Barry Humphries

Barry Humphries

Known for: Acting
Biography: 1934-02-17
Deathday: 2023-04-22 (89 years old)

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.


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Filmography

all 106

Movies 63

TV Shows 43

self 31

Writer 6

Voice 6

Creator 1

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

Barry Humphries at the BBC (2023)

Movie
Dame Edna Everage (archive footage)
Parkinson at 50

Parkinson at 50 (2021)

Movie
'Anyone Can Whistle' Performer
Show of Titles

Show of Titles (2021)

Movie
Dame Edna Everidge / Writer
Dame Edna Rules The Waves

Dame Edna Rules The Waves (2019)

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

The Great Comic Relief Bake Off (2013)

TV
Self - list
Q&A

Q&A (2008)

TV
Dame Edna Everage / Self
The One Show

The One Show (2006)

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

Barry Humphries Presents Back to My Roots and Other Suckers (2003)

Movie
Mrs. Crummies/Mr. Leadville
Nicholas Nickleby

Nicholas Nickleby (2002)

Movie
6
Dame Edna Everage
Parkinson

Parkinson (1998)

TV
Kangaroo (voice)
Napoleon

Napoleon (1995)

Movie
Sir Les Patterson / Dame Edna Everage / Writer
Les Patterson Saves the World

Les Patterson Saves the World (1987)

Movie
Dame Edna Everage / Sir Les Patterson / Self / Writer
An Aussie Audience with Dame Edna

An Aussie Audience with Dame Edna (1986)

Movie
Dame Edna Everage / Dame Edna Everage / Sir Les Patterson
An Audience with...

An Audience with... (1978)

TV
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live (1975)

TV
6.36
Aunt Edna Everage / Dr. Meyer Delamphrey / Offensive Buck-toothed Englishman / Senator Douglas Manton / Writer
Barry McKenzie Holds His Own

Barry McKenzie Holds His Own (1974)

Movie
Dr. Anderson / Australian TV Lady
Percy's Progress

Percy's Progress (1974)

Movie
Aunt Edna Everage / Hoot / Dr. DeLamphrey / Writer
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie

The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972)

Movie
Dame Edna Everage
Parkinson

Parkinson (1971)

TV
Self / Sir Les Patterson
Omnibus

Omnibus (1967)

TV
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Information

Known For
Acting

Gender
Male

Birthday
1934-02-17

Deathday
2023-04-22 (89 years old)

Birth Place
Kew, Australia

Relationships
Diane Millstead (1979 - 1989), Brenda Wright (1955 - 1957), Rosalind Tong (1959 - 1970), Elizabeth Spender (1990 - 2023)

Children
Oscar Humphries

Citizenships
Australia

Also Known As
Dame Edna Everage, John Barry Humphries, Edna Everage, Les Patterson, Barry McKenzie, Sandy Stone, Bazza McKenzie

Awards
PEN/Ackerley Prize, Australian National Living Treasure, James Joyce Award, James Joyce Awards, Centenary Medal, Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Officer of the Order of Australia, Companion of the Order of Australia, Sydney Theatre Awards, Theatre World Special Award

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