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 Simon Remen
- 2025 · Lubach as Self
- 2024 · Star Wars: Skeleton Crew as Supervisor (voice)
- 2024 · Jeopardy! Australia as Host
- 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 · A Year on Planet Earth as Self - Presenter
- 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 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
- 2020 · London Zoo: An Extraordinary Year as Narrator (voice)
- 2019 · Harley Quinn as Brainiac (voice)
- 2019 · The Morning Show as Leonard Cromwell
- 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 · Apple & Onion as William Steakspeare (voice)
- 2018 · Apple & Onion as Onion's Dad (voice)
- 2017 · Britain's Great Gay Buildings as
- 2016 · The Great Indoors as Roland
- 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
- 2014 · A Life on Screen as Himself
- 2014 · The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies as Master of Laketown
- 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)
- 2014 · Hidden Kingdoms as Narrator
- 2013 · Russia's Open Book: Writing in the Age of Putin as
- 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 · The Last Leg as Self
- 2012 · Gadget Man as Presenter
- 2012 · Veep as Nikolai Genidze
- 2012 · Just a Minute as Self
- 2011 · Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows as Mycroft Holmes
- 2011 · Fry's Planet Word as
- 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
- 2010 · Wagner and Me as Star
- 2010 · Alice in Wonderland as Cheshire Cat (voice)
- 2009 · Last Chance to See as Presenter
- 2009 · Country Tracks as Himself
- 2009 · Chris Moyles' Quiz Night as Self
- 2008 · Stephen Fry in America as Self - Host
- 2007 · St Trinian's as Stephen Fry
- 2007 · Stephen Fry: HIV & Me as Himself - Presenter
- 2007 · Kingdom as Peter Kingdom
- 2007 · Shrink Rap as Himself
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 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 · Stormbreaker as Smithers
- 2006 · V for Vendetta as Deitrich
- 2005 · Bones as Dr. Gordon Wyatt
- 2005 · Extras as Stephen Fry
- 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 · The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
- 2004 · Who Do You Think You Are? as Self
- 2003 · Absolute Power as Charles Prentiss
- 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
- 2000 · Click as Self
- 2000 · Longitude as Sir Kenhelm Digby
- 1999 · The Magician's House as Jasper the Owl (voice)
- 1999 · Watership Down as Cowslip
- 1998 · A Civil Action as Pinder
- 1998 · Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? as Self - Contestant
- 1998 · So Graham Norton as Self
- 1998 · Parkinson 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
- 1994 · Room 101 as Self
- 1993 · Shooting Stars as Self
- 1990 · Have I Got News for You as Himself
- 1990 · Have I Got News for You as Self
- 1990 · Rita Rudner as
- 1990 · Jeeves and Wooster as Jeeves
- 1989 · The Simpsons as Terrance / Hazel / MI5 Man (voice)
- 1989 · A Bit of Fry & Laurie as
- 1988 · This Morning as Self
- 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 Doctor De Quincy
- 1985 · Screen Two as Humphrey Taylor
- 1984 · Chance in a Million as
- 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
- 1982 · The Young Ones as Lord Snot
- 1982 · There's Nothing to Worry About! 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
- 1949 · The BAFTA Awards as Host
- Future · Stephen Fry’s 21st Century Firsts as Self - Host
- 2025 · Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future as Self
- 2024 · This Is Not Hollywood (The Unfinished Story of The Ibarretxe Brothers) as Self
- 2024 · Treasure as Edek
- 2022 · Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba as Self
- 2022 · The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros as Self (archive footage)
- 2022 · Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History as Self - Narrator
- 2019 · Greed as Self
- 2019 · Churchill and the Movie Mogul as Himself
- 2018 · Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood as Self
- 2018 · Duck Duck Goose as Frazier (voice)
- 2017 · And the Winner Isn't as Self
- 2016 · Love & Friendship as Mr. Johnson
- 2014 · Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly) as Self
- 2014 · That Sugar Film as The Sugar Family Sketch
- 2013 · Alleen Elvis blijft bestaan as Self
- 2013 · The Look of Love as Barrister
- 2012 · The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff as Skulkingworm
- 2011 · The Borrowers as Professor Mildeye
- 2009 · House of Boys as Dr. Marsh
- 2007 · Eichmann as Minister Tormer
- 2007 · Snow White: The Sequel as The Narrator (voice)
- 2006 · The Story of Light Entertainment as Self - Narrator
- 2005 · A Cock and Bull Story as Patrick Curator / Parson Yorick
- 2005 · MirrorMask as Librarian
- 2004 · Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball? as Self
- 2004 · The Life and Death of Peter Sellers as Maurice Woodruff
- 2003 · Bright Young Things as Chauffeur
- 2002 · Thunderpants as Sir Anthony Silk
- 2001 · Baddiel's Syndrome as The Psychiatrist
- 2000 · Gormenghast as
- 2000 · Longitude as Sir Kenelm Digby
- 2000 · The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything as
- 1998 · In the Red as Controller, Radio 2
- 1997 · Spice World as Judge
- 1997 · Wilde as Oscar Wilde
- 1996 · The Wind in the Willows as The Judge
- 1994 · I.Q. as James Moreland
- 1992 · Peter's Friends as Peter Morton
- 1989 · Happy Families as
- 1988 · A Handful of Dust as Reggie
- 1986 · The Dangerous Brothers as
- 1983 · The Crystal Cube as Dr. Adrian Cowlacey / Various Roles
- 1983 · Alfresco as Various
- 1982 · Countdown as
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
- Future · The Celebrity Traitors as Self
- 2025 · The Castle, Rebuilding History as Narrator
- 2025 · A Friend of Dorothy as
- 2025 · Time Travel Is Dangerous! as Narrator
- 2024 · Doctor Who at the Proms as C (archive footage)
- 2024 · About a Hero as
- 2024 · We Are Home as Self - narrator (voice)
- 2024 · The Big Fat Quiz of Telly as Self
- 2024 · Stephen Fry Into Ukraine as Self
- 2024 · We Work for the Dead as Pruitt (voice)
- 2024 · Bottom: Exposed as Narrator (voice)
- 2023 · The Dinosaur Hour as
- 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 · Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life as Self
- 2023 · Mind Games - The Experiment as Narrator
- 2022 · David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count as Self
- 2022 · The Fringe, Fame and Me as Self
- 2022 · George Michael: Portrait of an Artist as Self
- 2021 · Hating Peter Tatchell as Self (Actor, Comedian & Writer)
- 2021 · Sparkling: The Story Of Champagne as Self / Sir Fopling Flutter
- 2021 · Night of the Living Dread as Meditation Guru (voice)
- 2021 · The Picture of Dorian Gray as The Interviewer
- 2021 · Dancing on Thin Ice with Torvill & Dean as Narrator
- 2020 · Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World as Self
- 2020 · Fear of Dancing as Self - Actor & Writer
- 2020 · What's the Matter with Tony Slattery? as Himself
- 2019 · Dancing with the Birds as Narrator
- 2019 · Tomorrow as Chris
- 2019 · Almost Human as Narrator
- 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 · The Killing$ of Tony Blair as Self
- 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 Self
- 2015 · Rocky Horror Show Live as Narrator
- 2015 · Wimbledon: 2015 Official Film Review as Narrator
- 2015 · Do I Sound Gay? as Self
- 2014 · Marked as Father Christmas
- 2014 · Stephen Fry Live: More Fool Me 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
- 2013 · Sir David Frost: That Was the Life That Was as Narrator
- 2013 · Super Clyde as Randolph
- 2013 · Hugh Laurie: Copper Bottom Blues as
- 2013 · Frost on Sketch Shows as Self
- 2013 · Stephen Fry's Key to the City as Self - Presenter
- 2012 · Doors Open as Professor Robert Gissing
- 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 Self
- 2012 · Twelfth Night as Malvolio
- 2012 · Jools Holland: My Life in Music as Self
- 2011 · Holy Flying Circus as God
- 2011 · Making Qi as Self
- 2011 · Wogan on Wodehouse as Self
- 2011 · Ocean Giants as Narrater
- 2011 · Botham: The Legend of '81 as Self
- 2011 · March of the Dinosaurs as Narrator (UK)
- 2010 · Lost Connection as Dad
- 2010 · Fry and Laurie Reunited as Self
- 2009 · Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News as Self
- 2009 · Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened as Self – Narrator (voice)
- 2008 · Blackadder Rides Again as Self
- 2008 · Pocoyo & the Space Circus as Narrator
- 2008 · Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments as Self
- 2008 · Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga as Self
- 2008 · Happy Birthday to GNU as Himself
- 2008 · Last of the Dambusters as Narrator
- 2008 · The Machine That Made Us as Himself - Presenter
- 2008 · Tales of the Riverbank as Owl (voice)
- 2007 · Stephen Fry: Guilty as Self
- 2007 · Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out as Self
- 2006 · Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - 40th Anniversary Celebration as Self
- 2005 · Dirty Tricks as Owl (voice)
- 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 · 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
- 2005 · Meet Pocoyo! as Narrator
- 2004 · A Bear Named Winnie as Protheroe
- 2004 · Tooth as Pedro
- 2002 · The Making of 'Gosford Park' as Self
- 2002 · Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali as Andre Breton
- 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
- 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
- 1999 · Blackadder: Back & Forth as Melchett
- 1999 · Have I Got Buzzcocks All Over as Self - Panellist
- 1998 · The Tichborne Claimant as Hawkins
- 1997 · An Audience with Elton John as Self
- 1995 · The Steal as Wimborne
- 1995 · Cold Comfort Farm as Mybug
- 1994 · An Audience with Bob Monkhouse as
- 1993 · Stalag Luft as Wing Commander James Forrester
- 1992 · Common Pursuit as
- 1989 · Anything More Would Be Greedy as
- 1989 · Saturday Night Clive 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 · Blackadder: The Cavalier Years as King Charles I
- 1987 · The Laughing Prisoner as No. 2
- 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 Self
- 1986 · Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger as
- 1985 · The Good Father as Creighton
- 1982 · The Cellar Tapes as various
- Future · Now & Then as TG
- Future · Le peuple miniature as
- 2008 · Spectacled Bears: Shadows of the Forest as Narrator
- 2005 · Pocoyo & Friends as Narrator
- 2004 · The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope as Narrator
- 2003 · The Biggest Nose in Borneo as Narrator
- 2002 · Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time as The Minister of Chance
- 2001 · Paddington Bear: The Early Years as
- 2000 · Elizabeth Taylor: A Musical Celebration as Self
- 1999 · A Profile of The Importance of Being Earnest as
- 1993 · Camp Christmas as Santa Claus
- 1990 · Old Flames as Daniel Davenport
- 1989 · Employees From Hell as
- Future · Touché as Narrator (voice)
- 2024 · Black Samphire as Mari's Boss
- 2024 · U.Me: The Musical as Narrator
- 2023 · John Craxton: A Life of Gifts as John Craxton (Voice)
- 2022 · Mr Bear's Christmas as Narrator
- 2021 · It's Always Something as Narrator
- 2021 · Listening through the Lens: The Christopher Nupen Films as Narrator
- 2020 · Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley as Himself
- 2019 · Bill Turnbull: Staying Alive as Himself
- 2018 · Pocoyo's Easter Picnic as
- 2017 · All Families Have Secrets: Patrick Gale's Art of Fiction as
- 2016 · Santa Forgot 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
- 2013 · The Lonely Dodo as Narrator/Mascarene Grass Frog
- 2012 · Special Report – The Voice of Darts as Self (archive footage)
- 2011 · Benjamin Sniddlegrass and The Cauldron of Penguins as The Narrator
- 2010 · The Great American Oil Spill as Self
- 2010 · Stephen Fry Live at the Sydney Opera House as Stephen Fry
- 2009 · Last Chance to See as Himself
- 2009 · Fawlty Exclusive: Basil's Best Bits as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2008 · Pocoyo: Fun & Dance with Pocoyo as Narrator
- 2007 · Stephen Fry: HIV & Me as Self
- 2006 · Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot as Self
- 2006 · The Transporters as Narrator
- 2004 · Supergrass: A Home Movie as Self (archive footage)
- 2003 · Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind as Self
- 2001 · Funny Old World 2 as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Funny Old World 4 as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Funny Old World 5 as Narrator (voice)
- 2000 · A Profile of 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp' as Self
- 1999 · Geri as Self
- 1998 · Stanley Baxter in Person as Self
- Future · Black Samphire as
- 2001 · In Search of the Prisoner as Self
- 2001 · Funny Old World 3 as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Funny Old World as Narrator (voice)
- 1997 · Simply Wilde as Self
- 1997 · Oscar as Self