Barry Humphries
Biografia
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.
Filmografia
Barry Humphries: The Last Laugh
Self (2023)
Barry Humphries at the BBC
Self (archive material) / Dame Edna Everage / Sir Les Patterson (2023)
Barry Humphries - A Life of Laughs
Self (Archive) (2023)
Parkinson at 50
Dame Edna Everage (archive footage) (2021)
Show of Titles
"Anyone Can Whistle" Performer (2021)
Dame Edna Rules The Waves
Dame Edna Everidge (2019)
Standing Up for Sunny
Barry Humphries (2019)
Magical Land of Oz
Narrator (voice) (2019)
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore: The Missing Sketches
Self (2016)
A Granny's Guide to the Modern World
(2016)
Absolutamente fabulosas
Charlie / Dame Edna (2016)
Michael McIntyre's Big Christmas Show
Self (2015)
Blinky Bill, el koala
Wombo (voice) (2015)
Brilliant Creatures
Self (2014)
Jack Irish: Dead Point
Justice Logan (2014)
Justin y la espada del valor
Braulio (voice) (2013)
The Great Comic Relief Bake Off
Contestant (Dame Edna Everage) (2013)
Kath & Kimderella
Dame Edna Everage (2012)
A Comedy Roast
(2010)
Comedy Rocks with Jason Manford
(2010)
Making Mary and Max
Self (2009)
Mary and Max
Narrator (voice) (2009)
Salvation
Client (2009)
We Are Most Amused
Self (2008)
Gaybo Laughs Back
Dame Edna (2008)
Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!
Self (2008)
Q&A
Self - Panellist (2008)
I'd Do Anything
Himself - Judge (2008)
Who Do You Think You Are?
Self (2008)
The Man Inside Dame Edna
Self/Dame Edna/Les Patterson (2008)
Little Britain Down Under
Dame Edna Everage (2007)
The Dame Edna Treatment
(2007)
The Graham Norton Show
Self (2007)
It Started with Swap Shop
Self (2006)
The One Show
Dame Edna Everage (2006)
Betjeman and Me
(2006)
Telling Schoolgirl Tales: The Making of 'The Getting of Wisdom’
Self (2006)
Da Kath & Kim Code
John Monk (2005)
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
Self - Edna Everage (2004)
The Tony Danza Show
Dame Edna (2004)
Barry Humphries Presents Back to My Roots and Other Suckers
Sir Les Patterson/Owen Steele/Sandy Stone/Dame Edna Everage (2003)
QI
Self - Panellist (archive footage) (2003)
Buscando a Nemo
Bruce (voice) (2003)
Micallef Tonight
Self (2003)
La leyenda de Nicholas Nickleby
Mrs. Crummles/Mr. Leadville (2002)
The Osbournes
Self (2002)
Hollywood Squares
Self - Panelist (1998)
Bienvenido a Woop Woop
Blind Wally (1998)
Spice World: La película
Kevin McMaxford (1997)
Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills
Bert / Lady Shopper / Manager (1997)
Ally McBeal
Claire Otoms (1997)
The View
Self (1997)
Sir Les And The Great Chinese Takeaway
Les Patterson/Dame Edna (1997)
Un hombre de éxito
Humphrey Beal (1996)
Les Patterson 'Has A Stand Up' - Live & Rampant
Les Patterson (1996)
Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook
Self (1995)
Napoleón, el perrito aventurero
Kangaroo (voice) (1995)
Amor inmortal
Clemens Metternich (1994)
The Team: A Season With McLaren
Dame Edna Everage (1993)
RTL Samstag Nacht
(1993)
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Dame Edna (1993)
Selling Hitler
Rupert Murdoch (1993)
Joan Rivers: Abroad in London
Dame Edna Everage (1992)
Dame Edna's Neighbourhood Watch
Dame Edna (1992)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Dame Edna Everage (1992)
A Late Lunch With Sir Les
Les Patterson (1991)
Dame Edna's Hollywood
Dame Edna Everage (1991)
Boulevard Bio
Dame Edna (1991)
An Audience with Jackie Mason
(1990)
A Night on Mount Edna
Dame Edna Everage (1990)
One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
Dame Edna Everage (1988)
Barry Humphries: This is Your Lunch
Self/Dame Edna (1988)
The Dame Edna Experience
(1987)
Aullidos 3
Academy Award Presenter (1987)
Les Patterson Salvador del mundo
Sir Les Patterson / Dame Edna Everage (1987)
An Aussie Audience with Dame Edna
Dame Edna Everage / Sir Les Patterson / Self (1986)
Another Audience with Dame Edna Everage
Dame Edna/Les Patterson (1984)
Royal Variety Performance 1984
(1984)
Dr. Fischer of Geneva
Richard Deane (1984)
A Birthday Tribute to Dame Edna Everage
Dame Edna/Sir Les Patterson (1984)
Wogan
Self (1982)
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
Self - Various Roles (1982)
Shock Treatment
Bert Schnick (1981)
The Rocky Horror Treatment
(archive footage) (1981)
A Toast to Melbourne
(1981)
An Audience with Dame Edna Everage
Dame Edna (1980)
Russell Harty
(1980)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Our Guests at Heartland (1978)
An Audience with...
Dame Edna Everage / Sir Les Patterson (1978)
The Getting of Wisdom
Rev. Strachey (1977)
Pleasure at Her Majesty's
Edna Everage (1976)
Saturday Night Live
Dame Edna Everage (1975)
The Great MacArthy
Col Ball-Miller (1975)
Side by Side
Rodney (1975)
Barry McKenzie Holds His Own
Aunt Edna Everage / Dr. Meyer Delamphrey / Offensive Buck-toothed Englishman / Senator Douglas Manton (1974)
Percy's Progress
Dr. Anderson / Australian TV Lady (1974)
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
Aunt Edna Everage / Hoot / Dr. DeLamphrey (1972)
The Naked Bunyip
Edna Everage (1970)
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
Mr. Wainwright (1968)
Mi amigo el diablo
Envy (1967)
The Wednesday Play
(1964)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self (1962)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Great Goblin
Pebble Mill
Self
The South Bank Show
Self
Parkinson
Dame Edna Everage
Omnibus
Self