Barry Humphries [22]
Gender: Male
Popularity: 0.7743
Birthplace: Camberwell, Melbourne, Australia
Birthday: 1934-02-17
Deathday: 2023-04-22
Age: 89 years
Movies: 58
Links: Homepage, IMDB
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 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.

Barry Humphries:
2023-12-23
Barry Humphries
2023-05-28
Parkinson at 50
2021-08-28
Show of Titles
2021-06-13
Dame Edna Rules
2019-12-31
Standing Up for
2019-06-12
Peter Cook and D
2016-12-31
Absolutely Fabul
2016-07-01
Michael McIntyre
2015-12-25
Blinky Bill the
2015-08-21
Jack Irish: Dead
2014-04-13
Justin and the K
2013-08-09
The Hobbit: An U
2012-12-12
Kath & Kimderell
2012-09-06
Making Mary and
2009-10-21
Mary and Max
2009-04-09
Salvation
2009-03-19
Not Quite Hollyw
2008-08-28
It Started with
2006-12-28
Telling Schoolgi
2006-03-06
Da Kath & Kim Co
2005-11-27
Remember the Sec
2004-12-09
Barry Humphries
2003-12-08
Finding Nemo
2003-05-30
Nicholas Nickleb
2002-12-27
Spice World
1997-12-18
Pterodactyl Woma
1997-10-07
Welcome to Woop
1998-08-13
The Leading Man
1996-12-12
Some Interesting
1995-12-19
Napoleon
1995-06-30
Immortal Beloved
1994-12-16
Selling Hitler
1993-04-20
Joan Rivers: Abr
1992-10-08
An Audience with
1990-12-27
One More Audienc
1988-12-25
Howling III: The
1987-05-15
Les Patterson Sa
1987-04-09
An Aussie Audien
1986-04-14
Another Audience
1984-12-30
Dr. Fischer of G
1984-10-08
A (BBC Arena) Bi
1984-02-17
The Secret Polic
1982-03-01
Shock Treatment
1981-08-21
The Rocky Horror
1981-02-04
A Toast to Melbo
1981-01-01
An Audience with
1980-12-26
Sgt. Pepper's Lo
1978-07-24
The Getting of W
1977-08-25
Pleasure at Her
1976-12-29
The Great MacArt
1975-08-04
Side by Side
1975-04-30
Barry McKenzie H
1974-12-12
Percy's Progress
1974-08-01
The Adventures o
1972-10-12
The Naked Bunyip
1970-02-02
The Bliss of Mrs
1968-09-11
Bedazzled
1967-10-30