Stephen Fry
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · Animals United 2: The Chilldown as (voice)
- 2024 · Treasure as Edek
- 2024 · Jeopardy! as Self - Presenter
- 2023 · Everything Now as Dr Nell
- 2023 · The Canterville Ghost as Sir Simon de Canterville (voice)
- 2023 · The Inventor as Leonardo da Vinci (voice)
- 2023 · Red, White & Royal Blue as King James III
- 2023 · Dinosaur with Stephen Fry as
- 2022 · In Conversation with Alan Yentob as Self
- 2022 · Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg as Self – writer and comedian
- 2022 · Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg as Self – Writer and comedian
- 2022 · The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros as Self (archive footage)
- 2022 · The Sandman as Gilbert
- 2022 · Heartstopper as Headmaster Barnes (voice)
- 2022 · The Dropout as Ian Gibbons
- 2022 · Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts as Chapter Passages Narrator (voice)
- 2021 · It's a Sin as Arthur Garrison
- 2019 · The Morning Show as Leonard Cromwell
- 2019 · Greed as Self
- 2019 · Missing Link as Lord Piggot-Dunceby (voice)
- 2019 · Sex Education as NSQC Quizmaster
- 2018 · The Big Narstie Show as Self
- 2018 · The Con Is On as Sidney
- 2018 · Duck Duck Goose as Frazier (voice)
- 2018 · Apple & Onion as William Steakspeare (voice)
- 2018 · Apple & Onion as Onion's Dad (voice)
- 2016 · The Great Indoors as Roland
- 2016 · Love & Friendship as Mr. Johnson
- 2016 · Alice Through the Looking Glass as Cheshire Cat (voice)
- 2016 · The Man Who Knew Infinity as Sir Francis Spring
- 2015 · The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show as Uncle Duke (voice)
- 2015 · Danger Mouse as Colonel K (voice)
- 2014 · A Life on Screen as Himself
- 2014 · The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies as Master of Laketown
- 2014 · That Sugar Film as The Sugar Family Sketch
- 2014 · Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled as Self
- 2014 · Lily's Driftwood Bay as Lord Stag (voice)
- 2014 · Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as Winston Churchill (voice)
- 2013 · The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug as The Master of Laketown
- 2013 · Yonderland as Cuddly Dick
- 2013 · The Look of Love as Barrister
- 2012 · Gadget Man as Presenter
- 2012 · Veep as Nikolai Genidze
- 2012 · The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff as Skulkingworm
- 2011 · Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows as Mycroft Holmes
- 2011 · The Jonathan Ross Show as Self
- 2010 · Alice in Wonderland as The Cheshire Cat (voice)
- 2009 · Country Tracks as Himself
- 2009 · Chris Moyles' Quiz Night as Self
- 2008 · Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga as
- 2007 · St. Trinian's as Stephen Fry
- 2007 · Eichmann as Minister Tormer
- 2007 · Kingdom as Peter Kingdom
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2006 · Legends as Self (uncredited)
- 2006 · The Secret Show as
- 2006 · The One Show as Self - Guest
- 2006 · The Story of Light Entertainment as Self - Narrator
- 2006 · Stormbreaker as Smithers
- 2006 · V for Vendetta as Deitrich
- 2005 · Bones as Dr. Gordon Wyatt
- 2005 · Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' as Self
- 2005 · Extras as Stephen Fry
- 2005 · A Cock and Bull Story as Patrick Curator / Parson Yorick
- 2005 · Nigella as Self
- 2005 · The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as Narrator / The Guide (voice)
- 2005 · Doctor Who as C
- 2005 · American Dad! as John Michael Heaton (voice)
- 2005 · American Dad! as Mr. Cavendish (voice)
- 2005 · MirrorMask as Librarian
- 2005 · Pocoyo as Narrator
- 2005 · The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
- 2004 · Who Do You Think You Are? as Self
- 2004 · The Life and Death of Peter Sellers as Maurice Woodruff
- 2003 · Bright Young Things as Chauffeur
- 2003 · QI as Self - Presenter
- 2003 · Le Divorce as Piers Janely
- 2003 · Fortysomething as Derek
- 2002 · Top Gear as Self
- 2001 · Gosford Park as Inspector Thompson
- 2001 · 24 as Alastair Davies P.M.
- 2000 · Click as Self
- 2000 · Longitude as Sir Kenhelm Digby
- 2000 · The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything as
- 1999 · The Magician's House as Jasper the Owl (voice)
- 1999 · Watership Down as Cowslip
- 1999 · Blackadder: Back & Forth as Melchett
- 1998 · A Civil Action as Pinder
- 1998 · So Graham Norton as Self
- 1997 · Spice World as Judge
- 1997 · Wilde as Oscar Wilde
- 1996 · Never Mind the Buzzcocks as Self
- 1996 · Never Mind the Buzzcocks as Self - Panellist
- 1995 · The Thin Blue Line as
- 1995 · Kulturzeit as self
- 1994 · I.Q. as James Moreland
- 1994 · Room 101 as Self
- 1993 · Shooting Stars as Self
- 1992 · The Borrowers as
- 1992 · Peter's Friends as Peter Morton
- 1990 · Have I Got News for You as Himself
- 1990 · Jeeves and Wooster as Jeeves
- 1989 · The Simpsons as Terrance / Hazel / MI5 Man (voice)
- 1989 · A Bit of Fry & Laurie as
- 1988 · This Is David Lander as
- 1988 · Whose Line Is It Anyway? as Self
- 1988 · A Fish Called Wanda as Hutchison
- 1988 · Comic Relief as
- 1987 · The New Statesman as Piers Lonsdale
- 1987 · Filthy Rich & Catflap as P'Farty
- 1986 · Saturday Live as
- 1985 · Happy Families as
- 1985 · Screen Two as Humphrey Taylor
- 1983 · Natural World as Narrator
- 1983 · Blackadder as Lord Melchett
- 1983 · Blackadder as General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett
- 1983 · Blackadder as The Duke of Wellington
- 1983 · Blackadder as Lords Melchett / Frondo
- 1983 · Alfresco as Various
- 1982 · The Young Ones as Lord Snot
- 1982 · Countdown as
- 1982 · Wogan as Self
- 1981 · Chariots of Fire as Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)
- 1978 · An Audience with... as Self
- 1976 · The Secret Policeman's Ball as Self
- 1962 · University Challenge as
- 1949 · The BAFTA Awards as Host
- Future · Too Much as
- 2024 · Black Samphire as Mari's Boss
- 2024 · Time Travel Is Dangerous as Narrator
- 2024 · This Is Not Hollywood (The Unfinished Story of The Ibarretxe Brothers) as Self
- 2024 · We Are Home as Self - narrator (voice)
- 2024 · This is the Night Mail as Pruitt (voice)
- 2024 · Jeopardy! Australia as Host
- 2024 · Bottom: Exposed as Narrator (voice)
- 2023 · The Dinosaur Hour as
- 2023 · Blackadder: A Cunning Story as Self – Contributor
- 2023 · Willem and Frieda: Defying the Nazis as
- 2022 · The Fringe, Fame and Me as Self
- 2021 · Night of the Living Dread as Meditation Guru (voice)
- 2020 · Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World as Self
- 2020 · London Zoo: An Extraordinary Year as Narrator (voice)
- 2020 · What's the Matter with Tony Slattery? as Himself
- 2020 · Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley as Himself
- 2019 · Tomorrow as Chris
- 2019 · Almost Human as Narrator
- 2019 · Churchill and the Movie Mogul as Himself
- 2017 · Queer as Art as Self
- 2017 · 50 Years Legal as Self
- 2017 · Battle of Soho as Himself
- 2017 · Elton John: The Nation's Favourite Song as Self
- 2016 · Santa Forgot as Narrator
- 2016 · The Killing$ of Tony Blair as Self
- 2014 · Stephen Fry Live: More Fool Me as Self
- 2013 · Sir David Frost: That Was the Life That Was as Narrator
- 2013 · The Lonely Dodo as Narrator/Mascarene Grass Frog
- 2013 · Frost on Sketch Shows as Self
- 2012 · Twelfth Night as Malvolio
- 2011 · Wogan on Wodehouse as Self
- 2010 · Wagner and Me as Star
- 2009 · Last Chance to See as
- 2008 · Spectacled Bears: Shadows of the Forest as Narrator
- 2007 · Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out as Self
- 2006 · Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive as
- 2004 · Tooth as Pedro
- 2001 · Funny Old World 5 as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Funny Old World as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Funny Old World 4 as Narrator (voice)
- 1999 · A Profile of The Importance of Being Earnest as
- 1998 · Stanley Baxter in Person as Self
- 1997 · Simply Wilde as Self
- 1997 · An Audience with Elton John as Self
- 1995 · The Steal as Wimborne
- 1992 · Common Pursuit as
- 1990 · Old Flames as Daniel Davenport
- 1987 · The Laughing Prisoner as No. 2
- Future · Now & Then as TG
- 2023 · John Craxton: A Life of Gifts as John Craxton (Voice)
- 2023 · Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life as Self
- 2023 · Mind Games - The Experiment as Narrator
- 2022 · A Year on Planet Earth as Self - Presenter
- 2022 · Mr Bear's Christmas as Narrator
- 2022 · Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba as Self
- 2022 · David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count as Self
- 2022 · Stuff the British Stole as Self - Guest
- 2022 · George Michael: Portrait of an Artist as Self
- 2022 · Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History as Self - Narrator
- 2021 · Hating Peter Tatchell as Self (Actor, Comedian & Writer)
- 2021 · It's Always Something as Narrator
- 2021 · Listening through the Lens: The Christopher Nupen Films as Narrator
- 2021 · Sparkling: The Story Of Champagne as Self / Sir Fopling Flutter
- 2021 · The Picture of Dorian Gray as The Interviewer
- 2021 · Dancing on Thin Ice with Torvill & Dean as Narrator
- 2020 · Fear of Dancing as Self - Actor & Writer
- 2019 · Bill Turnbull: Staying Alive as Himself
- 2019 · Dancing with the Birds as Narrator
- 2018 · Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood as Self
- 2018 · M. C. Escher: Journey to Infinity as M. C. Escher (voice)
- 2018 · Pocoyo's Easter Picnic as
- 2017 · And the Winner Isn't as Self
- 2017 · All Families Have Secrets: Patrick Gale's Art of Fiction as
- 2017 · Britain's Great Gay Buildings as
- 2016 · Pocoyo's Halloween as Narrator
- 2016 · A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats as Self
- 2016 · The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On as Himself
- 2015 · A Life On Screen: Stephen Fry as Himself
- 2015 · Rocky Horror Show Live as Narrator
- 2015 · Wimbledon: 2015 Official Film Review as Narrator
- 2015 · Stephen Fry in Central America as Self - Presenter
- 2015 · Do I Sound Gay? as Self
- 2014 · Marked as Father Christmas
- 2014 · Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly) as Self
- 2014 · The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill as Self
- 2014 · Margery Booth: The Spy in the Eagle's Nest as
- 2014 · Tiny Giants 3D as Narrator
- 2014 · A Little Bit of Fry and Waddell as Self - Darts Fan
- 2014 · Mahout: The Great Elephant Walk as Narrator
- 2014 · Our Gay Wedding: The Musical as
- 2014 · Hidden Kingdoms as Narrator
- 2013 · Russia's Open Book: Writing in the Age of Putin as
- 2013 · Stephen Fry: Out There as Himself
- 2013 · Super Clyde as Randolph
- 2013 · Hugh Laurie: Copper Bottom Blues as
- 2013 · Stephen Fry's Key to the City as Self - Presenter
- 2012 · Doors Open as Professor Robert Gissing
- 2012 · Special Report – The Voice of Darts as Self (archive footage)
- 2012 · Cicada Princess as Narrator (voice)
- 2012 · Wagner & Me as Himself
- 2012 · A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman as Oscar Wilde (voice)
- 2012 · Shakespeare's Sonnets as
- 2012 · Stephen Fry's 100 Greatest Gadgets as Himself
- 2012 · Just a Minute as Self
- 2012 · Jools Holland: My Life in Music as Himself
- 2011 · The Borrowers as Professor Mildeye
- 2011 · Holy Flying Circus as God
- 2011 · Fry's Planet Word as
- 2011 · Making Qi as Self
- 2011 · Ocean Giants as Narrater
- 2011 · Ocean Giants as Narrator
- 2011 · Botham: The Legend of '81 as Self
- 2011 · Horrible Histories with Stephen Fry as Self
- 2011 · March of the Dinosaurs as Narrator (UK)
- 2011 · Benjamin Sniddlegrass and The Cauldron of Penguins as The Narrator
- 2010 · Lost Connection as Dad
- 2010 · Fry and Laurie Reunited as Self
- 2010 · Stephen Fry Live at the Sydney Opera House as Stephen Fry
- 2009 · Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News as Self
- 2009 · House of Boys as Dr. Marsh
- 2009 · Last Chance to See as Himself
- 2009 · Fawlty Exclusive: Basil's Best Bits as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2009 · Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened as Self – Narrator (voice)
- 2008 · Blackadder Rides Again as himself
- 2008 · Pocoyo & the Space Circus as Narrator
- 2008 · Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments as Self
- 2008 · Stephen Fry in America as Self - Host
- 2008 · Happy Birthday to GNU as Himself
- 2008 · Last of the Dambusters as Narrator
- 2008 · Pocoyo: Fun & Dance with Pocoyo as Narrator
- 2008 · The Machine That Made Us as Himself - Presenter
- 2008 · Tales of the Riverbank as Owl (voice)
- 2007 · Stephen Fry: HIV & Me as Himself - Presenter
- 2007 · Shrink Rap as Himself
- 2007 · Snow White: The Sequel as The Narrator (voice)
- 2005 · Meet Pocoyo! as Narrator
- 2001 · Four Play as Nigel Steele
- Future · Tiny Giants as Narrator
- 2006 · Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot as Self
- 2006 · The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band: 40th Anniversary Celebration as Self
- 2005 · Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' as Self
- 2005 · Missing as
- 2005 · 29 Minutes of Fame as Self - Panelist
- 2005 · Tom Brown's Schooldays as Dr. Thomas Arnold
- 2005 · Pocoyo & Friends as Narrator
- 2004 · A Bear Named Winnie as Protheroe
- 2004 · Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball? as Self
- 2004 · The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope as Narrator
- 2003 · Absolute Power as Charles Prentiss
- 2003 · The Biggest Nose in Borneo as Narrator
- 2003 · Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind as Self
- 2002 · The Making of 'Gosford Park' as Self
- 2002 · Thunderpants as Sir Anthony Silk
- 2002 · Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali as Andre Breton
- 2001 · Paddington Bear: The Early Years as
- 2001 · Baldrick's Video Diary - A Blackadder in the Making as Self
- 2001 · The Discovery of Heaven as Onno Quist
- 2001 · Baddiel's Syndrome as The Psychiatrist
- 2001 · Funny Old World 2 as Narrator (voice)
- 2000 · Elizabeth Taylor: A Musical Celebration as Self
- Future · Le peuple miniature as
- 1989 · Employees From Hell as
- Future · Stephen Fry’s 21st Century Firsts as Self - Host
- 2001 · In Search of the Prisoner as Self
- 2001 · Funny Old World 3 as Narrator (voice)
- 2000 · Sabotage!! as Wellington
- 2000 · Relative Values as Frederick Crestwell
- 2000 · Best as Frazer Crane
- 2000 · Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? as Dr. Peter Robinson
- 2000 · Gormenghast as
- 2000 · Longitude as Sir Kenelm Digby
- 2000 · A Profile of 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp' as Self
- 1999 · Have I Got Buzzcocks All Over as Themselves - Panellist
- 1999 · Geri as Self
- 1998 · The Tichborne Claimant as Hawkins
- 1998 · In the Red as Controller, Radio 2
- 1998 · Parkinson as Self
- 1997 · Oscar as Self
- 1996 · The Wind in the Willows as The Judge
- 1995 · Cold Comfort Farm as Mybug
- 1994 · An Audience with Bob Monkhouse as
- 1993 · Stalag Luft as Wing Commander James Forrester
- 1990 · Rita Rudner as
- 1989 · Happy Families as
- 1989 · Anything More Would Be Greedy as
- 1989 · Saturday Night Clive as
- 1989 · The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball as Self
- 1989 · Communicators From Hell as
- 1988 · Blackadder's Christmas Carol as Lords Melchett / Frondo
- 1988 · This Morning as Self
- 1988 · A Handful of Dust as Reggie
- 1988 · Blackadder: The Cavalier Years as King Charles I
- 1987 · The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball as Self
- 1986 · Omnibus Presents Comic Relief as
- 1986 · The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live as
- 1986 · The Dangerous Brothers as
- 1986 · Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger as
- 1985 · The Good Father as Creighton
- 1984 · Chance in a Million as
- 1983 · The Crystal Cube as Dr. Adrian Cowlacey / Various Roles
- 1982 · There's Nothing to Worry About! as Various
- 1982 · The Cellar Tapes as various
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
- Future · Black Samphire as