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.
Fotos
Películas (72)
Barry Humphries: The Last Laugh
2023 · Self
Barry Humphries at the BBC
2023 · Self (archive material) / Dame Edna Everage / Sir Les Patterson
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, Writer
Standing Up for Sunny
2019 · Barry Humphries
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore: The Missing Sketches
2016 · Self
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
2016 · Charlie / Dame Edna
Michael McIntyre's Big Christmas Show
2015 · Self
Blinky Bill the Movie
2015 · Wombo (voice)
The Last Impresario
2014 · Self
Jack Irish: Dead Point
2014 · Justice Logan
Justin and the Knights of Valour
2013 · Braulio (voice)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012 · The Great Goblin
Kath & Kimderella
2012 · Dame Edna Everage
Making Mary and Max
2009 · Self
Mary and Max
2009 · Narrator (voice)
Salvation
2009 · Client
We Are Most Amused
2008 · Self
Gaybo Laughs Back
2008 · Dame Edna
Not Quite Hollywood
2008 · Self
The Man Inside Dame Edna
2008 · Self/Dame Edna/Les Patterson
Little Britain Down Under
2007 · Dame Edna Everage
It Started with Swap Shop
2006 · Self
Telling Schoolgirl Tales: The Making of 'The Getting of Wisdom’
2006 · Self
The Unseen Spike Milligan
2005 · Self
Da Kath & Kim Code
2005 · John Monk
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004 · Self - Edna Everage
Barry Humphries Presents Back to My Roots and Other Suckers
2003 · Sir Les Patterson/Owen Steele/Sandy Stone/Dame Edna Everage, Writer
Finding Nemo
2003 · Bruce (voice)
Nicholas Nickleby
2002 · Mrs. Crummles/Mr. Leadville
Welcome to Woop Woop
1998 · Blind Wally
Spice World
1997 · Kevin McMaxford
Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills
1997 · Bert / Lady Shopper / Manager
Sir Les And The Great Chinese Takeaway
1997 · Les Patterson/Dame Edna, Writer
The Leading Man
1996 · Humphrey Beal
Les Patterson 'Has A Stand Up' - Live & Rampant
1996 · Les Patterson, Writer
Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook
1995 · Self
Napoleon
1995 · Kangaroo (voice)
Immortal Beloved
1994 · Clemens Metternich
Selling Hitler
1993 · Rupert Murdoch
Joan Rivers: Abroad in London
1992 · Dame Edna Everage
A Late Lunch With Sir Les
1991 · Les Patterson
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
The Marsupials: The Howling III
1987 · Academy Award Presenter
Les Patterson Saves the World
1987 · Sir Les Patterson / Dame Edna Everage, Writer
An Aussie Audience with Dame Edna
1986 · Dame Edna Everage / Sir Les Patterson / Self, Writer
Another Audience with Dame Edna Everage
1984 · Dame Edna/Les Patterson, Writer
Royal Variety Performance 1984
1984
Dr. Fischer of Geneva
1984 · Richard Deane
A Birthday Tribute to Dame Edna Everage
1984 · Dame Edna/Sir Les Patterson
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
1982 · Self - Various Roles
Shock Treatment
1981 · Bert Schnick
The Rocky Horror Treatment
1981 · (archive footage)
A Toast to Melbourne
1981
An Audience with Dame Edna Everage
1980 · Dame Edna
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1978 · Our Guests at Heartland
The Getting of Wisdom
1977 · Rev. Strachey
Pleasure at Her Majesty's
1976 · Edna Everage
The Great MacArthy
1975 · Col Ball-Miller
Side by Side
1975 · Rodney
Barry McKenzie Holds His Own
1974 · Aunt Edna Everage / Dr. Meyer Delamphrey / Offensive Buck-toothed Englishman / Senator Douglas Manton, Writer
Percy's Progress
1974 · Dr. Anderson / Australian TV Lady
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
1972 · Aunt Edna Everage / Hoot / Dr. DeLamphrey, Writer
The Naked Bunyip
1970 · Edna Everage
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
1968 · Mr. Wainwright
Bedazzled
1967 · Envy
Le Bain Vorace (Dial P for Plughole)
1954
Series (42)
Dame Edna Rules The Waves
2019 · Creator
Magical Land of Oz
2019 · Narrator (voice)
A Granny's Guide to the Modern World
2016
Brilliant Creatures
2014 · Self
The Great Comic Relief Bake Off
2013 · Contestant (Dame Edna Everage)
A Comedy Roast
2010
Comedy Rocks with Jason Manford
2010
Q&A
2008 · Self - Panellist
I'd Do Anything
2008 · Himself - Judge
Who Do You Think You Are?
2008 · Self
The Dame Edna Treatment
2007
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · Self
The One Show
2006 · Self, Dame Edna Everage
Betjeman and Me
2006
The Tony Danza Show
2004 · Dame Edna
Parkinson
2004 · Dame Edna Everage
QI
2003 · Self, Self - Panellist (archive footage)
Micallef Tonight
2003 · Self
The Osbournes
2002 · Self
Hollywood Squares
1998 · Self - Panelist
Parkinson
1998 · Dame Edna Everage
Ally McBeal
1997 · Claire Otoms
The View
1997 · Self
The Team: A Season With McLaren
1993 · Dame Edna Everage
RTL Samstag Nacht
1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Dame Edna
Dame Edna's Neighbourhood Watch
1992 · Dame Edna
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992 · Dame Edna Everage
Dame Edna's Hollywood
1991 · Dame Edna Everage
Pebble Mill
1991 · Self
Boulevard Bio
1991 · Dame Edna
Single Voices
1990 · Sandy Stone, Writer
The Dame Edna Experience
1987
Wogan
1982 · Self
Russell Harty
1980
Friday Night, Saturday Morning
1979
The South Bank Show
1978 · Self
An Audience with...
1978 · Dame Edna Everage, Dame Edna Everage / Sir Les Patterson
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Dame Edna Everage
Omnibus
1967 · Sir Les Patterson, Self
The Wednesday Play
1964
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Dame Edna Everage, Self