To borrow from his send-up CV for Edna Everage, Barry Humphries was a “gigastar”.īiographer Anne Pender described him as “the most significant theatrical figure of our time” and “the most significant comedian to emerge since Charlie Chaplin”. He was also a landscape painter and a major art collector, particularly of works by Australian artist Charles Conder. In a career spanning 70 years, Humphries appeared in dozens of movies, plays and television programs, and wrote numerous books, including an award-winning memoir, poetry, plays and scripts.īarry Humphries had surgery on his hip last month at Sydney’s St Vincent’s Hospital after a fall in February. Barry Humphries, an artistic genius, the “greatest comedian since Charlie Chaplin”, the creator of Dame Edna Everage, and a star of stage and screen, died on Saturday at Sydney’s St Vincent’s Hospital after complications from hip surgery.
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