My Movie Finder - Logo
  • Popular
  • Coming
  • Shuffle
  • Sign Up

Login






Forgot Password
New here? Sign Up.
logo
My Movie Finder - Logo
  • Popular
  • Coming
  • Shuffle
  • Sign Up
  • Profile
  • Logout

Find Your Movie, Your Way

SEARCH BY ARTIST, MOVIE, KEYWORD OR COLLECTION.


Filters coming

Barry Humphries

Popularity

1.3

  • 1934 - Present Day

Biography

John Barry Humphries, AO, CBE (born 17 February 1934) is 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 is 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 has 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 has 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Barry Humphries, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Birthday: 1934-02-17

Born At: Camberwell, Melbourne, Australia

Casted In:

Finding Nemo
12
Spiceworld: The Movie
6116
Welcome to Woop Woop
6970
Immortal Beloved
13701
Bedazzled
18209
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
24084
Barry McKenzie Holds His Own
24085
Mary and Max
24238
Shock Treatment
27997
Nicholas Nickleby
29339
The Leading Man
46338
Da Kath and Kim Code
46463
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
49051
Pleasure at Her Majesty's
59527
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
59533
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
61357
The Naked Bunyip
73949
Percy's Progress
77647
Les Patterson Saves the World
136254
Justin and the Knights of Valour
146381
Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills
181841
Side by Side
194592
The Great MacArthy
252784
Salvation
254865
Jack Irish: Dead Point
264578
Selling Hitler
276882
Blinky Bill the Movie
339669
Rocky Horror Show Live
364873
There & Back Again: A Hobbit's Tale Recut
411695
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Extended Edition
422150
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore: The Missing Sketches
435074
The Rocky Horror Treatment
444147
A Toast to Melbourne
466370

Crewed In:

The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
24084
Les Patterson Saves the World
136254
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Updates
  • Privacy Policy

© 2015 My Movie Finder sister site to The Film Finder. All rights reserved.

  • Google+
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
http://mymoviefinder.net