
Barry Humphries
Known for Acting · 109 credits
- Born
- 1934-02-17
- Died
- 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
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.
Known For
TV Shows (39)

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Dame Edna Everage / Self

The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self

Saturday Night Live
1975
as Dame Edna Everage

The View
1997
as Self

Hollywood Squares
1998
as Self - Panelist

The One Show
2006
as Self / Dame Edna Everage

QI
2003
as Self / Self - Panellist (archive footage)

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Dame Edna

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
as Dame Edna Everage

Wogan
1982
as Self

Omnibus
1967
as Sir Les Patterson / Self

Q&A
2008
as Self - Panellist
The Tony Danza Show
2004
as Dame Edna

Ally McBeal
1997
as Claire Otoms

The Wednesday Play
1964

An Audience with...
1978
as Dame Edna Everage / Dame Edna Everage / Sir Les Patterson
Pebble Mill
1991
as Self

The South Bank Show
1978
as Self

Parkinson
1998
as Dame Edna Everage

Boulevard Bio
1991
as Dame Edna

The Osbournes
2002
as Self

RTL Samstag Nacht
1993

Who Do You Think You Are?
2008
as Self
Russell Harty
1980

The Dame Edna Experience
1987

The Great Comic Relief Bake Off
2013
as Contestant (Dame Edna Everage)

Friday Night, Saturday Morning
1979

The Dame Edna Treatment
2007
A Comedy Roast
2010

I'd Do Anything
2008
as Himself - Judge

The Team: A Season With McLaren
1993
as Dame Edna Everage

Magical Land of Oz
2019
as Narrator (voice)
Comedy Rocks with Jason Manford
2010

Brilliant Creatures
2014
as Self

Micallef Tonight
2003
as Self
Betjeman and Me
2006

Dame Edna's Neighbourhood Watch
1992
as Dame Edna

A Granny's Guide to the Modern World
2016

Dame Edna's Hollywood
1991
as Dame Edna Everage
Movies (70)

Finding Nemo
2003
as Bruce (voice)

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012
as The Great Goblin

Mary and Max
2009
as Narrator (voice)

Spice World
1997
as Kevin McMaxford

Immortal Beloved
1994
as Clemens Metternich

Nicholas Nickleby
2002
as Mrs. Crummles/Mr. Leadville

Justin and the Knights of Valour
2013
as Braulio (voice)

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
2016
as Charlie / Dame Edna

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1978
as Our Guests at Heartland

The Leading Man
1996
as Humphrey Beal

Bedazzled
1967
as Envy

Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004
as Self - Edna Everage

The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
1982
as Self - Various Roles

Shock Treatment
1981
as Bert Schnick

Blinky Bill the Movie
2015
as Wombo (voice)

Not Quite Hollywood
2008
as Self

Napoleon
1995
as Kangaroo (voice)

Show of Titles
2021
as "Anyone Can Whistle" Performer

Selling Hitler
1993
as Rupert Murdoch

Kath & Kimderella
2012
as Dame Edna Everage
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore: The Missing Sketches
2016
as Self

Howling III: The Marsupials
1987
as Academy Award Presenter

Dr. Fischer of Geneva
1984
as Richard Deane

The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
1972
as Aunt Edna Everage / Hoot / Dr. DeLamphrey

Barry McKenzie Holds His Own
1974
as Aunt Edna Everage / Dr. Meyer Delamphrey / Offensive Buck-toothed Englishman / Senator Douglas Manton

The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
1968
as Mr. Wainwright

Jack Irish: Dead Point
2014
as Justice Logan

Welcome to Woop Woop
1998
as Blind Wally

Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills
1997
as Bert / Lady Shopper / Manager

We Are Most Amused
2008
as Self

Salvation
2009
as Client

Percy's Progress
1974
as Dr. Anderson / Australian TV Lady

Standing Up for Sunny
2019
as Barry Humphries

The Last Impresario
2014
as Self

Pleasure at Her Majesty's
1976
as Edna Everage

Barry Humphries at the BBC
2023
as Self (archive material) / Dame Edna Everage / Sir Les Patterson

Les Patterson Saves the World
1987
as Sir Les Patterson / Dame Edna Everage

Barry Humphries: The Last Laugh
2023
as Self

Parkinson at 50
2021
as Dame Edna Everage (archive footage)

Royal Variety Performance 1984
1984

The Getting of Wisdom
1977
as Rev. Strachey

It Started with Swap Shop
2006
as Self

Making Mary and Max
2009
as Self
Telling Schoolgirl Tales: The Making of 'The Getting of Wisdom’
2006
as Self
The Rocky Horror Treatment
1981
as (archive footage)

Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook
1995
as Self

The Man Inside Dame Edna
2008
as Self/Dame Edna/Les Patterson

Little Britain Down Under
2007
as Dame Edna Everage

Da Kath & Kim Code
2005
as John Monk

Side by Side
1975
as Rodney

The Great MacArthy
1975
as Col Ball-Miller

An Audience with Dame Edna Everage
1980
as Dame Edna

Gaybo Laughs Back
2008
as Dame Edna

One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
1988
as Dame Edna Everage

Michael McIntyre's Big Christmas Show
2015
as Self

Dame Edna Rules The Waves
2019
as Dame Edna Everidge

A Toast to Melbourne
1981

The Naked Bunyip
1970
as Edna Everage

A Night on Mount Edna
1990
as Dame Edna Everage

Sir Les And The Great Chinese Takeaway
1997
as Les Patterson/Dame Edna

Joan Rivers: Abroad in London
1992
as Dame Edna Everage
A Birthday Tribute to Dame Edna Everage
1984
as Dame Edna/Sir Les Patterson

An Audience with Jackie Mason
1990

Another Audience with Dame Edna Everage
1984
as Dame Edna/Les Patterson

Barry Humphries Presents Back to My Roots and Other Suckers
2003
as Sir Les Patterson/Owen Steele/Sandy Stone/Dame Edna Everage

Barry Humphries - A Life of Laughs
2023
as Self (Archive)

Barry Humphries: This is Your Lunch
1988
as Self/Dame Edna

An Aussie Audience with Dame Edna
1986
as Dame Edna Everage / Sir Les Patterson / Self

Les Patterson 'Has A Stand Up' - Live & Rampant
1996
as Les Patterson

A Late Lunch With Sir Les
1991
as Les Patterson
About 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 absurd… With 109 credits spanning from 1962 to 2023, Barry Humphries has appeared in 70 films and 39 TV shows.
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