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