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Barry Humphries
Born · February 17, 1934
Died · April 22, 2023 (89 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Camberwell, Melbourne, Australia
Bio
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.
Barry Humphries: The Last Laugh
Self
0.0
2023
Barry Humphries at the BBC
Self (archive material) / Dame Edna Everage / Sir Les Patterson
7.6
2023
Parkinson at 50
Dame Edna Everage (archive footage)
10.0
2021
Dame Edna Rules The Waves
Dame Edna Everidge
0.0
2019
Standing Up for Sunny
Barry Humphries
5.5
2019
Magical Land of Oz
Narrator (voice) · (3 episodes)
8.5
2019
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore: The Missing Sketches
Self
0.0
2016
A Granny's Guide to the Modern World
(3 episodes)
0.0
2016
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Charlie / Dame Edna
5.3
2016
Michael McIntyre's Big Christmas Show
Self
8.0
2015
Blinky Bill the Movie
Wombo (voice)
5.4
2015
Brilliant Creatures
Self · (2 episodes)
0.0
2014
Jack Irish: Dead Point
Justice Logan
6.9
2014
Justin and the Knights of Valour
Braulio (voice)
5.9
2013
The Great Comic Relief Bake Off
Contestant (Dame Edna Everage) · (1 episode)
0.0
2013
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Great Goblin
7.4
2012
Kath & Kimderella
Dame Edna Everage
5.3
2012
A Comedy Roast
(1 episode)
6.0
2010
Comedy Rocks with Jason Manford
(1 episode)
0.0
2010
Making Mary and Max
Self
0.0
2009
Mary and Max
Narrator (voice)
7.9
2009
Salvation
Client
5.0
2009
We Are Most Amused
Self
7.2
2008
Not Quite Hollywood
Self
6.8
2008
Q&A
Self - Panellist · (1 episode)
3.8
2008
I'd Do Anything
Himself - Judge · (22 episodes)
0.0
2008
Who Do You Think You Are?
Self · (1 episode)
2.8
2008
The Dame Edna Treatment
(6 episodes)
7.0
2007
The Graham Norton Show
Self · (1 episode)
7.2
2007
It Started with Swap Shop
Self
0.0
2006
The One Show
Self · (1 episode)
4.6
2006
Betjeman and Me
(1 episode)
0.0
2006
The One Show
Dame Edna Everage · (1 episode)
4.6
2006
Telling Schoolgirl Tales: The Making of 'The Getting of Wisdom’
Self
0.0
2006
Da Kath & Kim Code
John Monk
6.9
2005
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
Self - Edna Everage
4.8
2004
The Tony Danza Show
Dame Edna · (1 episode)
6.1
2004
Barry Humphries Presents Back to My Roots and Other Suckers
Sir Les Patterson/Owen Steele/Sandy Stone/Dame Edna Everage
0.0
2003
Little Britain
(1 episode)
7.1
2003
Little Britain
Dame Edna Everage · (1 episode)
7.1
2003
QI
Self · (1 episode)
8.0
2003
Finding Nemo
Bruce (voice)
7.8
2003
Micallef Tonight
Self · (1 episode)
9.0
2003
Nicholas Nickleby
Mrs. Crummies/Mr. Leadville
6.9
2002
Hollywood Squares
(5 episodes)
6.5
1998
Welcome to Woop Woop
Blind Wally
5.9
1998
Parkinson
Dame Edna Everage · (3 episodes)
0.0
1998
Spice World
Kevin McMaxford
4.8
1997
Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills
Bert / Lady Shopper / Manager
3.7
1997
Ally McBeal
Claire Otoms · (11 episodes)
6.6
1997
The View
Self · (1 episode)
4.4
1997
The Leading Man
Humphrey Beal
5.2
1996
Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook
Self
0.0
1995
Napoleon
Kangaroo (voice)
6.1
1995
Immortal Beloved
Clemens Metternich
7.1
1994
The Team: A Season With McLaren
Dame Edna Everage · (1 episode)
8.0
1993
RTL Samstag Nacht
(1 episode)
8.2
1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Dame Edna · (1 episode)
7.1
1993
Joan Rivers: Abroad in London
Dame Edna Everage
0.0
1992
Dame Edna's Neighbourhood Watch
Dame Edna · (12 episodes)
5.3
1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
(2 episodes)
5.4
1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Dame Edna Everage · (5 episodes)
5.4
1992
Dame Edna's Hollywood
Dame Edna Everage · (3 episodes)
1.0
1991
Pebble Mill
Self · (1 episode)
3.1
1991
Boulevard Bio
Self · (1 episode)
6.0
1991
Selling Hitler
Rupert Murdoch
7.0
1991
An Audience with Jackie Mason
0.0
1990
One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
Dame Edna Everage
0.0
1988
The Dame Edna Experience
(13 episodes)
5.0
1987
Howling III: The Marsupials
Academy Award Presenter
4.5
1987
Les Patterson Saves the World
Sir Les Patterson / Dame Edna Everage
4.8
1987
An Aussie Audience with Dame Edna
Dame Edna Everage / Sir Les Patterson / Self
0.0
1986
Another Audience with Dame Edna Everage
Dame Edna
0.0
1984
Dr. Fischer of Geneva
Richard Deane
5.6
1984
A (BBC Arena) Birthday Tribute to Dame Edna Everage
Edna Everage
0.0
1984
Wogan
Self · (2 episodes)
4.5
1982
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
Self - Various Roles
6.0
1982
Shock Treatment
Bert Schnick
5.8
1981
The Rocky Horror Treatment
(archive footage)
0.0
1981
A Toast to Melbourne
0.0
1981
An Audience with Dame Edna Everage
1.0
1980
Russell Harty
(1 episode)
0.0
1980
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Our Guests at Heartland
4.4
1978
The South Bank Show
Self · (1 episode)
5.3
1978
An Audience with...
Dame Edna Everage · (2 episodes)
5.3
1978
An Audience with...
Dame Edna Everage / Sir Les Patterson · (1 episode)
5.3
1978
The Getting of Wisdom
Rev. Strachey
5.5
1977
Pleasure at Her Majesty's
Edna Everage
6.5
1976
Saturday Night Live
Self - Cameo (uncredited) · (1 episode)
6.9
1975
The Great MacArthy
Col Ball-Miller
5.0
1975
Side by Side
6.5
1975
Barry McKenzie Holds His Own
Edna Everage
5.4
1974
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
Aunt Edna Everage / Hoot / Dr. DeLamphrey
5.2
1972
Dame Edna's Neighbourhood Watch
Dame Edna
0.0
Percy's Progress
Dr. Anderson / Australian TV Lady
3.9
1974
The Naked Bunyip
Edna Everage
5.7
1970
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
Mr. Wainwright
6.7
1968
Bedazzled
Envy
6.2
1967
The Wednesday Play
(1 episode)
4.5
1964
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Dame Edna Everage · (1 episode)
7.4
1962