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 · Time Travel Is Dangerous! as Narrator (voice)
- 2024 · Star Wars: Skeleton Crew as Supervisor (voice)
- 2024 · About a Hero as
- 2024 · Black Samphire as Mari's Boss
- 2024 · The Big Fat Quiz of Telly as Self
- 2024 · We Work for the Dead as Pruitt (voice)
- 2024 · Bottom: Exposed as Narrator (voice)
- 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
- 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 · Hating Peter Tatchell as Self (Actor, Comedian & Writer)
- 2021 · It's a Sin as Arthur Garrison
- 2020 · What's the Matter with Tony Slattery? as Self
- 2019 · Harley Quinn as Brainiac (voice)
- 2019 · The Morning Show as Leonard Cromwell
- 2019 · Tomorrow as Chris
- 2019 · Greed as Self
- 2019 · Missing Link as Lord Piggot-Dunceby (voice)
- 2019 · Almost Human as Narrator
- 2019 · Sex Education as NSQC Quizmaster
- 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)
- 2017 · Elton John: The Nation's Favourite Song as Self
- 2016 · Alice Through the Looking Glass as Cheshire Cat (voice)
- 2016 · The Man Who Knew Infinity as Sir Francis Spring
- 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 · Do I Sound Gay? as Self
- 2014 · The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies as Master of Laketown
- 2014 · Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled as Self
- 2014 · Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as Winston Churchill (voice)
- 2013 · The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug as The Master of Laketown
- 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 · Doors Open as Professor Robert Gissing
- 2012 · Veep as Nikolai Genidze
- 2011 · Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows as Mycroft Holmes
- 2011 · Holy Flying Circus as God
- 2011 · Making Qi as Self
- 2011 · The Jonathan Ross Show as Self
- 2011 · The Jonathan Ross Show as Self - Guest
- 2010 · Fry and Laurie Reunited as Self
- 2010 · Alice in Wonderland as Cheshire Cat (voice)
- 2009 · Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened as Self – Narrator (voice)
- 2009 · Chris Moyles' Quiz Night as Self
- 2008 · Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments as Self
- 2007 · St Trinian's as Stephen Fry
- 2007 · Eichmann as Minister Tormer
- 2007 · Kingdom as Peter Kingdom
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2007 · Snow White: The Sequel as The Narrator (voice)
- 2006 · Legends as Self (uncredited)
- 2006 · The One Show as Self - Guest
- 2006 · Stormbreaker as Smithers
- 2006 · V for Vendetta as Deitrich
- 2006 · The Transporters as Narrator
- 2005 · Ashes Fever as Self
- 2005 · Bones as Dr. Gordon Wyatt
- 2005 · Extras as Stephen Fry
- 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 · MirrorMask as Librarian
- 2005 · The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
- 2005 · Tom Brown's Schooldays as Dr. Thomas Arnold
- 2004 · Who Do You Think You Are? as Self
- 2003 · QI as Self - Presenter
- 2003 · Le Divorce as Piers Janely
- 2003 · Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind as Self
- 2002 · Top Gear as Self
- 2002 · Thunderpants as Sir Anthony Silk
- 2001 · 24 as Alastair Davies
- 2001 · The Discovery of Heaven as Onno Quist
- 2000 · Sabotage!! as Wellington
- 2000 · Best as Frazer Crane
- 2000 · Click as Self
- 2000 · Longitude as Sir Kenelm Digby
- 1999 · Watership Down as Cowslip (voice)
- 1999 · Blackadder: Back & Forth as Melchett
- 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
- 1997 · Simply Wilde as Self
- 1997 · Oscar as Self
- 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 Blaster Sump
- 1995 · Kulturzeit as self
- 1995 · The Steal as Wimborne
- 1994 · I.Q. as James Moreland
- 1994 · Room 101 as Self
- 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 Self
- 1990 · Jeeves and Wooster as Jeeves
- 1990 · Old Flames as Daniel Davenport
- 1989 · The Simpsons as Terrance / Hazel / MI5 Man (voice)
- 1988 · Whose Line Is It Anyway? as Self
- 1988 · A Fish Called Wanda as Hutchison
- 1988 · A Handful of Dust as Reggie
- 1987 · The New Statesman as Piers Lonsdale
- 1986 · The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live as Self
- 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
- 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
- 1949 · The BAFTA Awards as Host
- Future · Touché as Narrator (voice)
- 2025 · The Celebrity Traitors as Self - Contestant
- 2024 · Treasure as Edek
- 2024 · U.Me: The Musical as Narrator
- 2023 · Blackadder: A Cunning Story as Self – Contributor
- 2023 · The Big Fat Quiz of Sport as Self
- 2022 · Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History as Self - Narrator
- 2021 · It's Always Something as Narrator
- 2018 · The Big Narstie Show as Self
- 2018 · Pocoyo's Easter Picnic as
- 2017 · And the Winner Isn't as Self
- 2017 · Queer as Art as Self
- 2017 · 50 Years Legal as Self
- 2016 · The Great Indoors as Roland
- 2014 · That Sugar Film as The Sugar Family Sketch
- 2014 · A Little Bit of Fry and Waddell as Self - Darts Fan
- 2013 · Yonderland as Cuddly Dick
- 2013 · Frost on Sketch Shows 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)
- 2009 · House of Boys as Dr. Marsh
- 2008 · Blackadder Rides Again as Self
- 2008 · Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga as Self
- 2008 · Tales of the Riverbank as Owl (voice)
- 2006 · The Secret Show as
- 2005 · Nigella as Self
- 2004 · The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope as Narrator
- 2003 · Bright Young Things as Chauffeur
- 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 · Gosford Park as Inspector Thompson
- 2001 · Four Play as Nigel Steele
- 2000 · Relative Values as Frederick Crestwell
- 2000 · Longitude as Sir Kenelm Digby
- 1997 · An Audience with Elton John as Self
- 1992 · Peter's Friends as Peter Morton
- 1989 · A Bit of Fry & Laurie as
- Future · Now & Then as TG
- 2025 · The Castle, Rebuilding History as Narrator
- 2024 · This Is Not Hollywood (The Unfinished Story of The Ibarretxe Brothers) as Self
- 2024 · Jeopardy! Australia as Host
- 2023 · Dinosaur with Stephen Fry as
- 2023 · Mind Games - The Experiment as Narrator
- 2022 · In Conversation with Alan Yentob as Self
- 2021 · Night of the Living Dread as Meditation Guru (voice)
- 2020 · London Zoo: An Extraordinary Year as Narrator (voice)
- 2018 · M. C. Escher: Journey to Infinity as M. C. Escher (voice)
- 2017 · All Families Have Secrets: Patrick Gale's Art of Fiction as
- 2017 · Battle of Soho as Self
- 2016 · Pocoyo's Halloween as Narrator
- 2016 · A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats as Self
- 2015 · A Life On Screen: Stephen Fry as Self
- 2015 · Stephen Fry in Central America as Self - Presenter
- 2014 · Stephen Fry Live: More Fool Me as Self
- 2014 · Margery Booth: The Spy in the Eagle's Nest as
- 2014 · Mahout: The Great Elephant Walk as Narrator
- 2013 · Stephen Fry: Out There as Self
- 2012 · Special Report – The Voice of Darts as Self (archive footage)
- 2012 · Twelfth Night as Malvolio
- 2012 · Jools Holland: My Life in Music as Self
- 2011 · Fry's Planet Word as
- 2011 · Wogan on Wodehouse as Self
- 2011 · Botham: The Legend of '81 as Self
- 2011 · March of the Dinosaurs as Narrator (UK)
- 2010 · Stephen Fry Live at the Sydney Opera House as Stephen Fry
- 2008 · Last of the Dambusters as Narrator
- 2008 · Pocoyo: Fun & Dance with Pocoyo as Narrator
- 2008 · The Machine That Made Us as Self - Presenter
- 2007 · Stephen Fry: Guilty as Self
- 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
- Future · Frank and Percy as
- 2007 · Stephen Fry: HIV & Me as Self - Presenter
- 2005 · Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' as Self
- 2005 · Meet Pocoyo! as Narrator
- 2005 · Pocoyo & Friends as Narrator
- 2001 · Paddington Bear: The Early Years as
- 2000 · Elizabeth Taylor: A Musical Celebration as Self
- 1999 · Have I Got Buzzcocks All Over as Self - Panellist
- 1999 · A Profile of The Importance of Being Earnest as
- 1998 · Stanley Baxter in Person as Self
- 1989 · Employees From Hell as
- 1986 · Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger as
- Future · This Is Soho as Narrator (voice)
- 2025 · China's Wild Secrets as Narrated
- 2025 · A Friend of Dorothy as Dickie
- 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 · We Are Home as Self - narrator (voice)
- 2024 · Jeopardy! as Self - Presenter
- 2023 · The Dinosaur Hour as Self
- 2023 · Everything Now as Dr Nell
- 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 · 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 · The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros as Self (archive footage)
- 2022 · The Fringe, Fame and Me as Self
- 2022 · George Michael: Portrait of an Artist as Self
- 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 · Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World as Self
- 2020 · Fear of Dancing as Self - Actor & Writer
- 2020 · Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley as Self
- 2019 · Bill Turnbull: Staying Alive as Self
- 2019 · Dancing with the Birds as Narrator
- 2019 · Churchill and the Movie Mogul as Self
- 2018 · Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood as Self
- 2017 · Britain's Great Gay Buildings as
- 2016 · Santa Forgot as Narrator
- 2016 · The Killing$ of Tony Blair as Self
- 2016 · Love & Friendship as Mr. Johnson
- 2016 · The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On as Self
- 2014 · A Life on Screen 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 · Tiny Giants 3D as Narrator
- 2014 · Lily's Driftwood Bay as Lord Stag (voice)
- 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 · Sir David Frost: That Was the Life That Was as Narrator
- 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 · Wagner & Me as Self
- 2012 · Shakespeare's Sonnets as
- 2012 · Stephen Fry's 100 Greatest Gadgets as Self
- 2012 · Just a Minute as Self
- 2012 · The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff as Skulkingworm
- 2012 · The Story of Musicals as Self
- 2011 · The Borrowers as Professor Mildeye
- 2011 · Ocean Giants as Narrater
- 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
- 2009 · Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News as Self
- 2009 · Last Chance to See as Self - Presenter
- 2009 · Last Chance to See as Self
- 2009 · Fawlty Exclusive: Basil's Best Bits as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2009 · Country Tracks as Self
- 2008 · Pocoyo & the Space Circus as Narrator
- 2008 · Stephen Fry in America as Self - Host
- 2008 · Happy Birthday to GNU as Self
- 2008 · Spectacled Bears: Shadows of the Forest as Narrator
- 2007 · Stephen Fry: HIV & Me as Self
- 2007 · Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out as Self
- 2007 · Shrink Rap as Self
- 2006 · Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive as
- 2006 · The Story of Light Entertainment as Self - Narrator
- 2006 · Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot as Self
- 2006 · Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - 40th Anniversary Celebration as Self
- 2005 · Dirty Tricks as Owl (voice)
- 2005 · A Cock and Bull Story as Patrick Curator / Parson Yorick
- 2005 · Missing as
- 2005 · 29 Minutes of Fame as Self - Panelist
- 2004 · A Bear Named Winnie as Protheroe
- 2004 · Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball? as Self
- 2004 · The Life and Death of Peter Sellers as Maurice Woodruff
- 2004 · Supergrass: A Home Movie as Self (archive footage)
- 2004 · Tooth as Pedro
- 2003 · Absolute Power as Charles Prentiss
- 2003 · The Biggest Nose in Borneo as Narrator
- 2003 · Fortysomething as Derek
- 2001 · Baldrick's Video Diary - A Blackadder in the Making as Self
- 2001 · Baddiel's Syndrome as The Psychiatrist
- 2001 · Funny Old World 4 as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Funny Old World 2 as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Funny Old World as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Funny Old World 5 as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · In Search of the Prisoner as Self
- 2001 · Funny Old World 3 as Narrator (voice)
- 2000 · Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? as Dr. Peter Robinson
- 2000 · Gormenghast as
- 2000 · The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything as
- 2000 · A Profile of 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp' as Self
- 1999 · The Tichborne Claimant as Hawkins
- 1999 · The Magician's House as Jasper the Owl (voice)
- 1999 · Geri as Self
- 1998 · In the Red as Controller, Radio 2
- 1997 · Spice World as Judge
- 1996 · The Wind in the Willows as The Judge
- 1995 · Cold Comfort Farm as Mybug
- 1994 · An Audience with Bob Monkhouse as
- 1990 · Rita Rudner 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 · This Morning as Self
- 1988 · Blackadder: The Cavalier Years as King Charles I
- 1988 · Comic Relief as
- 1987 · The Laughing Prisoner as No. 2
- 1987 · Filthy Rich & Catflap as P'Farty
- 1987 · The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball as Self
- 1986 · Omnibus Presents Comic Relief as
- 1986 · Saturday Live as
- 1986 · The Dangerous Brothers as
- 1985 · The Good Father as Creighton
- 1985 · Happy Families as Doctor De Quincy
- 1983 · The Crystal Cube as Dr. Adrian Cowlacey / Various Roles
- 1983 · Alfresco as Various
- 1982 · There's Nothing to Worry About! as Various
- 1982 · The Cellar Tapes as various
- 1976 · The Secret Policeman's Ball as Self
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
- Future · Black Samphire as
- Future · Le peuple miniature as
- Future · Stephen Fry’s 21st Century Firsts as Self - Host