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Dudley Moore

Date Of Birth: 29/04/1935

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Biography

Dudley Morre was born with a club foot and slightly deformed left leg, which required a series of operations for him to be able to walk properly

He learnt to play the piano in his childhood home in Dagenham, Essex, becoming good enough to win a scholarship the the Guildhall School of Music at the age of 13.

And at school, he fitted the stereotype of using laugher to deflect the bullies, who would otherwise tease him over his height and disability.

His musical talents got him into Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1954 on a music scholarship, where he picked up the nickname 'Cuddly Dudley'. And after completing his degree became an accomplished jazz pianist and cabaret entertainer.

It was these talents that brought the 5ft 2in performer to the attention of Edinburgh Festival director Robert Ponsonby, who was putting together a show in 1960 to combat the new Fringe festival, which he saw as a threat to the existing arts event.

Moore was cast alongside Peter Cook, Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller in Beyond The Fringe - the show generally acknowledged to have started the 'satire boom' that revolutionised comedy in the Sixties.

After the team drifted apart, Pete and Dud stayed together, creating the seminal Not Only . . . But Also in 1965. The cloth-capped idiots, especially, becoming national icons and their sign-off song "Goodbye' became a much-loved signature tune.

The pair also starred in movies, most notably Bedazzled, which was written by Cook, and the 1969 version of Spike Milligan's play The Bed-Sitting Room, and took stage shows to Australia and the US.

During their long collaboration, they also produced a number of privately recorded dialogues, with obsenely surreal conversations peppered with foul language. Obviously such material could not stay private for long, and Derek and Clive bootlegs were widely circulated, until the pair relented and released the recordings commercially.

The partnership eventually dissolved, though, as Moore went to find his way in Hollywood.

He got his big break in 1979, when George Segal walked out of Blake Edwards' production of 10 - and Moore stepped in.

He sealed his place on the A-list two years later, playing the drunken aristocrat Arthur, for which he was nominated for an Oscar.

Moore lapped up the Hollywood lifestyle, too. Rumours abounded of Moore's liking for prostitutes and cocaine, and his hard living left him in debt.

Even when he began suffering the early stages of the degenerative brain condition that made his last years so painful, observers blamed Dudley's slurred speech and stumblings on drink.

His private life was always in turmoil - at odds to his mild-mannered screen persona. He was married four times and in 1994 was arrested over accusations he had abused his girlfriend (and later wife) Nicole Rothschild

Moore he never really capitalised on his early solo roles, and appeared in several Tinseltown potboilers, from Best Defense to Santa Claus before his career ground to a halt.

His later years were dogged by ill health. Moore underwent open heart surgery and suffered a number of strokes before being diagonsed with progressive supranuclear palsy.

When he went public with the diagnosis in 1999, he still managed a joke. "I understand that one person in 100,000 suffers from the disease and and I am also aware that there are 100,000 members of my union, the Screen Actors Guild, who are working every day, he said. "I think, therefore, it is in some way considerate of me that I have taken on the disease for myself, thus protecting the remaining 99,999 members from this fate."

 

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Books: 2004:
Goodbye Again: The Definitive Peter Cook and Dudley Moore (edited by William Cook). Review. Buy
Review
Books: 2004:
Goodbye Again: The Definitive Peter Cook and Dudley Moore (edited by William Cook). Review. Buy
Buy
Books: 2004:
Dudley Moore: An Intimate Portrait by Rena Fruchter. Review. Buy
Review
Books: 2004:
Dudley Moore: An Intimate Portrait by Rena Fruchter. Review. Buy
Buy
Books: 1998:
Dudley Moore authorised biography by Barbra Paskin. Buy
Buy
Books: 1996:
Dudley Moore biography by Douglas Thompson. Buy
Buy
Books: 1994:
Dudley Moore: An Informal Biography by Jeff Lenburg. Buy
Buy
Books: 1992:
Off-Beat Dudley Moore's Book Of Musical Anecdotes. Buy
Buy
Books: 1992:
The Complete Beyond The Fringe. Buy
Buy
Books: 1991:
Dud & Pete The Dageham Dialogues (script book)
 
Movies: 1992:
Blame It On The Bellboy as Melvyn Orton
Movies: 1990:
Crazy People as Emroy
Movies: 1988:
Arthur 2: On The Rocks. Buy on video
video
Movies: 1987:
Like Father, Like Son as Doctor Jack Hammond
Movies: 1985:
Santa Claus, as Patch
Movies: 1984:
Unfaithfully Yours as Claude Eastman
Movies: 1984:
Micki and Maude, as Rob Salinger
Movies: 1984:
Best Defense, as Wylie Cooper
Movies: 1983:
Lovesick as Saul Benjamin
Movies: 1983:
Romantic Comedy as Jason
Movies: 1982:
Six Weeks, as Patrick Dalton
Movies: 1981:
Arthur, as Arthur Bach. Buy on DVD.
DVD
Movies: 1980:
Wholly Moses, as Harvey.
Movies: 1979:
10, Oscar nominated for his role as George Webber. Buy on video or DVD.
video
Movies: 1979:
10, Oscar nominated for his role as George Webber. Buy on video or DVD.
DVD
Movies: 1979:
Derek And Clive Get The Horn. Buy on DVD or video.
DVD
Movies: 1979:
Derek And Clive Get The Horn. Buy on DVD or video.
video
Movies: 1978:
Hound Of The Baskervilles, starred as Watson to Peter Cook's Holmes in spoof they wrote together. Buy on VHS
Peter Cook
Movies: 1978:
Hound Of The Baskervilles, starred as Watson to Peter Cook's Holmes in spoof they wrote together. Buy on VHS
VHS
Movies: 1978:
Foul Play as Stanley Tibbets
Movies: 1972:
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland as Dormouse.
Movies: 1969:
Monte Carlo Or Bust as Lieutenant Kit Barrington. Buy on VHS
VHS
Movies: 1969:
The Bed-Sitting Room as Sergeant in Spike Milligan's post-apocalyptic fantasy.
Spike Milligan'
Movies: 1968:
30 Is A Dangerous Age, Cynthia. Star, writer and composer. Buy soundtrack on CD
Buy soundtrack on CD
Movies: 1967:
Bedazzled. Star, writer (with Peter Cook) and composer Buy soundtrack on CD
Peter Cook
Movies: 1967:
Bedazzled. Star, writer (with Peter Cook) and composer Buy soundtrack on CD
Buy soundtrack on CD
Movies: 1966:
The Wrong Box, as John Finsbury
 
TV: 1994:
Daddy's Girls (on US TV), as Dudley. Show axed after just three episodes.
TV: 1981:
An Audience With . . . Dudley Moore
TV: 1968-1969:
Goodbye Again. Four hour-long ITV specials with Peter Cook
Peter Cook
TV: 1965-1970:
Not Only ... But Also. Three series (22 editions) of classic sketch comedy with Peter Cook
Peter Cook
TV: 1964:
Beyond The Fringe. televised version of the stage smash.
 
Video: 1999:
Comedy Greats: Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. BBC video. Buy
Buy
 
Theatre: 1972-75:
Behind The Fridge. Pete and Dud stage show that ran for a few months in England before a more successful transfer to the US, where it toured (including a year in New York) under the name Goodbye.
Theatre: 1961:
Beyond The Fringe transferred to the Fortune Theatre, London, and the following year, to New York.
Theatre: 1960:
Beyond The Fringe with Peter Cook, Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller, which set the Edinburgh Festival buzzing
Peter Cook
 
Audio / CD: 1999:
Not Only But Also, BBC tape
Audio / CD: 1994:
The World Of Pete and Dud. Buy on CD or cassette
CD
Audio / CD: 1994:
The World Of Pete and Dud. Buy on CD or cassette
cassette
Audio / CD: 196?:
Genuine Dud. Piano album, rereleased on CD in 2001 (buy)
buy
Audio / CD: 196?:
Live From An Aircraft Hanger. Piano album, rereleased on CD in 2001 (buy)
buy
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Dudley Moore was a wonderful actor and comedian and is greatly missed. Hes probably up in heaven playing his piano and making them laugh, hopefully with Peter Cook at his side.

Sonic, May 2006


Peter Cook would have been nothing without him. Rock on Dudley

Bryan Reynolds, February 2006


A truly great actor. What a shame it ended the way it did for him, but he is an actor that will always be remembered. I just feel so sorry for him, RIP Dudley

Jackie Majid, December 2005


Yes, a one off. Miss you Dud

Matt, December 2005


There will be no one else like Dud. He is greatly missed and Arthur is one of the best films ever made.

Maria Lara, November 2005


He was the best. All I had to do was look at his face and I burst out laughing! Whenever he did his Pete and Dud sketches, you couldn't help dissolving into laughter when he did. He will always be remembered, along with Peter Cook,,especially the Art Gallery and "bloody Great Garbo". God bless Dud. Goodbyeee.

Debbie Christian, April 2005


Why are you dead Dud? I used to worship you. I was too young for the Pete 'n Dud stuff, but Arthur knocked my sideways. Inspiration.

Hamish, March 2004


Little Dud was funny, endearing and is greatly missed

Gail, November 2002


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