Stephen Fry
Acting • Born 1957-08-24
Biography
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.
Filmography
368 credits
The Discovery of Heaven
Movie • 2001
Onno Quist
A Fish Called Wanda
Movie • 1988
Hutchison
V for Vendetta
Movie • 2006
Deitrich
Mind Games - The Experiment
Movie • 2023
Narrator
St Trinian's
Movie • 2007
Stephen Fry
Gosford Park
Movie • 2001
Inspector Thompson
Wilde
Movie • 1997
Oscar Wilde
Willem and Frieda: Defying the Nazis
Movie • 2023
I.Q.
Movie • 1994
James Moreland
Peter's Friends
Movie • 1992
Peter Morton
Stephen Fry Live: More Fool Me
Movie • 2014
Self
A Cock and Bull Story
Movie • 2005
Patrick Curator / Parson Yorick
Alice in Wonderland
Movie • 2010
Cheshire Cat (voice)
A Civil Action
Movie • 1998
Pinder
Cold Comfort Farm
Movie • 1995
Mybug
It's Always Something
Movie • 2021
Narrator
Chariots of Fire
Movie • 1981
Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)
Stormbreaker
Movie • 2006
Smithers
Four Play
Movie • 2001
Nigel Steele
Night of the Living Dread
Movie • 2021
Meditation Guru (voice)
Russia's Open Book: Writing in the Age of Putin
Movie • 2013
MirrorMask
Movie • 2005
Librarian
Eichmann
Movie • 2007
Minister Tormer
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
Movie • 2004
Self
Spectacled Bears: Shadows of the Forest
Movie • 2008
Narrator
March of the Dinosaurs
Movie • 2011
Narrator (UK)
Tales of the Riverbank
Movie • 2008
Owl (voice)
Listening through the Lens: The Christopher Nupen Films
Movie • 2021
Narrator
A Handful of Dust
Movie • 1988
Reggie
The Good Father
Movie • 1985
Creighton
The Wind in the Willows
Movie • 1996
The Judge
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
Movie • 2022
Chapter Passages Narrator (voice)
Tooth
Movie • 2004
Pedro
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
Movie • 2000
Dr. Peter Robinson
Longitude
Movie • 2000
Sir Kenelm Digby
The Borrowers
Movie • 2011
Professor Mildeye
Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life
Movie • 2022
Self
House of Boys
Movie • 2009
Dr. Marsh
Relative Values
Movie • 2000
Frederick Crestwell
Benjamin Sniddlegrass and The Cauldron of Penguins
Movie • 2011
The Narrator
Pocoyo: Fun & Dance with Pocoyo
Movie • 2008
Narrator
We Work for the Dead
Movie • 2024
Pruitt (voice)
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Movie • 2013
The Master of Laketown
Holy Flying Circus
Movie • 2011
God
The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball
Movie • 1987
Self
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
Movie • 1989
Self
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
Movie • 1988
Lords Melchett / Frondo
Blackadder: A Cunning Story
Movie • 2023
Self - Contributor
A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman
Movie • 2012
Oscar Wilde (voice)
Tom Brown's Schooldays
Movie • 2005
Dr. Thomas Arnold
Oscar
Movie • 1997
Self
Sabotage!!
Movie • 2000
Wellington
Doors Open
Movie • 2012
Professor Robert Gissing
Frost on Sketch Shows
Movie • 2013
Self
Stephen Fry Live at the Sydney Opera House
Movie • 2010
Stephen Fry
The Machine That Made Us
Movie • 2008
Self - Presenter
Meet Pocoyo!
Movie • 2005
Narrator
Fear of Dancing
Movie • 2020
Self - Actor & Writer
Stalag Luft
Movie • 1993
Wing Commander James Forrester
Wagner & Me
Movie • 2012
Self
The Look of Love
Movie • 2013
Barrister
The Cellar Tapes
Movie • 1982
various
Botham: The Legend of '81
Movie • 2011
Self
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Movie • 2022
Self
Jools Holland: My Life in Music
Movie • 2012
Self
Pocoyo & Friends
Movie • 2005
Narrator
Last Chance to See
Movie • 2009
Self
Stephen Fry's Key to the City
Movie • 2013
Self - Presenter
Lost Connection
Movie • 2010
Dad
Blackadder: The Cavalier Years
Movie • 1988
King Charles I
All Families Have Secrets: Patrick Gale's Art of Fiction
Movie • 2017
Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot
Movie • 2006
Self
Hugh Laurie: Copper Bottom Blues
Movie • 2013
Red, White & Royal Blue
Movie • 2023
King James III
Sir David Frost: That Was the Life That Was
Movie • 2013
Narrator
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Movie • 2011
Mycroft Holmes
Thunderpants
Movie • 2002
Sir Anthony Silk
The Canterville Ghost
Movie • 2023
Sir Simon de Canterville (voice)
Cicada Princess
Movie • 2012
Narrator (voice)
Special Report – The Voice of Darts
Movie • 2012
Self (archive footage)
A Little Bit of Fry and Waddell
Movie • 2014
Self - Darts Fan
Blackadder Rides Again
Movie • 2008
Self
The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill
Movie • 2014
Self
The Fringe, Fame and Me
Movie • 2022
Self
Ocean Giants
Movie • 2011
Narrater
An Audience with Bob Monkhouse
Movie • 1994
That Sugar Film
Movie • 2014
The Sugar Family Sketch
Le peuple miniature
Movie
The Lonely Dodo
Movie • 2013
Narrator/Mascarene Grass Frog
Treasure
Movie • 2024
Edek
We Are Home
Movie • 2024
Self - narrator (voice)
Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News
Movie • 2009
Self
Blackadder: Back & Forth
Movie • 1999
Melchett
Stanley Baxter in Person
Movie • 1998
Self
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
Movie • 2009
Self – Narrator (voice)
The Steal
Movie • 1995
Wimborne
Pocoyo & the Space Circus
Movie • 2008
Narrator (English)
Common Pursuit
Movie • 1992
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Movie • 2014
Master of Laketown
Twelfth Night
Movie • 2012
Malvolio
Tomorrow
Movie • 2019
Chris
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
Movie • 2007
Self
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Movie • 2004
Maurice Woodruff
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
Movie • 2022
Self
Tiny Giants 3D
Movie • 2014
Narrator
Last of the Dambusters
Movie • 2008
Narrator
Love & Friendship
Movie • 2016
Mr. Johnson
Mr Bear's Christmas
Movie • 2022
Narrator
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Movie • 2016
Cheshire Cat (voice)
The Man Who Knew Infinity
Movie • 2016
Sir Francis Spring
Elizabeth Taylor: A Musical Celebration
Movie • 2000
Self
Black Samphire
Movie • 2024
Mari's Boss
Time Travel Is Dangerous!
Movie • 2025
Narrator (voice)
Bottom: Exposed
Movie • 2024
Narrator (voice)
Margery Booth: The Spy in the Eagle's Nest
Movie • 2014
Pocoyo's Halloween
Movie • 2016
Narrator
A Life On Screen: Stephen Fry
Movie • 2015
Self
A Bear Named Winnie
Movie • 2004
Protheroe
George Michael: Portrait of an Artist
Movie • 2022
Self
Stephen Fry's 100 Greatest Gadgets
Movie • 2012
Self
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Movie • 2005
Narrator / The Guide (voice)
A Profile of The Importance of Being Earnest
Movie • 1999
Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind
Movie • 2003
Self
Funny Old World
Movie • 2001
Narrator (voice)
Funny Old World 2
Movie • 2001
Narrator (voice)
Funny Old World 3
Movie • 2001
Narrator (voice)
Funny Old World 4
Movie • 2001
Narrator (voice)
Funny Old World 5
Movie • 2001
Narrator (voice)
Making Qi
Movie • 2011
Self
Santa Forgot
Movie • 2016
Narrator
A Profile of 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp'
Movie • 2000
Self
The Laughing Prisoner
Movie • 1987
No. 2
An Audience with Elton John
Movie • 1997
Self
Battle of Soho
Movie • 2017
Self
The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope
Movie • 2004
Narrator
Best
Movie • 2000
Frazer Crane
The Con Is On
Movie • 2018
Sidney
Bright Young Things
Movie • 2003
Chauffeur
Rocky Horror Show Live
Movie • 2015
Narrator
Spice World
Movie • 1997
Judge
Fry and Laurie Reunited
Movie • 2010
Self
Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali
Movie • 2002
Andre Breton
Our Gay Wedding: The Musical
Movie • 2014
A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats
Movie • 2016
Self
Happy Birthday to GNU
Movie • 2008
Self
Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga
Movie • 2008
Self
Queer as Art
Movie • 2017
Self
The Tichborne Claimant
Movie • 1999
Hawkins
And the Winner Isn't
Movie • 2017
Self
Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
Movie • 2005
Self
Snow White: The Sequel
Movie • 2007
The Narrator (voice)
Geri
Movie • 1999
Self
Old Flames
Movie • 1990
Daniel Davenport
Wogan on Wodehouse
Movie • 2011
Self
Duck Duck Goose
Movie • 2018
Frazier (voice)
50 Years Legal
Movie • 2017
Self
Missing Link
Movie • 2019
Lord Piggot-Dunceby (voice)
The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On
Movie • 2016
Self
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Movie • 2018
Self
Greed
Movie • 2019
Self
Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger
Movie • 1986
Wimbledon: 2015 Official Film Review
Movie • 2015
Narrator
Almost Human
Movie • 2019
Narrator
Churchill and the Movie Mogul
Movie • 2019
Self
Dancing with the Birds
Movie • 2019
Narrator
Baldrick's Video Diary - A Blackadder in the Making
Movie • 2001
Self
Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History
Movie • 2022
Self - Narrator
Mahout: The Great Elephant Walk
Movie • 2014
Narrator
Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley
Movie • 2020
Self
Paddington Bear: The Early Years
Movie • 2001
The Killing$ of Tony Blair
Movie • 2016
Self
What's the Matter with Tony Slattery?
Movie • 2020
Self
The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live
Movie • 1986
Self
The Inventor
Movie • 2023
Leonardo da Vinci (voice)
Le Divorce
Movie • 2003
Piers Janely
Do I Sound Gay?
Movie • 2015
Self
In Search of the Prisoner
Movie • 2001
Self
Elton John: The Nation's Favourite Song
Movie • 2017
Self
Fawlty Exclusive: Basil's Best Bits
Movie • 2009
Self - Narrator (voice)
M. C. Escher: Journey to Infinity
Movie • 2018
M. C. Escher (voice)
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Movie • 2012
The Making of Gosford Park
Movie • 2002
Self
Simply Wilde
Movie • 1997
Self
Dancing on Thin Ice with Torvill & Dean
Movie • 2021
Narrator
Bill Turnbull: Staying Alive
Movie • 2019
Self
Now & Then
Movie
TG
Super Clyde
Movie • 2013
Randolph
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Movie • 2021
The Interviewer
Sparkling: The Story Of Champagne
Movie • 2021
Self / Sir Fopling Flutter
Hating Peter Tatchell
Movie • 2021
Self (Actor, Comedian & Writer)
Pocoyo's Easter Picnic
Movie • 2018
Marked
Movie • 2014
Father Christmas
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
Movie • 2008
Self
Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World
Movie • 2020
Self
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'
Movie • 2005
Self
John Craxton: A Life of Gifts
Movie • 2023
John Craxton (Voice)
Employees From Hell
Movie • 1989
The Biggest Nose in Borneo
Movie • 2003
Narrator
This Is Not Hollywood (The Unfinished Story of The Ibarretxe Brothers)
Movie • 2024
Self
Black Samphire
Movie
Camp Christmas
Movie • 1993
Santa Claus
Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time
Movie • 2002
The Minister of Chance
The Big Fat Quiz of Sport
Movie • 2023
Self
The Big Fat Quiz of Telly
Movie • 2024
Self
Doctor Who at the Proms
Movie • 2024
C (archive footage)
About a Hero
Movie • 2024
U.Me: The Musical
Movie • 2024
Narrator
The Transporters
Movie • 2006
Narrator
Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future
Movie • 2025
Self
Touché
Movie
Narrator (voice)
Stephen Fry: HIV & Me
Movie • 2007
Self
Stephen Fry: Guilty
Movie • 2007
Self
The Great American Oil Spill
Movie • 2010
Self
A Friend of Dorothy
Movie • 2025
Dickie
Supergrass: A Home Movie
Movie • 2004
Self (archive footage)
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - 40th Anniversary Celebration
Movie • 2006
Self
The Castle, Rebuilding History
Movie • 2025
Narrator
Ashes Fever
Movie • 2005
Self
This Is Soho
Movie
Narrator (voice)
Frank and Percy
Movie
This Ordinary Thing
Movie • 2025
Self (voice)
Finding Father Christmas
Movie • 2025
Self
Recall Me Maybe
Movie • 2025
Kevin
Happy Families
Movie • 1985
Dr. De Quincy
The Big Night In
Movie • 2020
Lord Melchett
Christmas Karma
Movie • 2025
Radio Presenter (Voice)
Red, White & Royal Wedding
Movie
King James III
'V for Vendetta' Unmasked
Movie • 2006
Deitrich
Colleagues From Hell
Movie • 1989
The Three Urns
Movie • 2026
Bookseller
Joke
Movie • 2026
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
Movie • 2005
General Sir Anthony Melchett (archive footage) (uncredited)
Top Gear
TV • 2002
Self
This Morning
TV • 1988
Self
Alfresco
TV • 1983
Various
Shooting Stars
TV • 1993
Self
A Bit of Fry & Laurie
TV • 1989
Jeeves and Wooster
TV • 1990
Jeeves
The One Show
TV • 2006
Self - Guest
Absolute Power
TV • 2003
Charles Prentiss
The Thin Blue Line
TV • 1995
Blaster Sump
Pocoyo
TV • 2005
Narrator
It's a Sin
TV • 2021
Arthur Garrison
Room 101
TV • 1994
Self
Countdown
TV • 1982
The Secret Policeman's Ball
TV • 1976
Self
Who Do You Think You Are?
TV • 2004
Self
The Magician's House
TV • 1999
Jasper the Owl (voice)
Kingdom
TV • 2007
Peter Kingdom
Omnibus Presents Comic Relief
TV • 1986
Stephen Fry in America
TV • 2008
Self - Host
Gormenghast
TV • 2000
Happy Families
TV • 1985
Doctor De Quincy
The Simpsons
TV • 1989
Terrance / Hazel / MI5 Man (voice)
So Graham Norton
TV • 1998
Self
Saturday Night Clive
TV • 1989
This Is David Lander
TV • 1988
The Jonathan Ross Show
TV • 2011
Self
Natural World
TV • 1983
Narrator
Missing
TV • 2005
There's Nothing to Worry About!
TV • 1982
Various
The BAFTA Awards
TV • 1949
Host
Chris Moyles' Quiz Night
TV • 2009
Self
The Story of Light Entertainment
TV • 2006
Self - Narrator
Comic Relief
TV • 1988
Baddiel's Syndrome
TV • 2001
The Psychiatrist
Last Chance to See
TV • 2009
Self - Presenter
Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive
TV • 2006
Horrible Histories with Stephen Fry
TV • 2011
Self
Anything More Would Be Greedy
TV • 1989
The Secret Show
TV • 2006
Fry's Planet Word
TV • 2011
The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff
TV • 2012
Skulkingworm
Gadget Man
TV • 2012
Presenter
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
TV • 2005
Self
Lily's Driftwood Bay
TV • 2014
Lord Stag (voice)
Stephen Fry in Central America
TV • 2015
Self - Presenter
American Dad!
TV • 2005
John Michael Heaton (voice)
Ocean Giants
TV • 2011
Narrator
Hidden Kingdoms
TV • 2014
Narrator
QI
TV • 2003
Self - Presenter
Danger Mouse
TV • 2015
Colonel K (voice)
Extras
TV • 2005
Stephen Fry
Fortysomething
TV • 2003
Derek
Blackadder
TV • 1983
Lord Melchett
The Great Indoors
TV • 2016
Roland
Nigella
TV • 2005
Self
Blackadder
TV • 1983
General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett
London Zoo: An Extraordinary Year
TV • 2020
Narrator (voice)
The Graham Norton Show
TV • 2007
Self
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
TV • 2014
Self
Wagner and Me
TV • 2010
Star
An Audience with...
TV • 1978
Self
Just a Minute
TV • 2012
Self
The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show
TV • 2015
Uncle Duke (voice)
The New Statesman
TV • 1987
Piers Lonsdale
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
TV • 2022
Self – writer and comedian
The Morning Show
TV • 2019
Leonard Cromwell
Everything Now
TV • 2023
Dr Nell
Stephen Fry: Out There
TV • 2013
Self
The Young Ones
TV • 1982
Lord Snot
Blackadder
TV • 1983
The Duke of Wellington
Jeopardy!
TV • 2024
Self - Presenter
Rita Rudner
TV • 1990
Wogan
TV • 1982
Self
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
TV • 1996
Self
The Dinosaur Hour
TV • 2023
Self
Have I Got Buzzcocks All Over
TV • 1999
Self - Panellist
Stephen Fry: HIV & Me
TV • 2007
Self - Presenter
A Life on Screen
TV • 2014
Self
The Sandman
TV • 2022
Gilbert
Country Tracks
TV • 2009
Self
Shrink Rap
TV • 2007
Self
Heartstopper
TV • 2022
Headmaster Barnes (voice)
The Dropout
TV • 2022
Ian Gibbons
Apple & Onion
TV • 2018
William Steakspeare (voice)
Too Much
TV • 2025
Simon Remen
Apple & Onion
TV • 2018
Onion's Dad (voice)
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
TV • 2014
Winston Churchill (voice)
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
TV • 1996
Self - Panellist
Veep
TV • 2012
Nikolai Genidze
In Conversation with Alan Yentob
TV • 2022
Self
Jeopardy! Australia
TV • 2024
Host
Legends
TV • 2006
Self (uncredited)
Doctor Who
TV • 2005
C
A Year on Planet Earth
TV • 2022
Self - Presenter
Bones
TV • 2005
Gordon Wyatt
The Big Narstie Show
TV • 2018
Self
American Dad!
TV • 2005
Mr. Cavendish (voice)
Sex Education
TV • 2019
NSQC Quizmaster
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
TV • 2000
Dinosaur with Stephen Fry
TV • 2023
Stuff the British Stole
TV • 2022
Self
Britain's Great Gay Buildings
TV • 2017
Screen Two
TV • 1985
Humphrey Taylor
Saturday Live
TV • 1986
The Dangerous Brothers
TV • 1986
Filthy Rich & Catflap
TV • 1987
P'Farty
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
TV • 2022
Self - Writer and Comedian
Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly)
TV • 2014
Self
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
TV • 1988
Self
Yonderland
TV • 2013
Cuddly Dick
The Crystal Cube
TV • 1983
Dr. Adrian Cowlacey / Various Roles
Kulturzeit
TV • 1995
self
Stephen Fry’s 21st Century Firsts
TV
Self - Host
Click
TV • 2000
Self
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee
29 Minutes of Fame
TV • 2005
Self - Panelist
Parkinson
TV • 1998
Self
The Last Leg
TV • 2013
Self
Dirty Tricks
TV • 2005
Owl (voice)
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew
TV • 2024
Supervisor (voice)
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
TV • 1998
Self - Contestant
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
TV • 2022
Self – Writer and broadcaster
Alleen Elvis blijft bestaan
TV • 2013
Self
Harley Quinn
TV • 2019
Brainiac (voice)
Lubach
TV • 2025
Self
The Jonathan Ross Show
TV • 2011
Self - Guest
Have I Got News for You
TV • 1990
Self
The Story of Musicals
TV • 2012
Self
Watership Down
TV • 1999
Cowslip (voice)
Longitude
TV • 2000
Sir Kenelm Digby
24
TV • 2001
Alastair Davies
The Celebrity Traitors
TV • 2025
Self - Contestant
China's Wild Secrets
TV • 2025
Narrated
The Unpleasant World of Penn & Teller
TV • 1994
Self
In the Red
TV • 1998
Controller, Radio 2
The Bible: A History
TV • 2010