The Fry Chronicles

  Citizen Smith (TV programme), 215

  City Limits (magazine), 208, 299

  Clarke, Alan, 249

  Clarke, John Cooper, 114-15

  Clarke, Kenneth, 101

  Clary, Julian, 392

  Cleese, John, 70-1, 121, 262, 271, 390

  Cocteau, Jean, 7

  Coe, Sebastian, Baron, 147

  coffee, 20-1

  Cohan, George M., 410

  Collinge, Roger, 325

  Colour Supplement, The (radio programme), 330, 332

  Coltrane, Robbie: in Five Go Mad in Dorset, 214, 245; background and character, 230-1; plays in Alfresco, 239, 241, 298; and motor cars, 369; seduction technique, 402-3

  Comedy Store see London Comedy Store

  Comic Relief, 390

  Comic Strip Presents ... Five Go Mad in Dorset (TV show), 245

  Conley, Brian, 415

  Connolly, Billy, 391

  Coogan, Steve, 369

  Cook, Peter, 70-1, 121, 209, 271

  Cook, Roger, 331-2

  Cooke, Alistair, 95, 182-5

  Cooper, Tommy, 207, 209, 346

  Corbett, Ronnie, 209

  Coren, Alan, 300, 305, 317-18

  Coren, Giles, 319

  Corvo, Baron (Frederick Rolfe), 26; Hadrian the Seventh (stage version), 106

  Cosmo, Tony, 237

  Cotton, Bill, 258, 376

  Covent Garden Opera, 165

  Coward, Sir Noel, 1, 57

  Cranmer, Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, 70

  Crocker, Jo (nee Fry; SF's sister), 134, 156

  Cromwell, Oliver, 70

  Cronyn, Hume, 417

  Crosby, Annette, 336, 344

  Cross, Ben, 147

  Cryer, Barry, 210

  Crystal Cube, The (proposed TV programme), 297, 409

  Cundall Manor (prep school), North Yorkshire, 31-43, 105-6, 123

  Curtis, Richard: as Oxford man, 71; performs with Rowan Atkinson in Edinburgh, 130; writes and performs for Not the Nine O'Clock News, 207, 209; collaborates on Blackadder, 372-5, 381, 383-4, 388-90; proposes Comic Relief, 390

  Dad's Army (TV programme), 376

  Dalton, Buddy, 202

  Dambusters raid (1943), 59-60

  Darin, Bobby, 216

  Darwin, Charles, 70

  Davies, John, 143, 153

  Davies, John Howard, 374

  Davis, Bette, 47

  Deegan, Denise: Daisy Pulls it Off (play), 346

  de Jong, Nicholas, 156, 202

  Delve Special (radio programme), 331-2

  Dench, Dame Judi, 90

  Dennis, Les, 415

  Diana, Princess of Wales, 201

  Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes, 69

  Dirty Harry (film), 406

  Dorchester Hotel, London, 186-8

  Draughtsman's Contract, The (film), 250

  Draycott Place, Chelsea, 220

  Dunhill (company), 54

  Duvitski, Janine, 332

  Dwyer, Penny, 190, 214

  Dylan, Bob: Basement Tapes, 192

  Eastwood, Clint, 270

  Eddington, Paul, 272, 335, 338-9, 345-6, 351

  Edinburgh Festival: SF performs at Fringe, 122, 124-7, 152, 155-6, 197

  Edis, Steve, 187

  Edmonds, Noel, 334

  Edmondson, Ade, 45, 209, 214, 239, 246, 364-5

  Edwards, Jimmy, 102

  Electric Voodoo (Footlights revue), 156

  Elizabeth the Queen Mother: insurance on life, 116-21

  Elliott, Denholm, 348

  Elms, Robert, 332

  Elton, Ben: and Alfresco, 20, 238-41; Alexei Sayle's hostility to, 206; background, 209; and new comedy, 209; co-writes and plays in The Young Ones, 210-11, 214, 245-7; co-writes There's Nothing to Worry About, 228-9; work rate, 228, 240, 295, 297, 364, 372; Armitage disapproves of, 229; political views, 295; and Filthy Rich and Catflap, 296; as stand-up comedian, 365, 415; co-writes Blackadder, 372-6, 381, 383-4, 388-9; character and manner, 373-4, 377; friendship with SF, 377-82; hosts Saturday Live, 402

  Emery, Dick, 209

  Enfield, Harry, 332, 394-5, 402, 415

  Equity membership, 256

  Eton College, 147-8

  European Theatre Group, 134-5

  Evershed-Martin, Leslie, 336

  Extra Dry Sherrin (radio programme), 330

  Eyre, Harry, 134

  Eyre, Sir Richard, 108

  Face the Facts (radio programme), 331-2

  Face, The (magazine), 299

  Falklands War (1982), 294, 328

  Farrar, Robert, 141

  Farson, Daniel, 330

  Fawcett, Richard, 91

  Fawlty Towers (TV programme), 218, 376

  Feldman, Marty, 215

  Ferguson, Craig, 276

  Filthy Rich and Catflap (sitcom), 296

  Five Go Mad in Dorset (film), 214

  Fleming, Ian: The Man With the Golden Gun, 38

  Fletcher, Mandy, 382-3, 388

  Foale, Michael, 131-2

  Footlights Club: status, 44; May Week Review, 121; Hugh Laurie's Presidency, 166-9, 172, 177, 186-8, 190, 192-3; qualities and performances, 172-4; performs at premiere of Chariots of Fire, 186-7; wins Perrier Award, 199, 202, 210; see also Nightcap revue

  Ford, Anna, 307

  Forster, E.M., 69, 71, 307

  Forsyth, Bruce, 209

  Fortune, John, 336, 344

  Fosse, Bob, 420

  Fowler, (Sir) Norman, 101

  Fraser, Lady Antonia, 46-7

  Frayn, Michael, 268

  Freestone, Sue, 371

  French, Dawn, 209, 214, 296, 332

  Freud, Emma, 332-3

  Friedrich, Gotz, 165

  Frost, (Sir) David, 52, 121, 258, 262, 329

  Frost, Steve, 365

  Fry, Jo (SF's sister) see Crocker, Jo

  Fry, Roger (SF's brother), 287-8

  Fry, Stephen: writing style, 2; infancy, 5-7; physical limitations, 5; addiction to sugar, 6-8, 10-11, 14-17, 19; birth, 7; schooling, 11-15, 18, 26; childhood stealing, 17, 19; dental problems, 19; expelled from Uppingham, 19, 33; gives up sugar in coffee, 20-1; corrects obesity by diet and exercise, 21-3; smoking, 23-30, 33-4, 37-40, 50, 56-8; imprisoned in young offenders institution, 27-30, 360; succumbs to temptation, 28-9; sentenced to two years' probation, 30; wins Cambridge scholarship, 30; teaches in private school (Cundall Manor), 31-43, 105-6, 123; hair style, 34, 80; administers corporal punishment to schoolboy, 40-2; gives up smoking, 53-6, 58-9, 62-3, 424; first visits to USA, 59-60, 409-22; writer's block overcome by smoking, 61-2; travel series on USA, 63; at Cambridge, 65, 67-9, 72-84, 89-90, 101-2, 106-7, 110-13, 122, 149, 157-61; appearance and dress, 80, 157, 380; musical taste, 82-3; examination results at Cambridge, 85-6, 122, 191-2; greed for knowledge, 87-8; on becoming an actor, 90-6; speaking confidence, 92; youthful love-making, 102; acting at Cambridge, 106-9, 113-16, 121-2, 124, 134, 152-3, 163-4, 188-9; performs at Edinburgh Festival, 122, 124-7, 152, 155-6, 197-8; asthma attacks, 123; shares college room with Kim Harris, 130-1, 157; parents accept being gay, 134; tours with European Theatre Group, 134-6; TV appearance on University Challenge, 137-40; writes first play for Mark McCrum, 141-2; writes sketches at Cambridge, 144; as film extra in Chariots of Fire, 145-8; as Kim Harris's lover, 160; serves on college committees, 161-3; writes scripts with Hugh Laurie, 166-9, 194; affinity with Hugh Laurie, 168-71, 295; ambitions, 175; sells sketch to BBC's Not the Nine O'Clock News, 180-1; degree (2:1), 191; graduation ceremony, 195; radio appearances, 197; wins Perrier Award for The Cellar Tapes, 199; leaves Cambridge, 201; tours Australia with revue, 203-5; on comic gift, 211-13, 246; self consciousness and insecurity, 212-14, 222-7, 276-8; on gay scene and identity, 221-2, 225-6; cyclothymia (bipolarity), 224; writes and performs for Granada TV, 227-9, 238-41, 247-9; fascination with computers and technology, 232-3, 341-2, 360-1, 363, 367-70; appears in Whitbread advertisement, 234-8; debts, 234; earnings, 236-7, 359-61, 368; exuberant behaviour, 241-2; unmusicality and inability to sing, 243-4, 397-402; driving and
car ownership, 244-5, 355, 363, 407-8; rewrites film script of Gossip, 250-2; Equity membership, 256; writes book for Me and My Girl musical, 266-9, 271, 338, 342, 349, 374; plays Tempest in Alan Bennett's Forty Years On, 271-5, 295, 325, 336, 338-9, 344-6, 350; on shared habits and comedy, 278-80; desire for celebrity, 280-9; commercial voiceovers, 291-2; contributes to Listener, 299-300, 317-18, 353; Sondheim utilizes fax machine, 300-5; reviews for Tatler magazine (as Williver Hendry), 308-18; desire to please and be liked, 311; celibacy, 320, 324-5; as workaholic, 321-2; love of radio, 325-35; takes flat in Regent Square, 340; moves to house in Southgate Road, 352; film role in The Good Father, 354; political views, 356-7; extravagance and improvidence, 360-4; buys country house in Norfolk, 362-3; buys share of Dalston house, 365; in comedy duo with Hugh Laurie, 365, 391-7, 414, 424; membership of London clubs, 377-9; part in Blackadder, 381-2, 387-9; occasional interest in women, 388; visits Australia for production of Me and My Girl, 391; treated by clinical hypnotist for musical blockage, 398-400; public image, 407-9; in New York, 409-22; takes cocaine, 425

  Furber, Douglas, 268

  Gabbitas and Thring (scholastic agency), 31

  Gabor, Zsa Zsa, 330

  Gale, John, 271, 273-4

  Gambon, Michael, 353

  Gardhouse, Ian, 329-30, 332, 334, 360

  Garland, Patrick, 271, 273-4, 337, 339, 342

  Garrick Club, London, 345

  Garrick Theatre, London, 271, 273-4

  Gascoigne, Bamber, 139

  Gay News: reviews SF as Oscar Wilde, 144

  Gay, Noel see Armitage, Reginald

  Gay Related Immune Deficiency (GRID), 221

  Gielgud, Sir John, 147, 272, 335

  Gilbey, Mgr Alfred, 378

  Globe Theatre, London, 346

  Goebbels, Joseph, 57

  Goldman, William, 196

  Good Father, The (film), 353-5

  Good Life, The (TV sitcom), 336

  Goodall, Howard, 130, 259, 262

  Gossip (unfinished film), 250-3, 268, 271

  Granada Television, 137-8, 197-8, 210-11, 227, 231, 238-40

  Grant, David, 154

  Grant, Jo, 182

  Gray, Dame Beryl, 46

  Gray, Simon: drinking and smoking, 44-5, 50, 57; reaction to John Gordon Sinclair's lie, 48-9; interrupts SF's outdoor filming, 51-2; watches cricket, 52; death from cancer, 53; Cell Mates, 51-2; The Common Pursuit, 44, 46, 48-9; The Smoking Diaries, 50

  Green, Richard Lancelyn, 49

  Greenaway, Peter, 250

  Greene, Graham: England Made Me, 325

  Gregory, Gillian, 349

  Groucho Club, London, 406

  Gummer, John Selwyn, 101

  Gutteridge, Jilly, 249-50

  Hailsham, Quintin Hogg, Baron, 381-2

  Hall, Sir Peter, 108

  Hamilton, Lorraine, 234, 259, 265, 291

  Hampton, Christopher, 353

  Hanrahan, Brian, 328

  Happy Families (TV drama series), 228, 364, 372

  Hardy, Thomas, 137

  Hare, David, 52

  Hare, Doris, 336, 340, 351

  Harris, Kim: at Cambridge with SF, 80-2, 99, 102-3, 130-4, 145, 148-9, 157, 164, 195; as SF's lover, 160, 320; on Footlights committee, 172, 177; plays Dame in The Snow Queen, 175; in Footlights sketches, 180-1; shares Chelsea flat with SF, 220; and gay scene, 227; wealth and generosity, 234; with new partner, 320; celebrates SF's 30th birthday, 424

  Hart, Charles, 176

  Hartell, Paul, 160

  Harty, Russell, 258, 338, 351-2

  Harwood, (Sir) Ronald, 52-3

  Hat Trick (production company), 403-4

  Have I Got News for You (TV programme), 404

  Havers, Nigel, 147

  Hawaii, 63

  Hawthorne, Nigel, 345

  Heath, (Sir) Edward, 356

  Heaven's Gate (film), 145

  Hemuss (prep schoolmaster), 399-400

  Henry, Lenny, 392-3

  Heraclitus, 84

  Hewison, Robert: Monty Python: The Case Against, 71

  Higgins, Anthony, 250

  Higson, Charlie, 366, 394

  Hill, Benny, 207, 209

  Hitler, Adolf, 57, 185

  Hobson, Sir Harold, 258

  Hoffman, Dustin, 351

  Hoffnung, Gerard, 394

  Holland, Peter, 191

  Holmes, Sherlock (fictional character), 19, 27, 56-7

  Hopkins, Sir Anthony, 354

  Hordern, Sir Michael, 254

  Horovitch, David, 344, 347, 351

  Horrie, Lew, 3

  Howe, Geoffrey, Baron, 101

  Howman, Karl, 415

  Huckstep, Nigel, 160-1

  Hudson, Hugh, 147, 234, 237

  Huggins, Dave, 79, 115

  Hugo, Victor, 56

  Hytner, Nicholas, 108

  Idle, Eric, 71, 121, 177

  Independent (newspaper), 55-6

  Ingrams, Richard, 47

  Irving, George S., 416

  Izzard, Eddie, 393

  Jackson, Fran, 60

  Jackson, Paul, 364-5, 372, 391

  Jackson, Peter, 59

  Jackson, Richard, 254-5

  Jacobi, (Sir) Derek, 108, 135

  Jagger, (Sir) Mick, 270

  James, Clifton, 359

  Jandl, Ernst, 157

  Jarman, Derek, 249

  Jarvis, Martin, 291

  Jason, (Sir) David, 217, 291, 293

  Jay, Tony, 345

  Jayston, Michael, 291

  Jensen, David 'Kid', 328

  Joe Allen's (restaurant), 351

  Johns, Martin, 269

  Jones, Griff Rhys, 121, 180, 209, 247

  Jones, Terry, 71, 129

  Jongleurs, Clapham (comedy venue), 392

  Jonson, Ben: Volpone, 163-4

  Jorisch, Robert, 10

  Joseph, Keith, Baron, 295

  Joseph, Michael, 398-400

  Keith, Penelope, 336

  Kelly, Katie, 167-8, 172, 177, 301, 342, 353, 363, 365

  Kemp-Welch, Noel, 34

  Kennedy, Robert F., 184

  Kenya, 109

  Keynes, John Maynard, Baron, 69

  Kick Up the Eighties, A (TV show), 246

  Kilby, John, 219, 297

  Kingdom (TV series), 63, 175

  Kipling, Rudyard, 134

  Kirk (school prefect), 399-400

  Klaff, Jack, 332

  Knight, L.C., 164

  Knox, Mark, 136

  Kramer, Larry: Faggots, 221

  Kramer, Terry Allen, 411-14, 520-2

  Lambert, Anne Louise, 250

  Lamont, Norman, Baron, 101

  Lane, Lupino, 265, 269

  Langan, Peter, 306-7

  Langham, Chris, 211

  Larmour, Brigid, 97, 152, 188-90

  Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, The (US TV programme), 276

  Late Night Sherrin (radio programme), 329-30

  Latimer, Hugh, Bishop of Worcester, 60

  Latin! or Tobacco and Boys (play by 'Sue Denim', i.e. SF), 24, 143, 149, 152-5, 172, 249, 254-5, 258

  Laurie, Hugh: in Alfresco, 20; appearance, 71; in Nightcap revue, 128, 167; meets SF in Edinburgh, 156; as President of Footlights, 166-7, 172, 177, 186-8, 190, 192-3; SF writes scripts with, 166-70, 181, 193; affinity with SF, 168-71, 179, 195; produces The Snow Queen pantomime, 168, 176; rowing, 171, 178; ambitions, 175; appetite, 178; musical abilities, 179, 248; in Memoirs of a Fox revue, 181; plays in Love's Labour's Lost, 188-9, 282; degree, 192; accepts Richard Armitage's offer for professional career, 194; displeasure at Oxford Playhouse Theatre, 195-6; wins Perrier Award for The Cellar Tapes, 199; background, 208; writes and performs for Granada TV, 210, 227-31, 239-41, 247-9; natural gifts, 213, 247-8; and televising of The Cellar Tapes, 214; Ben Elton writes for, 228; Equity membership, 256; visits Richard Armitage, 258; with Noel Gay Artists, 262; commercial voiceovers, 291-4; and The Crystal Cube (TV programme), 297; SF shares Dalston house with, 301; moderates work rate, 321; told of SF's Macintosh computer,
341; house in Kentish Town, 342; shares house in Southgate Road, 353, 363; in Kate Bush video, 355; in Happy Families, 364; buys share of Dalston house, 365; in comedy duo with SF, 365, 391-7, 402, 409, 414, 424; appears in Blackadder, 385; smoking, 422

  Law, Phyllida, 344, 351

  Lawrence, D.H.: Women in Love, 137

  Leavis, F.R., 46-7, 49

  Leavis, Queenie, 46

  Leicester: Me and My Girl opens in, 346, 348

  Leigh, Mike: Abigail's Party, 268

  Le Keux, John: Memorials of Cambridge, 75

  Lennox, Annie, 101

  le Prevost, Nicholas, 211

  Lerner, Alan Jay: The Street Where I Live, 268

  Lester, Mark (lawyer), 138-9

  Lever, Harold, Baron, 102

  Levin, Bernard, 102, 419

  Lewis, Clive Staples, 89, 92

  Lewis, David, 153

  Lewis-Smith, Victor, 332

  Lindsay, Robert: in Citizen Smith, 215; takes lead in revival of Me and My Girls, 266, 338, 348; in Hamlet, 343; in US production of Me and My Girl, 409, 412-15, 418-19; and Terry Allen Kramer's behaviour, 414; wins award for Me and My Girl, 424

  Linley, David Armstrong-Jones, Viscount, 338, 357-8

  Listener (magazine), 299-300, 305, 317-18, 353

  Live and Let Die (film), 359

  Livingston, Ken, 333

  Lloyd, John, 18, 207, 209, 372, 374, 383, 388-9

  Lloyd-Webber, Andrew, Baron, 176

  Lochhead, Liz, 211

  Logan, Nick, 299

  Lohan, Lindsay, 60-1

  London: 1980s life, 294; gentlemen's clubs, 377-9

  London Comedy Store, 208, 364, 394

  Loose Ends (radio programme), 332-3

  Los Angeles, 419

  Luke, Peter, 106

  Lyndhurst, Nicholas, 217

  Lynn, Jonathan, 345

  Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, 254

  McBurney, Simon, 128, 152, 156

  McCartney, Sir Paul, 401-2

  McCrum, Mark, 141-3, 153-4

  McCrum, Michael, 141

  McCrum, Robert, 141

  McGrath, Rory, 403-4

  McInnerny, Tim, 237, 382, 384

  Macintosh, Tony, 406

  McKellen, Sir Ian, 81, 90, 108, 191, 193

  McKenna, Paul, 62

  MacKenney, Richard, 113-15

  McNiven, Dave, 243

  Madagascar, 21

  Magnum Force (film), 363

  Man With the Golden Gun, The (film), 359

  Manchester, 227, 238

  Mankowitz, Wolf: The Bespoke Overcoat, 106

  Margolyes, Miriam, 354, 385

  Marlowe, Christopher, 24

  Marlowe, Linda, 202

  Marowitz, Charles: Artaud at Rodez, 124, 127, 135

  Marriott, Bill, 421

  Martini Foundation, 252-3

  Mason, James, 108, 184