Barry Humphries

John Barry Humphries AO (b. 17 February 1934) is an Australian comedian, satirist and character actor 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. Humphries is also a film producer and script writer, a star of London's West End musical theatre, an "award-winning" author and an accomplished landscape painter.

Film roles

Since the late '60s Humphries has appeared in numerous films, mostly in supporting or cameo roles. His credits include the UK sex comedy Percy's Progress (1974), David Baker's The Great McCarthy and Bruce Beresford's Barry MacKenzie Holds his Own (1974) -- in which Edna was made a Dame by then Australian PM Gough Whitlam.

Related Topics:
Percy's Progress - The Great McCarthy - Barry MacKenzie Holds his Own - Gough Whitlam

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Other film credits inlclude Side By Side (1975) and The Getting Of Widsom (1977). The same year, he had a cameo as Edna in the Robert Stigwood musical film Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (which became infamous as one of the biggest film flops of the decade), followed in 1981 by a part in Shock Treatment, the unsuccessful sequel to The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Related Topics:
Side By Side - The Getting Of Widsom - Robert Stigwood - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Shock Treatment - The Rocky Horror Picture Show

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He was more successful with his featured role as Richard Deane in Dr Fischer of Geneva (1985); this was followed by The Howling III (1987), a cameo as Rupert Murdoch in the miniseries Selling Hitler (1991) with Alexei Sayle, a three-role cameo in Phillipe Mora's horror satire Pterodactyl Woman From Beverly Hills (1994), the role of Count Metternich in Immortal Beloved (1994), as well as roles in The Leading Man (1996), the Spice Girls' film Spice World, the Australian feature Welcome To Woop Woop (1997) and most recently Nicholas Nickelby (2002).

Related Topics:
Dr Fischer of Geneva - The Howling III - Rupert Murdoch - Selling Hitler - Alexei Sayle - Phillipe Mora - Pterodactyl Woman From Beverly Hills - Immortal Beloved - The Leading Man - Spice Girls - Spice World - Welcome To Woop Woop - Nicholas Nickelby

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Barry has also featured in various roles in comedy performance films including The Secret Policeman's' Other Ball (1982) and A Night of Comic Relief 2 (1989). In 1987 he starred as Les Patterson in one of his own rare flops, the disastrous Les Patterson Saves the World, directed by George Miller of Mad Max fame and co-written by Humphries with his third wife, Diane Millstead.

Related Topics:
The Secret Policeman's' Other Ball - A Night of Comic Relief 2 - Les Patterson Saves the World - George Miller - Mad Max - Diane Millstead

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