Person Open DS/UK/10809 Humphries; Barry (17 February 1934-22 April 2023); AO CBE; Australian comedian, actor, satirist, artist, and author Humphries Barry 17 February 1934-22 April 2023 Australian comedian, actor, satirist, artist, and author Male (cisgender) John Barry Humphries DS/UK/3364 https://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/H3EHP1YH8tv5SW Kew, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (born)

West Hampstead, London, England (residence)

Australian Comedy Act; Satire, Characterisation White No known disability Alter egos Dame Edba Everage, Sir Les Patternson and Sandy Stone Grandson of emigrant grandparents from Manchester, England Heterosexual Barry Humphries AO CBE is an Australian comedian, actor, satirist, artist, and author. He is best known for writing and playing his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson. He is also a film producer and script writer, a star of London's West End musical theatre, an award-winning writer, and an accomplished landscape painter. Humphries' characters have brought him international renown, and he appeared in numerous stage productions, films, and television shows. Originally conceived as a dowdy Moonee Ponds housewife who caricatured Australian suburban complacency and insularity, Dame Edna Everage has evolved over four decades to become a satire of stardom – a gaudily dressed, acid-tongued, egomaniacal, internationally fêted Housewife "Gigastar". 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, and archetypal Australian bloke Barry McKenzie. Awards, Honours and Legacy: In 1982, Barry Humphries was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for "services to the theatre" and in 2007 he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to entertainment. Interests and Hobbies: Humphries was a good friend of the English poet John Betjeman until Betjeman's death in 1984. Their friendship began in 1960 after Betjeman, while visiting Australia, heard some of Humphries' early recordings and wrote very favourably of them in an Australian newspaper. Their friendship was, in part, based around numerous shared interests, including Victorian architecture, Cornwall and the music hall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Humphries (2019) International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes RAHSkeyte 12/30/2013 RAHeharper 4/24/2023 68513dff-70f9-48ed-a081-f40364d60811