Stephen Fry bibliography and filmography

Fry in "Happy Birthday to GNU (2008)"

Stephen Fry is an English actor, comedian, author and television presenter. With Hugh Laurie, as the comedy double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and co-starred in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, and the duo also played the title roles in Jeeves and Wooster. Fry played the lead in the film Wilde, was Melchett in the Blackadder television series and is the host of celebrity comedy trivia show, QI. He has contributed columns and articles for newspapers and magazines, and has written four novels and three autobiographies, Moab Is My Washpot, The Fry Chronicles, and More Fool Me: A Memoir.

Written works

Films and screenplays

Year	Film/Show	Notes
2003	Bright Young Things	Nominated – British Independent Film Awards Nominated – Emden International Film Festival
2006	The Magic Flute	English translation of the libretto
2010	Dambusters	In Production

Musicals

Year	Film/Show	Notes
1984	Me and My Girl	Adapted from Lupino Lane's script

Books

Year	Book	Notes
1992	The Liar
1992	Paperweight	Collection of Articles
1994	The Hippopotamus
1996	Making History	Alternate History Won – Sidewise Award for Alternate History
1997	Moab Is My Washpot	Autobiography
2000	The Stars' Tennis Balls	Revenge: A Novel in the US Fry's take on The Count of Monte Cristo
2002	Rescuing the Spectacled Bear: A Peruvian Diary
2004	Stephen Fry's Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music	Ghostwritten by Tim Lihoreau
2005	The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within
2008	Stephen Fry in America
2010	The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography	Autobiography
2014	More Fool Me: A Memoir	Autobiography

Plays

Year	Book	Notes
1979	Latin! (or Tobacco and Boys.)	Included in Paperweight Won – Fringe First at the 1980 Edinburgh Festival.
2007	Pantomime Cinderella	Performed at the Old Vic at Christmas.

Published Television Scripts

Year	Book	Notes
1990	A Bit of Fry & Laurie	A Bit of Fry and Laurie – Series One
1991	A Bit More Fry & Laurie	A Bit of Fry and Laurie – Series Two
1992	3 Bits of Fry & Laurie	A Bit of Fry and Laurie – Series Three
1995	Fry & Laurie Bit No. 4	A Bit of Fry and Laurie – Series Four

Performances

Films

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1981	Chariots of Fire	Artist	Uncredited role
1982	Cambridge Footlights Revue	Various Characters
1983	The Crystal Cube	Dr. Adrian Cowlacey Various Roles
1985	The Good Father	Creighton
1987	The Laughing Prisoner	No.2
1988	A Handful of Dust	Reggie
1988	A Fish Called Wanda	Hutchison (cameo)
1992	Peter's Friends	Peter Morton
1993	Stalag Luft	James Forrester
1994	IQ	James Moreland
1995	Laughter and Loathing	Juvenal
1995	Cold Comfort Farm	Mybug
1995	The Steal	Wimborne
1996	The Wind in the Willows	The Judge
1997	Wilde	Oscar Wilde	Won – Golden Space Needle Award for Best Actor Nominated – Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor – Motion Picture Drama Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
1997	Spice World	Judge
1997	Live from the Lighthouse	Host
1998	The Tichborne Claimant	Hawkins
1998	A Civil Action	Pinder
1999	Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?	Dr. Peter Robinson
1999	The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything	Ambassador / Modern Man
2000	Best	Frazer Crane
2000	Relative Values	Frederick Crestwell
2000	Sabotage	Lord Wellington
2001	Four Play	Nigel Steele
2001	The Discovery of Heaven	Onno
2001	Gosford Park	Inspector Thompson	Won – Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards for Best Acting Ensemble Won – Florida Film Critics Circle Awards for Best Ensemble Cast Won – Online Film Critics Society Awards for Best Ensemble Won – Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards for Best Acting Ensemble Won – Satellite Award for Outstanding Motion Picture Ensemble Won – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
2002	Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dalí	André Breton
2002	Thunderpants	Sir Anthony Silk
2003	Bright Young Things	Chauffeur
2003	Le Divorce	Piers Janely
2004	Tooth	Pedro
2004	The Life and Death of Peter Sellers	Maurice Woodruff
2004	A Bear Named Winnie	Protheroe the Zookeeper
2005	Tom Brown's Schooldays	Dr. Thomas Arnold
2005	MirrorMask	Librarian
2005	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Narrator (voice) / The Guide (voice)
2005	A Cock and Bull Story	Patrick Curator/Parson Yorick
2006	V for Vendetta	Deitrich
2006	Stormbreaker	Smithers
2007	Eichmann	Minister Tormer
2007	St Trinian's	Himself
2008	Tales of the Riverbank	Owl
2009	House of Boys	Dr. Marsh
2010	Alice in Wonderland	Cheshire the Cheshire Cat	Voice only
2010	Animals United	Socrates
2011	Benjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins	Narrator
2011	Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows	Mycroft Holmes
2011	Summer Night, Winter Moon	Rufus
2012	Clovis Dardentor	Mr. Eustache
2012	Doors Open	Professor Gissing
2013	The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug	Master of Lake Town
2014	The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies	Master of Lake Town
2015	The Man Who Knew Infinity	Sir Francis Spring
2016	Alice Through the Looking Glass	Cheshire the Cheshire Cat	Voice only
2016	Tomorrow	Chris	Filming
2016	Love and Friendship	Cameo

Plays

Year	Play	Notes
1988	The Common Pursuit
1995	Cell Mates

Radio shows

• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Quandary Phase: Murray Bost Henson, BBC Radio 4
• Saturday Night Fry (1988, BBC Radio 4, six episodes)
• A Bit of Fry and Laurie (1994, BBC Radio Four, two half-hour programmes compiled from selected previously-seen sketches from the TV series)
• Absolute Power, BBC Radio Four
• Occasional guest panellist on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, BBC Radio Four
• Regular guest panellist on Just a Minute, BBC Radio Four
• Has a regular slot, The Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music on Classic FM
• Played the lead, David Lander, on Radio 4 series Delve Special
• A series of "wireless essays", supposedly by his alter ego, the elderly Cambridge philology professor Donald Trefusis, were featured in the BBC Radio 4 programme Loose Ends, hosted by Ned Sherrin
• Fry contributed regular parodies of BBC Radio 1's Newsbeat to the same station's arts programme Studio B15
• Afternoon Play: I Love Stephen Fry (2008, BBC Radio Four)
• Fry's English Delight (3 series, 2008–2010, BBC Radio Four)
• Stephen Fry on the Phone (2011, BBC Radio Four, five episodes)

Television programmes

• There's Nothing to Worry About! (1982)
• The Crystal Cube (one-off BBC2 sketch show) (1983)
• Alfresco (1983–84)
• The Young Ones (1984)
• Happy Families (1985)
• Filthy Rich & Catflap (1986)
• The Blackadder Series: Blackadder II (1986), Blackadder the Third (1987), Blackadder: The Cavalier Years and Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988), Blackadder Goes Forth (1989), and Blackadder: Back & Forth (1999)
• Whose Line Is It Anyway? (1988, 1997)
• A Bit of Fry and Laurie (1987 pilot, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1995)
• This is David Lander (1988)
• The New Statesman (1989)
• Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993)
• The Common Pursuit (1992)
• The Thin Blue Line (1995)
• In the Red (1998)
• Watership Down (voice, series 1 and 2 only) (1999–2000)
• Gormenghast (2000)
• QI (2003–2016)
• A Bear Named Winnie (2004)
• Absolute Power (2003, 2005)
• Tom Brown's Schooldays (2005)
• Pocoyo (2005) – an animated children's television programme, which he narrated
• Extras (2006)
• Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive (2006)
• Bones (2007) and (2009)
• Kingdom (2007)
• Shrink Rap (2007);a quasi-therapeutic interview conducted by Pamela Stephenson
• Stephen Fry: HIV and Me (2007)
• Stephen Fry and the Gutenberg Press (2008)
• Stephen Fry in America (2008)
• Last Chance to See (2009)
• Stephen Fry on Wagner (2010)
• Little Crackers (2010) - 10-minute short film
• Fry and Laurie Reunited (2010)
• Stephen Fry's 100 Greatest Gadgets (2011)
• Fry's Planet Word (2011)  -A five-part series in which Stephen Fry explores language, coming to understand how we learn it, write it and sometimes lose it, and why it defines us.
• Derren Brown: The Experiments (2011)
• March of the Dinosaurs (2011)
• Gadget Man (2012) Host
• Stephen Fry's Key to the City (2013)
• Stephen Fry: Out There (2013)
• Hidden Kingdoms (2014)
• 24: Live Another Day (2014)
• Danger Mouse (2015-present) as Colonel K

Audiobooks

• Moab Is My Washpot (1997) ISBN 1-85686-268-2
• Paperweight Volume 1 (1998) ISBN 978-1-85686-296-7
• Harry Potter series, UK versions (1999–2007)
• The Hippopotamus (2000) ISBN 1-84197-129-4
• Montmorency (2004) ISBN 978-1-84440-025-6
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) ISBN 1-4050-5397-6
• Higher Ground Project (2005) ISBN 1-84458-643-X
• The Ode Less Travelled (2006) ISBN 1-85686-842-7
• Paperweight Volume 2 (2007) ISBN 978-1-85686-501-2
• The Best of Paddington on CD: Complete & Unabridged (2008) ISBN 0-00-716169-7
• Stephen Fry Presents a Selection of Anton Chekhov's Short Stories (Unabridged) (2008)
• Stephen Fry Presents a Selection of Oscar Wilde's Short Stories (Unabridged) (2008)
• The Dongle of Donald Trefusis (Podcasts, 2009)
• The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography (2010)

Video games

• LittleBigPlanet – Narrator
• LittleBigPlanet 2 – Narrator
• LittleBigPlanet 3 – Narrator
• LittleBigPlanet PSP – Narrator
• PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale – Narrator
• Fable II – Reaver
• Fable III – Reaver
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Miscellaneous

• Guest appearance in a webcast of Doctor Who called Death Comes to Time, as Time Lord, the Minister of Chance
• He does the voice of the telephone in the Direct Line adverts alongside Paul Merton who voices the mouse.
• Fry introduced the television show Wildlife SOS
• He provided voiceovers for Argos' Christmas adverts in 2007
• He is the character in the Twinings Earl Grey tea adverts on British TV
• He performs the voice of "Jeeves" for Voco Clocks' Clocks That Talk
• He performs on the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's 2007 album, Pour l'Amour des Chiens
• Fry appeared in a video entitled Freedom Fry — "Happy birthday to GNU", celebrating the GNU's 25th birthday.
• He provided his voice for the outro of YouTube videos by Charlie McDonnell, used since 2009
• He recites "50 Words for Snow" off Kate Bush's 2011 album of the same name

Directorial filmography

• Bright Young Things (director, 2003)

External links

• Stephen Fry at IMDb