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 · Time Travel Is Dangerous! as Narrator
- 2024 · Doctor Who at the Proms as C (archive footage)
- 2024 · Star Wars: Skeleton Crew as Supervisor (voice)
- 2024 · This Is Not Hollywood (The Unfinished Story of The Ibarretxe Brothers) as Self
- 2024 · We Are Home as Self - narrator (voice)
- 2024 · The Big Fat Quiz of Telly as Self
- 2024 · We Work for the Dead as Pruitt (voice)
- 2024 · Jeopardy! Australia as Host
- 2023 · The Big Fat Quiz Of Sport as Self
- 2023 · Mind Games - The Experiment as Narrator
- 2022 · A Year on Planet Earth as Self - Presenter
- 2022 · David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count as Self
- 2022 · In Conversation with Alan Yentob as Self
- 2022 · The Fringe, Fame and Me as Self
- 2022 · George Michael: Portrait of an Artist as Self
- 2021 · The Picture of Dorian Gray as The Interviewer
- 2019 · Dancing with the Birds as Narrator
- 2019 · Tomorrow as Chris
- 2019 · Churchill and the Movie Mogul as Himself
- 2018 · M. C. Escher: Journey to Infinity as M. C. Escher (voice)
- 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 · Pocoyo's Halloween as Narrator
- 2015 · A Life On Screen: Stephen Fry as Himself
- 2015 · Rocky Horror Show Live as Narrator
- 2015 · Wimbledon: 2015 Official Film Review as Narrator
- 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 · A Little Bit of Fry and Waddell as Self - Darts Fan
- 2014 · Our Gay Wedding: The Musical as
- 2013 · Frost on Sketch Shows as Self
- 2012 · Doors Open as Professor Robert Gissing
- 2012 · Special Report – The Voice of Darts as Self (archive footage)
- 2012 · Wagner & Me as Himself
- 2012 · Shakespeare's Sonnets as
- 2012 · Stephen Fry's 100 Greatest Gadgets as Himself
- 2011 · Holy Flying Circus as God
- 2011 · Fry's Planet Word as
- 2011 · Ocean Giants as Narrater
- 2011 · Botham: The Legend of '81 as Self
- 2011 · March of the Dinosaurs as Narrator (UK)
- 2010 · Fry and Laurie Reunited as Self
- 2009 · Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News as Self
- 2009 · House of Boys as Dr. Marsh
- 2008 · Blackadder Rides Again as himself
- 2008 · Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga as Self
- 2008 · Tales of the Riverbank as Owl (voice)
- 2007 · St. Trinian's as Stephen Fry
- 2007 · Stephen Fry: HIV & Me as Himself - Presenter
- 2007 · Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out as Self
- 2006 · Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive as
- 2005 · Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' as Self
- 2005 · 29 Minutes of Fame as Self - Panelist
- 2005 · Tom Brown's Schooldays as Dr. Thomas Arnold
- 2004 · A Bear Named Winnie as Protheroe
- 2003 · Absolute Power as Charles Prentiss
- 2003 · The Biggest Nose in Borneo as Narrator
- 2003 · Fortysomething as Derek
- 2002 · Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali as Andre Breton
- 2001 · Baldrick's Video Diary - A Blackadder in the Making as Self
- 2001 · Four Play as Nigel Steele
- 2000 · Elizabeth Taylor: A Musical Celebration as Self
- 2000 · Best as Frazer Crane
- 2000 · Longitude as Sir Kenhelm Digby
- 2000 · The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything as
- 1999 · Geri as Self
- 1998 · In the Red as Controller, Radio 2
- 1997 · Wilde as Oscar Wilde
- 1995 · The Steal as Wimborne
- 1994 · I.Q. as James Moreland
- 1994 · An Audience with Bob Monkhouse as
- 1993 · Camp Christmas as Santa Claus
- 1992 · Common Pursuit as
- 1992 · Peter's Friends as Peter Morton
- 1990 · Rita Rudner as
- 1990 · Old Flames as Daniel Davenport
- 1989 · Employees From Hell as
- 1988 · Blackadder: The Cavalier Years as King Charles I
- 1987 · The Laughing Prisoner as No. 2
- 1986 · The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live as
- 1986 · Omnibus Presents Comic Relief as
- 1986 · The Dangerous Brothers as
- 1986 · Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger as
- 1985 · Happy Families as Doctor De Quincy
- Future · Too Much as
- 2025 · Lubach as Self
- 2025 · Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future as Self
- 2024 · About a Hero as
- 2023 · Dinosaur with Stephen Fry as
- 2021 · It's Always Something as Narrator
- 2021 · Sparkling: The Story Of Champagne as Self / Sir Fopling Flutter
- 2021 · Dancing on Thin Ice with Torvill & Dean as Narrator
- 2020 · Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World as Self
- 2020 · What's the Matter with Tony Slattery? as Himself
- 2020 · Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley as Himself
- 2016 · The Killing$ of Tony Blair as Self
- 2016 · A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats as Self
- 2016 · The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On as Himself
- 2013 · Russia's Open Book: Writing in the Age of Putin as
- 2013 · Sir David Frost: That Was the Life That Was as Narrator
- 2013 · Stephen Fry: Out There as Himself
- 2013 · Hugh Laurie: Copper Bottom Blues as
- 2013 · The Lonely Dodo as Narrator/Mascarene Grass Frog
- 2013 · Stephen Fry's Key to the City as Self - Presenter
- 2012 · Cicada Princess as Narrator (voice)
- 2012 · Jools Holland: My Life in Music as Himself
- 2011 · Wogan on Wodehouse as Self
- 2009 · Last Chance to See as Himself
- 2008 · Pocoyo & the Space Circus as Narrator
- 2008 · Happy Birthday to GNU as Himself
- 2008 · Spectacled Bears: Shadows of the Forest as Narrator
- 2008 · The Machine That Made Us as Himself - Presenter
- 2005 · Meet Pocoyo! as Narrator
- 2004 · The Life and Death of Peter Sellers as Maurice Woodruff
- 2004 · The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope as Narrator
- 2003 · Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind as Self
- Future · Le peuple miniature as
- 2006 · The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band: 40th Anniversary Celebration as Self
- 2001 · Paddington Bear: The Early Years as
- 2001 · Funny Old World 4 as Narrator (voice)
- 1999 · Have I Got Buzzcocks All Over as Themselves - Panellist
- 1999 · A Profile of The Importance of Being Earnest as
- 1998 · Stanley Baxter in Person as Self
- 1997 · Simply Wilde as Self
- 1997 · Oscar as Self
- 1989 · Happy Families as
- 1982 · There's Nothing to Worry About! as Various
- Future · Now & Then as TG
- Future · Black Samphire as
- 2019 · Bill Turnbull: Staying Alive as Himself
- Future · Touché as Narrator (voice)
- 2024 · Black Samphire as Mari's Boss
- 2024 · Stephen Fry Into Ukraine as Self
- 2024 · Treasure as Edek
- 2024 · Bottom: Exposed as Narrator (voice)
- 2024 · U.Me: The Musical as Narrator
- 2024 · Jeopardy! as Self - Presenter
- 2023 · The Dinosaur Hour as
- 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 · Blackadder: A Cunning Story as Self – Contributor
- 2023 · Willem and Frieda: Defying the Nazis as
- 2023 · John Craxton: A Life of Gifts as John Craxton (Voice)
- 2023 · Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life as Self
- 2022 · Mr Bear's Christmas as Narrator
- 2022 · Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba as Self
- 2022 · Stuff the British Stole 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 Sandman as Gilbert
- 2022 · Heartstopper as Headmaster Barnes (voice)
- 2022 · The Dropout as Ian Gibbons
- 2022 · Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History as Self - Narrator
- 2022 · Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts as Chapter Passages Narrator (voice)
- 2021 · Hating Peter Tatchell as Self (Actor, Comedian & Writer)
- 2021 · Listening through the Lens: The Christopher Nupen Films as Narrator
- 2021 · Night of the Living Dread as Meditation Guru (voice)
- 2021 · It's a Sin as Arthur Garrison
- 2020 · London Zoo: An Extraordinary Year as Narrator (voice)
- 2020 · Fear of Dancing as Self - Actor & Writer
- 2019 · Harley Quinn as Brainiac (voice)
- 2019 · The Morning Show as Leonard Cromwell
- 2019 · Greed as Self
- 2019 · Missing Link as Lord Piggot-Dunceby (voice)
- 2019 · Almost Human as Narrator
- 2019 · Sex Education as NSQC Quizmaster
- 2018 · Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood as Self
- 2018 · The Big Narstie Show as Self
- 2018 · The Con Is On as Sidney
- 2018 · Pocoyo's Easter Picnic as
- 2018 · Duck Duck Goose as Frazier (voice)
- 2018 · Apple & Onion as William Steakspeare (voice)
- 2018 · Apple & Onion as Onion's Dad (voice)
- 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 · Santa Forgot as Narrator
- 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)
- 2015 · Stephen Fry in Central America as Self - Presenter
- 2015 · Do I Sound Gay? as Self
- 2014 · A Life on Screen as Himself
- 2014 · The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies as Master of Laketown
- 2014 · Stephen Fry Live: More Fool Me as Self
- 2014 · That Sugar Film as The Sugar Family Sketch
- 2014 · Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled as Self
- 2014 · Margery Booth: The Spy in the Eagle's Nest as
- 2014 · Tiny Giants 3D as Narrator
- 2014 · Lily's Driftwood Bay as Lord Stag (voice)
- 2014 · Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as Winston Churchill (voice)
- 2014 · Mahout: The Great Elephant Walk as Narrator
- 2014 · Hidden Kingdoms as Narrator
- 2013 · The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug as The Master of Laketown
- 2013 · Yonderland as Cuddly Dick
- 2013 · Super Clyde as Randolph
- 2013 · Alleen Elvis blijft bestaan as Self
- 2013 · The Look of Love as Barrister
- 2013 · The Last Leg as Self
- 2012 · Gadget Man as Presenter
- 2012 · A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman as Oscar Wilde (voice)
- 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 · The Borrowers as Professor Mildeye
- 2011 · Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows as Mycroft Holmes
- 2011 · Making Qi as Self
- 2011 · The Jonathan Ross Show as Self
- 2011 · The Jonathan Ross Show as Self - Guest
- 2011 · Ocean Giants as Narrator
- 2011 · Horrible Histories with Stephen Fry as Self
- 2011 · Benjamin Sniddlegrass and The Cauldron of Penguins as The Narrator
- 2010 · Lost Connection as Dad
- 2010 · Wagner and Me as Star
- 2010 · The Great American Oil Spill as Self
- 2010 · Stephen Fry Live at the Sydney Opera House as Stephen Fry
- 2010 · Alice in Wonderland as Cheshire Cat (voice)
- 2009 · Last Chance to See as
- 2009 · Fawlty Exclusive: Basil's Best Bits as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2009 · Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened as Self – Narrator (voice)
- 2009 · Country Tracks as Himself
- 2009 · Chris Moyles' Quiz Night as Self
- 2008 · Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments as Self
- 2008 · Stephen Fry in America as Self - Host
- 2008 · Last of the Dambusters as Narrator
- 2008 · Pocoyo: Fun & Dance with Pocoyo as Narrator
- 2007 · Stephen Fry: HIV & Me as Self
- 2007 · Eichmann as Minister Tormer
- 2007 · Stephen Fry: Guilty 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 · 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 · Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot as Self
- 2006 · V for Vendetta as Deitrich
- 2006 · The Transporters as Narrator
- 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 · 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 · MirrorMask as Librarian
- 2005 · The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
- 2005 · Pocoyo & Friends as Narrator
- 2004 · Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball? as Self
- 2004 · Who Do You Think You Are? as Self
- 2004 · Tooth as Pedro
- 2003 · Bright Young Things as Chauffeur
- 2003 · QI as Self - Presenter
- 2003 · Le Divorce as Piers Janely
- 2002 · Top Gear as Self
- 2002 · The Making of 'Gosford Park' as Self
- 2002 · Thunderpants as Sir Anthony Silk
- 2002 · Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time as The Minister of Chance
- 2001 · Gosford Park as Inspector Thompson
- 2001 · 24 as Alastair Davies
- 2001 · The Discovery of Heaven as Onno Quist
- 2001 · Baddiel's Syndrome as The Psychiatrist
- 2001 · Funny Old World 2 as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Funny Old World as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Funny Old World 5 as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Funny Old World 3 as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · In Search of the Prisoner as Self
- 2000 · Sabotage!! as Wellington
- 2000 · Relative Values as Frederick Crestwell
- 2000 · Click as Self
- 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 · 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 · Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? as Self - Contestant
- 1998 · The Tichborne Claimant as Hawkins
- 1998 · So Graham Norton as Self
- 1998 · Parkinson as Self
- 1997 · Spice World as Judge
- 1997 · An Audience with Elton John as Self
- 1996 · Never Mind the Buzzcocks as Self
- 1996 · Never Mind the Buzzcocks as Self - Panellist
- 1996 · The Wind in the Willows as The Judge
- 1995 · The Thin Blue Line as Blaster Sump
- 1995 · Kulturzeit as self
- 1995 · Cold Comfort Farm as Mybug
- 1994 · Room 101 as Self
- 1993 · Shooting Stars as Self
- 1993 · Stalag Luft as Wing Commander James Forrester
- 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 · 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
- 1988 · Blackadder's Christmas Carol as Lords Melchett / Frondo
- 1988 · This Is David Lander as
- 1988 · This Morning as Self
- 1988 · Whose Line Is It Anyway? as Self
- 1988 · A Fish Called Wanda as Hutchison
- 1988 · A Handful of Dust as Reggie
- 1988 · Comic Relief as
- 1987 · The New Statesman as Piers Lonsdale
- 1987 · Filthy Rich & Catflap as P'Farty
- 1987 · The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball as Self
- 1986 · Saturday Live 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 · Blackadder as Lords Melchett / Frondo
- 1983 · Alfresco as Various
- 1982 · The Young Ones as Lord Snot
- 1982 · Countdown as
- 1982 · The Cellar Tapes as various
- 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
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
- Future · Stephen Fry’s 21st Century Firsts as Self - Host