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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Año | Título | Trabajo | Calificación |
---|---|---|---|
2019 | Dame Edna Rules The Waves | Creator | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
2003 | Barry Humphries Presents Back to My Roots and Other Suckers | Writer | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
1987 | Les Patterson Salvador del mundo | Writer | ★★☆☆☆ |
1974 | Barry McKenzie Holds His Own | Writer | ★★★☆☆ |
1972 | The Adventures of Barry McKenzie | Writer | ★★★☆☆ |
Dame Edna Rules The Waves | Writer | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
Películas destacadas de Barry Humphries
Estas son las películas más destacadas en las que ha trabajdo:
Series
Las series más importantes en las que ha participado son las siguientes:
Patricia Hodge
Barry Humphries y Patricia Hodge en:
Arthur's Whisky
Asesinato en Beverly Hills
Barry Humphries: The Last Laugh
Before You Go
Barry Norman
Barry Humphries y Barry Norman en:
Barry Humphries at the BBC
Barry Norman in Celebrity City
Best Ever Bond
Best Ever Spitting Image
Terry Wogan
Barry Humphries y Terry Wogan en:
A Dandy and a Clown: The Life of Jon Pertwee
A Life on the Box: Arthur Lowe
After the Screaming Stops
Anna Spud
Esther Rantzen
Barry Humphries y Esther Rantzen en:
A Night in with the Girls
Barry Humphries at the BBC
Tales of Television Centre
That's GCSE
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