Stephen Fry
Acting
Biography
Stephen John Fry is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter and film director, and a director of Norwich City Football Club. He first came to attention in the 1981 Cambridge Footlights Revue presentation "The Cellar Tapes", which also included Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and Tony Slattery. With Hugh Laurie, as the comedy double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and co-starred in A Bit of Fry & Laurie, and the duo also played the title roles in Jeeves and Wooster. As a solo actor, Fry played the lead in the film Wilde, was Melchett in the BBC television series Blackadder, starred as the title character Peter Kingdom in the ITV series Kingdom, and is the host of the quiz show QI. He also presented a 2008 television series Stephen Fry in America, which saw him travelling across all 50 U.S. states in six episodes. Fry has a recurring guest role as Dr. Gordon Wyatt on the Fox crime series Bones. Apart from his work in television, Fry has contributed columns and articles for newspapers and magazines, and has written four novels and two volumes of autobiography, Moab Is My Washpot and The Fry Chronicles. He also appears frequently on BBC Radio 4, starring in the comedy series Absolute Power, being a frequent guest on panel games such as Just a Minute, and acting as chairman for I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, where he was one of a trio of hosts who succeeded the late Humphrey Lyttelton. Fry is also known in the UK for his audiobook recordings, including as reader for all seven Harry Potter novels.
Born: August 24, 1957
Place of Birth: Hampstead, London, England, UK
Known For
Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot
The Gunpowder Plot was a failed attempt to blow up England’s King James I (1566-1625) and the Parliament on November 5, 1605. The plot was organized by Robert Catesby (c.1572-1605) in an effort to end the persecution of Roman Catholics by the English government. Catesby and others hoped to replace the country’s Protestant government with Catholic leadership. Around midnight on November 4, 1605, one of the conspirators, Guy Fawkes (1570-1606), was discovered in the cellar of the Parliament building with barrels of gunpowder. Fawkes and other men involved in the plot were tried and executed for treason. Every November 5, the British celebrate Guy Fawkes Day by burning Fawkes in effigy.
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
The writer and comedian looks at antisemitism and the progressive left. From theatre to football, Baddiel explores a political blindspot with Stephen Fry, Miriam Margolyes and Neil Gaiman.
Wimbledon: 2015 Official Film Review
Coming into the tournament, there was a particular significance to the defending champion, Novak Djokovic's bid for a third title. Thirty years earlier his coach Boris Becker had won the first of his three singles titles. Meanwhile women's world No.1 Serena Williams had her sights set on something really special - completing her hold on all four majors at once for only the second time in her career. There were some surprise early round exits. Fourteen-time major winner Rafael Nadal and defending champion Petra Kvitova were beaten by the qualifier Dustin Brown and former world No.1 Jelena Jankovic respectively. Britain's Heather Watson was two points away from victory over Williams before the American clawed her way to survival; while Novak Djokovic survived a dramatic five-set encounter against Kevin Anderson from South Africa.
This Is Not Hollywood (The Unfinished Story of The Ibarretxe Brothers)
When her father and uncles die, Jone (Josemi's daughter) decides to make a documentary about the Ibarretxe Brothers. Pioneers in the Basque audiovisual sector, creative, cheeky and always up to something, they were devoted to cinema made in Euskadi long before it was a reality. Analysing their films and talking to people who accompanied them (Stephen Fry, Echanove, Ramon Barea, Santiago Segura, José Luis Rebordinos), Jone gradually comes to realise that their cinema is nothing more than a faithful reflection of their own selves.
The BAFTA Awards
BAFTA presents awards for film, television and games, including children's entertainment, at a number of annual ceremonies across the UK and in Los Angeles, USA.
China's Wild Secrets
Just a Minute
Just a Minute is a BBC Radio 4 radio comedy and television panel game chaired by Nicholas Parsons. Its first transmission on Radio 4 was on 22 December 1967, three months after the station's launch. The Radio 4 programme won a Gold Sony Radio Academy Award in 2003. The object of the game is for panellists to talk for sixty seconds on a given subject, "without repetition, hesitation or deviation". The comedy comes from attempts to keep within these rules and the banter among the participants. In 2011 comedy writer David Quantick ascribed Just a Minute's success to its "insanely basic" format, stating, "It's so blank that it can be filled by people as diverse as Paul Merton and Graham Norton, who don't have to adapt their style of humour to the show at all."
The Big Night In
Comic Relief and Children in Need join forces to deliver a very special night of television, hosted by Lenny Henry and Matt Baker.
The Secret Show
The Secret Show is a British animated show commissioned by BBC Worldwide in partnership with BBC Children's. Production of the show began in 2004 and first debuted in 2006. It currently airs on CBBC, ABC1, BBC One, BBC Kids, Teletoon+, MBC3, 2x2, Disney Channel Latin America, TVB Pearl, and TSR 2. It debuted on the American Nicktoons on January 20, 2007, and was later cancelled in 2011. It also used to air on Jetix Latin America
Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time
An animated adventure following the Seventh Doctor as he attempts to stop General Tannis' plans for conquest of the universe.
Filmography
as Self
as Self (voice)
as Radio Presenter (Voice)
as Narrated
as Self - Contestant
as Kevin
as Narrator
as Simon Remen
as Dickie
as Narrator (voice)
as Self
as C (archive footage)
as Supervisor (voice)
as Mari's Boss
as Self - narrator (voice)
as Self
as Edek
as Pruitt (voice)
as Host
as Narrator (voice)
as Narrator
as Self - Presenter
as Self
as Dr Nell
as Sir Simon de Canterville (voice)
as Leonardo da Vinci (voice)
as King James III
as Self - Contributor
as Self
as John Craxton (Voice)
as Narrator
as Self - Presenter
as Narrator
as Self
as Self – writer and comedian
as Self - Writer and Comedian
as Self – Writer and broadcaster
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Gilbert
as Headmaster Barnes (voice)
as Ian Gibbons
as Self - Narrator
as Chapter Passages Narrator (voice)
as Self (Actor, Comedian & Writer)
as Narrator
as Self / Sir Fopling Flutter
as Meditation Guru (voice)
as The Interviewer
as Arthur Garrison
as Narrator
as Narrator (voice)
as Self - Actor & Writer
as Lord Melchett
as Brainiac (voice)
as Leonard Cromwell
as Self
as Narrator
as Chris
as Self
as Lord Piggot-Dunceby (voice)
as Narrator
as NSQC Quizmaster
as Self
as Sidney
as M. C. Escher (voice)
as Frazier (voice)
as William Steakspeare (voice)
as Onion's Dad (voice)
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Narrator
as Roland
as Self
as Mr. Johnson
as Cheshire Cat (voice)
as Narrator
as Sir Francis Spring
as Narrator
as Uncle Duke (voice)
as Narrator
as Colonel K (voice)
as Self - Presenter
as Self
as Self
as Master of Laketown
as The Sugar Family Sketch
as Self
as Narrator
as Lord Stag (voice)
as Winston Churchill (voice)
as Narrator
as Narrator
as The Master of Laketown
as Cuddly Dick
as Self
as Randolph
as Self
as Barrister
as Self
as Self
as Self - Presenter
as Professor Robert Gissing
as Presenter
as Self
as Oscar Wilde (voice)
as Malvolio
as Nikolai Genidze
as Self
as Skulkingworm
as Self
as Professor Mildeye
as Mycroft Holmes
as God
as Self
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Self
as Narrater
as Narrator
as Self
as Narrator (UK)
as The Narrator
as Dad
as Star
as Self
as Stephen Fry
as Cheshire Cat (voice)
as Dr. Marsh
as Self
as Self - Presenter
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Self – Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Narrator (English)
as Self - Host
as Narrator
as Narrator
as Narrator
as Self - Presenter
as Owl (voice)
as Stephen Fry
as Self
as Self - Presenter
as Minister Tormer
as Self
as Self
as Peter Kingdom
as Self
as Self
as The Narrator (voice)
as Self (uncredited)
as Self - Guest
as Self - Narrator
as Smithers
as Deitrich
as Deitrich
as Narrator
as Self
as Owl (voice)
as Gordon Wyatt
as Stephen Fry
as Patrick Curator / Parson Yorick
as Self
as Narrator
as Narrator
as Narrator / The Guide (voice)
as C
as John Michael Heaton (voice)
as Mr. Cavendish (voice)
as Librarian
as Dr. Thomas Arnold
as Protheroe
as Self
as Maurice Woodruff
as Self (archive footage)
as Pedro
as Charles Prentiss
as Chauffeur
as Self - Presenter
as Narrator
as Piers Janely
as Derek
as Self
as Self
as Sir Anthony Silk
as The Minister of Chance
as Andre Breton
as Inspector Thompson
as Alastair Davies
as Onno Quist
as Nigel Steele
as The Psychiatrist
as Wellington
as Frederick Crestwell
as Frazer Crane
as Self
as Dr. Peter Robinson
as Sir Kenelm Digby
as Sir Kenelm Digby
as Hawkins
as Jasper the Owl (voice)
as Cowslip (voice)
as Melchett
as Self
as Pinder
as Self - Contestant
as Self
as Controller, Radio 2
as Self
as Judge
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Oscar Wilde
as Self
as Self - Panellist
as The Judge
as Blaster Sump
as self
as Wimborne
as Mybug
as James Moreland
as Self
as Self
as Santa Claus
as Wing Commander James Forrester
as Peter Morton
as Self
as Jeeves
as Daniel Davenport
as Terrance / Hazel / MI5 Man (voice)
as Lords Melchett / Frondo
as Self
as Self
as Hutchison
as Reggie
as King Charles I
as Piers Lonsdale
as No. 2
as P'Farty
as Creighton
as Doctor De Quincy
as Dr. De Quincy
as Humphrey Taylor
as Narrator
as Dr. Adrian Cowlacey / Various Roles
as Lord Melchett
as General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett
as The Duke of Wellington
as Various
as Lord Snot
as Various
as various
as Self
as Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)
as Self
as Self
as Host
as Self - Nominee
as TG
as King James III
as Self - Host