Barry Humphries
Acting
Born February 17, 1934 · Camberwell, Melbourne, Australia
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 des…
Known For · 40 titles
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Graham Norton Show
Saturday Night Live
Hollywood Squares
The View
The One Show
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Omnibus
Wogan
The South Bank Show
QI
Pebble Mill
Finding Nemo
The Wednesday Play
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Q&A
The Tony Danza Show
Parkinson
Boulevard Bio
An Audience with...
Ally McBeal
RTL Samstag Nacht
The Osbournes
Who Do You Think You Are?
Russell Harty
Mary and Max
Spice World
The Dame Edna Experience
The Great Comic Relief Bake Off
I'd Do Anything
Friday Night, Saturday Morning
Napoleon
Justin and the Knights of Valour
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Immortal Beloved
The Marsupials: The Howling III
Nicholas Nickleby
Blinky Bill the Movie
A Comedy Roast