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
ActingBirthday
February 17, 1934Deathday
April 22, 2023Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
63Place of birth
Camberwell, Melbourne, AustraliaAlso known as
Dame Edna Everage, John Barry Humphries, Edna Everage, Les Patterson, Barry McKenzie, Sandy Stone, Bazza McKenzieCast credits
Finding Nemo
Bruce (voice)Welcome to Woop Woop
Blind WallyThe Adventures of Barry McKenzie
Aunt Edna EverageBarry McKenzie Holds His Own
Edna EverageMary and Max
Narrator (voice)Shock Treatment
Bert SchnickImmortal Beloved
Clemens MetternichRemember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
Self - Edna EverageThe Leading Man
Humphrey BealDa Kath & Kim Code
John MonkBedazzled
EnvyThe Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Great GoblinThe Naked Bunyip
Edna EveragePercy's Progress
Dr. Anderson / Australian TV LadyPleasure at Her Majesty's
Edna EverageThe Secret Policeman's Other Ball
Himself - Various RolesSide by Side
The Great MacArthy
Col Ball-MillerJustin and the Knights of Valour
Braulio (voice)Jack Irish: Dead Point
Justice Logan