Movies: Barry Humphries

Sir Michael Parkinson looks back over his 50 years as a broadcaster, revealing some tricks of the interview trade and remembering some of his favourite encounters....

A documentary about the life of British satirist and founder of 'Private Eye' Peter Cook....

The Secret Policeman benefit shows for Amnesty International brought together comedy grand masters - from Python and Beyond the Fringe - and performers then relatively unknown, like Rowan Atkinson. Narrated by Dawn French, the programme includes inte...

Comedic behind-the-scenes film for the production of Mary and Max, originally released as webisodes....

Noel Edmonds, Keith Chegwin, John Craven and Maggie Philbin reunite for a one-off edition of the Saturday morning classic Swap Shop to celebrate its 30th anniversary....

Barry McKenzie's Aunt Edna is kidnapped by Count Von Plasma, the vampire head of an isolated Eastern European dictatorship who mistakes her for the Queen of England and thinks that kidnapping her will draw tourists to his country. Barry and his mates...

Australian cultural attaché Sir Les Patterson visits his old haunts in Hong Kong before its administrative rule is returned from Britain to China....

Aging artist and scholar Barry is disenchanted with his existence - disillusioned by his sexless marriage to a televangelist, and repulsed by her brand of easy-to-swallow self-help Christianity. In dire need of an outlet he turns to Irina, a Russian ...

Joan delivers her biting tongue to the Queen and her country....

As much a parody of the typical BBC documentary style as an extravagant curtsy to Dame Edna Everage, Housewife Superstar. The Dame is known mostly through her special broadcast in 1983; in Britain s/he is a household name. This 1984 birthday tribute ...

Liz Hayes hosts a retrospective special on comedy legend on Nine...

A 1981 documentary looking at the Cult following of the Rocky Horror show and introducing the sequel "Shock Treatment"....

Intimate, upbeat and honest look back at the life and work of Barry Humphries - the legendary comic trailblazer behind Dame Edna Everage and other characters - with incredible tributes from friends....

Barry Humphries performance at The Hilton Hotel London for The Variety Club of Great Britain....

Filmed in front of an audience, Dame Edna will host a very exclusive evening with celebrity chat, staffed by some familiar faces....

Dame Edna shares her views and answers questions in front of a celebrity audience....

Alex Jones looks back at the highlights of Barry’s career on a selection of BBC shows, featuring some of Barry’s funniest, rudest and most revealing moments from over the decades....

Sandy Comes Home is a bittersweet, unsettling elegy: the ghost of a suburban everyman narrates his own erasure and the transformation of his world. Through humour slowly turning to cruelty masked in civility, Humphries delivers a sharp satire of comp...

Sandy sits static in his wheelchair on a bare set, clutching his hot water bottle and lisping his monologue sending up the banality and small-mindedness of suburban Australian life....

A character portrait of the enigmatic comedian Barry Humphries on his most recent Australian tour and an examination of the connections to his two most famous alter egos, Dame Edna and Sir Les Patterson. Interviews include Bruce Beresford and Geoffre...