As well as being the bestselling author of four novels, The Stars' Tennis Balls , Making History , The Hippopotamus , and The Liar , and the first volume of his autobiography, Moab is My Washpot , Fry has played Peter in Peter's Friends , Wilde in the film Wilde , Jeeves in the television series Jeeves & Wooster and (a closely guarded show-business secret, this) Laurie in the television series Fry & Laurie.