Gender
Male
Birthday, Age
1934 February 17 (91 years old)
Place of Birth
Camberwell, Melbourne, Australia
Date of Death
2023-04-22

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 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 caricature

Known For

Actor ( 1 )

Full Filmography

Finding Nemo
as Bruce (voice)
Movie • 2003-05-30
Barry McKenzie Holds His Own
as Aunt Edna Everage / Dr. Meyer Delamphrey / Offensive Buck-toothed Englishman / Senator Douglas Manton
Movie • 1974-12-12
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
as Aunt Edna Everage / Hoot / Dr. DeLamphrey
Movie • 1972-10-12
Welcome to Woop Woop
as Blind Wally
Movie • 1998-08-13
Mary and Max
as Narrator (voice)
Movie • 2009-04-09
Shock Treatment
as Bert Schnick
Movie • 1981-08-21
Immortal Beloved
as Clemens Metternich
Movie • 1994-12-16
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
as Self - Edna Everage
Movie • 2004-12-09
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
as Our Guests at Heartland
Movie • 1978-07-24
The Leading Man
as Humphrey Beal
Movie • 1996-12-12
Da Kath & Kim Code
as John Monk
Movie • 2005-11-27
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
as The Great Goblin
Movie • 2012-12-12
Another Audience with Dame Edna Everage
as Dame Edna/Les Patterson
Movie • 1984-12-30
Bedazzled
as Envy
Movie • 1967-10-30
Barry Humphries at the BBC
as Self (archive material) / Dame Edna Everage / Sir Les Patterson
Movie • 2023-05-28
The Naked Bunyip
as Edna Everage
Movie • 1970-02-02
Pleasure at Her Majesty's
as Edna Everage
Movie • 1976-12-29
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
as Self - Various Roles
Movie • 1982-03-01
Percy's Progress
as Dr. Anderson / Australian TV Lady
Movie • 1974-08-01
Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook
as Self
Movie • 1995-12-19
Justin and the Knights of Valour
as Braulio (voice)
Movie • 2013-08-09
Barry Humphries Presents Back to My Roots and Other Suckers
as Sir Les Patterson/Owen Steele/Sandy Stone/Dame Edna Everage
Movie • 2003-12-08
Parkinson at 50
as Dame Edna Everage (archive footage)
Movie • 2021-08-28
Side by Side
Movie • 1975-04-30
The Great MacArthy
as Col Ball-Miller
Movie • 1975-08-04
Salvation
as Client
Movie • 2009-03-19
Jack Irish: Dead Point
as Justice Logan
Movie • 2014-04-13
An Audience with Dame Edna Everage
as Dame Edna
Movie • 1980-12-26
Selling Hitler
as Rupert Murdoch
Movie • 1993-04-20
One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
as Dame Edna Everage
Movie • 1988-12-25
Les Patterson Saves the World
as Sir Les Patterson / Dame Edna Everage
Movie • 1987-04-09
Barry Humphries: The Last Laugh
as Self
Movie • 2023-12-23
Dame Edna Rules The Waves
as Dame Edna Everidge
Movie • 2019-12-31
Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills
as Bert / Lady Shopper / Manager
Movie • 1997-10-07
We Are Most Amused
as Self
Movie • 2008-11-15
Blinky Bill the Movie
as Wombo (voice)
Movie • 2015-08-21
The Getting of Wisdom
as Rev. Strachey
Movie • 1977-08-25
An Aussie Audience with Dame Edna
as Dame Edna Everage / Sir Les Patterson / Self
Movie • 1986-04-14
Nicholas Nickleby
as Mrs. Crummies/Mr. Leadville
Movie • 2002-12-27
Spice World
as Kevin McMaxford
Movie • 1997-12-18
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
as Charlie / Dame Edna
Movie • 2016-07-01
A Toast to Melbourne
Movie • 1981-01-01
Michael McIntyre's Big Christmas Show
as Self
Movie • 2015-12-25
Joan Rivers: Abroad in London
as Dame Edna Everage
Movie • 1992-10-08
Standing Up for Sunny
as Barry Humphries
Movie • 2019-06-12
A Birthday Tribute to Dame Edna Everage
as Dame Edna/Sir Les Patterson
Movie • 1984-02-17
Not Quite Hollywood
as Self
Movie • 2008-08-28
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
as Mr. Wainwright
Movie • 1968-09-11
Dr. Fischer of Geneva
as Richard Deane
Movie • 1984-10-08
Kath & Kimderella
as Dame Edna Everage
Movie • 2012-09-06
Napoleon
as Kangaroo (voice)
Movie • 1995-06-30
Howling III: The Marsupials
as Academy Award Presenter
Movie • 1987-05-15
Making Mary and Max
as Self
Movie • 2009-10-21
It Started with Swap Shop
as Self
Movie • 2006-12-28
The Rocky Horror Treatment
as (archive footage)
Movie • 1981-02-04
Show of Titles
as "Anyone Can Whistle" Performer
Movie • 2021-06-13
Little Britain Down Under
as Dame Edna Everage
Movie • 2007-05-27
Les Patterson 'Has A Stand Up' - Live & Rampant
as Les Patterson
Movie • 1996-11-11
The Man Inside Dame Edna
as Self/Dame Edna/Les Patterson
Movie • 2008-01-09
Barry Humphries - A Life of Laughs
as Self (Archive)
Movie • 2023-05-03
Sir Les And The Great Chinese Takeaway
as Les Patterson/Dame Edna
Movie • 1997-06-28
A Late Lunch With Sir Les
as Les Patterson
Movie • 1991-12-27
The Tony Danza Show
as Dame Edna
Tv • 2004-09-13
Ally McBeal
as Claire Otoms
Tv • 1997-09-08
The One Show
as Self
Tv • 2006-08-14
QI
as Self
Tv • 2003-09-11
The View
as Self
Tv • 1997-08-11
The South Bank Show
as Self
Tv • 1978-01-14
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Dame Edna
Tv • 1993-09-13
The Wednesday Play
Tv • 1964-09-30
Dame Edna's Neighbourhood Watch
as Dame Edna
Tv • 1992-09-19
Pebble Mill
as Self
Tv • 1991-10-14
Russell Harty
Tv • 1980-10-28
Betjeman and Me
Tv • 2006-08-14
A Comedy Roast
Tv • 2010-04-07
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
Tv • 1975-10-11
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
as Dame Edna Everage
Tv • 1992-05-25
Brilliant Creatures
as Self
Tv • 2014-09-16
I'd Do Anything
as Himself - Judge
Tv • 2008-03-15
Dame Edna's Hollywood
as Dame Edna Everage
Tv • 1991-11-30
Who Do You Think You Are?
as Self
Tv • 2008-01-13
The One Show
as Dame Edna Everage
Tv • 2006-08-14
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
Tv • 2007-02-22
An Audience with...
as Dame Edna Everage
Tv • 1978-01-08
An Audience with...
as Dame Edna Everage / Sir Les Patterson
Tv • 1978-01-08
Hollywood Squares
Tv • 1998-09-14
Wogan
as Self
Tv • 1982-05-04
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Dame Edna Everage
Tv • 1962-10-01
The Great Comic Relief Bake Off
as Contestant (Dame Edna Everage)
Tv • 2013-01-21
Micallef Tonight
as Self
Tv • 2003-05-12
Magical Land of Oz
as Narrator (voice)
Tv • 2019-02-10
RTL Samstag Nacht
Tv • 1993-11-06
Q&A
as Self - Panellist
Tv • 2008-05-22
Parkinson
as Dame Edna Everage
Tv • 1998-01-09
The Team: A Season With McLaren
as Dame Edna Everage
Tv • 1993-11-12
Omnibus
as Sir Les Patterson
Tv • 1967-10-13
Omnibus
as Self
Tv • 1967-10-13
Boulevard Bio
as Dame Edna
Tv • 1991-08-06