FrameThrower · Actors · Barry Humphries
Barry Humphries
2 films · 77 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2009–2012
Born 17 February 1934 · Camberwell, Melbourne, Australia · died 22 April 2023
John Barry Humphries, AO, CBE was an Australian comedian, satirist, dadaist, artist, author and character actor, perhaps best known for his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage, a Melbourne housewife and "gigastar", and Sir Les Patterson, Australia's foul-mouthed cultural attaché to the Court of St. James's.
He was a film producer and script writer, a star of London's West End musical theatre, an award-winning writer and an accomplished landscape painter.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 77 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2009–2012
- Companion of the Order of Australia2023
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire2007
- Officer of the Order of Australia1982
- James Joyce Awards2009
- Centenary Medal2001
- Theatre World Special Award2000
- Australian National Living Treasure
- Sydney Theatre Awards
- Ackerley Prize
How their films are shot
Measured across 77 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Barry takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 41% of their frames are night, 43% low key — the look of the work Barry takes.
Time of day
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Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 77 frames from Barry Humphries's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.