Watchable. [187] Fry lives in West Bilney in Norfolk. "[219] Fry's rendering, however, reads, "Progress is not achieved by preachers and guardians of morality, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and sceptics. Stephen John Fry ( London, Egyeslt Kirlysg, 1957. augusztus 24. "Suppose. Fry, Stephen [as Mrs. Stephen Fry] (2010). In the 1980s, he starred as David Lander in four series of the BBC Radio 4 show Delve Special, written by Tony Sarchet, which then became the six-part Channel 4 series This is David Lander in 1988. In 1983, the BBC offered Fry, Laurie and Thompson their own show, which became The Crystal Cube, a mixture of science fiction and mockumentary that was cancelled after the first episode. When interviewed in 2015 by the Irish broadcaster Gay Byrne, Fry was asked what he would say if he came face-to-face with God, to which he replied: "Bone cancer in children: what's that about? His television roles include Lord Melchett in the BBC television comedy series Blackadder, the title character in the television series Kingdom and Absolute Power, as well as recurring guest roles as Dr. Gordon Wyatt on the American crime series Bones and Arthur Garrison MP on the Channel 4 period drama It's a Sin. [271] Fry is the co-owner, with Gina Carter and Sandi Toksvig, of Sprout Pictures, an independent film and television company. Special Agent Tim Sullivan He grew up in Norfolk and attended Uppingham School and Stout's Hill. Who is Stephen Fry? While celebs like Demi Moore and Hugh Laurie 's pal Stephen Fry are Twitter enthusiasts, the House star has revealed he's baffled by the obsession with the micro-blogging site . [69], In May 2009, Fry unveiled The Dongle of Donald Trefusis, an audiobook series following Donald Trefusis (a fictional character from Fry's novel The Liar and from the BBC Radio 4 series Loose Ends), set over 12 episodes. Tema. In 1984 he adapted Me and My Girl for the West End where it ran for eight years and received two Laurence Olivier Awards. [259] On 22 February 2011, Fry was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism by the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard University.[260][261]. 131 in C-Sharp minor'. Famous for his public declaration of celibacy in the "Tatler" back in the 1980s, Emma Thompson has characterised her friend as "90 percent gay, 10 percent other. Michael Frayn's "Look Look" and Gray's "Cell Mates" were less successful for both Fry and their playwrights, the latter not helped by his walking out of the play after only a couple of weeks. "[251], Fry has repeatedly expressed opposition to organised religion, and has identified himself as an atheist and humanist, while declaring some sympathy for the ancient Greek belief in capricious gods. In the 1994 romantic comedy film I.Q., he played the role of James Moreland. When we caught up. In September 2011, Fry's Planet Word, a five-part documentary about language, aired on BBC HD and BBC Two. Between 1990 and 1993, Fry starred as Jeeves (alongside Hugh Laurie's Bertie Wooster) in Jeeves and Wooster, 23 hour-long adaptations of P. G. Wodehouse's novels and short stories. Stephen Fry plays Dr Gordon Wyatt, a former black metal rocker in Bones, but he admits his teen tastes in music were more Wagner, Beethoven and Mozart than Black Sabbath. [192] He counts Wikipedia among his favourite websites "because I like to find out that I died, and that I'm currently in a ballet in China, and all the other very accurate and important things that Wikipedia brings us all". In 2012 he played Malvolio in Twelfth Night at Shakespeare's Globe. [128], In 2010, Fry became an investor in Pushnote,[129] a UK tech startup. [107], Fry is a long-standing fan of the anarchic British musical comedy group the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, and particularly of its eccentric front man, the late Vivian Stanshall. Stephen John Fry was born on 24 August 1957, in Hampstead, London, England, to Marianne Eve and Alan John Fry, an English physicist and inventor. In September 2012, Fry made a return to the stage at Shakespeare's Globe, appearing as Malvolio in a production of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, which transferred to the West End in November 2012. British actors are overrated in Hollywood because Americans may be dazzled by their accents, according to Stephen Fry. The appearance of the 59-year-old English comedian in the final bow of the favorite TV drama has been revealed by a tweet of David Boreanaz. [90] He played Mycroft Holmes in the 2011 film Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, directed by Guy Ritchie. [185], In 2021, he was made a Commander of the Order of the Phoenix by Greek president Katerina Sakellaropoulou for his contribution in enhancing knowledge about Greece in the United Kingdom and reinforcing ties between the two countries. On 13 July 2010, he was made an honorary fellow of Cardiff University,[167] and on 28 January 2011, he was awarded an honorary doctorate at the University of Sussex, for his work campaigning for people suffering from mental health problems, bipolar disorder and HIV. Fry and Hitchens argued that the church did more harm than good, and were declared the victors after an audience vote. Read more. His maternal grandparents were Hungarian Jewish immigrants, while his father's family was of English background. He was the longtime host of the BBC television quiz show QI, with his tenure lasting from 2003 to 2016, during which he was nominated for six British Academy Television Awards. He attended the then-Prince's wedding to Camilla Parker Bowles in 2005. "Aaaaand that's a wrap on # 24LAD - not revealing if I live, die in a hail of gunfire or become ruler of the world. [115] From May to July 2018, Fry appeared in Mythos: A Trilogy, a stage version of his book Mythos, in the Shaw Festival Theatre in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. Having made his film dbut in the 1985 film The Good Father, Fry had a brief appearance in A Fish Called Wanda (in which he is knocked out by Kevin Kline, who is posing as an airport security man), and then appeared as the eponymous Peter in Kenneth Branagh's Peter's Friends in 1992. [79][80] In 2006, Fry won the Rose d'Or award for "Best Game Show Host" for his work on the series. -) angol humorista, r, sznsz, regnyr, filmkszt s televzis szemlyisg. 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In the same year, in V for Vendetta, he played a closeted TV presenter who challenges a fascist state - the screenwriters, The Wachowskis, pointed out that it was Fry's "normalcy" in the face of the insanity of the censorship of BTV that made his character truly powerful and added a "wholly unexpected dimension to the film". [75] In November 2012, Fry hosted a gadgets show called Gadget Man, exploring the usefulness of various gadgets in different daily situations to improve the livelihoods of everyone. a weekly column in the "Daily Telegraph") and magazines (e.g. ', "Richard Dawkins challenges police to arrest him for blasphemy", "Stephen Fry blasphemy probe dropped after garda fail to find 'substantial number of outraged people', "Stephen Fry steps down from Norwich City board as Delia's nephew joins", "Proud Canaries LGBT group supported by Stephen Fry", "Stephen Fry announced as new MCC President", "Sprout Pictures is an independent Film and Television production company owned by Gina Carter and Stephen Fry", "Stephen Fry Happy birthday to GNU GNU Project Free Software Foundation", "FSF and Stephen Fry celebrate the GNU Project 25th anniversary", "Stephen Fry backs The Wildlife Trusts' appeal on Giving Tuesday | The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside", "Stephen Fry elected as Vice President of FFI! 501 likes. [113], In July 2014, Fry appeared on stage with Monty Python on the opening night of their live show Monty Python Live (Mostly). He appeared as Malvolio in Twelfth Night at Shakespeare's Globe in autumn 2012, followed by a limited West End run. Here, he discusses seeing it for the first time: "The week before we moved house, the BBC started a new drama, starring William Hartnell. He has also made appearances in the films Chariots of Fire (1981), A Fish Called Wanda (1988), The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004), V for Vendetta (2005), Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011). Menu. Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter, film director, and a director of Norwich City Football Club. Stephen Fry was born in Hampstead, London , on August 24, 1957 and is an actor, author, and comedian. [196] This vehicle has been featured in Fry's production Stephen Fry in America. In 2017, the bird louse Saepocephalum stephenfryii was named after him, in honour of his contributions to the popularization of science as host of QI. 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. Dee. I was merely saying things that Bertrand Russell and many finer heads of the mind have said for many thousands of years, going all the way back to the Greeks. [211][212] Cameron stated on Twitter he believed "we can better challenge prejudice as we attend, rather than boycotting the Winter Olympics". About Stephen Fry. "[258] Later that year, Fry joined 54 other public figures in signing an open letter published in The Guardian stating their opposition to Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United Kingdom being a state visit. Writer, actor, comedian, doer of good works, excellent good friend to the famous and not, Fry lives in his London SW1 flat and his Norfolk house when not traveling. [50], Fry narrated the first two seasons of the English-language version of the Spanish children's animated series Pocoyo. Stephen Fry's eight favourite songs: Johann Sebastian Bach - 'Partita No. Is there anything this guy can't do?! [209] Fry was among over 100 signatories to a statement published by Sense about Science on 4 June 2009, condemning British libel laws and their use to "severely curtail the right to free speech on a matter of public interest". [224] During the interview, he stated: There has been a history, let's face it, in Poland of a right-wing Catholicism which has been deeply disturbing for those of us who know a little history, and remember which side of the border Auschwitz was on and know the stories, and know much of the anti-semitic, and homophobic and nationalistic elements in countries like Poland. He briefly attended Cawston Primary School in Cawston, Norfolk,[25] before going on to Stouts Hill Preparatory School in Uley, Gloucestershire, at the age of seven, and then to Uppingham School in Rutland, where he joined Fircroft house and was described as a "near-asthmatic genius". [66], On 7 May 2008, Fry gave a speech as part of a series of BBC lectures on the future of public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom,[67] which he later recorded for a podcast. Bones - Seasons 1 to 12 [DVD]: Amazon.co.uk: David Boreanaz, Emily Deschanel, Eric Millegan, T.J. 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It was all me. Making History (1996) is partly set in an alternative universe in which Adolf Hitler's father is made infertile and his replacement proves a more effective Fhrer. [48][49], Fry has appeared in a number of BBC adaptations of plays and books, including a 1992 adaptation of the Simon Gray play The Common Pursuit (he had previously appeared in the West End stage production); a 1998 Malcolm Bradbury adaptation of the Mark Tavener novel In the Red, taking the part of the Controller of BBC Radio 2; and in 2000 in the role of Professor Bellgrove in the BBC serial Gormenghast, which was adapted from the first two novels of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast series. He presented a 20-part, two-hour series, The Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music, a "witty guide" to the genre over the past 1,000 years, on Classic FM. You are the smartest man around! Following a 1987 pilot, the programme ran for 26 episodes across four series between 1989 and 1995. In 2004 he was the narrator for an adaptation of Vanity Fair on BBC Radio 4. Actor, comedian, writer, presenter, and distinguished supporter of Humanism", "The Cambridge Footlights Revue - BBC Two England - 20 May 1982", "Stephen Fry joins cast of Sky comedy Yonderland as Cuddly Dick", "Stephen Fry To Co-Star In CBS Comedy Pilot 'The Great Indoors', "The Big Night In General Melchett talks to Prince William", "Stephen Fry and Victoria Wood to star in The Borrowers", "Stephen Fry Learns Irish for 'Ros na Rn'", "Stephen Fry to play British PM in 24: Live Another Day", "Stephen Fry and Sir Lenny Henry CBE to appear in the twelfth series of Doctor Who", "Doctor Who to land on Who Year's Day in Spyfall", "Heartstopper star shocked so few recognised Stephen Fry in trailer", "Who Do You Think You Are? [88], Fry was offered a role in Valkyrie, but was unable to participate. 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