Record ID:
35072293 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
LC number:
  • n82125717 n91091213 n91122949
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1934-02-17
  • Melbourne (Vic.)
Death:
  • 2023-04-22
  • Sydney (N.S.W.)
Associated with:
  • Australia
Used for:
  • Everage, Edna, Dame
  • Humphries, John Barry
  • Edna, Dame
  • Patterson, Les, Sir
  • Stone, Sandy
  • Boyle, Lance
  • Agrippa, Martin
  • Singleton, Neil
  • O'Connor, Morrie
  • Steele, Owen
Notes:
  • His A nice night's entertainment, 1981 t.p. (Barry Humphries)
  • Author's My gorgeous life, 1992 CIP t.p. (Dame Edna Everage) pub. info. (author is Barry Humphries writing as Dame Edna Everage; Australian "megastar")
  • Coleman, P. The real Barry Humphries, c1990 t.p. (Barry Humphries) p. 4 of cover (Dame Edna Everage; [character] created by Barry Humphries) p. [18] (John Barry Humphries, b. 2/18/1934; raised in Melbourne, [Australia])
  • Dame Edna's neighbourhood watch, 1997.
  • The traveller's tool, 1985 t.p. (Sir Les Patterson)
  • Wikipedia www site, 16 May 2008 Barry Humphries page (John Barry Humphries, Australian comedian, satirist & character actor; best known for his on-stage & TV alter egos Dame Edna Everage, a Melbourne housewife, and Sir Les Patterson, Australia's ...[pre-eminent] cultural attache to Britain [and the world])
  • Wikipedia www site, 16 May 2008 Barry Humphries page (Humphries' other satirical characters include the legendary comic strip hero, nephew of Dame Edna (and progenitor of Crocodile Dundee) Barry McKenzie; the "priapic and inebriated cultural attacheĢ" Sir Les Patterson, who has "continued to bring worldwide discredit upon Australian arts and culture, while contributing as much to the Australian vernacular as he has borrowed from it"; gentle, grandfatherly "returned gentleman" Sandy Stone; iconoclastic '60s underground film-maker Martin Agrippa, Paddington socialist academic Neil Singleton, sleazy trade union official Lance Boyle, high-pressure art salesman Morrie O?Connor and failed tycoon Owen Steele)
  • Author's My life as me, 2002 p. 234 (Sandy Stone)
  • Wikipedia, 26 April 2023: (Humphries died following complications from hip surgery at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney on 22 April 2023) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Humphries
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)423630
  • abv02043331
  • 000000072702
Cataloguing source:
  • AuCNLKIN eng VSL VJTL
Authentication code:
  • anuc