Actor
Stephen Fry
Born 24 August 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.
Films and shows
- 2026
Touché1h 58mNarrator (voice) - 2026
Rik Mayall's Sketches: Rare And Unseen43mNarrator (voice) - 2026
Frank and Percy1h 49m - 2026
Joke - 2026
Hexed1h 43mElias Quire (voice) - 2026
Rik Mayall: Magnificent B'Stard1h 33mSelf - 2026
The Three Urns1h 36mBookseller - 2025
Recall Me Maybe14mKevin - 2025
China's Wild Secrets1 seasonNarrated - 2025
The Castle, Rebuilding History1h 10mNarrator - 2025
Time Travel Is Dangerous!1h 39mNarrator (voice) - 2025
A Friend of Dorothy22mDickie - 2025
Too Much1 seasonSimon Remen - 2025
Finding Father Christmas1h 15mSelf - 2025
Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future1h 7mSelf - 2025
Not Only Fred Dagg But Also John Clarke1h 43mSelf - 2025
This Ordinary Thing1h 3mSelf (voice) - 2024
We Are Home52mSelf - narrator (voice) - 2024
Jeopardy! Australia2 seasonsHost - 2024
U.Me: The Musical1h 50mNarrator - 2024
Treasure1h 51mEdek - 2024
We Work for the Dead1h 25mPruitt (voice) - 2024
Jeopardy!2 seasonsSelf - Presenter - 2024
Bottom: Exposed1h 30mNarrator (voice) - 2024
Black Samphire1mMari's Boss - 2024
About a Hero1h 24m - 2024
This Is Not Hollywood (The Unfinished Story of The Ibarretxe Brothers)1h 20mSelf - 2024
The Big Fat Quiz of Telly1h 32mSelf - 2024
Mozart: Rise of a Genius1 seasonSelf - 2023
The Canterville Ghost1h 29mSir Simon de Canterville (voice) - 2023
Mind Games - The Experiment1h 13mNarrator - 2023
The Inventor1h 32mLeonardo da Vinci (voice) - 2023
John Craxton: A Life of Gifts1h 30mJohn Craxton (Voice) - 2023
Willem and Frieda: Defying the Nazis1h 8m - 2023
Dinosaur with Stephen Fry1 season - 2023
The Dinosaur Hour1 seasonSelf - 2023
The Big Fat Quiz of Sport1h 32mSelf - 2023
George Michael: Portrait of an Artist1h 34mSelf - 2023
Blackadder: A Cunning Story1h 29mSelf - Contributor - 2023
Red, White & Royal Blue1h 58mKing James III - 2023
Everything Now1 seasonDr Nell - 2023
1939: Secrets of Hollywood's Golden Year1 seasonself - 2022
Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History58mSelf - Narrator - 2022
Mr Bear's Christmas11mNarrator - 2022
A Year on Planet Earth1 seasonSelf - Presenter - 2022
Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life35mSelf - 2022
The Fringe, Fame and Me1h 28mSelf - 2022
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count1hSelf - 2022
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba1h 30mSelf - 2021
It's Always Something12mNarrator - 2021
Dancing on Thin Ice with Torvill & Dean1h 30mNarrator - 2021
Listening through the Lens: The Christopher Nupen Films1h 30mNarrator - 2021
The Picture of Dorian Gray1h 34mThe Interviewer - 2021
Night of the Living Dread12mMeditation Guru (voice) - 2021
Sparkling: The Story Of Champagne1h 28mSelf / Sir Fopling Flutter - 2021
Hating Peter Tatchell1h 31mSelf (Actor, Comedian & Writer) - 2020
Fear of Dancing1h 18mSelf - Actor & Writer - 2020
London Zoo: An Extraordinary Year1 seasonNarrator (voice) - 2020
Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley58mSelf - 2020
What's the Matter with Tony Slattery?59mSelf - 2020
Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World1h 40mSelf - 2020
Doctor Who: Spyfall1h 59mC - 2020
The Big Night In2h 59mLord Melchett - 2019
Dancing with the Birds51mNarrator - 2019
Almost Human1h 31mNarrator - 2019
Missing Link1h 34mLord Piggot-Dunceby (voice) - 2019
TomorrowChris - 2019
Bill Turnbull: Staying Alive47mSelf - 2019
Greed1h 44mSelf - 2019
Churchill and the Movie Mogul59mSelf - 2019
Ponyboi19mExecutive Producer - 2019
Mankind13mExecutive Producer - 2018
Pocoyo's Easter Picnic33m - 2018
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood1h 38mSelf - 2018
Duck Duck Goose1h 31mFrazier (voice) - 2018
M. C. Escher: Journey to Infinity1h 21mM. C. Escher (voice) - 2018
The Con Is On1h 35mSidney - 2018
Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back)1h 30mExecutive Producer - 2017
All Families Have Secrets: Patrick Gale's Art of Fiction30m - 2017
Britain's Great Gay Buildings1 season - 2017
And the Winner Isn't1h 30mSelf - 2017
Battle of Soho1h 41mSelf - 2017
Queer as Art1hSelf - 2017
50 Years Legal1h 30mSelf - 2017
Elton John: The Nation's Favourite Song1h 35mSelf - 2017
The Hippopotamus1h 26mNovel - 2016
Santa Forgot2mNarrator - 2016
Pocoyo's Halloween25mNarrator - 2016
The Great Indoors1 seasonRoland - 2016
Wild Africa / Tiny Giants1h 25mNarrator (Tiny Giants) - 2016
The Man Who Knew Infinity1h 48mSir Francis Spring - 2016
The Killing$ of Tony Blair1h 35mSelf - 2016
A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats1h 40mSelf - 2016
The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On58mSelf - 2016
Alice Through the Looking Glass1h 53mCheshire Cat (voice) - 2016
Love & Friendship1h 34mMr. Johnson - 2016
Tickled1h 32mExecutive Producer - 2015
Rocky Horror Show Live2h 9mNarrator - 2015
Wimbledon: 2015 Official Film ReviewNarrator - 2015
Stephen Fry in Central America1 seasonSelf - Presenter - 2015
Danger Mouse2 seasonsColonel K (voice) - 2015
Do I Sound Gay?1h 17mSelf - 2015
A Life On Screen: Stephen Fry58mSelf - 2015
Nightstand27mExecutive Producer - 2014Marked28mFather Christmas
- 2014
Mahout: The Great Elephant Walk1h 28mNarrator - 2014
Hidden Kingdoms1 seasonNarrator - 2014
Tiny Giants 3D44mSelf - Narrator (voice) - 2014A Little Bit of Fry and Waddell45mSelf - Darts Fan
- 2014
That Sugar Film1h 37mThe Sugar Family Sketch - 2014
Le peuple miniature - 2014
Our Gay Wedding: The Musical48m - 2014
Margery Booth: The Spy in the Eagle's Nest - 2014
The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill59mSelf - 2014
Stephen Fry Live: More Fool Me1h 34mSelf - 2014
Lily's Driftwood Bay2 seasonsLord Stag (voice) - 2014
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies2h 24mMaster of Laketown - 2013Sir David Frost: That Was the Life That Was59mNarrator
- 2013The Lonely Dodo3mNarrator/Mascarene Grass Frog
- 2013
Stephen Fry's Key to the City47mSelf - Presenter - 2013
Super Clyde22mRandolph - 2013
Russia's Open Book: Writing in the Age of Putin55m - 2013Hugh Laurie: Copper Bottom Blues49m
- 2013
Frost on Sketch Shows57mSelf - 2013
Stephen Fry: Out There1 seasonSelf - 2013
Yonderland3 seasonsCuddly Dick - 2013
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug2h 41mThe Master of Laketown - 2013
The Look of Love1h 45mBarrister - 2012
Doors Open2hProfessor Robert Gissing - 2012Cicada Princess7mNarrator (voice)
- 2012
Shakespeare's Sonnets - 2012
Stephen Fry's 100 Greatest Gadgets3hSelf - 2012
Jools Holland: My Life in Music1hSelf - 2012
Wagner & Me1h 29mSelf - 2012
The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff1 seasonSkulkingworm - 2012
A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman1h 25mOscar Wilde (voice) - 2012
Twelfth Night2h 55mMalvolio - 2012
Walking the Dogs30mExecutive Producer - 2011
Holy Flying Circus1h 29mGod - 2011
March of the Dinosaurs1h 27mNarrator (UK) - 2011
Ocean Giants3hNarrater - 2011
Ocean Giants1 seasonNarrator - 2011
Benjamin Sniddlegrass and The Cauldron of Penguins1h 10mThe Narrator - 2011
The Borrowers1h 30mProfessor Mildeye - 2011
Fry's Planet Word1 season - 2011
Wogan on Wodehouse59mSelf - 2011
Horrible Histories with Stephen Fry1 seasonSelf - 2011
Making Qi1hSelf - 2011
Botham: The Legend of '811hSelf - 2011
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows2h 9mMycroft Holmes - 2011
Let Them Talk: A Celebration of New Orleans Blues1h 12mExecutive Producer - 2011
Hugh Laurie: Down by the RiverExecutive Producer - 2010
Lost Connection23mDad - 2010
Stephen Fry Live at the Sydney Opera House1h 30mStephen Fry - 2010The Great American Oil Spill1hSelf
- 2010
Fry and Laurie Reunited1h 7mSelf - 2010
Alice in Wonderland1h 48mCheshire Cat (voice) - 2009
Fawlty Exclusive: Basil's Best BitsSelf - Narrator (voice) - 2009
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened1h 30mSelf – Narrator (voice) - 2009
Last Chance to See1 seasonSelf - Presenter - 2009
House of Boys2hDr. Marsh - 2009
Last Chance to SeeSelf - 2009
Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News1h 30mSelf - 2008
Stephen Fry in America1 seasonSelf - Host - 2008
Tales of the Riverbank1h 16mOwl (voice) - 2008Pocoyo: Fun & Dance with Pocoyo49mNarrator
- 2008
Spectacled Bears: Shadows of the Forest48mNarrator - 2008
Last of the Dambusters44mNarrator - 2008
The Machine That Made Us59mSelf - Presenter - 2008
Pocoyo & the Space Circus25mNarrator (English) - 2008
Blackadder Rides Again1hSelf - 2008
Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga1h 32mSelf - 2008Happy Birthday to GNU6mSelf
- 2008
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments1h 32mSelf - 2007
Kingdom3 seasonsPeter Kingdom - 2007
Stephen Fry: HIV & Me1 seasonSelf - Presenter - 2007
Eichmann1h 40mMinister Tormer - 2007
J.K. Rowling: A Year in the Life50mSelf - 2007
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out59mSelf - 2007
Stephen Fry: HIV & Me2hSelf - 2007
Stephen Fry: Guilty30mSelf - 2006
The Story of Light Entertainment1 seasonSelf - Narrator - 2006
The Transporters1h 15mNarrator - 2006
V for Vendetta: Unmasked24mDeitrich - 2006
Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive1 season - 2006
V for Vendetta2h 12mDeitrich - 2006
Stormbreaker1h 33mSmithers - 2006
Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot10mSelf - 2006
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - 40th Anniversary Celebration1h 29mSelf - 2006
The Magic Flute2h 13mLyricist - 2005
Meet Pocoyo!49mNarrator - 2005
Pocoyo & Friends49mNarrator - 2005
Tom Brown's Schooldays1h 33mDr. Thomas Arnold - 2005
Ashes Fever2h 21mSelf - 2005
Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'25mSelf - 2005
MirrorMask1h 41mLibrarian - 2005
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy1h 49mNarrator / The Guide (voice) - 2004The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope1hNarrator
- 2004
A Bear Named Winnie1h 30mProtheroe - 2004
Tooth1h 31mPedro - 2004
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?1h 17mSelf - 2004
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers2h 2mMaurice Woodruff - 2004
Supergrass: A Home Movie1h 21mSelf (archive footage) - 2003
The Biggest Nose in Borneo52mNarrator - 2003
Absolute Power2 seasonsCharles Prentiss - 2003
Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind1hSelf - 2003
Bright Young Things1h 46mExecutive Producer - 2002
Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali1hAndre Breton - 2002
Thunderpants1h 27mSir Anthony Silk - 2002
The Making of Gosford Park20mSelf - 2002
Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time2h 59mThe Minister of Chance - 2001
The Discovery of Heaven2h 7mOnno Quist - 2001
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and Me57mNarrator of the Audiobooks - 2001Funny Old World3mNarrator (voice)
- 2001Funny Old World 23mNarrator (voice)
- 2001Funny Old World 43mNarrator (voice)
- 2001Funny Old World 33mNarrator (voice)
- 2001Funny Old World 53mNarrator (voice)
- 2001
Paddington Bear: The Early Years49m - 2001
Four Play1h 27mNigel Steele - 2001In Search of the Prisoner23mSelf
- 2001
Baldrick's Video Diary - A Blackadder in the Making33mSelf - 2001
Baddiel's Syndrome1 seasonThe Psychiatrist - 2001
Gosford Park2h 17mInspector Thompson - 2001
Great Comedy Moments1h 48mMathematician (archive footage) - 2001
Lucky Break1h 47mBook - 2000
Sabotage!!1h 37mWellington - 2000
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything1 season - 2000
Relative Values1h 27mFrederick Crestwell - 2000
Elizabeth Taylor: A Musical Celebration1h 23mSelf - 2000
A Profile of 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp'24mSelf - 2000
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?1h 35mDr. Peter Robinson - 2000
Best1h 42mFrazer Crane - 2000
Longitude3h 18mSir Kenelm Digby - 1999
The Tichborne Claimant1h 38mHawkins - 1999
Blackadder: Back & Forth33mMelchett - 1999A Profile of The Importance of Being Earnest24m
- 1999
Geri1h 30mSelf - 1999Have I Got Buzzcocks All Over2 seasonsSelf - Panellist
- 1999
The Magician's House2 seasonsJasper the Owl (voice) - 1998Stanley Baxter in Person1hSelf
- 1998
A Civil Action1h 55mPinder - 1997
Wilde1h 58mOscar Wilde - 1997
Simply Wilde25mSelf - 1997
Oscar49mSelf - 1996
The Wind in the Willows1h 28mThe Judge - 1996
Wildlife SOS9 seasonsCreator - 1995
Cold Comfort Farm1h 35mMybug - 1995
The Steal1h 31mWimborne - 1994
An Audience with Bob Monkhouse1h - 1994
I.Q.1h 40mJames Morland - 1993
Stalag Luft1h 41mWing Commander James Forrester - 1993
Camp Christmas1h 5mSanta Claus - 1992
Peter's Friends1h 41mPeter Morton - 1992
Common Pursuit1h 30m - 1990
Old Flames1h 25mDaniel Davenport - 1990
Jeeves and Wooster4 seasonsJeeves - 1989
Employees From Hell12m - 1989
Colleagues From Hell12m - 1989
A Bit of Fry & Laurie4 seasons - 1989
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball1h 32mSelf - 1989Anything More Would Be Greedy1 seasonJulian Holmes-Coppitt
- 1988
Blackadder: The Cavalier Years15mKing Charles I - 1988
Blackadder's Christmas Carol43mLords Melchett / Frondo - 1988This Is David Lander2 seasons
- 1988
A Fish Called Wanda1h 49mHutchison - 1988
A Handful of Dust1h 58mReggie - 1987
The Laughing Prisoner41mNo. 2 - 1987
The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball1h 22mSelf - 1986
Omnibus Presents Comic Relief1 season - 1986
Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger1h 16m - 1986
Saturday Live3 seasons - 1986
The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live1h 30mSelf - 1985
Happy Families1 seasonDoctor De Quincy - 1985
Happy Families3h 30mDr. De Quincy - 1985
The Good Father1h 30mCreighton - 1983
The Crystal Cube1 seasonDr. Adrian Cowlacey / Various Roles - 1983
Alfresco2 seasonsVarious - 1983
Blackadder4 seasonsGeneral Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett - 1982
The Cellar Tapes50mvarious - 1982
There's Nothing to Worry About!1 seasonVarious - 1976
The Secret Policeman's Ball1 seasonSelf
Stephen Fry’s 21st Century Firsts1 seasonSelf - Host- This Is SohoNarrator (voice)
Now & ThenTG- Black Samphire
Red, White & Royal WeddingKing James III
The LiarExecutive Producer- The Eden ExpressExecutive Producer
