Stephen Fry
5.1Acting

Stephen Fry

Aug 24, 1957 - Hampstead, London, England, UK

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.

Credits

Cast

Media
Movie2001The Discovery of HeavenOnno Quist
Movie1988A Fish Called WandaHutchison
Movie2006V for VendettaDeitrich
Movie2023Mind Games - The ExperimentNarrator
Movie2007St Trinian'sStephen Fry
Movie2001Gosford ParkInspector Thompson
Movie1997WildeOscar Wilde
Movie2023Willem and Frieda: Defying the Nazis
Movie1994I.Q.James Moreland
Movie1992Peter's FriendsPeter Morton
Movie2014Stephen Fry Live: More Fool MeSelf
Movie2005A Cock and Bull StoryPatrick Curator / Parson Yorick
Movie2010Alice in WonderlandCheshire Cat (voice)
Movie1998A Civil ActionPinder
Movie1995Cold Comfort FarmMybug
Movie2021It's Always SomethingNarrator
Movie1981Chariots of FireCambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)
Movie2006StormbreakerSmithers
Movie2001Four PlayNigel Steele
Movie2021Night of the Living DreadMeditation Guru (voice)
Movie2013Russia's Open Book: Writing in the Age of Putin
Movie2005MirrorMaskLibrarian
Movie2007EichmannMinister Tormer
Movie2004Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?Self
Movie2008Spectacled Bears: Shadows of the ForestNarrator
Movie2011March of the DinosaursNarrator (UK)
Movie2008Tales of the RiverbankOwl (voice)
Movie2021Listening through the Lens: The Christopher Nupen FilmsNarrator
Movie1988A Handful of DustReggie
Movie1996The Wind in the WillowsThe Judge
Movie1985The Good FatherCreighton
Movie2022Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to HogwartsChapter Passages Narrator (voice)
Movie2004ToothPedro
Movie2000Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?Dr. Peter Robinson
Movie2000LongitudeSir Kenelm Digby
Movie2011The BorrowersProfessor Mildeye
Movie2023Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of LifeSelf
Movie2009House of BoysDr. Marsh
Movie2000Relative ValuesFrederick Crestwell
Movie2011Benjamin Sniddlegrass and The Cauldron of PenguinsThe Narrator
Movie2008Pocoyo: Fun & Dance with PocoyoNarrator
Movie2024We Work for the DeadPruitt (voice)
Movie2013The Hobbit: The Desolation of SmaugThe Master of Laketown
Movie2011Holy Flying CircusGod
Movie1987The Secret Policeman’s Third BallSelf
Movie1989The Secret Policeman’s Biggest BallSelf
Movie1988Blackadder's Christmas CarolLords Melchett / Frondo
Movie2023Blackadder: A Cunning StorySelf – Contributor
Movie2012A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham ChapmanOscar Wilde (voice)
Movie2005Tom Brown's SchooldaysDr. Thomas Arnold
Movie1997OscarSelf
Movie2000Sabotage!!Wellington
Movie2012Doors OpenProfessor Robert Gissing
Movie2013Frost on Sketch ShowsSelf
Movie2010Stephen Fry Live at the Sydney Opera HouseStephen Fry
Movie2008The Machine That Made UsHimself - Presenter
Movie2005Meet Pocoyo!Narrator
Movie2020Fear of DancingSelf - Actor & Writer
Movie1993Stalag LuftWing Commander James Forrester
Movie2012Wagner & MeHimself
Movie2013The Look of LoveBarrister
Movie1982The Cellar Tapesvarious
Movie2011Botham: The Legend of '81Self
Movie2022Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to AqabaSelf
Movie2012Jools Holland: My Life in MusicSelf
Movie2005Pocoyo & FriendsNarrator
Movie2009Last Chance to SeeHimself
Movie2013Stephen Fry's Key to the CitySelf - Presenter
Movie2010Lost ConnectionDad
Movie1988Blackadder: The Cavalier YearsKing Charles I
Movie2017All Families Have Secrets: Patrick Gale's Art of Fiction
Movie2006Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder PlotSelf
Movie2013Hugh Laurie: Copper Bottom Blues
Movie2023Red, White & Royal BlueKing James III
Movie2013Sir David Frost: That Was the Life That WasNarrator
Movie2011Sherlock Holmes: A Game of ShadowsMycroft Holmes
Movie2002ThunderpantsSir Anthony Silk
Movie2023The Canterville GhostSir Simon de Canterville (voice)
Movie2012Cicada PrincessNarrator (voice)
Movie2012Special Report – The Voice of DartsSelf (archive footage)
Movie2014A Little Bit of Fry and WaddellSelf - Darts Fan
Movie2008Blackadder Rides AgainSelf
Movie2014The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That HillSelf
Movie2022The Fringe, Fame and MeSelf
Movie2011Ocean GiantsNarrater
Movie1994An Audience with Bob Monkhouse
Movie2014That Sugar FilmThe Sugar Family Sketch
MovieN/ALe peuple miniature
Movie2013The Lonely DodoNarrator/Mascarene Grass Frog
Movie2024TreasureEdek
Movie2024We Are HomeSelf - narrator (voice)
Movie2022The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the BolsonarosSelf (archive footage)
Movie2009Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock NewsSelf
Movie1999Blackadder: Back & ForthMelchett
Movie1998Stanley Baxter in PersonSelf
Movie2009Fawlty Towers: Re-OpenedSelf – Narrator (voice)
Movie1995The StealWimborne
Movie2008Pocoyo & the Space CircusNarrator
Movie1992Common Pursuit
Movie2014The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five ArmiesMaster of Laketown
Movie2012Twelfth NightMalvolio
Movie2019TomorrowChris
Movie2007Stephen Fry: 50 Not OutSelf
Movie2004The Life and Death of Peter SellersMaurice Woodruff
Movie2022David Baddiel: Jews Don't CountSelf
Movie2014Tiny Giants 3DNarrator
Movie2008Last of the DambustersNarrator
Movie2016Love & FriendshipMr. Johnson
Movie2022Mr Bear's ChristmasNarrator
Movie2016Alice Through the Looking GlassCheshire Cat (voice)
Movie2016The Man Who Knew InfinitySir Francis Spring
Movie2000Elizabeth Taylor: A Musical CelebrationSelf
Movie2024Black SamphireMari's Boss
Movie2025Time Travel Is Dangerous!Narrator
Movie2024Bottom: ExposedNarrator (voice)
Movie2014Margery Booth: The Spy in the Eagle's Nest
Movie2016Pocoyo's HalloweenNarrator
Movie2015A Life On Screen: Stephen FrySelf
Movie2004A Bear Named WinnieProtheroe
Movie2022George Michael: Portrait of an ArtistSelf
Movie2012Stephen Fry's 100 Greatest GadgetsSelf
Movie2005The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyNarrator / The Guide (voice)
Movie1999A Profile of The Importance of Being Earnest
Movie2003Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his MindSelf
Movie2001Funny Old WorldNarrator (voice)
Movie2001Funny Old World 2Narrator (voice)
Movie2001Funny Old World 3Narrator (voice)
Movie2001Funny Old World 5Narrator (voice)
Movie2001Funny Old World 4Narrator (voice)
Movie2011Making QiSelf
Movie2016Santa ForgotNarrator
Movie2000A Profile of 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp'Self
Movie1987The Laughing PrisonerNo. 2
Movie1997An Audience with Elton JohnSelf
Movie2017Battle of SohoHimself
Movie2004The Two Loves of Anthony TrollopeNarrator
Movie2000BestFrazer Crane
Movie2018The Con Is OnSidney
Movie2003Bright Young ThingsChauffeur
Movie2015Rocky Horror Show LiveNarrator
Movie1997Spice WorldJudge
Movie2010Fry and Laurie ReunitedSelf
Movie2002Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador DaliAndre Breton
Movie2014Our Gay Wedding: The Musical
Movie2016A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On YeatsSelf
Movie2008Happy Birthday to GNUHimself
Movie2008Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten SagaSelf
Movie2017Queer as ArtSelf
Movie1998The Tichborne ClaimantHawkins
Movie2017And the Winner Isn'tSelf
Movie2005Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'Self
Movie2007Snow White: The SequelThe Narrator (voice)
Movie1999GeriSelf
Movie1990Old FlamesDaniel Davenport
Movie2011Wogan on WodehouseSelf
Movie2018Duck Duck GooseFrazier (voice)
Movie201750 Years LegalSelf
Movie2019Missing LinkLord Piggot-Dunceby (voice)
Movie2016The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years OnHimself
Movie2018Scotty and the Secret History of HollywoodSelf
Movie2019GreedSelf
Movie1986Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger
Movie2015Wimbledon: 2015 Official Film ReviewNarrator
Movie2019Almost HumanNarrator
Movie2019Churchill and the Movie MogulHimself
Movie2019Dancing with the BirdsNarrator
Movie2001Baldrick's Video Diary - A Blackadder in the MakingSelf
Movie2022Fantastic Beasts: A Natural HistorySelf - Narrator
Movie2014Mahout: The Great Elephant WalkNarrator
Movie2020Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey BeardsleyHimself
Movie2001Paddington Bear: The Early Years
Movie2016The Killing$ of Tony BlairSelf
Movie2020What's the Matter with Tony Slattery?Himself
Movie1986The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video LiveSelf
Movie2023The InventorLeonardo da Vinci (voice)
Movie2003Le DivorcePiers Janely
Movie2015Do I Sound Gay?Self
Movie2001In Search of the PrisonerSelf
Movie2017Elton John: The Nation's Favourite SongSelf
Movie2009Fawlty Exclusive: Basil's Best BitsSelf - Narrator (voice)
Movie2018M. C. Escher: Journey to InfinityM. C. Escher (voice)
Movie2012Shakespeare's Sonnets
Movie2002The Making of 'Gosford Park'Self
Movie1997Simply WildeSelf
Movie2021Dancing on Thin Ice with Torvill & DeanNarrator
Movie2019Bill Turnbull: Staying AliveHimself
MovieN/ANow & ThenTG
Movie2013Super ClydeRandolph
Movie2021The Picture of Dorian GrayThe Interviewer
Movie2021Sparkling: The Story Of ChampagneSelf / Sir Fopling Flutter
Movie2021Hating Peter TatchellSelf (Actor, Comedian & Writer)
Movie2018Pocoyo's Easter Picnic
Movie2014MarkedFather Christmas
Movie2008Blackadder's Most Cunning MomentsSelf
Movie2020Cold War Steve Meets the Outside WorldSelf
Movie2005Don'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'Self
Movie2023John Craxton: A Life of GiftsJohn Craxton (Voice)
Movie1989Employees From Hell
Movie2003The Biggest Nose in BorneoNarrator
Movie2024This Is Not Hollywood (The Unfinished Story of The Ibarretxe Brothers)Self
MovieN/ABlack Samphire
Movie2024Stephen Fry Into UkraineSelf
Movie1993Camp ChristmasSanta Claus
Movie2002Doctor Who: Death Comes to TimeThe Minister of Chance
Movie2023The Big Fat Quiz Of SportSelf
Movie2024The Big Fat Quiz of TellySelf
Movie2024Doctor Who at the PromsC (archive footage)
Movie2024About a Hero
Movie2024U.Me: The MusicalNarrator
Movie2006The TransportersNarrator
Movie2025Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our FutureSelf
MovieN/ATouchéNarrator (voice)
Movie2007Stephen Fry: HIV & MeSelf
Movie2007Stephen Fry: GuiltySelf
Movie2010The Great American Oil SpillSelf
Movie2025A Friend of Dorothy
Movie2004Supergrass: A Home MovieSelf (archive footage)
Movie2006Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - 40th Anniversary CelebrationSelf
Movie2025The Castle, Rebuilding HistoryNarrator
TV Show2002Top GearSelf2
TV Show1988This MorningSelf1
TV Show1983AlfrescoVarious13
TV Show1993Shooting StarsSelf2
TV Show1989A Bit of Fry & Laurie25
TV Show1990Jeeves and WoosterJeeves23
TV Show2006The One ShowSelf - Guest1
TV Show2003Absolute PowerCharles Prentiss12
TV Show1995The Thin Blue LineBlaster Sump1
TV Show2005PocoyoNarrator212
TV Show2021It's a SinArthur Garrison2
TV Show1994Room 101Self1
TV Show1982Countdown5
TV Show2004Who Do You Think You Are?Self1
TV Show1976The Secret Policeman's BallSelf15
TV Show1999The Magician's HouseJasper the Owl (voice)11
TV Show2007KingdomPeter Kingdom18
TV Show1986Omnibus Presents Comic Relief1
TV Show2008Stephen Fry in AmericaSelf - Host6
TV Show1985Happy FamiliesDoctor De Quincy6
TV Show2000Gormenghast4
TV Show1999Watership DownCowslip39
TV Show1989The SimpsonsTerrance / Hazel / MI5 Man (voice)1
TV Show1998So Graham NortonSelf1
TV Show1989Happy Families5
TV Show1989Saturday Night Clive1
TV Show1988This Is David Lander12
TV Show2011The Jonathan Ross ShowSelf1
TV Show1983Natural WorldNarrator3
TV Show2005Missing1
TV Show1982There's Nothing to Worry About!Various3
TV Show1949The BAFTA AwardsHost12
TV Show2009Chris Moyles' Quiz NightSelf1
TV Show2006The Story of Light EntertainmentSelf - Narrator8
TV Show1988Comic Relief2
TV Show2001Baddiel's SyndromeThe Psychiatrist13
TV Show2009Last Chance to SeePresenter6
TV Show2006Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive2
TV Show2011Horrible Histories with Stephen FrySelf6
TV Show1989Anything More Would Be Greedy6
TV Show2006The Secret Show1
TV Show2011Fry's Planet Word5
TV Show2012The Bleak Old Shop of StuffSkulkingworm3
TV Show200124Alastair Davies12
TV Show2012Gadget ManPresenter6
TV Show2005The Late Late Show with Craig FergusonSelf2
TV Show2014Lily's Driftwood BayLord Stag (voice)100
TV Show2015Stephen Fry in Central AmericaSelf - Presenter4
TV Show2005American Dad!John Michael Heaton (voice)1
TV Show2011Ocean GiantsNarrator3
TV Show2014Hidden KingdomsNarrator3
TV Show2003QISelf - Presenter200
TV Show2015Danger MouseColonel K (voice)100
TV Show2005ExtrasStephen Fry1
TV Show2003FortysomethingDerek1
TV Show1998In the RedController, Radio 23
TV Show1983BlackadderLord Melchett6
TV Show2016The Great IndoorsRoland22
TV Show2005NigellaSelf1
TV Show1983BlackadderGeneral Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett6
TV Show2020London Zoo: An Extraordinary YearNarrator (voice)2
TV Show1984Chance in a Million1
TV Show2007The Graham Norton ShowSelf8
TV Show2014Alan Davies: As Yet UntitledSelf1
TV Show2010Wagner and MeStar1
TV Show1978An Audience with...Self2
TV Show2012Just a MinuteSelf2
TV Show2015The Mr. Peabody & Sherman ShowUncle Duke ​(voice)1
TV Show1987The New StatesmanPiers Lonsdale1
TV Show2022Sunday with Laura KuenssbergSelf – writer and comedian1
TV Show2019The Morning ShowLeonard Cromwell5
TV Show2023Everything NowDr Nell8
TV Show2013Stephen Fry: Out ThereHimself2
TV Show1990Have I Got News for YouHimself1
TV Show1982The Young OnesLord Snot1
TV Show1983BlackadderThe Duke of Wellington1
TV Show2024Jeopardy!Self - Presenter45
TV Show1990Rita Rudner1
TV Show1982WoganSelf3
TV Show1996Never Mind the BuzzcocksSelf1
TV Show2023The Dinosaur Hour1
TV Show1999Have I Got Buzzcocks All OverSelf - Panellist1
TV Show2007Stephen Fry: HIV & MeHimself - Presenter2
TV Show2014A Life on ScreenHimself1
TV Show2022The SandmanGilbert6
TV Show2009Country TracksHimself1
TV Show2007Shrink RapHimself1
TV Show2022HeartstopperHeadmaster Barnes (voice)5
TV Show2022The DropoutIan Gibbons4
TV Show2018Apple & OnionWilliam Steakspeare (voice)1
TV Show2025Too MuchSimon Remen10
TV Show2018Apple & OnionOnion's Dad (voice)3
TV Show2014Last Week Tonight with John OliverWinston Churchill (voice)1
TV Show1996Never Mind the BuzzcocksSelf - Panellist1
TV Show2012VeepNikolai Genidze1
TV Show2022In Conversation with Alan YentobSelf1
TV Show2000LongitudeSir Kenhelm Digby2
TV Show2024Jeopardy! AustraliaHost6
TV Show2006LegendsSelf (uncredited)1
TV Show2005Doctor WhoC2
TV Show2022A Year on Planet EarthSelf - Presenter6
TV Show2005BonesDr. Gordon Wyatt6
TV Show2018The Big Narstie ShowSelf1
TV Show2005American Dad!Mr. Cavendish (voice)1
TV Show2019Sex EducationNSQC Quizmaster1
TV Show2000The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything2
TV Show2023Dinosaur with Stephen Fry4
TV Show2022Stuff the British StoleSelf1
TV Show2017Britain's Great Gay Buildings1
TV Show1985Screen TwoHumphrey Taylor1
TV Show1986Saturday Live30
TV Show1986The Dangerous Brothers1
TV Show1987Filthy Rich & CatflapP'Farty1
TV Show2022Sunday with Laura KuenssbergSelf – Writer and comedian1
TV Show2014Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly)Self1
TV Show1988Whose Line Is It Anyway?Self5
TV Show2013YonderlandCuddly Dick9
TV Show1983The Crystal CubeDr. Adrian Cowlacey / Various Roles1
TV Show1995Kulturzeitself1
TV ShowN/AStephen Fry’s 21st Century FirstsSelf - Host1
TV Show2000ClickSelf1
TV Show1944Golden Globe AwardsSelf - Nominee1
TV Show200529 Minutes of FameSelf - Panelist1
TV Show1998ParkinsonSelf5
TV Show2013The Last LegSelf2
TV Show2005Dirty TricksOwl (voice)1
TV Show2024Star Wars: Skeleton CrewSupervisor (voice)2
TV Show1998Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?Self - Contestant1
TV Show2022Sunday with Laura KuenssbergSelf – Writer and broadcaster1
TV Show2013Alleen Elvis blijft bestaanSelf1
TV Show2019Harley QuinnBrainiac (voice)7
TV Show2025LubachSelf1
TV Show2011The Jonathan Ross ShowSelf - Guest1
TV ShowN/AThe Celebrity TraitorsSelf9
TV Show1990Have I Got News for YouSelf2

Crew

Media
Movie2003Bright Young ThingsScreenplayWriting
Movie2003Bright Young ThingsDirectorDirecting
Movie1995Sense and SensibilityThanksCrew
Movie2006The Magic FluteWriterWriting
Movie1982The Cellar TapesWriterWriting
Movie2011Hugh Laurie: Down by the RiverExecutive ProducerProduction
Movie2011Let Them Talk: A Celebration of New Orleans BluesExecutive ProducerProduction
Movie2019MankindExecutive ProducerProduction
Movie2023The Canterville GhostExecutive ProducerProduction
Movie2012Walking the DogsExecutive ProducerProduction
Movie2012Doors OpenExecutive ProducerProduction
Movie2019PonyboiExecutive ProducerProduction
Movie2016TickledExecutive ProducerProduction
Movie2001Lucky BreakBookWriting
Movie1987The Laughing PrisonerWriterWriting
Movie2017The HippopotamusNovelWriting
Movie2015NightstandExecutive ProducerProduction
Movie2021FirebirdThanksCrew
Movie2008Me and My GirlAdditional WritingCrew
Movie2003Bright Young ThingsExecutive ProducerProduction
Movie2006The Magic FluteLyricistWriting
Movie2006The Magic FluteDialogueWriting
MovieN/AThe LiarNovelWriting
MovieN/AThe LiarExecutive ProducerProduction
MovieN/AThe Eden ExpressExecutive ProducerProduction
Movie2018Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back)Executive ProducerProduction
MovieN/ABlack SamphireExecutive ProducerProduction
Movie2007Stephen Fry: HIV & MeWriterWriting
TV Show1989A Bit of Fry & LaurieWriterWriting
TV Show2008Stephen Fry in AmericaWriterWriting
TV Show2011Fry's Planet WordWriterWriting
TV Show2007Stephen Fry: HIV & MeWriterWriting
TV Show1983The Crystal CubeWriterWriting
TV Show1982There's Nothing to Worry About!WriterWriting
TV Show2007KingdomExecutive ProducerProduction
TV Show1983AlfrescoWriterWriting
TV Show2013Stephen Fry: Out ThereWriterWriting
TV Show2013Stephen Fry: Out TherePresenterCrew
TV Show2024Jeopardy!Executive ProducerProduction
TV Show1989A Bit of Fry & LaurieCreatorCreator
TV ShowN/AWildlife SOSCreatorCreator
TV Show1983The Crystal CubeCreatorCreator
TV Show1982There's Nothing to Worry About!CreatorCreator
TV Show2011Fry's Planet WordCreatorCreator