Barry Humphries
Acteur·rice
17 février 1934
Camberwell, Melbourne, Australia
Died 22 avril 2023
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.
Known for
As an actor
Barry Humphries at the BBC
2023 · Self (archive material) / Dame Edna Everage / Sir Les Patterson
Barry Humphries: The Last Laugh
2023 · Self
Barry Humphries - A Life of Laughs
2023 · Self (Archive)
Parkinson at 50
2021 · Dame Edna Everage (archive footage)
Show of Titles
2021 · "Anyone Can Whistle" Performer
Dame Edna Rules The Waves
2019 · Dame Edna Everidge
Standing Up for Sunny
2019 · Barry Humphries
Magical Land of Oz
2019 · Narrator (voice)
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore: The Missing Sketches
2016 · Self
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
2016 · Charlie / Dame Edna
A Granny's Guide to the Modern World
2016
Blinky Bill the Movie
2015 · Wombo (voice)
Michael McIntyre's Big Christmas Show
2015 · Self
Jack Irish: Dead Point
2014 · Justice Logan
The Last Impresario
2014 · Self
Brilliant Creatures
2014 · Self
Justin and the Knights of Valour
2013 · Braulio (voice)
The Great Comic Relief Bake Off
2013 · Contestant (Dame Edna Everage)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012 · The Great Goblin
Kath & Kimderella
2012 · Dame Edna Everage
Comedy Rocks with Jason Manford
2010
A Comedy Roast
2010
Mary and Max
2009 · Narrator (voice)
Salvation
2009 · Client
Making Mary and Max
2009 · Self
We Are Most Amused
2008 · Self
Not Quite Hollywood
2008 · Self
The Man Inside Dame Edna
2008 · Self/Dame Edna/Les Patterson
Gaybo Laughs Back
2008 · Dame Edna
I'd Do Anything
2008 · Himself - Judge
Who Do You Think You Are?
2008 · Self
Q&A
2008 · Self - Panellist
Little Britain Down Under
2007 · Dame Edna Everage
The Dame Edna Treatment
2007
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · Self
Telling Schoolgirl Tales: The Making of 'The Getting of Wisdom’
2006 · Self
It Started with Swap Shop
2006 · Self
The One Show
2006 · Self, Dame Edna Everage
Betjeman and Me
2006
Da Kath & Kim Code
2005 · John Monk
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004 · Self - Edna Everage
The Tony Danza Show
2004 · Dame Edna
Finding Nemo
2003 · Bruce (voice)
Barry Humphries Presents Back to My Roots and Other Suckers
2003 · Sir Les Patterson/Owen Steele/Sandy Stone/Dame Edna Everage
QI
2003 · Self, Self - Panellist (archive footage)
Micallef Tonight
2003 · Self
Nicholas Nickleby
2002 · Mrs. Crummles/Mr. Leadville
The Osbournes
2002 · Self
Welcome to Woop Woop
1998 · Blind Wally
Hollywood Squares
1998 · Self - Panelist
Parkinson
1998 · Dame Edna Everage
Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills
1997 · Bert / Lady Shopper / Manager
Spice World
1997 · Kevin McMaxford
Sir Les And The Great Chinese Takeaway
1997 · Les Patterson/Dame Edna
Ally McBeal
1997 · Claire Otoms
The View
1997 · Self
The Leading Man
1996 · Humphrey Beal
Les Patterson 'Has A Stand Up' - Live & Rampant
1996 · Les Patterson
Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook
1995 · Self
Napoleon
1995 · Kangaroo (voice)
Immortal Beloved
1994 · Clemens Metternich
Selling Hitler
1993 · Rupert Murdoch
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Dame Edna
RTL Samstag Nacht
1993
The Team: A Season With McLaren
1993 · Dame Edna Everage
Joan Rivers: Abroad in London
1992 · Dame Edna Everage
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992 · Dame Edna Everage
Dame Edna's Neighbourhood Watch
1992 · Dame Edna
A Late Lunch With Sir Les
1991 · Les Patterson
Pebble Mill
1991 · Self
Dame Edna's Hollywood
1991 · Dame Edna Everage
Boulevard Bio
1991 · Dame Edna
An Audience with Jackie Mason
1990
A Night on Mount Edna
1990 · Dame Edna Everage
One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
1988 · Dame Edna Everage
Barry Humphries: This is Your Lunch
1988 · Self/Dame Edna
Les Patterson Saves the World
1987 · Sir Les Patterson / Dame Edna Everage
The Marsupials: The Howling III
1987 · Academy Award Presenter
The Dame Edna Experience
1987
An Aussie Audience with Dame Edna
1986 · Dame Edna Everage / Sir Les Patterson / Self
Another Audience with Dame Edna Everage
1984 · Dame Edna/Les Patterson
A Birthday Tribute to Dame Edna Everage
1984 · Dame Edna/Sir Les Patterson
Dr. Fischer of Geneva
1984 · Richard Deane
Royal Variety Performance 1984
1984
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
1982 · Self - Various Roles
Wogan
1982 · Self
Shock Treatment
1981 · Bert Schnick
A Toast to Melbourne
1981
The Rocky Horror Treatment
1981 · (archive footage)
An Audience with Dame Edna Everage
1980 · Dame Edna
Russell Harty
1980
Friday Night, Saturday Morning
1979
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1978 · Our Guests at Heartland
The South Bank Show
1978 · Self
An Audience with...
1978 · Dame Edna Everage, Dame Edna Everage / Sir Les Patterson
The Getting of Wisdom
1977 · Rev. Strachey
Pleasure at Her Majesty's
1976 · Edna Everage
Side by Side
1975 · Rodney
The Great MacArthy
1975 · Col Ball-Miller
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Dame Edna Everage
Barry McKenzie Holds His Own
1974 · Aunt Edna Everage / Dr. Meyer Delamphrey / Offensive Buck-toothed Englishman / Senator Douglas Manton
Percy's Progress
1974 · Dr. Anderson / Australian TV Lady
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
1972 · Aunt Edna Everage / Hoot / Dr. DeLamphrey
The Naked Bunyip
1970 · Edna Everage
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
1968 · Mr. Wainwright
Bedazzled
1967 · Envy
Omnibus
1967 · Sir Les Patterson, Self
The Wednesday Play
1964
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Dame Edna Everage, Self
Le Bain Vorace (Dial P for Plughole)
1954
Scénario
Dame Edna Rules The Waves
2019 · Writer
Barry Humphries Presents Back to My Roots and Other Suckers
2003 · Writer
Sir Les And The Great Chinese Takeaway
1997 · Writer
Les Patterson 'Has A Stand Up' - Live & Rampant
1996 · Writer
Les Patterson Saves the World
1987 · Writer
An Aussie Audience with Dame Edna
1986 · Writer
Another Audience with Dame Edna Everage
1984 · Writer
Barry McKenzie Holds His Own
1974 · Writer
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
1972 · Writer
