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Barry Humphries
Sign in to saveAlso known as John Barry Humphries, Dame Edna Everage, Edna Everage, Les Patterson, Barry McKenzie, Sandy Stone, Bazza McKenzie
Australian comedian and actor (1934–2023)
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Barry Humphries was an Australian comedian, screenwriter, film actor, and painter. Born in Kew in 1934, he was educated at Melbourne Grammar School and the University of Melbourne. His professional career in acting, comedy, and satire began in 1955 and concluded in 2023. He was a male who spoke English and was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome.
Humphries received the Commander of the Order of the British Empire and the Centenary Medal. His works are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Gallery of Australia, and the National Portrait Gallery. He recorded for Parlophone, Philips Records, and Charisma. He died in Darlinghurst in 2023. He had four children.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 28
Top works
- Importance of Being Earnest
- A Garland for Stephen
- The Barry Humphries book of innocent Austral verse
- A nice night's entertainment
- Handling Edna
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Camberwell, Melbourne, Australia
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…
Known for
- Barry Humphries at the BBC — Self (archive material) / Dame Edna Everage / Sir Les Patterson2023
- Barry Humphries: The Last Laugh — Self2023
- Barry Humphries - A Life of Laughs — Self (Archive)2023
- Parkinson at 50 — Dame Edna Everage (archive footage)2021
- Show of Titles — "Anyone Can Whistle" Performer2021
- Dame Edna Rules The Waves — Dame Edna Everidge2019
- Standing Up for Sunny — Barry Humphries2019
- Magical Land of Oz — Narrator (voice)2019
- Peter Cook and Dudley Moore: The Missing Sketches — Self2016
- Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie — Charlie / Dame Edna2016
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- Australia
- Active from
- 1934
- Active to
- 2023
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,344
- Total plays
- 4,618
Tags
John Barry Humphries, AO, CBE (born 17 February 1934, Kew, Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian comedian, satirist and character actor perhaps best known for his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage, a Melbourne housewife, and Sir Les Patterson, Australia's foul-mouthed cultural attaché to Britain. He is also a film producer and script writer, a star of London's West End musical theatre, an award-winning writer and an accomplished landscape painter. <a href="https://www.last.fm/
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- One-step inactivation of chromosomal genes in
<i>Escherichia coli</i>
K-12 using PCR products
· 2000 · cited 14,093x
- <scp>CHARMM</scp>: A program for macromolecular energy, minimization, and dynamics calculations
· 1983 · cited 13,595x
- Click Chemistry: Diverse Chemical Function from a Few Good Reactions
· 2001 · cited 11,540x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,201x
- Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure
· 2003 · cited 10,087x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.”
- “Although there were many who did the dirty on him in the envious world of letters, Stephen* never let any of them live rent-free in his brain.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Barry
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Place of birth
- Kew
- Place of death
- Darlinghurst
- Occupation
- voice actor
- Educated at
- Melbourne Grammar School
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Record label
- Charisma
- Image
- Barry Humphries July 2001.jpg
- Number of children
- 4
- Work location
- United Kingdom
Show 12 more facts
- Commons category
- Barry Humphries
- date of birth
- 1934-02-17
- has works in the collection
- National Portrait Gallery
- start of work period
- 1955-00-00
- social media followers
- 11540
- medical condition
- Asperger syndrome
- name in native language
- Barry Humphries
- date of death
- 2023-04-22
- end of work period
- 2023-00-00
- different from
- Dame Edna Everage
- manner of death
- natural causes
- birth name
- John Barry Humphries
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