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Barry Humphries

Acting
Known For

89 Years Old

John Barry Humphries, AO, CBE (17 February 1934 - 22 April 2023) was an Australian comedian, satirist, dadaist, artist, author and character actor, perhaps best known for his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage, a Melbourne housewife and "gigastar", and Sir Les Patterson, Australia's foul-mouthed cultural attaché to the Court of St. James's. He was a film producer and script writer, a star of London's West End musical theatre, an award-winning writer and an accomplished landscape painter. For his delivery of dadaist and absurdist humour to millions, biographer Anne Pender described Humphries in 2010 as not only the most significant theatrical figure of our time … [but] the most significant comedian to emerge since Charlie Chaplin. Humphries' characters, especially Dame Edna Everage, have brought him international renown, and he had appeared in numerous films, stage productions and television shows. Originally conceived as a dowdy Moonee Ponds housewife who caricatured Australian suburban complacency and insularity, Edna had evolved over four decades to become a satire of stardom, the gaudily dressed, acid-tongued, egomaniacal, internationally feted Housewife Gigastar, Dame Edna Everage. Humphries' other major satirical character creation was the archetypal Australian bloke Barry McKenzie, who originated as the hero of a comic strip about Australians in London (with drawings by Nicholas Garland) which was first published in Private Eye magazine. The stories about "Bazza" (Humphries' nickname, as well as an Australian term of endearment for the name Barry) gave wide circulation to Australian slang, particularly jokes about drinking and its consequences (much of which was invented by Humphries), and the character went on to feature in two Australian films, in which he was portrayed by Barry Crocker. Humphries' other satirical characters include the "priapic and inebriated cultural attaché" Sir Les Patterson, who has "continued to bring worldwide discredit upon Australian arts and culture, while contributing as much to the Australian vernacular as he has borrowed from it", gentle, grandfatherly "returned gentleman" Sandy Stone, iconoclastic 1960s underground film-maker Martin Agrippa, Paddington socialist academic Neil Singleton, sleazy trade union official Lance Boyle, high-pressure art salesman Morrie O'Connor and failed tycoon Owen Steele. Humphries died following complications from hip surgery at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney on 22 April 2023. Description above from the Wikipedia article Barry Humphries, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born

Camberwell, Melbourne, Australia on 17th February 1934

Died

22nd April 2023

All Credits

QI Image
QI
Self
The South Bank Show Image
The South Bank Show
Self
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Image
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Dame Edna Everage
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Image
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson Image
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson Image
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Dame Edna Everage
The View Image
The View
Self
No Image
The Tony Danza Show
Dame Edna
The Graham Norton Show Image
The Graham Norton Show
Self
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Pebble Mill
Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien Image
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Dame Edna
Omnibus Image
Omnibus
Self
Omnibus Image
Omnibus
Sir Les Patterson
Who Do You Think You Are? Image
Who Do You Think You Are?
Self
Hollywood Squares Image
Hollywood Squares
An Audience with... Image
An Audience with...
Dame Edna Everage / Sir Les Patterson
An Audience with... Image
An Audience with...
Dame Edna Everage
The Wednesday Play Image
The Wednesday Play
Boulevard Bio Image
Boulevard Bio
Dame Edna
Q&A Image
Q&A
Self - Panellist
Parkinson Image
Parkinson
Dame Edna Everage
Saturday Night Live Image
Saturday Night Live
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
RTL Samstag Nacht Image
RTL Samstag Nacht
The One Show Image
The One Show
Dame Edna Everage
The One Show Image
The One Show
Self
The Dame Edna Experience Image
The Dame Edna Experience
No Image
Russell Harty
I'd Do Anything Image
I'd Do Anything
Himself - Judge
Wogan Image
Wogan
Self
Finding Nemo Image
Finding Nemo
Bruce (voice)
The Great Comic Relief Bake Off Image
The Great Comic Relief Bake Off
Contestant (Dame Edna Everage)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Image
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Great Goblin
Ally McBeal Image
Ally McBeal
Claire Otoms
Magical Land of Oz Image
Magical Land of Oz
Narrator (voice)
Brilliant Creatures Image
Brilliant Creatures
Self
No Image
Betjeman and Me
Micallef Tonight Image
Micallef Tonight
Self
No Image
Comedy Rocks with Jason Manford
Dame Edna's Hollywood Image
Dame Edna's Hollywood
Dame Edna Everage
Dame Edna's Neighbourhood Watch Image
Dame Edna's Neighbourhood Watch
Dame Edna
The Team: A Season With McLaren Image
The Team: A Season With McLaren
Dame Edna Everage
Mary and Max Image
Mary and Max
Narrator (voice)
A Granny's Guide to the Modern World Image
A Granny's Guide to the Modern World
Nicholas Nickleby Image
Nicholas Nickleby
Mrs. Crummies/Mr. Leadville
Immortal Beloved Image
Immortal Beloved
Clemens Metternich
Spice World Image
Spice World
Kevin McMaxford
Justin and the Knights of Valour Image
Justin and the Knights of Valour
Braulio (voice)
Bedazzled Image
Bedazzled
Envy
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie Image
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Charlie / Dame Edna
The Dame Edna Treatment Image
The Dame Edna Treatment
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Image
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Our Guests at Heartland
Da Kath & Kim Code Image
Da Kath & Kim Code
John Monk
Napoleon Image
Napoleon
Kangaroo (voice)
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A Comedy Roast
Blinky Bill the Movie Image
Blinky Bill the Movie
Wombo (voice)
Percy's Progress Image
Percy's Progress
Dr. Anderson / Australian TV Lady
The Leading Man Image
The Leading Man
Humphrey Beal
Howling III: The Marsupials Image
Howling III: The Marsupials
Academy Award Presenter
Welcome to Woop Woop Image
Welcome to Woop Woop
Blind Wally
Shock Treatment Image
Shock Treatment
Bert Schnick
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom Image
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
Mr. Wainwright
Not Quite Hollywood Image
Not Quite Hollywood
Self
Kath & Kimderella Image
Kath & Kimderella
Dame Edna Everage
Show of Titles Image
Show of Titles
"Anyone Can Whistle" Performer
The Great MacArthy Image
The Great MacArthy
Col Ball-Miller
Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook Image
Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook
Self
Standing Up for Sunny Image
Standing Up for Sunny
Barry Humphries
Dr. Fischer of Geneva Image
Dr. Fischer of Geneva
Richard Deane
Barry McKenzie Holds His Own Image
Barry McKenzie Holds His Own
Aunt Edna Everage / Dr. Meyer Delamphrey / Offensive Buck-toothed Englishman / Senator Douglas Manton
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball? Image
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
Self - Edna Everage
Jack Irish: Dead Point Image
Jack Irish: Dead Point
Justice Logan
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball Image
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
Self - Various Roles
Selling Hitler Image
Selling Hitler
Rupert Murdoch
Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills Image
Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills
Bert / Lady Shopper / Manager
Parkinson at 50 Image
Parkinson at 50
Dame Edna Everage (archive footage)
We Are Most Amused Image
We Are Most Amused
Self
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Peter Cook and Dudley Moore: The Missing Sketches
Self
The Naked Bunyip Image
The Naked Bunyip
Edna Everage
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie Image
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
Aunt Edna Everage / Hoot / Dr. DeLamphrey
Pleasure at Her Majesty's Image
Pleasure at Her Majesty's
Edna Everage
It Started with Swap Shop Image
It Started with Swap Shop
Self
The Getting of Wisdom Image
The Getting of Wisdom
Rev. Strachey
One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage Image
One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
Dame Edna Everage
Making Mary and Max Image
Making Mary and Max
Self
Les Patterson Saves the World Image
Les Patterson Saves the World
Sir Les Patterson / Dame Edna Everage
Barry Humphries at the BBC Image
Barry Humphries at the BBC
Self (archive material) / Dame Edna Everage / Sir Les Patterson
Side by Side Image
Side by Side
Barry Humphries Presents Back to My Roots and Other Suckers Image
Barry Humphries Presents Back to My Roots and Other Suckers
Sir Les Patterson/Owen Steele/Sandy Stone/Dame Edna Everage
An Audience with Dame Edna Everage Image
An Audience with Dame Edna Everage
Dame Edna
Joan Rivers: Abroad in London Image
Joan Rivers: Abroad in London
Dame Edna Everage
No Image
A Birthday Tribute to Dame Edna Everage
Dame Edna/Sir Les Patterson
Salvation Image
Salvation
Client
Michael McIntyre's Big Christmas Show Image
Michael McIntyre's Big Christmas Show
Self
No Image
The Rocky Horror Treatment
(archive footage)
Little Britain Down Under Image
Little Britain Down Under
Dame Edna Everage
A Toast to Melbourne Image
A Toast to Melbourne
Barry Humphries: The Last Laugh Image
Barry Humphries: The Last Laugh
Self
An Audience with Jackie Mason Image
An Audience with Jackie Mason
Dame Edna Rules The Waves Image
Dame Edna Rules The Waves
Dame Edna Everidge
The Man Inside Dame Edna Image
The Man Inside Dame Edna
Self/Dame Edna/Les Patterson
An Aussie Audience with Dame Edna Image
An Aussie Audience with Dame Edna
Dame Edna Everage / Sir Les Patterson / Self
Les Patterson 'Has A Stand Up' - Live & Rampant Image
Les Patterson 'Has A Stand Up' - Live & Rampant
Les Patterson
No Image
Telling Schoolgirl Tales: The Making of 'The Getting of Wisdom’
Self
Another Audience with Dame Edna Everage Image
Another Audience with Dame Edna Everage
Dame Edna
A Late Lunch With Sir Les Image
A Late Lunch With Sir Les
Les Patterson
Sir Les And The Great Chinese Takeaway Image
Sir Les And The Great Chinese Takeaway
Les Patterson/Dame Edna
Barry Humphries - A Life of Laughs Image
Barry Humphries - A Life of Laughs
Self (Archive)