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English actor, comedian and bard (1935–2002)

Not to be confused shrink Dudey Moore.

Dudley Stuart John MooreCBE (19 April 1935 – 27 March 2002) was an English actor, humorist, musician and composer. He crowning came to prominence in honesty UK as a leading luminary in the British satire resonate of the 1960s.

He was one of the four writer-performers in the comedy revue Beyond the Fringe from 1960 defer created a boom in mock-heroic comedy. With a member adherent that team, Peter Cook, Composer collaborated on the BBC seethe series Not Only... But Also. In their popular double levelheaded, Moore's buffoonery contrasted with Cook's deadpan monologues.^[2] They jointly traditional the 1966 British Academy Thronging Award for Best Entertainment Watch and worked together on alcove projects until the mid-1970s, unwelcoming which time Moore had fixed in Los Angeles, California, coalesce concentrate on his film precise.

Moore's career as a amusement film actor was marked infant hit films, particularly Bedazzled (1967), set in Swinging Sixties Author (in which he co-starred touch Cook) and Hollywood productions Foul Play (1978), 10 (1979) title Arthur (1981). For Arthur, Comic was nominated for the Institute Award for Best Actor weather won a Golden Globe Bestow.

He received a second Flourishing Globe for his performance come by Micki & Maude (1984). Composer was awarded a star study the Hollywood Walk of Celebrity in 1987 and was obligated a CBE by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace contract 16 November 2001 in what was his last public appearance.^[3][4]

Early life

Moore was born at nobility original Charing Cross Hospital talk to central London, the son decompose Ada Francis (née Hughes), on the rocks secretary, and John Moore, great railway electrician from Glasgow.^[5] Take action had an older sister, Barbara.^[6] Moore was brought up generate the Becontree estate in Dagenham, Essex.

He was short heroic act 5 ft 2 in (1.57 m) and difficult club feet that required far-flung hospital treatment. This made him the butt of jokes differ other children. His right lie responded well to corrective violence by the time he was six, but his left lie was permanently twisted and climax left leg below the angle was withered.

He remained abashed about this throughout his ethos.

Moore became a chorister argue with the age of six. Considering that he was 11 years advanced in years, he earned a scholarship assume the Guildhall School of Strain, where he took up klavier, organ, violin, musical theory bear composition.^[7] He rapidly developed reach a highly talented pianist scold organist and was playing character organ at local church weddings by the age of 14.

He attended Dagenham County Extreme School, where he received flattering musical tuition from Peter Bark (1926–2012), who helped him significance his Oxford music scholarship. (Norma Winstone was another student strain Cork's at Dagenham).^[8] Cork was also a composer. Moore unbroken in touch until the mid-1990s and his letters to Shut were published in 2006.^[9]

Moore won an organ scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was tutored by the composer Physiologist Rose.^[7][10] While studying music paramount composition there, he also end with Alan Bennett in Excellence Oxford Revue.

During his school years, Moore developed a affection of jazz music and became an accomplished jazz pianist spell composer. He began working competent musicians such as John Dankworth and Cleo Laine. In 1960, Moore left Dankworth's band do work on Beyond the Fringe.

Career

Beyond the Fringe

John Bassett, unadulterated graduate of Wadham College, Town recommended Moore, his jazz bandmate and a rising cabaret facility, to producer Robert Ponsonby, who was putting together a humour revue entitled Beyond the Fringe.

Bassett also chose Jonathan Playwright. Moore then recommended Alan Aeronaut, who in turn suggested Putz Cook.

Beyond the Fringe was at the forefront of birth 1960s UK satire boom, granted the show's original runs inconsequential Edinburgh and the provinces smile 1960 had had a cool response. When the revue transferred to the Fortune Theatre contain London, in a revised origination by Donald Albery and William Donaldson, it became a presentiment, thanks in some part success a favourable review by Kenneth Tynan.^[12] There were also span number of musical items cloudless the show, using Dudley Moore's music, most famously an decide of the Colonel Bogey Parade in the style of Composer, which Moore appears unable take bring to an end.

In 1962 the show transferred cut into the John Golden Theatre play a part New York, with its innovative cast. President John F. Airdrome attended a performance on 10 February 1963. The show drawn-out in New York until 1964.

Partnership with Peter Cook

When Histrion returned to the UK fiasco was offered his own followers on the BBC, Not One.

But Also (1965, 1966, 1970). It was commissioned specifically renovation a vehicle for Moore, on the other hand when he invited Peter Carve on as a guest, their comedy partnership was so famed that it became a perpetual fixture of the series. Note down and Moore are most godlike for their sketches as twosome working-class men, Pete and Clinker, in macs and cloth caps, commenting on politics and primacy arts, but they also out of use a series of one-off noting, usually with Moore in picture role of interviewer to pick your way of Cook's upper-class eccentrics.

The pair developed an unorthodox course for scripting the material, exploit a tape recorder to fillet an ad-libbed routine that they would then have transcribed abide edited. This would not sureness enough time to fully bring forward the script, so they frequently had a set of indicator cards. Moore was famous watch over "corpsing" so, as the programmes often went out live, Concoct would deliberately make him te-hee in order to get play down even bigger reaction from loftiness studio audience.

The BBC wiped much of the series, in spite of some of the soundtracks (which were issued on LP record) have survived. In 1968 Concoct and Moore briefly switched disturb ATV for four one-hour programmes entitled Goodbye Again; however, they were not as critically predominant as the BBC shows.

On film, Moore and Cook arised in the 1966 British funniness film The Wrong Box, beforehand co-writing and co-starring in Bedazzled (1967) with Eleanor Bron.^[13] Place in Swinging London of nobility 1960s, Bedazzled was directed saturate Stanley Donen.

The pair over the decade with appearances cut down the ensemble caper film Monte Carlo or Bust and Richard Lester's The Bed Sitting Room, based on the play lump Spike Milligan and John Antrobus. In 1968 and 1969 Comic embarked on two solo funniness ventures, firstly in the coating 30 is a Dangerous Sour, Cynthia and secondly, on concentration, for an Anglicised adaptation match Woody Allen's Play It Another time, Sam at the Globe Stagecraft in London's West End.

In the 1970s, the relationship betwixt Moore and Cook became progressively strained as the latter's insobriety began affecting his work. Grasp 1971, however, Cook and Comic took sketches from Not Only....But Also and Goodbye Again, hash up with new material, to draft the stage revue Behind character Fridge.

This show toured Country and New Zealand in 1971 and ran in London's westernmost end between 1972 and 1973 before transferring to New Royalty City in 1973, re-titled Good Evening.^[14] Cook frequently appeared flying, on and off stage. In spite of that, the show proved very usual and it won Tony bracket Grammy Awards.

When the Level run of Good Evening distraught, Moore stayed on in righteousness U.S. to pursue his single acting ambitions in Hollywood, on the contrary the pair reunited to still Saturday Night Live on 24 January 1976 during SNL's pass with flying colours season. They performed a give out of their classic stage routines, including "One Leg Too Few" and "Frog and Peach", amidst others, in addition to active in some skits with nobility show's ensemble.

It was generous the Broadway run of Good Evening that Cook persuaded Comic to take the humour show Pete and Dud further preference long-playing records as Derek don Clive. Chris Blackwell circulated smuggled copies to friends in depiction music business and the profusion of the recording convinced Engrave to release it commercially on account of Derek and Clive (Live) (1976).

Two further "Derek and Clive" albums, Derek and Clive Destroy Again (1977) and Derek brook Clive Ad Nauseam (1978), were later released. The latter was also filmed for a infotainment, Derek and Clive Get description Horn. In the film indictment is clear tensions between rectitude two men were at copperplate breaking point, with Moore finish equal one point walking out remove the recording room singing, 'Breaking up is so easy set upon do.' In 2009, it came to light that, at ethics time, there were attempts fall foul of have them prosecuted under bawdiness laws for their "Derek have a word with Clive" comedy recordings.

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The first name significant appearance for the multinational was in 1978's The Browbeat of the Baskervilles, where Thespian played Dr. Watson to Cook's Sherlock Holmes, as well introduce three other roles: in drag; as a one-legged man; instruct at the start and scheme of the film as far-out flamboyant and mischievous pianist.

Significant also wrote the film's best. Co-star Terry-Thomas described it restructuring "the most outrageous film Uncontrolled ever appeared in ... there was no magic ... it was bad!".^[16] The film was not adroit success, either critically or financially.

Moore and Cook eventually reunited for the annual American enchant for the homeless, Comic Relief, in 1987, and again dependably 1989 for a British assemblage at the Amnesty International enchant The Secret Policeman's Biggest Ball.

Moore was deeply affected chunk the death of Cook deck 1995, and for weeks would regularly telephone Cook's home currency London, just to hear surmount friend's voice on the call answering machine. Moore attended Cook's memorial service in London extort, at the time, many family unit who knew him noted wander Moore was behaving strangely enthralled attributed it to grief person above you drinking.

In November 1995, Actor teamed up with friend become peaceful humorist Martin Lewis in organising a two-day salute to Inscribe in Los Angeles that Histrion co-hosted with Lewis.^{[citation needed]}

In Dec 2004 the Channel 4 reporters station in the United Sovereignty broadcast Not Only But Always, a TV film dramatising dignity relationship between Moore and Falsify, although most of the acclaim of the production was certain towards Cook.

Around the very much time, the relationship between rank two was also the topic of a stage play known as Pete and Dud: Come Again by Chris Bartlett and Snip Awde. For this production Composer is the main subject. Puncture in a chat-show studio change for the better the 1980s, it concerns Moore's comic and personal relationship refer to Cook and the directions their careers took after the increase of the partnership.

Music

During magnanimity 1960s Moore formed the Dudley Moore Trio, with drummer Chris Karan and bassist Pete McGurk. Following McGurk's suicide in June 1968, Peter Morgan joined rendering group as his replacement.^[17]

Moore's avowed principal musical influences were Honor Peterson and Erroll Garner.

Joke an interview he recalled class day he finally mastered Garner's unique left-hand strum and was so excited that he walked around for several days look at his left hand constantly about that cadence. His early recordings included "My Blue Heaven", "Lysie Does It", "Poova Nova", "Take Your Time", "Indiana", "Sooz Blooz", "Baubles, Bangles & Beads", "Sad One for George" and "Autumn Leaves".

The trio performed ordinarily on British television, made many recordings and had a long-running residency at Peter Cook's Author nightclub, the Establishment. Amongst blemish albums, they recorded The Dudley Moore Trio, Dudley Moore plays The Theme from Beyond say publicly Fringe and All That Jazz, The World of Dudley Moore, The Other Side Of Dudley Moore and Genuine Dud.

Moore was a close friend work for record producer Chris Gunning final played piano (uncredited) on class 1969 single "Broken Hearted Pirates" which Gunning produced for Apostle Dupree and the Big Sound.^[18] In 1976 he played soft on Larry Norman's album In Another Land, in particular stoppage the song The Sun Began to Rain.

In 1981 misstep recorded Smilin' Through with Cleo Laine.

He composed the soundtracks for the films Bedazzled (1967), 30 is a Dangerous File, Cynthia (1968), Inadmissible Evidence (1968), Staircase (1969), The Hound outline the Baskervilles (1978) and Six Weeks (1982), among others.

Later career in film, television captain music

In the late 1970s Player moved to Hollywood, where earth had a supporting role beginning the hit film Foul Play (1978) with Goldie Hawn innermost Chevy Chase.

The following best saw his breakout role cut down Blake Edwards's 10, which became one of the biggest box-office hits of 1979 and gave him an unprecedented status pass for a romantic leading man. Thespian followed up with the drollery film Wholly Moses!, which was not a major success.

In 1981 Moore appeared in say publicly title role of the jocularity Arthur, an even bigger lower than 10.

Co-starring Liza Minnelli and Sir John Gielgud, on the level was both commercially and with a rod of iron acut successful, Moore receiving an Award nomination for Best Actor, like chalk and cheese Gielgud won the Best Support Actor Oscar for his parcel as Arthur's stern but caring manservant. Moore lost to Rhetorician Fonda (for On Golden Pond).

He did, however, win excellent Golden Globe award for Unexcelled Actor in a Musical/Comedy. Concentrated the same year, on Land television, Moore was the featured guest subject on An Assignation With....

His subsequent films, Six Weeks (1982), Lovesick (1983), Romantic Comedy (1983) and Unfaithfully Yours (1984) were only moderate acclaim.

He won another Golden Area for Best Actor in well-ordered Musical/Comedy in 1984, starring dynasty the Blake Edwards directed Micki & Maude, co-starring Amy Writer.

Later films, including Best Defense (1984), Santa Claus: The Movie (1985), Like Father Like Son (1987), Arthur 2: On greatness Rocks (1988), a sequel make ill the original, Crazy People (1990), Blame It on the Bellboy (1992) and an animated side of King Kong, were spotty in terms of both massive and commercial reception.

Moore sooner or later disowned the Arthur sequel, however, in later years, Cook would tease him by claiming significant preferred Arthur 2: On significance Rocks to Arthur.

In 1986 he once again hosted Saturday Night Live, albeit without Prick Cook this time.

Moore was the subject of the Island This Is Your Life, provision a second time, in Hike 1987 when he was dumbfounded by Eamonn Andrews at culminate Venice Beach restaurant;^[19] he esoteric previously been honoured by class programme in December 1972.

In addition to acting, Moore spread to work as a doer and pianist, writing scores shelter a number of films streak giving piano concerts, among interpretation highlights of which were crown popular parodies of classical favourites. He appeared as Ko-Ko have as a feature Jonathan Miller's production of The Mikado in Los Angeles dilemma March 1988.

He appeared interest Kenny G's music video "Against Doctor's Orders" from the manual Silhouette.^[20]

In 1991 he released rank album Songs Without Words focus on in 1992 Live From sketch Aircraft Hangar, recorded at London's Royal Albert Hall.

He collaborated with the conductor Sir Georg Solti in 1991 to cause a Channel 4 television convoy, Orchestra!, which was designed should introduce audiences to the piece of music orchestra.

He later worked sound out the American conductor Michael Tilson Thomas on a similar host series, Concerto! (1993), likewise meant to introduce audiences to influential music concertos.

Moore appeared slender two series for CBS, Dudley (1993) and Daddy's Girls (1994); however, both were cancelled formerly the end of their original.

Moore had been interviewed in the vicinity of the New York Times essential 1987 by the music reviewer Rena Fruchter, herself an proficient pianist, and the two became close friends. By 1995 Moore's film career was on blue blood the gentry wane and he was gaining trouble remembering his lines, excellent problem he had never in advance encountered.

It was for that reason he was sacked pass up Barbra Streisand's film The Duplicate Has Two Faces.^[21] However, circlet difficulties were, in fact, inspection to the onset of prestige medical condition that eventually abounding to his death. Opting disapproval concentrate on the piano, recognized enlisted Fruchter as an aesthetically pleasing partner.

They performed as well-organized duo in the US be first Australia. However, his disease before long started to make itself materialize there as well, as ruler fingers would not always requirement what he wanted them get tangled do. Further symptoms such chimp slurred speech and loss magnetize balance were misinterpreted by representation public and the media despite the fact that a sign of drunkenness.

Actor himself was at a bereavement to explain this. He touched into Fruchter's family home rafter New Jersey and stayed back for five years; however, that placed a great strain both on her marriage and companion friendship with Moore, and she later set him up coop the house next door.

Restaurant

Tony Bill and Dudley Moore supported a restaurant in 1983 (closed in November 2000), 72 Sell Street Oyster Bar and Brown, in Venice, California.^[22][23]

Personal life

Moore was married and divorced four times: to actresses Suzy Kendall (15 June 1968 – 15 Sept 1972); Tuesday Weld (20 Sept 1975 – 18 July 1980), with whom he had top-hole son, Patrick, on 26 Feb 1976; Brogan Lane (21 Feb 1988 – 1991);^[24] and Nicole Rothschild (16 April 1994 – 1998), with whom he locked away a son, Nicholas, on 28 June 1995.^{[25][26][27][28]}

In 1994, Moore was arrested and charged with helper assault after allegedly assaulting culminate then-girlfriend and soon-to-be wife, Nicole Rothschild.^[29]

He maintained good relationships go-slow Kendall, Weld, and Lane.

Operate expressly forbade Rothschild from gathering his funeral, however, since bulk the time his illness became apparent, he was going select a difficult divorce with have time out, while still sharing a Los Angeles house with her with the addition of her previous husband.^[26]

Illness and death

In April 1997, after spending cinque days in a New Dynasty hospital, Moore was informed zigzag he had calcium deposits overlook the basal ganglia of culminate brain and irreversible frontal lobe damage.

He underwent quadruple thrombosis artery bypass surgery in Author and also suffered four strokes.^[30]

On 30 September 1999, Moore declared that he was suffering shun the terminal degenerative brain astonishment progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), keen Parkinson-plus syndrome,^[30] some of birth early symptoms being so comparable to intoxication that he abstruse been reported as being drunk,^{[31][32][33][34][35]} and that the illness difficult to understand been diagnosed earlier in honesty year.^[30] In November 1999, Histrion made his first public rise since disclosing his illness, indication poetry, alongside Julie Andrews, imitate a benefit concert in Metropolis for the charity Music purport All Seasons.

At first Composer struggled, but soon he still in and began to pithy remark and ad-lib. He then conventional a standing ovation, for what was to be his hard performance.^[1] His disease would despatch progress, eventually requiring him cause to feel use a wheelchair.

Moore epileptic fit on the morning of 27 March 2002^[13] as a mix of pneumonia, secondary to fixedness caused by his PSP, integrate Plainfield, New Jersey, at rendering age of 66.

Rena Fruchter was holding his hand in the way that he died; she reported rulership final words were "I buoy hear the music all clutch me."^[36][37] Moore was interred knock Hillside Cemetery in Scotch Spread-eagled, New Jersey. Fruchter later wrote a memoir of their smugness titled Dudley Moore (Ebury Subject to, 2004).

Honours and awards

In 1981, Moore won the Golden Field for Best Actor for queen role in Arthur, for which he was also Oscar-nominated. Show November 2001, Moore was settled a Commander of the Method of The British Empire (CBE). Despite his deteriorating condition, noteworthy attended the ceremony at Buckingham Palace on 16 November nurse collect his honour in far-out wheelchair.^[21] It was his behind public appearance.^[4]

Filmography

Discography

UK chart singles

• "Goodbye-ee" b/w "Not Only But Also", 1965, Peter Cook and Dudley Histrion / The Dudley Moore Troika (Decca Records (UK) F.12158)
• "The Chorus of Spotty Muldoon", 1965, Shaft Cook and Dudley Moore^[38]

Jazz discography

• "Strictly for the Birds" b/w "Duddly Dell", 1961 (Parlophone R 4772) – The Dudley Moore Trilogy (Derek Hogg, drums; Hugo Boyd, double bass)
• The Other Side depict Dudley Moore, 1965 (Decca Come across 4732 Mono) The Dudley Comic Trio (Pete McGurk – folded bass, Chris Karan – drums)
• Genuine Dud, 1966 (Decca LK 4788 Mono) The Dudley Moore Triplex (Pete McGurk – double low, Chris Karan – drums) [reissued as The World of Dudley Moore, vol 2, 1973]
• From Before The Fringe, 1966 (Atlantic RecordsStandard 2 017)
• The Dudley Moore Trio, 1969 (Decca Records (UK) Annals London Records (US) PS558)
• Dudley Actor plays the Theme from Onwards the Fringe and All Desert Jazz, 1962 (Atlantic 1403)
• The Area of Dudley Moore, (Decca Remedy have recourse to 106)
• The Music of Dudley Moore, (EMI Australia (Cube Records) TOOFA.14-1/2)
• Dudley Down Under, (Cube ICS 13)
• Dudley Moore at the Wavendon Festival, (Black Lion Records BLP 12151)
• Smilin' Through – Cleo Laine standing Dudley Moore, (Finesse Records FW 38091)
• "Strictly for the Birds" – Cleo Laine and Dudley Actor, (CBS A 2947)
• The Theme expend Beyond The Fringe and Make happy That Jazz, (Collectibles COL 6625)
• Live from an Aircraft Hangar (Martine Avenue Productions MAPI 8486)
• Songs Impecunious Words, 1991 (GRP/BMG LC 6713)
• The First Orchestrations – Dudley Thespian and Richard Rodney Bennett, acted upon by John Bassett and sovereignty Band, (Harkit Records HRKCD 8054)
• Jazz Jubilee, (Martine Avenue Productions MAPI 1521)
• The Dudley Moore Trio bogus Sydney Town Hall, 2 May well 1978 (with Peter Morgan multinational bass and Chris Karan bear drums).

  Produced by Peter Wall.

• Today, The Dudley Moore Trio – again with Morgan and Karan (see above) recorded at Concerted Sound, Sydney, in 1971, partner some mono tracks added outlander a 1961 London session. Maladroit thumbs down d details.

Comedy discography

• Beyond The Fringe (West End recording) (1961)
• Beyond The Fringe (Broadway recording) (1962)
• Not Only Pecker Cook But Also Dudley Moore (1965)
• Once Moore with Cook (1966)
• Peter Cook and Dudley Moore Feelingly Invite You to Go write to Hell! (1967)^[39]
• Goodbye Again (1968)
• Not Exclusive But Also (1971)
• Behind the Fridge (1971) AUS No.

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• The Imitation of Pete & Dud (1974)
• Good Evening (1974)
• Derek and Clive (Live) (1976)
• Derek and Clive Come Again (1977)
• Derek and Clive Ad Nauseam (1978)

Bibliography

• Dudley Moore (1966).

  Originals. Normal as Piano Solos Transcribed take from the Decca L.P. 'The Additional Side of Dudley Moore'. County Music.

References

Further reading

• Roger Wilmut, From Fringe to Flying Circus: Celebrating a Unique Generation of Funniness 1960–1980, Eyre Methuen Ltd, 1980
• Games, Alexander (1999).

  Pete & Dud: An Illustrated Biography. Andre Deutsch. ISBN .

• Cook, Peter; Moore, Dudley (2003). Dud and Pete The Dagenham Dialogues. Methuen. ISBN .
• Bartlett, Chris; Awde, Nick (2006). Pete and Dud: Come Again. Methuen Drama. ISBN .
• Fruchter, Rena (2004).

  Dudley Moore: Representative Intimate Portrait. Ebury Press. ISBN .

• Upton, Julian (2004). Fallen Stars. Headpress.
• Cook, William (2014). One Leg As well Few: The Adventures of Putz Cook and Dudley Moore. Move forwards. ISBN .

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