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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 .
Tributes have poured in following the news of Barry Humphries’ death.. The Australian comedy legend died aged 89 on Saturday (22 April) in hospital in Sydney surrounded by his loved ones ...
A message from the King has led tributes to Barry Humphries at a state memorial service for the late entertainer at the Sydney Opera House. The Australian stage and screen veteran, who died on ...
John Barry Humphries was born in Melbourne on Feb. 17, 1934. His parents were comfortable, loving and strait-laced, and must have wondered about their eldest son, whom they called Sunny Sam.
King Charles III paid a light-hearted tribute to the late Barry Humphries at a state memorial service Friday in Australia, recalling his own apprehension when the comedian’s alter ego, Dame Edna ...
From 1990 until his death in 2023, she was married to the Australian actor and satirist Barry Humphries. [13] They had met at a Groucho Club party in 1988. [ 7 ]
Tony Award-winning comedian Barry Humphries, internationally renowned for his garish stage persona Dame Edna Everage, a condescending and imperfectly-veiled snob whose evolving character has ...
Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995) [2] was an English comedian, actor, satirist, playwright and screenwriter.He was the leading figure of the British satire boom of the 1960s, and he was associated with the anti-establishment comedic movement that emerged in the United Kingdom in the late 1950s.