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Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) 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.
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Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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The Canterville Ghost | Sir Simon de Canterville / Sir Simon de Canterville (voice) / Grim Reaper / Gardener / Swordsman | 2023 |
The Inventor | Leonardo da Vinci (voice) / Leonardo da Vinci | 2023 |
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts | Chapter Passages Narrator (voice) / Self - Narrator | 2022 |
Night of the Living Dead | Meditation Guru (voice) | 2021 |
A Time to Kill | Self - Det., Bryan TX Police Department - Major Crimes Unit | 2020 |
Greed | Himself | 2019 |
Someone You Thought You Knew | Self - Sgt., Bryan TX Police Department - Lead Investigator | 2018 |
Pocoyo's Easter Picnic | 2018 | |
Duck Duck Goose | Frazier (voice) / Frazier | 2018 |
The Great Indoors | Roland | 2016 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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The Canterville Ghost | Sir Simon de Canterville / Sir Simon de Canterville (voice) / Grim Reaper / Gardener / Swordsman | 2023 |
The Inventor | Leonardo da Vinci (voice) / Leonardo da Vinci | 2023 |
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts | Chapter Passages Narrator (voice) / Self - Narrator | 2022 |
Night of the Living Dead | Meditation Guru (voice) | 2021 |
A Time to Kill | Self - Det., Bryan TX Police Department - Major Crimes Unit | 2020 |
Greed | Himself | 2019 |
Someone You Thought You Knew | Self - Sgt., Bryan TX Police Department - Lead Investigator | 2018 |
Pocoyo's Easter Picnic | 2018 | |
Duck Duck Goose | Frazier (voice) / Frazier | 2018 |
The Great Indoors | Roland | 2016 |
Alice Through the Looking Glass | Cheshire Cat (voice) / Cheshire Cat | 2016 |
Danger Mouse | Colonel K (voice) | 2015 |
Do I Sound Gay? | Self | 2015 |
The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill | Himself / Self | 2014 |
That Sugar Film | Self / The Sugar Family Sketch | 2014 |
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | Master of Laketown / The Master of Laketown | 2013 |
Yonderland | Cuddly Dick | 2013 |
Gadget Man | Presenter / Self - Presenter | 2012 |
Cicada Princess | Narrator (voice) / Narrator | 2012 |
Wagner and Me | Himself | 2012 |
A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman | Oscar Wilde / Oscar Wilde (voice) | 2012 |
Ocean Giants | Narrator / Self - Narrator | 2011 |
March of the Dinosaurs | Self - Narrator UK / Narrator (UK) | 2011 |
Lost Connection | Dad / Dad (Henry) | 2010 |
Stephen Fry Live at the Sydney Opera House | Stephen Fry / Self | 2010 |
Alice in Wonderland | Cheshire Cat / The Cheshire Cat (voice) | 2010 |
Wagner & Me | Self - Presenter / Himself | 2010 |
Blackadder Rides Again | himself / Self | 2008 |
Stephen Fry in America | Self - Presenter / Himself - Host | 2008 |
The Machine That Made Us | Himself - Presenter / Self - Presenter | 2008 |
Tales of the Riverbank | Owl (voice) / Owl | 2008 |
Kingdom | Peter Kingdom | 2007 |
V for Vendetta | Deitrich / Gordon Deitrich | 2006 |
Tristram Shandy | Parson Yorick / Patrick Curator | 2005 |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Narrator / The Guide / The Guide (voice) | 2005 |
Let's Go, Pocoyo | Narrator | 2005 |
QI | Himself - Presenter | 2003 |
Blackadder Back & Forth | Melchett / All Melchetts / Wellington | 2001 |
24 | Alastair Davies P.M. | 2001 |
The Discovery of Heaven | Onno Quist / Onno | 2001 |
Fourplay | Nigel Steele / Nigel Steele (Therapist) | 2001 |
Gormenghast | Professor Bellgrove | 2000 |
Longitude | Sir Kenhelm Digby | 2000 |
The Magician's House | Jasper the Owl (voice) / Jasper the Owl | 1999 |
Watership Down | Cowslip | 1999 |
Forensic Files | Self - Detective | 1996 |
The Secret Policeman's Biggest Ball | Himself / Self | 1989 |
The Secret Policeman's Third Ball | Himself / Self | 1987 |
Blackadder | General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett / Lord Melchett | 1983 |
Blackadder II | General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett / Lord Melchett | 1983 |
Producer Filmography
Title | Year |
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The Canterville Ghost | 2023 |
Ponyboi | 2019 |
Tickled | 2016 |