Barry Humphries

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.
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1934-02-17
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

Movies List of Barry Humphries

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Finding Nemo

2003 Movie
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Welcome to Woop Woop

1998 Movie
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Mary and Max

2009 Movie
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Shock Treatment

1981 Movie
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Immortal Beloved

1994 Movie
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The Leading Man

1996 Movie
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Da Kath & Kim Code

2005 Movie
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Bedazzled

1967 Movie
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The Naked Bunyip

1970 Movie
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Percy's Progress

1974 Movie
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Parkinson at 50

2021 Movie
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Side by Side

1975 Movie
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The Great MacArthy

1975 Movie
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Salvation

2009 Movie
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Selling Hitler

1991 Movie
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We Are Most Amused

2008 Movie
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Blinky Bill the Movie

2015 Movie
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The Getting of Wisdom

1977 Movie
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Nicholas Nickleby

2002 Movie
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Spice World

1997 Movie
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A Toast to Melbourne

1981 Movie
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Standing Up for Sunny

2019 Movie
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Not Quite Hollywood

2008 Movie
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Dr. Fischer of Geneva

1984 Movie
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Kath & Kimderella

2012 Movie
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Napoleon

1995 Movie
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Making Mary and Max

2009 Movie