Twelve years later, after working as second unit director on two big-budget 1958 releases, Warner's "The Deep Six" and the independently produced "The Big Country", John Waters was admitted as a patient to the Motion Picture Country House and Hospital in the Los Angeles suburb of Woodland Hills, where he died seven years later at the age of 71. "The New York Times"' May 8, 1965 obituary, under the heading "John S. Waters", described him as "a pioneer motion picture director" who "was 70 years old", and stated that "his widow, Frances, survives".