‘The greatest comedian since Charlie Chaplin’
Through a career spanning seven decades, Barry Humphries emerged as a creative genius and one of the world’s greatest comics.
Barry Humphries, an artistic genius, the “greatest comedian since Charlie Chaplin”, the creator of Dame Edna Everage, and a star of stage and screen, died on Saturday at Sydney’s St Vincent’s Hospital after complications from hip surgery. He was 89.
In a career spanning 70 years, Humphries appeared in dozens of movies, plays and television programs, and wrote numerous books, including an award-winning memoir, poetry, plays and scripts.
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