Camberwell Grammar School Melbourne Grammar School
Occupations
Actor
author
artist
comedian
satirist
Spouses
Brenda Wright
(m. 1955; div. 1957)
Rosalind Tong
(m. 1959; div. 1970)
Diane Millstead
(m. 1979; div. 1989)
Elizabeth Spender
(m. 1990)
Children
4, including Tessa and Oscar
Comedy career
Years active
1953–2023
Genres
Character comedy
satire
Notable works and roles
Dame Edna Everage
Sir Les Patterson
Sandy Stone
John Barry HumphriesAC CBE (17 February 1934 – 22 April 2023) was an Australian comedian, actor, author and satirist. He was best known for writing and playing his stage and television characters Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson.
Humphries's characters brought him international renown. He appeared in numerous stage productions, films and television shows. Originally conceived as a dowdy Moonee Ponds housewife who caricatured Australian suburban complacency and insularity, the Dame Edna Everage character developed into a satire of stardom – a gaudily dressed, acid-tongued, egomaniacal, internationally fêted "housewife gigastar".
Humphries's other satirical characters included the "priapic and inebriated cultural attaché" Sir Les Patterson, who "continued to bring worldwide discredit upon Australian arts and culture, while contributing as much to the Australian vernacular as he has borrowed from it"; [citation needed] 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; failed tycoon Owen Steele; and archetypal Australian "bloke" Barry McKenzie.
Australian "bloke" Barry McKenzie. Humphries was born on 17 February 1934 in the suburb of Kew in Melbourne, Victoria, the son of Eric Humphries (né John Albert...
Tessa Humphries is an Australian actress, best known for her appearances in television soap operas. Humphries performed in Cassandra as the title character...
Edna, is a character created and performed by Australian comedian BarryHumphries, known for her lilac-coloured ("wisteria hue") hair and cat eye glasses...
'yobbo' on his travels to the United Kingdom. Barry McKenzie was originally a character created by BarryHumphries for a cartoon strip in Private Eye. It was...
Barry McKenzie (full name: Barrington Bradman Bing McKenzie) is a fictional character created in 1964 by the Australian comedian BarryHumphries, suggested...
Marjorie Kiri McWhirter) is a fictitious character invented by satirist BarryHumphries as the long-time companion (and former bridesmaid) of his most popular...
1998). "Profile BarryHumphries: Nothing like a dame Head Head". The Independent. Retrieved 28 February 2011. Official Oscar Humphries website The Spectator...
Australian actor and satirist BarryHumphries. They had met at a Groucho Club party in 1988. Hornery, Andrew (April 21, 2023). "Humphries' family gathers from...
Returning from the original film is Barry Crocker in the title role, as well as BarryHumphries in the role of Barry's aunt, Edna. Also returning in the...
and portrayed by Australian comedian BarryHumphries. Patterson is obese, lecherous and offensive. By Humphries' own account, the character of Patterson...
theatre to devote himself to a career as a cartoonist. He and BarryHumphries created the Barry McKenzie comic strip in Private Eye. Garland also worked for...
Barry Humphries Blinky Bill The Movie: Behind the Magic Interviews with Ryan Kwanten, Robin McLeavy, David Wenham, Toni Collette, BarryHumphries Blinky...
rich sources of comedy for artists from poet C. J. Dennis to satirist BarryHumphries to iconic film maker Paul Hogan, each of whom have given wide circulation...
"BarryHumphries, Australian icon who played Dame Edna, dies at 89". www.9news.com.au. April 22, 2023. Retrieved April 22, 2023. "BarryHumphries, entertainment...
renamed in 2000 in honour of BarryHumphries, and again renamed in 2019 following comments about transgender people by Humphries. It is generally regarded...
relations with their superiors | Australian War Memorial BarryHumphries – australia.gov.au BarryHumphries | Absurd moments: in the frocks of Dame Edna Media...
Beverly D'Angelo, Aron Eisenberg and Brion James. Australian entertainer BarryHumphries has a cameo, playing three parts in the same scene: a grocery store...
called the Barry Award until the 2019 festival, named after BarryHumphries. However, due to comments about transgender people Humphries' name was removed...
Collette, Eric Bana and Bethany Whitmore, with narration provided by BarryHumphries. The film follows the lives and friendship of two unlikely pen-pals;...
Australasian visitors now go to cheaper districts to the north or west. When BarryHumphries went (by sea) to London in 1959, he and then wife Rosalind lived in...
Patterson Carla Humphries (born 1988), American-born Filipina actress and commercial model, also known as Carla Loren Charles Humphries, British countertenor...
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