Barry Humphries: Biografía, Filmografía y actores con los que más ha trabajado
Información personal
Trabajo principal: Interpretación
Edad: 90 años
Lugar de nacimiento: Camberwell, Melbourne, Australia
Fecha de nacimiento: 17 de febrero de 1934
Películas destacadas de Barry Humphries
Biografía de Barry Humphries
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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Actores que trabajaron con Barry Humphries
Estos son los actores con los que más ha compartido proyectos.
Filmografía completa de Barry Humphries
2019
Dame Edna Rules The Waves
Tipo: Película
Personaje: Dame Edna Everidge
Calificación: 5.0/10
Standing Up for Sunny
Tipo: Película
Personaje: Barry Humphries
Calificación: 2.9/10
Magical Land of Oz
Tipo: Serie
Personaje: Narrator (voice)
Calificación: 8.5/10
2015
Michael McIntyre's Big Christmas Show
Tipo: Película
Personaje: Herself
Calificación: 3.7/10
Blinky Bill, el koala
Tipo: Película
Personaje: Wombo (voice)
Calificación: 4.1/10
2014
Brilliant Creatures
Tipo: Serie
Personaje: Self
Calificación: 3.0/10
Jack Irish: Dead Point
Tipo: Película
Personaje: Justice Logan
Calificación: 1.9/10
2013
Justin y la espada del valor
Tipo: Película
Personaje: Braulio (voice)
Calificación: 1.1/10
2012
El Hobbit: Un Viaje Inesperado
Tipo: Película
Personaje: The Great Goblin
Calificación: 5.0/10
Kath & Kimderella
Tipo: Película
Personaje: Dame Edna Everage
Calificación: 2.1/10