Stephen Fry

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.

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Top Gear, This Morning, Alfresco, A Bit of Fry & Laurie, The One Show, Absolute Power, It's a Sin, Countdown, The Secret Policeman's Ball, The Magician's House, Kingdom, Omnibus Presents Comic Relief, Stephen Fry in America, Happy Families, Saturday Night Clive, This Is David Lander, Missing, There's Nothing to Worry About!, Chris Moyles' Quiz Night, The Story of Light Entertainment, Comic Relief, Baddiel's Syndrome, Last Chance to See, Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive, Horrible Histories with Stephen Fry, Anything More Would Be Greedy, The Secret Show, Fry's Planet Word, The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff, Gadget Man, Stephen Fry in Central America, Ocean Giants, Hidden Kingdoms, Fortysomething, The Great Indoors, Nigella, London Zoo: An Extraordinary Year, Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled, Wagner and Me, Just a Minute, Everything Now, Stephen Fry: Out There, Jeopardy!, Rita Rudner, Wogan, The Dinosaur Hour, Have I Got Buzzcocks All Over, Stephen Fry: HIV & Me, A Life on Screen, Country Tracks, Shrink Rap, Heartstopper, Veep, In Conversation with Alan Yentob, Jeopardy! Australia, Legends, A Year on Planet Earth, The Big Narstie Show, The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything, Dinosaur with Stephen Fry, Stuff the British Stole, Britain's Great Gay Buildings, Saturday Live, The Dangerous Brothers, Filthy Rich & Catflap, Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly), Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Yonderland, The Crystal Cube, Stephen Fry’s 21st Century Firsts, Golden Globe Awards, 29 Minutes of Fame, Dirty Tricks, Alleen Elvis blijft bestaan, Lubach, The Story of Musicals, Watership Down, Longitude, The Celebrity Traitors, China's Wild Secrets, The Unpleasant World of Penn & Teller, In the Red, The Bible: A History, Gormenghast, In Confidence, Playhouse Presents, The Assembly, 100 Questions with Tom Simons, The Meaning of Life