Barry Humphries
John Barry Humphries, AO, CBE ( born February 17, 1934 in Melbourne) is an Australian comedian, satirist and character actor.
Life and work
In particular he is known for his stage and television alter- ego Dame Edna Everage, a Melbourne housewife and Sir Les Patterson, one of Australia dispatched to the UK cultural attaché. Humphries is also a film producer and script writer, a star of musical theater in London's West End, award winning writer and an excellent landscape painter.
Humphries characters, especially Dame Edna Everage have brought him international acclaim, and he has appeared in numerous films, stage productions and television shows.
His Barry McKenzie comic strip about Australians in London appeared in the magazine Private Eye with drawings by Nicholas Garland.
Humphries was also the original voice of Bruce the Shark ( Bruce, the shark ) in the Pixar film Finding Nemo in 2003, and the narrator 's voice in the movie: Mary and Max - or shrinking sheep when it rains, an Australian? Knetanimationsfilm from 2009 by Adam Elliot.
Humphries married four times. His fourth wife Lizzie dispenser is the daughter of British writer Stephen Spender. Humphries has two daughters and two sons from his second and third marriage to the divorced wives Rosalind Tong and Diane Millstead.
In 2012 appeared the first part of Peter Jackson's adaptation of JRR Tolkien's book The Hobbit, he took over the role of the Great Orc.
Other works
Humphries is the author of many books, including two autobiographies, two novels and a treatise on Chinese dramas in the gold fields. He has also written several pieces and has made dozens of recordings. The first edition of his autobiography More Please won the JR Ackerley Prize for biographies - in 1993.
- Dawn Of War 40,000. - Warboss Orkamungus
- Bizarre. Compilation. London: Elek Books, 1965.
- Barry Humphries ' Book of Innocent Austral Verse. Anthology. Melbourne: Sun Books, 1968.
- Bazza Pulls It Off: More Adventures of Barry McKenzie. Melbourne: Sun Books, 1971.
- Barry McKenzie Holds His Own. Photoplay with Bruce Beresford. Melbourne: Sun Books, 1974.
- Dame Edna 's Coffee Table Book: A guide to gracious living and the finer things of life by one of the first ladies of world theater. Compendium. Sydney: Sphere Books, 1976.
- Les Patterson 's Australia. Melbourne: Sun Books, 1978.
- Bazza Comes Into His Own: The Final Fescennine Farago of Barry McKenzie, Australia 's first working- class hero - with learned and scholarly appendices and a new Enlarged glossary. With Nicholas Garland. Melbourne, Sun Books, 1979.
- The Sound of Edna: Dame Edna 's Family Songbook. With Nick Rowley. London: Chappell, 1979.
- A Treasury of Australian Kitsch. Melbourne: Macmillan, 1980.
- A Nice Night 's Entertainment: Sketches and Monologues 1956-1981. A Retrospective. Sydney: Currency Press, 1981.
- Dame Edna's Bedside Companion. Compendium. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982.
- Punch Down Under. London: Robson Books, 1984.
- The Complete Barry McKenzie. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1988.
- Shades of Sandy Stone. Edinburgh, Tragara Press, 1989. Limited Edition.
- My Gorgeous Life. As Edna Everage. London: Macmillan, 1989.
- More Please. Autobiography. London, New York, Ringwood, Toronto, and Auckland: Viking, 1992.
- The Life and Death of Sandy Stone. Sydney: Macmillan, 1990.
- Neglected Poems and Other Creatures. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1991.
- Women in the background. Novel. Port Melbourne: William Heinemann Australia, 1995.
- Barry Humphries ' Flashbacks: The book of the acclaimed TV series. Sydney and London: Harper Collins, 1999.
- My Life As Me autobiography. London: Michael Joseph, 2002.
Humphries was the subject of three critical and biographical studies:
- The Real Barry Humphries by Peter Coleman. London: Coronet Books, 1991.
- A Portrait of the Artist as Australian: L'Oeuvre Bizarre de Barry Humphries by Paul Matthew St. Pierre. Montreal: McGill - Queen's University Press, 2004.