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.

Television roles

Humphries' numerous television appearances in Australia, the UK and the USA include The Bunyip, a children's comedy for Channel 7 in Melbourne. IN the UK he made two highly successful series of his talk show The Dame Edna Experience for London Weekend Television. The series boasted a phalanx of superstar guests including Liza Minnelli, Robin Williams, Cher, Roger Moore, Charlton Heston and Kim Basinger. These enormously popular programs have since been repeated worldwide and the special A Night On Mount Edna won Humphries the Golden Rose of Montreux in 1991. He wrote and starred in ABC-TV's The Life And Death Of Sandy Stone (1991) and presented the ABC social history series Barry Humphries' Flashbacks in 1999.

Related Topics:
The Bunyip - Channel 7 - The Dame Edna Experience - London Weekend Television - Liza Minnelli - Robin Williams - Cher - Roger Moore - Charlton Heston - Kim Basinger - A Night On Mount Edna - ABC-TV - The Life And Death Of Sandy Stone - Barry Humphries' Flashbacks

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His more recent television shows include Dame Edna's Neighbourhood Watch, Dame Edna's Work Experience and Dame Edna's Hollywood, an occasional series filmed in the U.S. for the NBC and the Fox network. Edna's most recent television special was Dame Edna Kisses It Better.

Related Topics:
Dame Edna's Neighbourhood Watch - Dame Edna's Work Experience - Dame Edna's Hollywood - Fox network - Dame Edna Kisses It Better

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