Awards Host

Stephen Fry Biog

Actor, writer, author, television presenter, film director and self-confessed technophile, Stephen Fry will host the GSMA’s Global Mobile Awards 2010 ceremony at the Mobile World Congress on Tuesday February 16th. Stephen Fry’s television career began in 1982, since which time he has appeared in numerous television series, plays, films and radio broadcasts. Here’s a full biography of appearances…

Performing - Television
Peter Kingdom, Kingdom Series 1, 2 & 3 - ITV1, Dir. Robin Sheppard
Never Mind the Buzzcocks - BBC2, Guest Team Captain
Stephen Fry & The Guttenberg Press - Dir. Patrick McGrady, Wavelength Films
Fry in America – Westpark Pictures
The Machine That Made Us - Wavelength Films, Dir. Patrick McGrady
HIV and Me – BBC2, Dir. Ross Wilson
Gordon Wyatt, Bones – 20th Century Fox, Dir. Various
Himself, Extras Series II – BBC, Dir. Ricky Gervais/Stephen Merchant
The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive – BBC2, Dir. Ross Wilson
Narrator, Pocoyo – Granada/ITV
Who Do You Think Are? – Wall to Wall TV, Dir. Lucy Carter
Dr. Arnold, Tom Brown’s Schooldays – ITV, Dir. David Moore
Charles Prentiss, Absolute Power – BBC, Dir. John Morton
Derek, Fortysomething – Carlton, Dir. Hugh Laurie
QI – Talkback/BBC, Presenter
Paddington Bear Goes to Peru – O.R Media, Presenter
Andres Burson, Surrealissimo – BBC, Dir. Richard Curson Smith
Professor Belgrove, Gormenghast – BBC, Dir. Andy Wilson
Sir Kenhelm Digby, Longitude – Granada, Dir. Charles Sturridge
Cowslip, Watership Down – YTV, Dir. Troy Sullivan
James Forrester, Stalag Luft – Yorkshire television, Dir. Adrian Shergold
Humphrey Taylor, Common Pursuit – BBC, Dir. Christopher Morohan
Jeeves, Jeeves & Wooster – Granada
Melchett, Blackadder Goes Forth – BBC, Richard Boden
Daniel Davenport, Old Flames – BBC, Christopher Morohan
A Bit of Fry and Laurie – BBC
Anything More Would be Greedy – Anglia TV, Dir. Rodney Bennett
David Lander, This Is David Lander – Channel 4, Dir. Graham Dixon
The Tube – Channel 4, Guest
Filthy Rich & Catflap – BBC, Dir. Ed Bye/Paul Jackson
Chances in a Million – Channel 4, Dir. Michael Mills
Saturday Live – Channel 4
Dr. De Quicy, Happy Families – BBC, Dir. Paul Jackson
Melchett, Blackadder – BBC, Dir. Various
The Crystal Cube – BBC, Dir. John Kilby
The Young Ones – BBC
Alfresco – Granada, Dir. Stuart Orme

Performing - Film
Himself, St. Trinians – Mayhem Films, Dir. Oliver Parker
Minister Tomer, Eichmann – GP Films One Ltd, Dir. Robert Young
Voice of Owl, Tales From The Riverbank – Riverbank The Movie Ltd., Dir. John Henderson
Smithers, Stormbreaker – Samuelson Stormbreaker I.O.M
Gordon, V for Vendetta – Warner Bros, Dir. James McTeigue
Voice of the Guide, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Everymen/Touchstone, Dir. Garth Jennings
Patrick/Yorick, A Cock and Bull Story – Revolution Films, Dir. Michael Winterbottom
Pedro, Tooth – Tooth Films, Eduard Nammour
Maurice Woodruff, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers – Labrador Films, Dir. Stephen Hopkins
Piers Janely, Le Divorce – Merchant Ivory, Dir. James Ivory
Inspector Thompson, Gosford Park – Capitol Films, Dir. Robert Altman
Onno, The Discovery of Heaven – Mulholland Pictures, Dir. Jeroen Krabbe
Sir Anthony Silk, Thunderpants – Mission Pictures, Dir. Peter Hewitt
Wellington, Sabbotage! – Spice Factory/Cine B, Dir. Brothers Ibarretxie
Dr Peter Robinson, Whatever Happened to Harold Smith – October Films, Dir. Peter Hewitt
Nigel Steele, Fourplay – Sunlight Productions, Dir. Mike Binder
Pinder, A Civil Action – Paramount Pictures, Steven Zaillian
Frazer Cranne, Best – Best Films Ltd, Mary McGuckian
Hawkins, The Tichbourne Claimant – Bigger Picture Company, Dir. David Yates
Judge, Spice World – Columbia Pictures, Bob Spiers
Oscar Wilde, Wilde – Samuelson Pictures, Dir. Brian Gilbert
The Judge, Wind in the Willows – Allied Filmmakers, Dir. Terry Jones
Wimbourne, The Steal – Poseidon Pictures, Dir. John Hay
Mybug, Cold Comfort Farm – BBC Films, Dir. John Schlesinger
James Moreland, I.Q. – Paramount Pictures, Dir. Fred Schepisi
Peter, Peter’s Friends – Renaissance Films, Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Hatchison, A Fish Called Wanda – MGM, Dir. Charles Chrichton
Reggie, A Handful of Dust – Compact Yellowball, Dir. Charles Sturridge
Creighton, The Good Father – Channel 4 Films, Dir. Mike Newell

Performing - Radio
Saturday Night Fry – BBC Radio
Loose Ends – BBC Radio
Incomplete & Utter History of Classical Music – Classic fm

Performing - Theatre
Forty Years On – Chichester Festival Theatre/West End
The Common Pursuit – Phoenix Theatre London



Writing - Television/Film
Dr. Who - BBC
The Magic Flute – screenplay
Bright Young Things – Adaptation of Vile Bodies by Evelyn Wauch
A Bit of Fry and Laurie (3 Series) – BBC
Saturday Night Live – LWT
Mastermind – BBC
Me and My Girl – Revisions and Adaptations
Orlando Drake Story – Video Arts
The Crystal Cube – BBC
Gossip – Dir. Don Boyd
Not the Nine O’Clock News - BBC
The Cambridge Footlights – BBC

Writing - Radio
Saturday Night Fry – BBC Radio
Delve Special - BBC Radio
Loose Ends – BBC Radio
Frybeat – BBC Radio
Extra Dry Sherrin – BBC Radio

Writing - Literary
The Ode Less Travelled – Unlocking the Poet Within
The Stars’ Tennis Balls
Moab is my Washpot
Making History
Hippopotamus
Paperweight
The Liar

Writing - Journalism
The Daily Telegraph
The Listener
The Independent
Tatler
London Illustrated News



Directing - Film
Bright Young Things