Barry Humphries
Age: 91 | From: Camberwell, Melbourne, Australia
Person Details
Birthday: 1934-02-17 20:26:01
Aliases: Dame Edna Everage
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Camberwell, Melbourne, Australia
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 27
TV Involvements: 6
Most Famous Work
Biography
John Barry Humphries, AO, CBE (born 17 February 1934) is 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 is 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 has 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 has 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Barry Humphries, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Famous Work
Who Do You Think You Are?
(2008) Self
The South Bank Show
(1978) Self
Finding Nemo
(2003) Bruce (voice)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
(2012) The Great Goblin
I'd Do Anything
(2008) Himself - Judge
Magical Land of Oz
(2019) Narrator (voice)
Justin and the Knights of Valour
(2013) Braulio (voice)
Nicholas Nickleby
(2002) Mrs. Crummies/Mr. LeadvilleActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Self | |
| Self (archive material) / Dame Edna Everage / Sir Les Patterson | ||
| 2021 | Dame Edna Everage (archive footage) | |
| 2019 | Barry Humphries | |
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| 2016 | Self | |
| N/A | ||
| Charlie / Dame Edna | ||
| 2015 | Herself | |
| Wombo (voice) | ||
| 2014 | Self | |
| Justice Logan | ||
| 2013 | Braulio (voice) | |
| Contestant (Dame Edna Everage) | ||
| 2012 | The Great Goblin | |
| Dame Edna Everage | ||
| 2010 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| 2009 | Self | |
| Client | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| 2008 | Self | |
| Self | ||
| Self - Panellist | ||
| Himself - Judge | ||
| Self | ||
| 2007 | N/A | |
| Self | ||
| 2006 | Self | |
| Self | ||
| N/A | ||
| Dame Edna Everage | ||
| Self | ||
| 2005 | John Monk | |
| 2004 | Self - Edna Everage | |
| Dame Edna | ||
| 2003 | Sir Les Patterson/Owen Steele/Sandy Stone/Dame Edna Everage | |
| N/A | ||
| Dame Edna Everage | ||
| Self | ||
| Bruce (voice) | ||
| Self | ||
| 2002 | Mrs. Crummies/Mr. Leadville | |
| 1998 | N/A | |
| Blind Wally | ||
| 1997 | Kevin McMaxford | |
| Bert / Lady Shopper / Manager | ||
| Claire Otoms | ||
| Self | ||
| 1996 | Humphrey Beal | |
| 1995 | Self | |
| Kangaroo (voice) | ||
| 1994 | Clemens Metternich | |
| 1993 | N/A | |
| Dame Edna | ||
| 1992 | Dame Edna Everage | |
| Dame Edna | ||
| N/A | ||
| Dame Edna Everage | ||
| 1991 | Dame Edna Everage | |
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| Rupert Murdoch | ||
| 1990 | N/A | |
| 1988 | Dame Edna Everage | |
| 1987 | N/A | |
| Academy Award Presenter | ||
| Sir Les Patterson / Dame Edna Everage | ||
| 1986 | Dame Edna Everage / Sir Les Patterson / Self | |
| 1984 | Dame Edna | |
| Richard Deane | ||
| Edna Everage | ||
| 1982 | Self | |
| Himself - Various Roles | ||
| 1981 | Bert Schnick | |
| Himself | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1980 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| 1978 | Our Guests at Heartland | |
| Self | ||
| Dame Edna Everage | ||
| Dame Edna Everage / Sir Les Patterson | ||
| 1977 | Rev. Strachey | |
| 1976 | Edna Everage | |
| 1975 | Self - Cameo (uncredited) | |
| Col Ball-Miller | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1974 | Edna Everage | |
| Dr. Anderson / Australian TV Lady | ||
| 1972 | Aunt Edna Everage | |
| 1970 | Edna Everage | |
| 1968 | Mr. Wainwright | |
| 1967 | Envy | |
| 1964 | N/A | |
| 1962 | Dame Edna Everage | |
| Dame Edna | ||
| Dame Edna Everidge | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Creator
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Creator | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Writer | |
| 1987 | Writer | |
| 1986 | Writer | |
| 1984 | Writer | |
| 1974 | Writer | |
| 1972 | Writer | |
| Writer | ||
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |