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 Stephen Fry - Biography - Moviefone
Born in London on August 24, 1957, Fry was the second of three children born to a homemaker mother and physicist/investor father.
Fry and Laurie began their collaboration in 1981, performing Footlights revues at various venues around Great Britain, including the Edinburgh Festival, and doing a three month tour of Australia.
Meanwhile, Fry was also gaining recognition for his columns for The Daily Telegraph, as well as a certain amount of notoriety for various well-publicized statements he made in the press.
movies.aol.com /celebrity/stephen-fry/25206/biography   (698 words)

  
 The Adventures of Mr Stephen Fry
Stephen returns to ITV1 to star in Kingdom (working title), his first drama series since Jeeves and Wooster ten years ago.
Stephen plays country solicitor Peter Kingdom, whose compassion and humility has won him huge respect in the picture postcard town of Market Shipborough...
Stephen's homage to poetry, The Ode Less Travelled is his latest book to be released in the United States and is now available at all good bookstores and online.
www.stephenfry.com   (252 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Liar: Books: Stephen Fry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Stephen Fry is so good a writer that one book--one chapter in fact--is enough to convince you he is unlikely to disappoint.
Fry writes with such clarity, flare and adeptness that one is left basking in the sheer joy of the English language.
Stephen Fry is an extremely witty, original writer, and his ability to create such devilishly searing wit arouses tremendous expectations for this novel.
www.amazon.com /Liar-Stephen-Fry/dp/156947012X   (2494 words)

  
 Stephen Fry News
Fry has stepped down as host of Bafta's film awards after six years Actor Stephen Fry and broadcaster Gyles Brandreth have moved into the running to take over as host of TV's Countdown, odds offered by two...
British actor Stephen Fry has penned a how-to guide on the art of writing poetry, and in his inimitable style spices up what could be a dull topic with humor By Claudia La Rocco NY TIMES SERVICE, NEW YORK...
Stephen Fry, who updated and adapted it, explains what makes this musical special In 1983 I was two years down from university and praying...
www.topix.net /who/stephen-fry   (792 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Fry has been in about a dozen films, written several books and has starred in more than two dozen British television shows.
Fry grew up in Norfolk, England, where he attended the Norfolk College of Arts and Technology before going on to teach English, history and French at a prep school.
While Fry's start came on the stage, it has been his work in movies that's brought him more pleasure as an actor.
www.mgnet.karoo.net /stars/stevefry.htm   (316 words)

  
 Stephen Fry : interview
Fry the film actor is best remembered for his characterisation of Oscar Wilde - a part which he seemed to fit perfectly.
Stephen Fry was also keen to talk about another plunge into the unknown for a man who has accomplished so much.
Fry is also a prolific writer, with a series of novels and autobiographies under his belt.
www.musicomh.com /interviews/stephen-fry.htm   (888 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: The Liar: Books: Stephen Fry,Steven Fry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Critics often laud Fry's intelligence too (and he is undoubtedly smart), but I think a lot of this is mistaking his public school education and consequent vocabulary of literary 'in-jokes' and allusions for intellect.
Fry's first novel is a more-than-promising debut, a novel of magnificent flights-of-fanciful wordplay within a complex structure of shifting time and points-of-view.
Stephen Fry uses language in the most beautiful way, and paints a spectacular picture of young Adrian Healey's life.
www.amazon.ca /Liar-Stephen-Fry/dp/156947012X   (1779 words)

  
 Stephen Fry News - Page 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Fry starred in Blackadder and Jeeves and Wooster Comedian Stephen Fry says he tried to kill himself after walking out of the West End play Cell-Mates in 1995.
STEPHEN Fry has pulled out of writing an episode of Doctor Who.
Stephen Fry told chatshow host Michael Parkinson that Euan Blair may have been instrumental in getting permission to film for V for Vendetta.
www.topix.net /who/stephen-fry/page2   (850 words)

  
 Biography of Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry was born on 24 August 1957 in London, England.
In 2005 Stephen Fry was the voice of the book in the big screen version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
Stephen Fry came top in a Radio Times poll of their readers on whom they thought were the smartest people on TV.
www.biogs.com /famous/frystephen.html   (477 words)

  
 glbtq >> arts >> Fry, Stephen
Stephen John Fry was born August 24, 1957, in Hampstead, London, to an affluent family.
Fry began to rebel in his teens, after first suspecting that he was gay.
Throughout the 1980s, Fry maintained an almost constant presence in the British media, appearing in stage plays, on radio, and, most extensively, on television, where he was featured in the popular series Blackadder, a spoof on British history, and as Jeeves the butler in Jeeves and Wooster, a series based on the P. Wodehouse novels.
www.glbtq.com /arts/fry_s.html   (900 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Moab Is My Washpot: Books: Stephen Fry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Fry's deepest regrets seem to be the elusiveness of a particular boy's love and the fact that, despite his keen ear for music, Fry's singing voice can make listeners "claw out their inner ears, electrocute their genitals, put on a Jim Reeves record, throw themselves cackling hysterically onto the path of moving buses...
Fry spent his childhood in the English public school system and unapologetically defends the system as an institution.
Stephen Fry is clearly a gifted writer, and based on this book I might try some of his fiction.
www.amazon.ca /Moab-My-Washpot-Stephen-Fry/dp/1569472025   (1604 words)

  
 Stephen Fry
Stephen John Fry (born 24 August, 1957) is a well known British comedian, author and actor.
While still at boarding school, Fry absconded with a stolen credit card and, when apprehended, spent three months in prison for fraud.
Due to make his debut on the West End stage in Simon Gray[?]'s play, Cell Mates, Fry suffered an attack of stage fright so serious that he ran away, leaving only an apology, and turning up some days later in Belgium.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/st/Stephen_Fry.html   (308 words)

  
 Stephen Fry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fry met Cohen after piecing his life together following a breakdown in 1995, supposed at the time to be due to bad reviews for his performance in the play Cell Mates, but actually due to a period of depression.
Fry has since spoken publicly about living with bipolar disorder, and in 2006 made a documentary about his experiences of the condition and also how it affects others.
Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive was presented in two parts, transmitted on BBC Two on 19 September and 26 September 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stephen_Fry   (2460 words)

  
 Stephen Fry on 43 People
Fry was good enough to provide this interview to me several years ago while I was struggling to start a local entertainment magazine (which no longer exists, but that should not be taken as a reflection on his participation—I blame the fact that Hugh Laurie never responded, but that’s a different matter).
Stephen has also appeared in a few editions of the orginal british version of “Who’s Line Is It Anyway?” (that are now beginning to appear on our shores) where his 6’ 4” stature is rivalled only by that of Ryan Stiles.
Fry was good enough to interrupt his frenetic activities to respond to the BAC standard 20 question interview, despite having never been to, nor until now, heard of Pensacola.
www.43people.com /profile/view/165405   (1276 words)

  
 Stephen Fry
In the U.K., Stephen Fry is seen as a veritable renaissance man -- a successful actor, comedian, novelist, playwright, and columnist.
Fry's father was a physicist and inventor, and his mother and her Jewish family had immigrated to England prior to World War II.
It was she who introduced Fry to his long-time comic partner Hugh Laurie, who was Thompson's boyfriend at the time.
www.nndb.com /people/345/000055180   (414 words)

  
 BBC - Comedy Guide - A Bit Of Fry And Laurie
Stephen Fry was born in 1957, Hugh Laurie in 1959; they met in the early 1980s when both at Cambridge.
A Bit Of Fry And Laurie was a witty and sophisticated entertainment of consistent high quality, with an old-fashioned revue-type atmosphere and oddly 'British' sketches that rejoiced in literary turns of phrase and elaborate wordplay.
The delicate innuendos, coupled with Fry's ability to suggest hidden meanings in everyday phrases, gave the impression that bubbling below the innocent surface were lewd undercurrents threatening to burst through, although they never did.
www.bbc.co.uk /comedy/guide/articles/b/bitoffryandlauri_7770745.shtml   (364 words)

  
 The Adventures of Mr Stephen Fry [vital statistics]
From his birth in 1957 to his arrival at Queens’ College, Cambridge 20 years later, Stephen Fry has enjoyed brushes with authority and being the centre of attention in almost equal measure.
Pleasingly for an actor, critical acclaim was followed by popular appeal with the move to television.
Stephen's next book "A Peruvian Diary" detailing his endeavours to save the 'spectacled bear' from extinction is due for launch in October of this year.
www.stephenfry.com /close_up/vital_stats.html   (305 words)

  
 The Adventures of Mr Stephen Fry [influences]
From the earthy Christianity of GK Chesterton and CS Lewis to the crafty wit of Alistair Sim and PG Wodehouse, Stephen Fry has subsumed the defining characteristics of his ideological mentors.
From atheist beginnings, Stephen dropped the 'a' for a time in his teens, absorbed by the thoughts of Lewis's "Screwtape Letters" and the colossal genius (according to George Bernard Shaw) of GK Chesterton.
Such theological leanings were not meant to be for young Master Fry and while their shadow remains, his character was drawn to the less refined idols of popular literature.
www.stephenfry.com /close_up/influences.html   (219 words)

  
 Stephen Fry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The sequence in which Evey makes the transformation from skeptic to fearless freedom fighter (drawing heavily from Dreyer's "The Passion of Joan of Arc") is one of the more moving in the film, and never more so than when she reads a letter in her jail cell written by one of the regime's innocent victims.
Fry provides the voice of the Guide), and the affable British chap shared some interesting casting news regarding "V for Vendetta." Based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore, "Vendetta" is being written by Andy and Larry Wachowski ("The Matrix," "Bound") and directed by first-timer James McTeigue.
Fry informs us that he's involved as well, as are actors John Hurt ("Alien"), Tim Pigott-Smith ("Bloody Sunday"), and Sinead Cusack ("I Capture the Castle").
www.rottentomatoes.com /p/stephen_fry/news.php   (1897 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within: Books: Stephen Fry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Stephen, who has long written poems, and indeed has written long poems, for his own private pleasure, invites you to discover the incomparable delights of metre, rhyme and verse forms.
None of what Mr Fry says is inflammatory, he is only trying to identify with readers that might consider poetry as moth-eaten and dusty.
This book is written as if Stephen Fry is in the room with you, taking the fear of poetry away and inspiring you to have a go yourself.
www.amazon.co.uk /Ode-Less-Travelled-Unlocking-Within/dp/009179661X   (1250 words)

  
 Hypericum Buyers Club
Stephen Fry is to talk openly for the first time about his battle with manic depression for a BBC Two programme.
Fry, who said he felt suicidal when he walking out of the West End show Cell Mates in February 1995, will talk candidly about his experiences of living with the condition.
Fry has already interviewed actress Carrie Fisher, who has battled with bipolar disorder since her teens.
www.hbcprotocols.com /fry.html   (176 words)

  
 Stephen Fry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A true Renaissance man, Stephen Fry is not only a successful writer, actor and director but is also known in his native Britain for his work with various charities.
Now well known for his writing ability, Fry was asked to rewrite the musical Me and My Girl, which went on to enormous success, earning 11 Tony award nominations -- including one for Fry -- (and winning three), and five Drama Desk awards.
Finally, Fry decided to try on yet another hat and not only wrote but directed the feature film Bright Young Things (2004), based on a novel by Evelyn Waugh.
www.tribute.ca /bio.asp?id=1823   (245 words)

  
 NPR : Stephen Fry's 'Bright Young Things'
Fry talks to NPR's Scott Simon about his directorial debut and about the social and cultural parallels of the film with 21st century society.
While he notes that the current obsession with the young and glamorous is a touchstone, Fry feels that his characters -- and their real-life models -- were more intimately involved in the intellectual and artistic transformations of their era.
Fry plays a chauffer in the film, which also features cameos by Dan Akroyd and Peter O'Toole.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=3862802   (251 words)

  
 WILDE: INTERVIEW WITH STEPHEN FRY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Matching wits with his character, comic actor Stephen Fry takes up the enormous challenge of reincarnating the immortal Oscar Wilde in the Brian Gilbert directed movie Wilde.
Fry, who is more commonly known as the serene Jives on TV's Jives And Wooster, amazes as a mirror image of Wilde in flesh and mind in the film.
Fry talked about his lifelong fascination with the character he has played more than once.
www.minireviews.com /interviews/fry.htm   (1157 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Moab Is My Washpot: Books: Stephen Fry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The more puritanical among us might even find his liberal mind and sexual openness offensive - but then again, why an ideological conservative would even bother reading this man's book is beyond me. He is logical and refreshing in his opinions of sex and love, and likable enough to convert the most ardent homophobe.
Stephen Fry's auto-biography has added delicious digestible food for thought to my bourgeois existence.
I thank Fry for removing the stress associated with commuting in holiday crowds and work stress this past month.
www.amazon.co.uk /Moab-My-Washpot-Stephen-Fry/dp/0099457040   (996 words)

  
 Stephen Fry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Stephen Fry on the cover of his autobiography Stephen John Fry (born 24 August, 1957) is a British comedian, author, actor, and director.
Stephen's doodle for National Doodle Day 2005will be auctioned on eBay on National Doodle Day, Friday 25 February 2005 to raise funds for Epilepsy Action and the Neurofibromatosis Association.
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