Barry Humphries
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1934-02-17
- Died
- 2023-04-22
- 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
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,344
- Total plays
- 4,618
Tags
australian
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 13,984x
- <scp>CHARMM</scp>: A program for macromolecular energy, minimization, and dynamics calculations
· 1983 · cited 13,560x
- Click Chemistry: Diverse Chemical Function from a Few Good Reactions
· 2001 · cited 11,540x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,176x
- Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure
· 2003 · cited 10,037x
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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.”
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Key dates
- Born
- 17 February 1934
- Died
- 22 April 2023
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Barry
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Place of birth
- Kew
- Place of death
- Darlinghurst
- Occupation
- musician
- Educated at
- Melbourne Grammar School
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Record label
- Charisma
Gallery (2)
Connections
Categories
1934 births2023 deaths20th-century Australian male actors21st-century Australian male actorsAustralian autobiographersAustralian Commanders of the Order of the British EmpireAustralian drag queensAustralian expatriate male actors in the United KingdomAustralian humour columnistsAustralian male comediansAustralian male film actorsAustralian male television actors