Barry Humphries

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1934-02-17 (89 years old)

Deathday

2023-04-22

Place of Birth

Camberwell, Melbourne, Australia

Barry Humphries

Biography

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 sign...

Acting

2003

Finding Nemo

as Bruce (voice)

1972

The Adventures of Barry McKenzie

as Aunt Edna Everage / Hoot / Dr. DeLamphrey

1974

Barry McKenzie Holds His Own

as Aunt Edna Everage / Dr. Meyer Delamphrey / Offensive Buck-toothed Englishman / Senator Douglas Manton

1998

Welcome to Woop Woop

as Blind Wally

2009

Mary and Max

as Narrator (voice)

1981

Shock Treatment

as Bert Schnick

1994

Immortal Beloved

as Clemens Metternich

2004

1978

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

as Our Guests at Heartland

1996

The Leading Man

as Humphrey Beal

2005

Da Kath & Kim Code

as John Monk

2012

1967

Bedazzled

as Envy

2023

Barry Humphries at the BBC

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

1970

The Naked Bunyip

as Edna Everage

1976

1982

The Secret Policeman's Other Ball

as Self - Various Roles

1974

Percy's Progress

as Dr. Anderson / Australian TV Lady

2013

2003

Barry Humphries Presents Back to My Roots and Other Suckers

as Sir Les Patterson/Owen Steele/Sandy Stone/Dame Edna Everage

2021

Parkinson at 50

as Dame Edna Everage (archive footage)

1975

The Great MacArthy

as Col Ball-Miller

2009

Salvation

as Client

2014

Jack Irish: Dead Point

as Justice Logan

1993

Selling Hitler

as Rupert Murdoch

1987

Les Patterson Saves the World

as Sir Les Patterson / Dame Edna Everage

2019

Dame Edna Rules The Waves

as Dame Edna Everidge

1997

Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills

as Bert / Lady Shopper / Manager

2015

Blinky Bill the Movie

as Wombo (voice)

1977

The Getting of Wisdom

as Rev. Strachey

1986

An Aussie Audience with Dame Edna

as Dame Edna Everage / Sir Les Patterson / Self

2002

Nicholas Nickleby

as Mrs. Crummies/Mr. Leadville

1997

Spice World

as Kevin McMaxford

2016

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie

as Charlie / Dame Edna

1992

Joan Rivers: Abroad in London

as Dame Edna Everage

2019

Standing Up for Sunny

as Barry Humphries

1984

A Birthday Tribute to Dame Edna Everage

as Dame Edna/Sir Les Patterson

1968

The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom

as Mr. Wainwright

1984

Dr. Fischer of Geneva

as Richard Deane

2012

Kath & Kimderella

as Dame Edna Everage

1995

Napoleon

as Kangaroo (voice)

1987

Howling III: The Marsupials

as Academy Award Presenter

1981

The Rocky Horror Treatment

as (archive footage)

2021

Show of Titles

as "Anyone Can Whistle" Performer

2007

Little Britain Down Under

as Dame Edna Everage

2008

The Man Inside Dame Edna

as Self/Dame Edna/Les Patterson

1997

Sir Les And The Great Chinese Takeaway

as Les Patterson/Dame Edna

1991

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