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John Barry Humphries AC 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 .
Aug 16, 2024 · Barry Humphries (born February 17, 1934, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia—died April 22, 2023, Sydney, Australia) was an Australian actor best known for his character Dame Edna Everage, a sharp-tongued housewife and talk show host. Humphries attended Melbourne University but left to pursue acting.
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Apr 22, 2023 · Barry Humphries was described as one of the greatest raconteurs and stand-up comedians of his age. But his achievements as a writer, painter, actor and scholar were overshadowed by his most ...
Apr 23, 2023 · He won the inaugural Special Tony Award for a Live Theatrical Event and two National Broadway Theatre Awards for Best Play and Best Actor in 2001. Dame Edna featured in multiple episodes of hit TV series Ally McBeal. (Disney Plus) He hilariously described winning a Tony like "winning a thousand Gold Logies at the same time."
It was a boxy fifties home, overgrown with the creepers and with the ubiquitous pool, belonging to that whilom juvenile actor Roddy McDowall, child star of National Velvet, How Green Was My Valley and many other movies of the forties and early fifties.
Apr 22, 2023 · Biography. 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 ...
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Apr 24, 2023 · With the passing of Barry Humphries, the entertainment industry loses a man who blazed a trail for others, defined a genre and changed the face of comedy.
