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person_profile-Barry Humphries

Barry Humphries Died at age: 89

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Barry Humphries

Date of Birth:

Feb 17, 1934

Country of birth:

Australia

Died:

Apr 22, 2023

Biography of

Barry Humphries

    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.

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Filmography of

Barry Humphries

Found 51 Movies in total

... 2023

Barry Humphries at the BBC

Self (archive material) / Dame Edna Everage / Sir Les Patterson ( Actor )

... 2023

Parkinson at 50

Self (archival footage) (as Dame Edna Everage) ( Actor )

... 2021

Show of Titles

"Anyone Can Whistle" Performer ( Actor )

... 2021

Standing Up for Sunny

Barry Humphries ( Actor )

... 2019

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie

Charlie / Dame Edna ( Actor )

... 2016

... 2015

Blinky Bill the Movie

Wombo (voice) ( Actor )

... 2015

Jack Irish: Dead Point

Justice Logan ( Actor )

... 2014

Justin and the Knights of Valour

Braulio (voice) ( Actor )

... 2013

... 2012

Kath & Kimderella

Dame Edna Everage ( Actor )

... 2012

Mary and Max

Narrator (voice) ( Actor )

... 2009

Salvation

Client ( Actor )

... 2009

We Are Most Amused

Self ( Actor )

... 2008

Not Quite Hollywood

Self ( Actor )

... 2008

Little Britain Down Under

Dame Edna Everage ( Actor )

... 2007

... 2006

Da Kath & Kim Code

John Monk ( Actor )

... 2005

Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?

Self - Edna Everage ( Actor )

... 2004

Barry Humphries Presents Back to My Roots and Other Suckers

Sir Les Patterson/Owen Steele/Sandy Stone/Dame Edna Everage ( Actor )

Writer

... 2003

Finding Nemo

Bruce (voice) ( Actor )

... 2003

Nicholas Nickleby

Mrs. Crummies/Mr. Leadville ( Actor )

... 2002

Welcome to Woop Woop

Blind Wally ( Actor )

... 1998

Spice World

Kevin McMaxford ( Actor )

... 1997

Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills

Bert / Lady Shopper / Manager ( Actor )

... 1997

The Leading Man

Humphrey Beal ( Actor )

... 1996

... 1995

Napoleon

Kangaroo (voice) ( Actor )

... 1995

Immortal Beloved

Clemens Metternich ( Actor )

... 1994

Joan Rivers: Abroad in London

Dame Edna Everage ( Actor )

... 1992

Selling Hitler

Rupert Murdoch ( Actor )

... 1991

... 1990

One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage

Dame Edna Everage ( Actor )

... 1988

Howling III: The Marsupials

Academy Award Presenter ( Actor )

... 1987

Les Patterson Saves the World

Sir Les Patterson / Dame Edna Everage ( Actor )

Writer

... 1987

Dr. Fischer of Geneva

Richard Deane ( Actor )

... 1984

The Secret Policeman's Other Ball

Himself - Various Roles ( Actor )

... 1982

Shock Treatment

Bert Schnick ( Actor )

... 1981

... 1980

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Our Guests at Heartland ( Actor )

... 1978

The Getting of Wisdom

Rev. Strachey ( Actor )

... 1977

Pleasure at Her Majesty's

Edna Everage ( Actor )

... 1976

The Great MacArthy

Col Ball-Miller ( Actor )

... 1975

... 1975

Barry McKenzie Holds His Own

Edna Everage ( Actor )

Writer

... 1974

Percy's Progress

Dr. Anderson / Australian TV Lady ( Actor )

... 1974

The Adventures of Barry McKenzie

Aunt Edna Everage ( Actor )

Writer

... 1972

The Naked Bunyip

Edna Everage ( Actor )

... 1970

The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom

Mr. Wainwright ( Actor )

... 1968

Bedazzled

Envy ( Actor )

... 1967