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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Barry Humphries, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1934-02-17
- event Death Date 2023-04-22
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 10.1
- info Birth Place Camberwell, Melbourne, Australia
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Barry Humphries
7.8
Finding Nemo
2003-05-30
5.5
Barry McKenzie Holds His Own
1974-12-12
5.2
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
1972-10-12
5.9
Welcome to Woop Woop
1998-08-13
7.9
Mary and Max
2009-04-09
5.9
Shock Treatment
1981-08-21
7.1
Immortal Beloved
1994-12-16
4.8
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004-12-09
4.4
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1978-07-24
5.2
The Leading Man
1996-12-12
6.9
Da Kath & Kim Code
2005-11-27
7.4
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012-12-12
0
Another Audience with Dame Edna Everage
1984-12-30
0
Dame Edna's Neighbourhood Watch
6.2
Bedazzled
1967-10-30
7.7
Barry Humphries at the BBC
2023-05-28
5.7
The Naked Bunyip
1970-02-02
6.5
Pleasure at Her Majesty's
1976-12-29
6
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
1982-03-01
3.9
Percy's Progress
1974-08-01
0
Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook
1995-12-19
6
Justin and the Knights of Valour
2013-08-09
0
Barry Humphries Presents Back to My Roots and Other Suckers
2003-12-08
10
Parkinson at 50
2021-08-28
6.5
Side by Side
1975-04-30
5
The Great MacArthy
1975-08-04
5
Salvation
2009-03-19
6.9
Jack Irish: Dead Point
2014-04-13
1
An Audience with Dame Edna Everage
1980-12-26
7
Selling Hitler
1991-06-11
0
One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
1988-12-25
4.8
Les Patterson Saves the World
1987-04-09
0
Barry Humphries: The Last Laugh
2023-12-23
0
Dame Edna Rules The Waves
2019-12-31
3.7
Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills
1997-10-07
7.2
We Are Most Amused
2008-11-15
0
An Audience with Jackie Mason
1990-12-27
0
Telling Schoolgirl Tales: The Making of 'The Getting of Wisdom’
2006-03-06
5.4
Blinky Bill the Movie
2015-08-21
5.5
The Getting of Wisdom
1977-08-25
0
An Aussie Audience with Dame Edna
1986-04-14
6.9
Nicholas Nickleby
2002-12-27
0
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore: The Missing Sketches
2016-12-31
0
The Rocky Horror Treatment
1981-02-04
4.9
Spice World
1997-12-18
5.4
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
2016-07-01
0
A Toast to Melbourne
1981-01-01
8
Michael McIntyre's Big Christmas Show
2015-12-25
0
Joan Rivers: Abroad in London
1992-10-08
5.8
Standing Up for Sunny
2019-06-12
0
A (BBC Arena) Birthday Tribute to Dame Edna Everage
1984-02-17
6.9
Not Quite Hollywood
2008-08-28
6.8
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
1968-09-11
6.8
Dr. Fischer of Geneva
1984-10-08
5.3
Kath & Kimderella
2012-09-06
6.1
Napoleon
1995-06-30
4.6
Howling III: The Marsupials
1987-05-15
0
Making Mary and Max
2009-10-21
0
It Started with Swap Shop
2006-12-28
6.1
The Tony Danza Show
2004-09-13
7.2
Little Britain
2003-09-16
6.6
Ally McBeal
1997-09-08
4.7
The One Show
2006-08-14
8
QI
2003-09-11
4.5
The View
1997-08-11
5
The South Bank Show
1978-01-14
5.4
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992-05-25
7
The Dame Edna Treatment
2007-03-17
7.1
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993-09-13
4.5
The Wednesday Play
1964-09-30
5.3
Dame Edna's Neighbourhood Watch
1992-09-19
3.2
Pebble Mill
1991-10-14
5
The Dame Edna Experience
1987-09-12
0
Russell Harty
1980-10-28
0
Betjeman and Me
2006-08-14
0
Comedy Rocks with Jason Manford
2010-03-26
6
A Comedy Roast
2010-04-07
7
Saturday Night Live
1975-10-11
5.4
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992-05-25
0
Brilliant Creatures
2014-09-16
0
I'd Do Anything
2008-03-15
1
Dame Edna's Hollywood
1991-11-30
2.8
Who Do You Think You Are?
2008-01-13
4.7
The One Show
2006-08-14
7.2
The Graham Norton Show
2007-02-22
5.3
An Audience with...
1978-01-08
5.3
An Audience with...
1978-01-08
6.7
Hollywood Squares
1998-09-14
4.5
Wogan
1982-05-04
7.4
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962-10-01
0
A Granny's Guide to the Modern World
2016-08-03
9
Micallef Tonight
2003-05-12
0
The Great Comic Relief Bake Off
2013-01-21
8.5
Magical Land of Oz
2019-02-10
8.2
RTL Samstag Nacht
1993-11-06
7.2
Little Britain
2003-09-16
6
Boulevard Bio
1991-08-06
3.8
Q&A
2008-05-22
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3.8
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
1972-10-12
3.8
Barry Humphries Presents Back to My Roots and Other Suckers
2003-12-08
3.8
Les Patterson Saves the World
1987-04-09
3.8
Dame Edna Rules The Waves
2019-12-31
3.8
Barry McKenzie Holds His Own
1974-12-12
3.8
Another Audience with Dame Edna Everage
1984-12-30
3.8
An Aussie Audience with Dame Edna
1986-04-14
3.8
Dame Edna Rules The Waves
2019-12-31