Barry Humphries Filmography

Salvation

Actors: Bruce Myles, Natalia Novakova, Wendy Hughes, Alex Menglet, Barry Humphries

Synopsis: Acclaimed Australian filmmaker Paul Cox directs this intimate drama about the unlikely bond between a prostitute and a bible scholar. Natalia Novakova plays Irina, a Russian immigrant forced to sell herself out of necessity. Bruce Myles is Barry, a man married to a religious zealot who leaves him Read More

Finding Nemo

Actors: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe, Brad Garrett

Synopsis: Andrew Stanton, who helped write Toy Story and Monsters, Inc., co-wrote and directed this computer-animated comedy-adventure about finding a very small fish in a very large ocean. Marlin (voice of Albert Brooks) is a more-than-slightly paranoid Clown Fish who is extremely devoted to his young son Read More

Welcome to Woop Woop

Synopsis: In part, filmmaker Stephan Elliott (best known for The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert) made this black, surrealistic and subversive comedy to bid farewell to Australian cultural traditions (i.e. excessive beer drinking, racism and sexism) that are rapidly disappearing due to the Read More

Spice World

Actors: Spice Girls, Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton, Melanie Chisholm, Geri Halliwell, Victoria Adams, Richard E. Grant, Alan Cumming

Synopsis: Bob Spiers (director of TV's Absolutely Fabulous) directed this feature-film debut of the five Spice Girls -- Posh Spice, Sporty Spice, Scary Spice, Ginger Spice, and Baby Spice -- as the quintet challenges the London pop scene during five days before their first live performance at the Royal Read More

Dame Edna's Neighbourhood Watch

Synopsis: Australian comedian Barry Humphries returns as Dame Edna Everage in this home video which collects highlights from his (or would that be her?) popular television game show. On Dame Edna's Neighborhood Watch, Edna pulls three contestants from the all-female audience, without their knowing that one Read More

Pterodactyl Woman From Beverly Hills

Synopsis: The Hollywood wife of a noted paleontologist finds herself afflicted with an angry shaman's curse after her husband offends the magical man during a desert exploration in this off-beat comedy. As soon as the curse is sent, poor Pixie Chandler finds herself with an insatiable craving for raw fish Read More

Leading Man

Synopsis: This light romantic comedy follows the amorous backstage shenanigans of the cast and crew as they prepare to stage "The Hit Man," noted playwright Felix Webb's latest play. The trouble begins when director Humphrey Beal hires Felix's extramarital lover Hilary Rule as his leading lady. Working in Read More

Napoleon

Actors: Jamie Croft, Philip Quast

Synopsis: Aimed at children, this live-action Australian adventure follows an adorable golden retriever puppy on a cross-country search for the dingoes who comprise his doggy roots. Though the cocky young puppy's real name is Muffin, he prefers to think of himself as Napoleon. His quest begins at a Read More

Immortal Beloved

Actors: Gary Oldman, Jeroen Krabbé, Isabella Rossellini, Johanna ter Steege, Barry Humphries, Marco Hofschneider, Miriam Margolyes

Synopsis: This biography of Ludwig von Beethoven (played here by Gary Oldman) builds its narrative around an actual letter found after his death, addressed only to the composer's "immortal beloved." The responsibility of discovering this mysterious person's identity falls to Beethoven's friend and secretary Read More

A Night on Mount Edna

Actors: Barry Humphries

Dame Edna Experience: Season 02

Actors: Barry Humphries, Emily Perry

One More Audience With Dame Edna

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Barry Humphries

Les Patterson Saves The World

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Barry Humphries, Pamela Stephenson, Thaao Penghlis, Andrew Clarke, Henri Szeps

Synopsis: Essentially a showcase for the talents of Australian comedian Barry Humphries, this earthy comedy tells the tale of a boorish and boozy Aussie ambassador and his wife (Humphries plays both characters) who are stationed in a Middle Eastern country. There, they end up saving the world from the Read More

The Dame Edna Christmas Experience

Actors: Barry Humphries

Synopsis: As his well-known alter-ego, actor Barry Humphries stars in Dame Edna's Christmas Experience. The holiday special finds the outrageous Dame Edna Everage playing host to a number of celebrity guests. Among those who stop by are Mel Gibson and former James Bond, Roger Moore. The program was Read More

Dame Edna Experience: Season 01

Actors: Barry Humphries

Howling III: The Marsupials

Actors: Barry Otto, Imogen Annesley, Dasha Blahova, Max Fairchild, Ralph Cotterill

Synopsis: Professor Harry Bechmeyer (Barry Otto) goes searching for a rare breed of werewolf/marsupial in this satirical horror comedy. With his sidekick Professor Sharpe (Ralph Cotterill), they find Jerboa (Imogen Annesley), and take her to Sydney to appear in a small role in a horror film. Soon members of Read More

Doctor Fischer of Geneva

Actors: Alan Bates, James Mason, Greta Scacchi, Hugh Burden, Cyril Cusack

Synopsis: Dr. Fischer (James Mason) is a cynical tycoon whose favorite past time is exposing human greed. Determined to prove that even the most righteous person can be bought, Fischer (Bates) plans a party with a strange and diabolical twist. The party favors contain one of two things--one million dollars Read More

Shock Treatment

Actors: Cliff De Young, Richard O'Brien, Patricia Quinn, Charles Gray

Synopsis: The sequel to the cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show, this film follows the further adventures of Brad (Cliff De Young) and Janet (Jessica Harper), as the now-married couple travels to a small town to appear on a game show. However, once on-stage, they discover that they are trapped on the Read More

The Getting of Wisdom

Actors: Susannah Fowle, Barry Humphries, John Waters, Sheila Helpmann, Patricia Kennedy

Synopsis: The suffocating repressiveness of the Victorian era is superbly realized by director Bruce Beresford in The Getting of Wisdom. Thirteen-year-old Laura (Susannah Fowle), an incorrigible free spirit from the Australian outback, is enrolled in a prestigious girl's boarding school. The indoctrination Read More

Side by Side

Monty Python Meets Beyond the Fringe

Synopsis: This documentary is a filmed record of the preparations and rehearsals for a Monty Python group performance in conjunction with "Beyond the Fringe" comedian Peter Cook at Her Majesty's Theatre in London in 1976. Backstage sequences are also shown. The very serious work involved in creating funny Read More

The Great McCarthy

Actors: John Jarratt, Judy Morris, Kate Fitzpatrick, Barry Humphries

Synopsis: This comedy, based on Barry Oakley's popular novel Salute to the Great McCarthy chronicles the adventurous and amorous exploits of an Australian country boy. The whole mess begins when the strapping lad is kidnapped and taken to Melbourne to play Australian Rules Football. The perpetrator and Read More

Barry McKenzie Holds His Own

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Barry Crocker, Barry Humphries, Donald Pleasence, Dick Bentley, Ed Devereaux

Synopsis: Comedian, actor, and author Barry Humphries wrote and co-stars in this sequel to the surprise international hit The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, based on the comic-strip character created by Humphries. Well-meaning but dunderheaded über-Aussie Barry McKenzie (Barry Crocker) is escorting his aunt Read More

The Adventures of Barry McKenzie

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Margo Lloyd, Jenny Tomasin, Barry Crocker, Barry Humphries, Paul Bertram, Dennis Price, Avice Landone

Synopsis: The popular Australian comic strip The Wonderful World of Barry McKenzie was first brought to the screen in this raunchy 1972 romp. Barry Crocker plays the title character, a carefree Aussie cowboy with an inordinate fondness for beer and "Sheilas". Touring England as a stand-up comic, Barry runs Read More

The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom

Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Richard Attenborough, James Booth, Freddie Jones, William Rushton

Synopsis: The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom stars Shirley MacLaine as Harriet Blossom, the wife of a moderately successful British brassiere manufacturer Robert Blossom (Richard Attenborough). When Harriet's sewing machine breaks down, her husband decides to save a few quid by sending one of his own employees to Read More

Bedazzled

Actors: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Eleanor Bron, Raquel Welch, Alba, Michael Bates, Robert Russell

Synopsis: Falling somewhere between the Beyond the Fringe school and the Monty Python league, Bedazzled is an irreverent Faust take-off, written by and starring Peter Cook and Dudley Moore (Moore also composed the music). Moore plays a short-order cook at a London Wimpyburger restaurant, who falls Read More