Stephen Fry products
Quicklinks
Top Links
biographyby votesawardsNewsDeskmessage boardFilmographies
overviewby typeby yearby ratingsby votesby TV series awards by genre by keywordBiographical
biography other works publicity photo galleryTwitterblogNewsDeskmessage boardExternal Links
official sites miscellaneous photographs sound clips video clipsNews for
Stephen Fry (I) More at IMDbPro »
2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998
1-20 of 220 items from 2012 « Prev | Next »
Stephen Fry Pays Tribute To Dietrich Fischer-dieskau
25 May 2012 5:11 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
British actor Stephen Fry has paid tribute to Dietrich Fischer-dieskau, hailing the famed German classical singer/conductor as "simply remarkable".
The baritone, once called the "most influential singer of the 20th Century", died in his sleep at his home in Berg, Germany on 18 May.
Fry grew up listening to Fischer-Dieskau's music, and has written a blog post remembering the singer after learning of his death.
He writes, "I know of course that he had to die some time, but I never thought it would be soon. Heavens, he had reached his 87th year and had every right to leave the party. It is just that I can't remember a time when his voice hasn't been a part of my life and the idea of his not being on the planet is going to take a bit of getting used to.
"When did I first hear that miraculous instrument? My father often had him playing on his gramophone or wireless set. It must have been around the age of seven or eight when I first became fascinated with this tenor who wasn't quite a baritone and this baritone who wasn't quite a tenor. He was one of a simply remarkable generation of German musicians who straddled the war years... and who quite simply transformed the way music was recorded in studios." »
TV highlights 24/05/2012
23 May 2012 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Planet Earth Live | The Fish Market: Inside Billingsgate | Freddie Flintoff Goes Wild | Don't Trust The B**** In Apartment 23 | Grandma's House | House
8pm, BBC1
The general consensus on this globe-trotting nature show, fronted by Richard Hammond and Countryfile's Julia Bradbury, has been largely negative, with Hammond criticised for cracking jokes rather than getting to grips with the subject. Tonight's instalment brings the series to a close with speculation about the future of the animals involved. Considering the scorn the show has received, maybe it should go out quietly before people start asking how much it cost. Ben Arnold
The Fish Market: Inside Billingsgate
9pm, BBC2
The way of doing things at the London fish market of Billingsgate has essentially been unchanged since Elizabethan times: "tenants", or fish merchants, trade from 2am, but fish may not be moved until a bell rings at 5am – and then only by licensed fish porters. »
- Ben Arnold, John Robinson, Clare Considine, Ali Catterall
Hold that tweet! Artists should stick to the day job
23 May 2012 7:25 AM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
If Spartacus Chetwynd wins the Turner prize, let her not become a public wit and celebrity aesthete – we have enough of those
Down the centuries, very few great artists have doubled up as pundits. No one remembers Caravaggio's tweets. The newspaper columns that Picasso wrote for a Barcelona newspaper in the 1900s, commenting on such matters as the silliness of modern architecture (it's so Gaudi!) are forgotten. (Warning to exam candidates: these facts are phoney.)
Yet a curious phenomenon of 21st-century British art is the eloquent dandy, the artist who is famous for making public remarks. I think there is too much dandified artistic punditry around, which is why I am a bit worried about what will happen if Spartacus Chetwynd wins the Turner prize. I like her work, and that's saying a lot because I usually hate performance art. But I fear that if she wins she will be »
- Jonathan Jones
Galifanakis, Bobin Set For "Dunces"
23 May 2012 6:31 AM, PDT | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
After several decades stuck in development hell, the plans to turn John Kennedy Toole’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "A Confederacy of Dunces" may finally have a chance at Paramount Pictures says Vulture.
Set in New Orleans in the early 1960s, the story follows an educated but slothful 30-year-old man living with his mother who must set out to get a job. In his quest for employment he has various adventures with colorful French Quarter characters.
The latest names attached to the project are "The Muppets" director James Bobin, "Cedar Rapids" scribe Phil Johnston and "The Hangover" actor Zach Galifianakis who're in either negotiations or are already attached to the project in those capacities. Scott Rudin is already set to produce.
Amongst the famous names to have been attached over the years are actors like John Belushi, John Candy, Richard Pryor, Chris Farley, John Goodman, Will Ferrell, Drew Barrymore, Alan Cumming, »
- Garth Franklin
5 Best & 5 Worst Us TV Remakes
23 May 2012 1:49 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
For years, the UK and the Us have swapped TV formats around as a simple way of gaining new ideas and building on established successes.
Just recently we’ve seen HBO and Armando Iannucci putting a presidential spin on The Thick of It with Veep, while John Leguizamo is all set for a cushty role as Del Boy in an upcoming remake of Only Fools and Horses.
While many UK to Us remakes have managed to successfully avoid being lost in translation, others have sadly proved that sometimes you simply can’t recapture the same magic twice. Join us as we take a look at the 5 best and the 5 worst, Us TV remakes.
The Best 5. Shameless
When it was first announced that Paul Abbot’s gritty council estate drama was making the jump to the Us, no one could quite believe how any remake could successfully replicate the same mix »
- Stephen Leigh
The Things They Tweet:
22 May 2012 9:11 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
"Deeply dark distraught and distressed as I somehow lost my wallet between London and Cambridge yesterday. Reward!" British funnyman Stephen Fry is offering up a reward for the safe return of his wallet. »
Rupert Everett Directs An Oscar Wilde Biopic
21 May 2012 8:38 PM, PDT | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Actor Rupert Everett is set to make his directorial debut on "The Happy Prince", a comedic biopic on legendary writer and playwright Oscar Wilde, for Cine Plus, Bavaria Pictures, Robert Fox and Bavaria Media says Screen Daily.
Everett penned the script and will star in the film as Wilde while Colin Firth will play Wilde's friend and confidant Reginald "Reggie" Turner. Emily Watson, Tom Wilkinson and Edward Fox are also attached to play roles.
The story is set in Wilde’s tragic final days as he looks back on the disasters of his life with characteristic dry wit and black humor. Shooting will take place next Summer.
Wilde's life was most famously adapted for the screen before in 1997's "Wilde" starring Stephen Fry as the author and a stellar supporting cast including Jude Law, Tom Wilkinson, Michael Sheen, Vanessa Redgrave, Ioan Gruffudd and Orlando Bloom.
Everett and Firth »
- Garth Franklin
Rupert Everett Goes (Oscar) Wilde
21 May 2012 5:09 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
The story of playwright, raconteur and controversial figure Oscar Wilde has been recounted before on the big screen, most notably in 1997’s Wilde, which saw Stephen Fry in the lead. Now Rupert Everett is aiming to get his own take on the man’s story into cinemas, writing, directing and starring in The Happy Prince.Everett has rounded up a great cast that includes such British stalwarts as Colin Firth, Edward Fox, Emily Watson and Tom Wilkinson. We assume the latter is apparently contractually obliged to appear in every film about Wilde, since he’s also in the 1997 effort.The Happy Prince is described as a comedy with tragic undertones that follows Wilde’s final days and has the author / genius observing his own failure with his trademark brand of wit and ironic distance. It’s far from Everett’s first brush with the man, since he’s long been »
Weekend Meme: NAACP Endorses Marriage Equality, Adam Lambert Teases "Ncoe" Music Video, and Raven-Symone Responds To Rumors
20 May 2012 12:32 AM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
Ryan Reynolds is in final discussions to play the title role in the reboot of Highlander. I used to love the television show, but this feels like another unnecessary reboot.
The NAACP has passed a resolution supporting marriage equality. “Civil marriage is a civil right and a matter of civil law,” says NAACP president Benjamin Todd Jealous.
As the Facebook Ipo fizzled (funny how a magic $100 billion appearing is a fizzle), Bono was reportedly set to reap a lot of money through his Elevation Partners, which purchased 2.3% of the company two years ago. Word was, he'd become the world's richest musician, surpassing Sir Paul McCartney's $1 billion net worth. But Bono says that the stock is owned by many partners, and the news of his ascension to billionaire is grossly exaggerated.
As sentencing approaches for Dharun Ravi in the death of Tyler Clementi, support for leniency is appearing from many gay voices, »
- lostinmiami
Bafta TV special: Jo Brand, Charlie Higson and Rebecca Front
19 May 2012 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Stars of the small screen reveal their TV secrets
The stand up: Jo Brand
Jo Brand bats away the suggestion that she's a national treasure. "To me that's someone who has a global reach, like Helen Mirren, or someone who's extremely good, like Stephen Fry. I don't have that. I've just calmed down a bit, and that's only because once I had children I was so bloody knackered I could be nothing but calm." Though her audience has widened as she's written novels, appeared on panel shows and acted in the superlative comedy Getting On, Brand says she's planning to go back to stand-up. "The world has become a horrible place for women again and I want to be gobby about it." Before then, though, she's very happy to talk about TV. "I had aspirational working-class parents who thought you shouldn't let your kids watch crap on telly. If my »
- Alice Fisher
Bafta TV special: Jo Brand, Charlie Higson and Rebecca Front
19 May 2012 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Stars of the small screen reveal their TV secrets
The stand up: Jo Brand
Jo Brand bats away the suggestion that she's a national treasure. "To me that's someone who has a global reach, like Helen Mirren, or someone who's extremely good, like Stephen Fry. I don't have that. I've just calmed down a bit, and that's only because once I had children I was so bloody knackered I could be nothing but calm." Though her audience has widened as she's written novels, appeared on panel shows and acted in the superlative comedy Getting On, Brand says she's planning to go back to stand-up. "The world has become a horrible place for women again and I want to be gobby about it." Before then, though, she's very happy to talk about TV. "I had aspirational working-class parents who thought you shouldn't let your kids watch crap on telly. If my »
- Alice Fisher
Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry Lend Voices To The Canterville Ghost
19 May 2012 9:00 AM, PDT | GeekTyrant | See recent GeekTyrant news »
If you only know Hugh Laurie from his work on the Fox series House, you'd be forgiven for not knowing that he's actually an Englishman. Now that House is coming to an end, The Hollywood Reporter says Laurie is teaming with former comedy cohort Stephen Fry for a new animated film based on Oscar Wilde's story, The Canterville Ghost.
Fry stars as the title character, Sir Simon de Canterville, a 300 year old ghost, while Laurie stars as his nemesis, a lowly gardener who is revealed to be Death himself. Set in rural England at the end of the nineteenth century, it tells the tale of Canterville who, for hundreds of years has been haunting Canterville Chase. Everything changes when an American family - the Otises from Boston - buys Canterville Chase and moves in.
Sounds like a typical haunting comedy (Beetlejuice, etc.), but with Laurie taking a turn from »
- benp
Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry Reunite For Animated Adaptation of ‘The Canterville Ghost’
19 May 2012 9:00 AM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
With the series finale of House, M.D. almost upon us, Hugh Laurie is poised to move away from the small screen and back into theaters. He has Andrew Adamson‘s Mister Pip scheduled for release some time this year and now, reports surface that he and Stephen Fry, are going to finally reunite after 13 years for the CGI animated film The Canterville Ghost. [Fry's Twitter via Empire]
An adaptation of Oscar Wilde‘s classic short story, the film will feature Fry as Sir Simon de Canterville, a 300-year-old ghost, and Laurie as a lowly gardener who is actually Death in disguise. For those unfamiliar with it, Canterville Ghost is the story of Canterville who, for hundreds of years has been haunting Canterville Chase. Everything changes when an American family – the Otises from Boston – buys Canterville Chase and moves in.
Though the story has been adapted many times in the past, this will be »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Cate Blanchett to star in lesbian drama
18 May 2012 4:11 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Patricia Highsmith novel to be adapted for big screen; and Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie to reunite in animation
Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska are to play the leads in a film version of Patricia Highsmith's lesbian classic Carol, adapted by Phyllis Nagy and directed by John Crowley.
The novel, first published in 1952 under a pseudonym, dared to suggest a happy ending for the lovers at the heart of the tale, rather than the doom usually served up at the time to homosexual women in fiction.
Lesbian romances remain thin on the ground in mainstream cinema, but the film's producer Elizabeth Karlsen said: "We've come a long way since Dirk Bogarde starred in Victim. We've had Brokeback Mountain, A Single Man, Far From Heaven – and President Obama came out in support of gay marriage."
Blanchett, who has recently been starring in Botho Strauss's play Big and Small at the Barbican theatre in London, »
- Charlotte Higgins
Day three - live!
18 May 2012 2:10 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
All the latest news, reviews, comment and buzz from the Croisette
10.04am: Day three of Cannes 2012 rolls round. If you want to catch up with what happened yesterday (whenever that was), here's yesterday's blow-by-blow live blog.
But as is the way with Cannes, it's history already; all that's left is to pick over the bones. And that will assuredly be happening in the video we'll post later this morning, when Peter, Xan and Catherine run the rule over Rust and Bone, last night's biggie. We'll also have a gallery of red carpet pictures, featuring star Marion Cotillard and ice-cold director Jacques Audiard. (I've said it before, I'll say it again: he's the person I want to be when I grow up.)
So what to look forward to today? The line-up is perhaps a tad less starry that on days one and two: the competition films are Reality, from Italian director »
- Andrew Pulver
Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry Reunite to Get Animated in The Canterville Ghost
18 May 2012 10:17 AM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Hugh Laurie (House M.D.) and Stephen Fry (V for Vendetta) will lend their voices to the animated Oscar Wilde adaptation, The Canterville Ghost. Wilde's novella, set in late 1800s rural England, tells of the Otises, an American family that moves in to Canterville Chase, an old country house. Sir Simon de Canterville (Fry) has been haunting the residence for hundreds of years alongside his resident nemesis, Death (Laurie) in the guise of a lowly gardener. Comedic stars of the 80s and 90s series, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, the duo have collaborated on a number of projects; this will be their first such reunion in 13 years. Hit the jump for more on The Canterville Ghost. THR reports that Kim Burdon is set to direct the animated project from an adaptation by Keiron Self and Giles New, both of That Mitchell and Webb Look. The Wilde novella has been »
- Dave Trumbore
Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry Reunite for Animated 'Canterville Ghost'
18 May 2012 8:59 AM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
With the long-running medical drama series "House M.D." coming to an end next week, I'm hoping that means Hugh Laurie will have more time for feature films. He's lent his voice to films like Hop, Monsters vs. Aliens and Arthur Christmas recently (since voice roles are considerably less time consuming when hiatus between seasons of a TV show), and he's adding another one to the mix. However, this time THR reports Laurie will reunite with his old comedy cohort Stephen Fry for the first time in 13 years to lend their voices to an animated film called The Canterville Ghost, an adaptation of Oscar Wilde's short story. The two made quite the name for themselves in their comedy series "A Bit of Fry and Laurie" and now they'll star opposite each other with Fry playing the title character, Sir Simon de Canterville, a 300 year old ghost, while Laurie voices his »
- Ethan Anderton
Hugh Laurie Says Goodbye To 'House'
17 May 2012 8:24 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
New York — It will be painful saying goodbye to "House."
The Fox medical drama concludes its eight-season run Monday with a series finale at 9 p.m. Edt, preceded by a one-hour retrospective. And with that, Hugh Laurie will be done as the show's abrasive champion, Dr. Gregory House – unless, Laurie adds with a laugh, "someone comes up with an idea for a stage musical."
"I feel a huge satisfaction that we got to the end with our dignity intact," he declares. "I never felt that we did anything that wasn't true to the character or the show – like, `House gets a puppy.' I think that's quite an achievement."
No doubt. Sure, the medical mysteries that formed the core of most episodes inevitably grew a bit formulaic as the seasons piled up. (Didn't each week's patient always seem to start bleeding from a different orifice, bafflingly and life-threateningly, right on cue before each commercial break? »
- AP
Hugh Laurie Says Goodbye To 'House'
17 May 2012 8:11 AM, PDT | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
New York — It will be painful saying goodbye to "House."
The Fox medical drama concludes its eight-season run Monday with a series finale at 9 p.m. Edt, preceded by a one-hour retrospective. And with that, Hugh Laurie will be done as the show's abrasive champion, Dr. Gregory House – unless, Laurie adds with a laugh, "someone comes up with an idea for a stage musical."
"I feel a huge satisfaction that we got to the end with our dignity intact," he declares. "I never felt that we did anything that wasn't true to the character or the show – like, `House gets a puppy.' I think that's quite an achievement."
No doubt. Sure, the medical mysteries that formed the core of most episodes inevitably grew a bit formulaic as the seasons piled up. (Didn't each week's patient always seem to start bleeding from a different orifice, bafflingly and life-threateningly, right on cue before each commercial break? »
- AP
Fry & Laurie Re-Team For Wilde's "Ghost"
16 May 2012 5:41 AM, PDT | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry, before they went on to become an American TV star and a British national treasure respectively, were best known for their work together as a comedic team back in the 80's be it their own sketch show to their memorable turns in "Blackadder".
Now the duo are reuniting for an adaptation of Oscar Wilde's "The Canterville Ghost" in which they'll be voicing characters. Fry himself broke the news through his Twitter feed (via Empire) saying "M'coll Hugh & I will be working together to voice the new animated feature of Oscar Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost."
Melmoth Films is currently seeking financing for the project which "That Mitchell And Webb Look" co-writers Keiron Self and Giles New are adapting. »
- Garth Franklin
2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998
1-20 of 220 items from 2012 « Prev | Next »
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.
See our NewsDesk partners
Copyright © 1990-2012
IMDb.com, Inc.
Terms and Privacy Policy under which this service is provided to you.
An 
company.