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Stephen Fry

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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.

Notable films

Where to start

Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

MirrorMask

Appears in a KinoChain journey

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

As Master of Laketown

Alice in Wonderland

As Cheshire Cat (voice)

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

As The Master of Laketown

Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts

As Chapter Passages Narrator (voice)

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

As Mycroft Holmes

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

As Narrator / The Guide (voice)

Missing Link

As Lord Piggot-Dunceby (voice)

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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Escapes from Broken Realities

A journey through films where children and the childlike build imaginative refuges from fractured worlds, celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Terry Gilliam...

8 films

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