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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Barry Humphries, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Finding Nemo
(Bruce (voice))
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
(Aunt Edna Everage / Hoot / Dr. DeLamphrey)
Barry McKenzie Holds His Own
(Edna Everage)
Welcome to Woop Woop
(Blind Wally)
Mary and Max
(Narrator (voice))
Shock Treatment
(Bert Schnick)
Immortal Beloved
(Clemens Metternich)
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
(Self - Edna Everage)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
(Our Guests at Heartland)
The Leading Man
(Humphrey Beal)
Da Kath & Kim Code
(John Monk)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
(The Great Goblin)
Dame Edna's Neighbourhood Watch
(Dame Edna)
Another Audience with Dame Edna Everage
(Dame Edna)
Bedazzled
(Envy)
Barry Humphries at the BBC
(Self (archive material) / Dame Edna Everage / Sir Les Patterson)
The Naked Bunyip
(Edna Everage)
Pleasure at Her Majesty's
(Edna Everage)
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
(Self - Various Roles)
Percy's Progress
(Dr. Anderson / Australian TV Lady)
Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook
(Self)
Justin and the Knights of Valour
(Braulio (voice))
Barry Humphries Presents Back to My Roots and Other Suckers
(Sir Les Patterson/Owen Steele/Sandy Stone/Dame Edna Everage)
Parkinson at 50
(Dame Edna Everage (archive footage))
Side by Side
The Great MacArthy
(Col Ball-Miller)
Salvation
(Client)
Jack Irish: Dead Point
(Justice Logan)
An Audience with Dame Edna Everage
Selling Hitler
(Rupert Murdoch)
One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
(Dame Edna Everage)
Les Patterson Saves the World
(Sir Les Patterson / Dame Edna Everage)
Barry Humphries: The Last Laugh
(Self)
Dame Edna Rules The Waves
(Dame Edna Everidge)
Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills
(Bert / Lady Shopper / Manager)
We Are Most Amused
(Self)
An Audience with Jackie Mason
Telling Schoolgirl Tales: The Making of 'The Getting of Wisdom’
(Self)
Blinky Bill the Movie
(Wombo (voice))
The Getting of Wisdom
(Rev. Strachey)
An Aussie Audience with Dame Edna
(Dame Edna Everage / Sir Les Patterson / Self)
Nicholas Nickleby
(Mrs. Crummies/Mr. Leadville)
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore: The Missing Sketches
(Self)
Spice World
(Kevin McMaxford)
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
(Charlie / Dame Edna)
Michael McIntyre's Big Christmas Show
(Self)
A Toast to Melbourne
Joan Rivers: Abroad in London
(Dame Edna Everage)
Standing Up for Sunny
(Barry Humphries)
A (BBC Arena) Birthday Tribute to Dame Edna Everage
(Edna Everage)
Not Quite Hollywood
(Self)
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
(Mr. Wainwright)
Dr. Fischer of Geneva
(Richard Deane)
Kath & Kimderella
(Dame Edna Everage)
Napoleon
(Kangaroo (voice))
Howling III: The Marsupials
(Academy Award Presenter)
Making Mary and Max
(Self)
It Started with Swap Shop
(Self)
The Rocky Horror Treatment
((archive footage))
The Tony Danza Show
(Dame Edna)
Little Britain
Ally McBeal
(Claire Otoms)
The One Show
(Self)
QI
(Self)
The View
(Self)
The South Bank Show
(Self)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Dame Edna Treatment
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
(Dame Edna)
The Wednesday Play
Dame Edna's Neighbourhood Watch
(Dame Edna)
Pebble Mill
(Self)
The Dame Edna Experience
Russell Harty
Betjeman and Me
Comedy Rocks with Jason Manford
A Comedy Roast
Saturday Night Live
(Self - Cameo (uncredited))
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
(Dame Edna Everage)
Brilliant Creatures
(Self)
I'd Do Anything
(Himself - Judge)
Dame Edna's Hollywood
(Dame Edna Everage)
Who Do You Think You Are?
(Self)
The One Show
(Dame Edna Everage)
The Graham Norton Show
(Self)
An Audience with...
(Dame Edna Everage)
An Audience with...
(Dame Edna Everage / Sir Les Patterson)
Hollywood Squares
Wogan
(Self)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
(Dame Edna Everage)
A Granny's Guide to the Modern World
Micallef Tonight
(Self)
The Great Comic Relief Bake Off
(Contestant (Dame Edna Everage))
Magical Land of Oz
(Narrator (voice))
RTL Samstag Nacht
Little Britain
(Dame Edna Everage)
Boulevard Bio
(Self)
Q&A
(Self - Panellist)
Parkinson
(Dame Edna Everage)
The Team: A Season With McLaren
(Dame Edna Everage)
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
(Writer)
Barry Humphries Presents Back to My Roots and Other Suckers
(Writer)
Les Patterson Saves the World
(Writer)
Dame Edna Rules The Waves
(Writer)
Barry McKenzie Holds His Own
(Writer)
An Aussie Audience with Dame Edna
(Writer)
Another Audience with Dame Edna Everage
(Writer)
Dame Edna Rules The Waves
(Creator)