced and parodied by The D-Generation as ''The Olden Days'' on their comedy programme ''The Late Show''), Capt. Alfred Taylor in the 1980 film version of ''Breaker Morant'', and Pontius Pilate in the Australian concert production of Jesus Christ Superstar. Many Australians still remember him best from his nearly 20 year stint on the Australian series of ''Play School'' (1972 - 1991).
In 1988 John Waters won the AFI Award for Best Actor for his role as Tom Garfield in the Frank Howson written film ''Boulevard of Broken Dreams''.
John is also an accomplished musician, and toured for many years with his one man show ''Looking Through a Glass Onion'', a tribute to John Lennon featuring music, words and images.
John Waters also appeared on stage with the production ''The Sound of Music'', in which he played the part of "Captain von Trapp".
When still doing Play School, he has been narrating children's video trailers for ABC TV.
He stars in advertisements for ''Bird's Eye'' frozen food products. He also joined the cast of ''All Saints'' in June 2006 as Mike Vlasek, the new Head of Surgery. Waters has been touring around Australia through August and September starring in a critically acclaimed role alongside Brett Tucker in 'The Woman In Black'.

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