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
Also known As
Dame Edna Everage
John Barry Humphries
Edna Everage
Les Patterson
Barry McKenzie
Sandy Stone
Bazza McKenzie
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
as Bruce (voice)
1972
as Aunt Edna Everage / Hoot / Dr. DeLamphrey
1974
as Aunt Edna Everage / Dr. Meyer Delamphrey / Offensive Buck-toothed Englishman / Senator Douglas Manton
1998
as Blind Wally
2009
as Narrator (voice)
1981
as Bert Schnick
1994
as Clemens Metternich
2004
as Self - Edna Everage
1978
as Our Guests at Heartland
1996
as Humphrey Beal
2005
as John Monk
2012
as The Great Goblin
1984
as Dame Edna
1967
as Envy
2023
as Self (archive material) / Dame Edna Everage / Sir Les Patterson
1970
as Edna Everage
1976
as Edna Everage
1982
as Self - Various Roles
1974
as Dr. Anderson / Australian TV Lady
1995
2013
as Braulio (voice)
2003
as Sir Les Patterson/Owen Steele/Sandy Stone/Dame Edna Everage
2021
as Dame Edna Everage (archive footage)
1975
1975
as Col Ball-Miller
2009
as Client
2014
as Justice Logan
1980
as Dame Edna
1993
as Rupert Murdoch
1988
as Dame Edna Everage
1987
as Sir Les Patterson / Dame Edna Everage
2023
2019
as Dame Edna Everidge
1997
as Bert / Lady Shopper / Manager
2008
as Self
2015
as Wombo (voice)
1977
as Rev. Strachey
1986
as Dame Edna Everage / Sir Les Patterson / Self
2002
as Mrs. Crummies/Mr. Leadville
1997
as Kevin McMaxford
2016
as Charlie / Dame Edna
2015
1992
as Dame Edna Everage
2019
as Barry Humphries
1984
as Dame Edna/Sir Les Patterson
2008
as Self
1968
as Mr. Wainwright
1984
as Richard Deane
2012
as Dame Edna Everage
1995
as Kangaroo (voice)
1987
as Academy Award Presenter
2009
as Self
2006
as Self
1981
as (archive footage)
2021
as "Anyone Can Whistle" Performer
2007
as Dame Edna Everage
1996
as Les Patterson
2008
as Self/Dame Edna/Les Patterson
2023
as Self (Archive)
1997
as Les Patterson/Dame Edna
1991
as Les Patterson
Production
1972
as Writer
1987
as Writer
2019
as Writer
1974
as Writer
1986
as Writer
1984
1996
1997
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