Stephen Fry

Birthday:

08/24/1957

Place of birth:

Hampstead, London, England, UK:

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.



Credits

Treasure (2024)
Edek
Animals United 2: The Chilldown (2024)
(voice)
The Canterville Ghost (2023)
Sir Simon de Canterville (voice)
The Inventor (2023)
Leonardo da Vinci (voice)
Red, White & Royal Blue (2023)
King James III
Blackadder: A Cunning Story (2023)
Self – Contributor
Willem and Frieda: Defying the Nazis (2023)
Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life (2023)
Self
Mind Games - The Experiment (2023)
Narrator
Mr Bear's Christmas (2022)
Narrator
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba (2022)
Self
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count (2022)
Self
The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros (2022)
Self (archive footage)
The Fringe, Fame and Me (2022)
Self
Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History (2022)
Self - Narrator
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts (2022)
Chapter Passages Narrator (voice)
It's Always Something (2021)
Narrator
Listening through the Lens: The Christopher Nupen Films (2021)
Narrator
Hating Peter Tatchell (2021)
Self
Sparkling: The Story Of Champagne (2021)
Self / Sir Fopling Flutter
Night of the Living Dread (2021)
Meditation Guru (voice)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (2021)
The Interviewer
Dancing on Thin Ice with Torvill & Dean (2021)
Narrator
Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World (2020)
Self
Fear of Dancing (2020)
Himself
What's the Matter with Tony Slattery? (2020)
Himself
Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley (2020)
Himself
Bill Turnbull: Staying Alive (2019)
Himself
Dancing with the Birds (2019)
Narrator
Tomorrow (2019)
Chris
Greed (2019)
Self
Missing Link (2019)
Lord Piggot-Dunceby (voice)
Almost Human (2019)
Narrator
Churchill and the Movie Mogul (2019)
Himself
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2018)
Self
The Con Is On (2018)
Sidney
M. C. Escher: Journey to Infinity (2018)
M. C. Escher (voice)
Pocoyo's Easter Picnic (2018)
Duck Duck Goose (2018)
Frazier (voice)
And the Winner Isn't (2017)
Self
All Families Have Secrets: Patrick Gale's Art of Fiction (2017)
Queer as Art (2017)
Himself
50 Years Legal (2017)
Self
Battle of Soho (2017)
Himself
Elton John: The Nation's Favourite Song (2017)
Self
Santa Forgot (2016)
Narrator
The Killing$ of Tony Blair (2016)
Self
Love & Friendship (2016)
Mr. Johnson
Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)
Cheshire Cat (voice)
Pocoyo's Halloween (2016)
Narrator
The Man Who Knew Infinity (2016)
Sir Francis Spring
A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats (2016)
Himself
The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On (2016)
Himself
A Life On Screen: Stephen Fry (2015)
Himself
Rocky Horror Show Live (2015)
Narrator
Wimbledon: 2015 Official Film Review (2015)
Narrator
Do I Sound Gay? (2015)
Self
Marked (2014)
Father Christmas
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
Master of Laketown
Stephen Fry Live: More Fool Me (2014)
Self
The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill (2014)
Self
That Sugar Film (2014)
The Sugar Family Sketch
Tiny Giants 3D (2014)
Narrator
A Little Bit of Fry and Waddell (2014)
Self - Darts Fan
Mahout: The Great Elephant Walk (2014)
Narrator
Our Gay Wedding: The Musical (2014)
Russia's Open Book: Writing in the Age of Putin (2013)
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
The Master of Laketown
Sir David Frost: That Was the Life That Was (2013)
Narrator
Super Clyde (2013)
Randolph
Hugh Laurie: Copper Bottom Blues (2013)
The Look of Love (2013)
Barrister
The Lonely Dodo (2013)
Narrator/Mascarene Grass Frog
Frost on Sketch Shows (2013)
Self
Stephen Fry's Key to the City (2013)
Self - Presenter
Doors Open (2012)
Professor Robert Gissing
Special Report – The Voice of Darts (2012)
Self (archive footage)
Cicada Princess (2012)
Narrator (voice)
Wagner & Me (2012)
Himself
A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman (2012)
Oscar Wilde (voice)
Shakespeare's Sonnets (2012)
Stephen Fry's 100 Greatest Gadgets (2012)
Himself
Twelfth Night (2012)
Malvolio
Jools Holland: My Life in Music (2012)
Himself
The Borrowers (2011)
Professor Mildeye
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
Mycroft Holmes
Holy Flying Circus (2011)
God
Wogan on Wodehouse (2011)
Self
Ocean Giants (2011)
Narrater
Botham: The Legend of '81 (2011)
Self
March of the Dinosaurs (2011)
Narrator (UK)
Benjamin Sniddlegrass and The Cauldron of Penguins (2011)
The Narrator
Lost Connection (2010)
Dad
Fry and Laurie Reunited (2010)
Self
Stephen Fry Live at the Sydney Opera House (2010)
Stephen Fry
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
The Cheshire Cat (voice)
Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News (2009)
Self
House of Boys (2009)
Dr. Marsh
Last Chance to See (2009)
Himself
Fawlty Exclusive: Basil's Best Bits (2009)
Self - Narrator (voice)
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened (2009)
Self – Narrator (voice)
Blackadder Rides Again (2008)
himself
Pocoyo & the Space Circus (2008)
Narrator
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments (2008)
Self
Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga (2008)
Happy Birthday to GNU (2008)
Himself
Last of the Dambusters (2008)
Narrator
Pocoyo: Fun & Dance with Pocoyo (2008)
Narrator
Spectacled Bears: Shadows of the Forest (2008)
Narrator
The Machine That Made Us (2008)
Himself - Presenter
Tales of the Riverbank (2008)
Owl (voice)
St. Trinian's (2007)
Stephen Fry
Eichmann (2007)
Minister Tormer
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out (2007)
Self
Snow White: The Sequel (2007)
The Narrator (voice)
Stormbreaker (2006)
Smithers
Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot (2006)
Self
V for Vendetta (2006)
Gordon Deitrich
Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' (2005)
Self
A Cock and Bull Story (2005)
Patrick Curator / Parson Yorick
Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' (2005)
Self
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
Narrator / The Guide (voice)
MirrorMask (2005)
Librarian
Pocoyo & Friends (2005)
Narrator
Meet Pocoyo! (2005)
Narrator
Tom Brown's Schooldays (2005)
Dr. Thomas Arnold
A Bear Named Winnie (2004)
Protheroe
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball? (2004)
Self
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004)
Maurice Woodruff
The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope (2004)
Narrator
Tooth (2004)
Pedro
Bright Young Things (2003)
Chauffeur
Le Divorce (2003)
Piers Janely
The Making of 'Gosford Park' (2002)
Self
Thunderpants (2002)
Sir Anthony Silk
Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali (2002)
Andre Breton
Paddington Bear: The Early Years (2001)
Gosford Park (2001)
Inspector Thompson
Baldrick's Video Diary - A Blackadder in the Making (2001)
Self
The Discovery of Heaven (2001)
Onno Quist
Four Play (2001)
Nigel Steele
In Search of the Prisoner (2001)
Self
Sabotage!! (2000)
Wellington
Relative Values (2000)
Frederick Crestwell
Elizabeth Taylor: A Musical Celebration (2000)
Self
Best (2000)
Frazer Crane
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? (2000)
Dr. Peter Robinson
Longitude (2000)
Sir Kenelm Digby
A Profile of 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp' (2000)
Self
Blackadder: Back & Forth (1999)
Melchett
Geri (1999)
Self
A Profile of The Importance of Being Earnest (1999)
Stanley Baxter in Person (1998)
Self
A Civil Action (1998)
Pinder
The Tichborne Claimant (1998)
Hawkins
Spice World (1997)
Judge
Simply Wilde (1997)
Self
Oscar (1997)
Self
Wilde (1997)
Oscar Wilde
The Wind in the Willows (1996)
The Judge
The Steal (1995)
Wimborne
Cold Comfort Farm (1995)
Mybug
I.Q. (1994)
James Moreland
An Audience with Bob Monkhouse (1994)
Stalag Luft (1993)
Wing Commander James Forrester
Common Pursuit (1992)
Peter's Friends (1992)
Peter Morton
Old Flames (1990)
Daniel Davenport
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball (1989)
Himself
Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988)
Lords Melchett / Frondo
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Hutchison
A Handful of Dust (1988)
Reggie
Blackadder: The Cavalier Years (1988)
King Charles I
The Laughing Prisoner (1987)
No. 2
The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball (1987)
Self
The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live (1986)
Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger (1986)
The Good Father (1985)
Creighton
The Crystal Cube (1983)
Dr. Adrian Cowlacey
The Cellar Tapes (1982)
various
Chariots of Fire (1981)
Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)
Now & Then ()
TG
We Are Home ()
Narrator (voice)
We Work for the Dead ()
Pruitt (voice)
Le peuple miniature ()
The Canterville Ghost (2023)
Executive Producer
Firebird (2021)
Thanks
Mankind (2019)
Executive Producer
Ponyboi (2019)
Executive Producer
The Hippopotamus (2017)
Novel
Tickled (2016)
Executive Producer
Nightstand (2015)
Executive Producer
Doors Open (2012)
Executive Producer
Walking the Dogs (2012)
Executive Producer
Let Them Talk: A Celebration of New Orleans Blues (2011)
Executive Producer
Hugh Laurie: Down by the River (2011)
Executive Producer
The Magic Flute (2006)
Lyricist
The Magic Flute (2006)
Dialogue
The Magic Flute (2006)
Writer
Bright Young Things (2003)
Director
Bright Young Things (2003)
Screenplay
Bright Young Things (2003)
Executive Producer
Lucky Break (2001)
Book
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Thanks
The Laughing Prisoner (1987)
Writer
The Crystal Cube (1983)
Writer
The Cellar Tapes (1982)
Writer
The Liar ()
Novel
The Liar ()
Executive Producer