Stephen Fry
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.
Acting (195 movies)
The Discovery of Heaven
2001
A Fish Called Wanda
1988
V for Vendetta
2006
Mind Games - The Experiment
2023
St Trinian's
2007
Gosford Park
2001
Wilde
1997
Willem and Frieda: Defying the Nazis
2023
I.Q.
1994
Peter's Friends
1992
Stephen Fry Live: More Fool Me
2014
A Cock and Bull Story
2005
Alice in Wonderland
2010
A Civil Action
1998
Cold Comfort Farm
1995
It's Always Something
2021
Chariots of Fire
1981
Stormbreaker
2006
Four Play
2001
Night of the Living Dread
2021
Russia's Open Book: Writing in the Age of Putin
2013
MirrorMask
2005
Eichmann
2007
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004
Spectacled Bears: Shadows of the Forest
2008
March of the Dinosaurs
2011
Tales of the Riverbank
2008
Listening through the Lens: The Christopher Nupen Films
2021
A Handful of Dust
1988
The Good Father
1985
The Wind in the Willows
1996
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
2022
Tooth
2004
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
2000
Longitude
2000
The Borrowers
2011
Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life
2023
House of Boys
2009
Relative Values
2000
Benjamin Sniddlegrass and The Cauldron of Penguins
2011
We Work for the Dead
2024
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
2013
Holy Flying Circus
2011
The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball
1987
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
1989
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
1988
Blackadder: A Cunning Story
2023
A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman
2012
Tom Brown's Schooldays
2005
Oscar
1997
Sabotage!!
2000
Doors Open
2012
Frost on Sketch Shows
2013
Stephen Fry Live at the Sydney Opera House
2010
The Machine That Made Us
2008
Meet Pocoyo!
2005
Fear of Dancing
2020
Stalag Luft
1993
Wagner & Me
2012
The Look of Love
2013
The Cellar Tapes
1982
Botham: The Legend of '81
2011
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022
Jools Holland: My Life in Music
2012
Last Chance to See
2009
Stephen Fry's Key to the City
2013
Lost Connection
2010
Blackadder: The Cavalier Years
1988
All Families Have Secrets: Patrick Gale's Art of Fiction
2017
Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot
2006
Red, White & Royal Blue
2023
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
2011
Thunderpants
2002
The Canterville Ghost
2023
Blackadder Rides Again
2008
The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill
2014
The Fringe, Fame and Me
2022
Ocean Giants
2011
An Audience with Bob Monkhouse
1994
That Sugar Film
2014
Treasure
2024
We Are Home
2024
The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros
2022
Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News
2009
Blackadder: Back & Forth
1999
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
2009
The Steal
1995
Pocoyo & the Space Circus
2008
Common Pursuit
1992
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014
Twelfth Night
2012
Tomorrow
2019
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
2007
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
2004
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
2022
Tiny Giants 3D
2014
Last of the Dambusters
2008
Love & Friendship
2016
Mr Bear's Christmas
2022
Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016
Directing (1 movie)
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| The Cellar Tapes | 1982 | Writer |
| The Laughing Prisoner | 1987 | Writer |
| Bright Young Things | 2003 | Screenplay |
| Bright Young Things | 2003 | Executive Producer |
| The Magic Flute | 2006 | Writer |
| Stephen Fry: HIV & Me | 2007 | Writer |
| Hugh Laurie: Down by the River | 2011 | Executive Producer |
| Let Them Talk: A Celebration of New Orleans Blues | 2011 | Executive Producer |
| Walking the Dogs | 2012 | Executive Producer |
| Doors Open | 2012 | Executive Producer |
| Nightstand | 2015 | Executive Producer |
| Tickled | 2016 | Executive Producer |
| Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back) | 2018 | Executive Producer |
| Ponyboi | 2019 | Executive Producer |
| Mankind | 2019 | Executive Producer |
| The Canterville Ghost | 2023 | Executive Producer |