Barry Humphries
- Recitazione
- 17 febbraio 1934 · Camberwell, Melbourne, Australia
- 22 aprile 2023
Biografia
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.
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Filmografia
- Barry Humphries: The Last Laugh · In persona
- Barry Humphries at the BBC · In persona
- Barry Humphries - A Life of Laughs · In persona
- Parkinson at 50 · Dame Edna Everage (archive footage)
- Show of Titles · "Anyone Can Whistle" Performer
- Dame Edna Rules The Waves · Dame Edna Everidge, Sceneggiatura
- Dame Edna Rules The Waves · Ideazione
- Standing Up for Sunny · Barry Humphries
- Magical Land of Oz · Narrator (Voce)
- Peter Cook and Dudley Moore: The Missing Sketches · In persona
- A Granny's Guide to the Modern World
- Absolutely Fabulous - Il film · Charlie / Dame Edna
- Michael McIntyre's Big Christmas Show · In persona
- Billy il koala · Wombo (Voce)
- Brilliant Creatures · In persona
- The Last Impresario · In persona
- Jack Irish: Dead Point · Justice Logan
- Justin e i cavalieri valorosi · Braulio (Voce)
- The Great Comic Relief Bake Off · Contestant (Dame Edna Everage)
- Lo Hobbit: Un viaggio inaspettato · The Great Goblin
- Kath & Kimderella · Dame Edna Everage
- A Comedy Roast
- Comedy Rocks with Jason Manford
- Making Mary and Max · In persona
- Mary and Max · Narrator (Voce)
- Salvation · Client
- We Are Most Amused · In persona
- Gaybo Laughs Back · Dame Edna
- Not Quite Hollywood · In persona
- Q&A · In persona
- I'd Do Anything · In persona
- Who Do You Think You Are? · In persona
- The Man Inside Dame Edna · Self/Dame Edna/Les Patterson
- Little Britain Down Under · Dame Edna Everage
- The Dame Edna Treatment
- The Graham Norton Show · In persona
- It Started with Swap Shop · In persona
- The One Show · In persona, Dame Edna Everage
- Betjeman and Me
- Telling Schoolgirl Tales: The Making of 'The Getting of Wisdom’ · In persona
- Da Kath & Kim Code · John Monk
- Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball? · In persona
- The Tony Danza Show · Dame Edna
- Parkinson · Dame Edna Everage
- Barry Humphries Presents Back to My Roots and Other Suckers · Sir Les Patterson/Owen Steele/Sandy Stone/Dame Edna Everage, Sceneggiatura
- QI · In persona
- Alla ricerca di Nemo · Bruce (Voce)
- Micallef Tonight · In persona
- Nicholas Nickleby · Mrs. Crummles/Mr. Leadville
- The Osbournes · In persona
- Hollywood Squares · In persona
- Benvenuti a Woop Woop · Blind Wally
- Parkinson · Dame Edna Everage
- Spice Girls - Il film · Kevin McMaxford
- Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills · Bert / Lady Shopper / Manager
- Ally McBeal · Claire Otoms
- The View · In persona
- Sir Les And The Great Chinese Takeaway · Les Patterson/Dame Edna, Sceneggiatura
- Un uomo disponibile · Humphrey Beal
- Les Patterson 'Has A Stand Up' - Live & Rampant · Les Patterson, Sceneggiatura
- Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook · In persona
- Napoleon · Kangaroo (Voce)
- Amata immortale · Clemens Metternich
- The Team: A Season With McLaren · Dame Edna Everage
- RTL Samstag Nacht
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien · Dame Edna
- Selling Hitler · Rupert Murdoch
- Joan Rivers: Abroad in London · Dame Edna Everage
- Dame Edna's Neighbourhood Watch · Dame Edna
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno · Dame Edna Everage
- A Late Lunch With Sir Les · Les Patterson
- Dame Edna's Hollywood · Dame Edna Everage
- Pebble Mill · In persona
- Boulevard Bio · Dame Edna
- An Audience with Jackie Mason
- A Night on Mount Edna · Dame Edna Everage
- Single Voices · Sandy Stone, Sceneggiatura
- One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage · Dame Edna Everage
- Barry Humphries: This is Your Lunch · Self/Dame Edna
- The Dame Edna Experience