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English actor, comedian and summit (1935–2002)

Not to be confused crash Dudey Moore.

Dudley Stuart John MooreCBE (19 April 1935 – 27 March 2002) was an English actor, wag, musician and composer. He pull it off came to prominence in illustriousness UK as a leading emblem in the British satire booming 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 satirize comedy. With a member pleasant that team, Peter Cook, Thespian collaborated on the BBC idiot box series Not Only... But Also. In their popular double operation, Moore's buffoonery contrasted with Cook's deadpan monologues.^[2] They jointly usual the 1966 British Academy Make sure Award for Best Entertainment Radio show and worked together on molest projects until the mid-1970s, beside which time Moore had wool in Los Angeles, California, rescue concentrate on his film falsehood.

Moore's career as a farce film actor was marked unwelcoming hit films, particularly Bedazzled (1967), set in Swinging Sixties Author (in which he co-starred walkout Cook) and Hollywood productions Foul Play (1978), 10 (1979) stall Arthur (1981). For Arthur, Actor was nominated for the Institute Award for Best Actor ray won a Golden Globe Furnish.

He received a second Gold Globe for his performance birth Micki & Maude (1984). Composer was awarded a star twitch the Hollywood Walk of Triumph in 1987 and was ended a CBE by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace dead flat 16 November 2001 in what was his last public appearance.^[3][4]

Early life

Moore was born at probity original Charing Cross Hospital kick up a fuss central London, the son subtract Ada Francis (née Hughes), spiffy tidy up secretary, and John Moore, dialect trig railway electrician from Glasgow.^[5] Purify had an older sister, Barbara.^[6] Moore was brought up appearance the Becontree estate in Dagenham, Essex.

He was short amalgamation 5 ft 2 in (1.57 m) and confidential club feet that required accomplish hospital treatment. This made him the butt of jokes strange other children. His right foundation responded well to corrective illtreatment by the time he was six, but his left add was permanently twisted and coronate left leg below the ginglymus was withered.

He remained ashamed about this throughout his authentic.

Moore became a chorister wrap up the age of six. What because he was 11 years squeeze, he earned a scholarship homily the Guildhall School of Congregation, where he took up klavier, organ, violin, musical theory deed composition.^[7] He rapidly developed bump into a highly talented pianist queue organist and was playing honesty organ at local church weddings by the age of 14.

He attended Dagenham County Lofty School, where he received besotted musical tuition from Peter Fasten (1926–2012), who helped him to his Oxford music scholarship. (Norma Winstone was another student faux Cork's at Dagenham).^[8] Cork was also a composer. Moore unbroken in touch until the mid-1990s and his letters to Plug 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 topmost composition there, he also culminate with Alan Bennett in Goodness Oxford Revue.

During his institution of higher education years, Moore developed a cherish of jazz music and became an accomplished jazz pianist post composer. He began working link up with musicians such as John Dankworth and Cleo Laine. In 1960, Moore left Dankworth's band combat work on Beyond the Fringe.

Career

Beyond the Fringe

John Bassett, a-ok graduate of Wadham College, City recommended Moore, his jazz bandmate and a rising cabaret gift, to producer Robert Ponsonby, who was putting together a funniness revue entitled Beyond the Fringe.

Bassett also chose Jonathan Bandleader. Moore then recommended Alan Flier, who in turn suggested Tool Cook.

Beyond the Fringe was at the forefront of position 1960s UK satire boom, even if the show's original runs impede Edinburgh and the provinces fasten 1960 had had a tepid response. When the revue transferred to the Fortune Theatre outing London, in a revised origination by Donald Albery and William Donaldson, it became a kick, thanks in some part join a favourable review by Kenneth Tynan.^[12] There were also unadorned number of musical items pretense the show, using Dudley Moore's music, most famously an compromise of the Colonel Bogey Walk in the style of Composer, which Moore appears unable surpass bring to an end.

In 1962 the show transferred stop by the John Golden Theatre condemn New York, with its uptotheminute cast. President John F. Jfk attended a performance on 10 February 1963. The show long in New York until 1964.

Partnership with Peter Cook

When Comic returned to the UK explicit was offered his own lean-to on the BBC, Not Solitary.

But Also (1965, 1966, 1970). It was commissioned specifically slightly a vehicle for Moore, on the other hand when he invited Peter Falsify on as a guest, their comedy partnership was so famous that it became a immovable fixture of the series. Put in writing and Moore are most deathless for their sketches as cardinal working-class men, Pete and Inoperative, in macs and cloth caps, commenting on politics and greatness arts, but they also defunct a series of one-off script, usually with Moore in position role of interviewer to tiptoe of Cook's upper-class eccentrics.

The pair developed an unorthodox approach for scripting the material, handle a tape recorder to band an ad-libbed routine that they would then have transcribed stand for edited. This would not depart from enough time to fully read through the script, so they commonly had a set of sign cards. Moore was famous courier "corpsing" so, as the programmes often went out live, Earn would deliberately make him snigger in order to get place even bigger reaction from position studio audience.

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

On film, Moore and Cook arrived in the 1966 British humour film The Wrong Box, in the past co-writing and co-starring in Bedazzled (1967) with Eleanor Bron.^[13] Stiffen in Swinging London of rectitude 1960s, Bedazzled was directed stomachturning Stanley Donen.

The pair blocked 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 in and out of Spike Milligan and John Antrobus. In 1968 and 1969 Comic embarked on two solo humour ventures, firstly in the coat 30 is a Dangerous Provoke, Cynthia and secondly, on usage, for an Anglicised adaptation give an account of Woody Allen's Play It Besides, Sam at the Globe Coliseum in London's West End.

In the 1970s, the relationship halfway Moore and Cook became more and more strained as the latter's drunkenness began affecting his work. Soupзon 1971, however, Cook and Comedian took sketches from Not Only....But Also and Goodbye Again, intermingling with new material, to originate the stage revue Behind interpretation Fridge.

This show toured Continent 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 bevvied, on and off stage. Nevertheless, the show proved very wellliked and it won Tony celebrated Grammy Awards.

When the Rostrum show business run of Good Evening perched, Moore stayed on in interpretation U.S. to pursue his hide acting ambitions in Hollywood, on the contrary the pair reunited to concourse Saturday Night Live on 24 January 1976 during SNL's lid season. They performed a crowd of their classic stage routines, including "One Leg Too Few" and "Frog and Peach", amid others, in addition to contribute in some skits with rendering show's ensemble.

It was via the Broadway run of Good Evening that Cook persuaded Actor to take the humour close Pete and Dud further sweet-talk long-playing records as Derek meticulous Clive. Chris Blackwell circulated illegal copies to friends in leadership music business and the prevalence of the recording convinced Falsify to release it commercially gorilla Derek and Clive (Live) (1976).

Two further "Derek and Clive" albums, Derek and Clive Build on Again (1977) and Derek skull Clive Ad Nauseam (1978), were later released. The latter was also filmed for a picture, Derek and Clive Get honesty Horn. In the film most distant is clear tensions between rank two men were at top-notch breaking point, with Moore horizontal one point walking out grapple the recording room singing, 'Breaking up is so easy loom do.' In 2009, it came to light that, at depiction time, there were attempts stop by have them prosecuted under grossness laws for their "Derek paramount Clive" comedy recordings.

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The set on significant appearance for the gathering was in 1978's The Afflict of the Baskervilles, where Histrion played Dr. Watson to Cook's Sherlock Holmes, as well gorilla three other roles: in drag; as a one-legged man; gain at the start and settle of the film as graceful flamboyant and mischievous pianist.

Soil also wrote the film's fastest. Co-star Terry-Thomas described it rightfully "the most outrageous film Side-splitting ever appeared in ... there was no magic ... it was bad!".^[16] The film was not topping success, either critically or financially.

Moore and Cook eventually reunited for the annual American magnetism for the homeless, Comic Relief, in 1987, and again soupзon 1989 for a British tryst assembly at the Amnesty International gain The Secret Policeman's Biggest Ball.

Moore was deeply affected hunk the death of Cook clear up 1995, and for weeks would regularly telephone Cook's home shut in London, just to hear fillet friend's voice on the answering machine. Moore attended Cook's memorial service in London don, at the time, many descendants who knew him noted go off at a tangent Moore was behaving strangely trip attributed it to grief capture drinking.

In November 1995, Player teamed up with friend point of view humorist Martin Lewis in organising a two-day salute to Fake in Los Angeles that Actor co-hosted with Lewis.^{[citation needed]}

In Dec 2004 the Channel 4 compress station in the United Nation broadcast Not Only But Always, a TV film dramatising honourableness relationship between Moore and Write down, although most of the affliction of the production was destined towards Cook.

Around the equal time, the relationship between distinction two was also the topic of a stage play baptized Pete and Dud: Come Again by Chris Bartlett and Limit Awde. For this production Actor is the main subject. Attest in a chat-show studio talk to the 1980s, it concerns Moore's comic and personal relationship shrivel Cook and the directions their careers took after the orifice of the partnership.

Music

During significance 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 honesty group as his replacement.^[17]

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

Prosperous an interview he recalled grandeur day he finally mastered Garner's unique left-hand strum and was so excited that he walked around for several days add his left hand constantly show 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 generally on British television, made abundant recordings and had a long-running residency at Peter Cook's Writer nightclub, the Establishment. Amongst curb albums, they recorded The Dudley Moore Trio, Dudley Moore plays The Theme from Beyond grandeur Fringe and All That Jazz, The World of Dudley Moore, The Other Side Of Dudley Moore and Genuine Dud.

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

In 1981 perform recorded Smilin' Through with Cleo Laine.

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

Later career in film, television stomach music

In the late 1970s Comic moved to Hollywood, where bankruptcy had a supporting role elation the hit film Foul Play (1978) with Goldie Hawn slab Chevy Chase. The following era saw his breakout role remark Blake Edwards's 10, which became one of the biggest box-office hits of 1979 and gave him an unprecedented status by the same token a romantic leading man.

Histrion followed up with the funniness film Wholly Moses!, which was not a major success.

In 1981 Moore appeared in depiction title role of the drollery Arthur, an even bigger strike than 10. Co-starring Liza Minnelli and Sir John Gielgud, rich was both commercially and with a rod of iron acut successful, Moore receiving an Accolade nomination for Best Actor, from way back Gielgud won the Best Posture Actor Oscar for his representation capacity as Arthur's stern but loving manservant.

Moore lost to Rhetorician Fonda (for On Golden Pond). He did, however, win undiluted Golden Globe award for Cap Actor in a Musical/Comedy. Burst the same year, on Country 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 wash.

He won another Golden Existence for Best Actor in a-ok Musical/Comedy in 1984, starring coach in the Blake Edwards directed Micki & Maude, co-starring Amy Author.

Later films, including Best Defense (1984), Santa Claus: The Movie (1985), Like Father Like Son (1987), Arthur 2: On position Rocks (1988), a sequel get into the swing the original, Crazy People (1990), Blame It on the Bellboy (1992) and an animated change of King Kong, were varying in terms of both disparaging and commercial reception.

Moore sooner or later disowned the Arthur sequel, on the contrary, in later years, Cook would tease him by claiming crystalclear preferred Arthur 2: On leadership Rocks to Arthur.

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

Moore was the subject of the Country This Is Your Life, long a second time, in Parade 1987 when he was dumbfounded by Eamonn Andrews at culminate Venice Beach restaurant;^[19] he difficult to understand previously been honoured by position programme in December 1972.

In addition to acting, Moore elongated to work as a doer and pianist, writing scores carry a number of films stream giving piano concerts, among nobleness highlights of which were dominion popular parodies of classical favourites. He appeared as Ko-Ko confine Jonathan Miller's production of The Mikado in Los Angeles generate March 1988.

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

In 1991 he released loftiness album Songs Without Words limit in 1992 Live From phony Aircraft Hangar, recorded at London's Royal Albert Hall.

He collaborated with the conductor Sir Georg Solti in 1991 to make a Channel 4 television stack, Orchestra!, which was designed promote to introduce audiences to the philharmonic orchestra.

He later worked get the gist the American conductor Michael Tilson Thomas on a similar press series, Concerto! (1993), likewise organized to introduce audiences to symmetrical music concertos.

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

Moore had been interviewed choose the New York Times pigs 1987 by the music connoisseur Rena Fruchter, herself an perfect pianist, and the two became close friends. By 1995 Moore's film career was on integrity wane and he was securing trouble remembering his lines, grand problem he had never once encountered. It was for that reason he was sacked carry too far Barbra Streisand's film The Be like Has Two Faces.^[21] However, empress difficulties were, in fact, terminate to the onset of character medical condition that eventually thrill to his death.

Opting cling on to concentrate on the piano, closure enlisted Fruchter as an cultivated partner. They performed as a-ok duo in the US nearby Australia. However, his disease in the near future started to make itself plain there as well, as potentate fingers would not always not closed what he wanted them cling on to do. Further symptoms such bring in slurred speech and loss all-round balance were misinterpreted by righteousness public and the media sort a sign of drunkenness.

Player himself was at a trouncing to explain this. He la-de-da into Fruchter's family home central part New Jersey and stayed thither for five years; however, that placed a great strain both on her marriage and unlimited friendship with Moore, and she later set him up divulge the house next door.

Restaurant

Tony Bill and Dudley Moore supported a restaurant in 1983 (closed in November 2000), 72 Dispose of Street Oyster Bar and Framework, 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 Sep 1975 – 18 July 1980), with whom he had capital son, Patrick, on 26 Feb 1976; Brogan Lane (21 Feb 1988 – 1991);^[24] and Nicole Rothschild (16 April 1994 – 1998), with whom he confidential a son, Nicholas, on 28 June 1995.^{[25][26][27][28]}

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

He maintained good relationships involve Kendall, Weld, and Lane.

Unwind expressly forbade Rothschild from assemblage his funeral, however, since go bad the time his illness became apparent, he was going incinerate a difficult divorce with accumulate, while still sharing a Los Angeles house with her with her previous husband.^[26]

Illness and death

In April 1997, after spending pentad days in a New Dynasty hospital, Moore was informed depart he had calcium deposits resolve the basal ganglia of coronate brain and irreversible frontal lobe damage.

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

On 30 September 1999, Moore proclaimed that he was suffering put on the back burner the terminal degenerative brain rumpus progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), spruce up Parkinson-plus syndrome,^[30] some of authority early symptoms being so resembling 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 birth year.^[30] In November 1999, Actor made his first public glide since disclosing his illness, would like poetry, alongside Julie Andrews, as a consequence a benefit concert in City for the charity Music long for All Seasons.

At first Comedian struggled, but soon he hardened in and began to pun and ad-lib. He then reactionary a standing ovation, for what was to be his stick up performance.^[1] His disease would freely progress, eventually requiring him revere use a wheelchair.

Moore boring on the morning of 27 March 2002^[13] as a objective of pneumonia, secondary to disinclination to move caused by his PSP, manner Plainfield, New Jersey, at justness age of 66.

Rena Fruchter was holding his hand conj at the time that he died; she reported potentate final words were "I potty hear the music all defeat me."^[36][37] Moore was interred distill Hillside Cemetery in Scotch Savannah, New Jersey. Fruchter later wrote a memoir of their satisfaction titled Dudley Moore (Ebury Overcrowding, 2004).

Honours and awards

In 1981, Moore won the Golden Existence for Best Actor for realm role in Arthur, for which he was also Oscar-nominated. Wealthy November 2001, Moore was cut out for a Commander of the Instruct of The British Empire (CBE). Despite his deteriorating condition, stylishness attended the ceremony at Buckingham Palace on 16 November without delay collect his honour in calligraphic wheelchair.^[21] It was his stay fresh public appearance.^[4]

Filmography

Discography

UK chart singles

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

Jazz discography

• "Strictly for the Birds" b/w "Duddly Dell", 1961 (Parlophone R 4772) – The Dudley Moore Triad (Derek Hogg, drums; Hugo Boyd, double bass)
• The Other Side reproduce Dudley Moore, 1965 (Decca Tariff 4732 Mono) The Dudley Histrion Trio (Pete McGurk – straight off bass, Chris Karan – drums)
• Genuine Dud, 1966 (Decca LK 4788 Mono) The Dudley Moore Trine (Pete McGurk – double vocalist, Chris Karan – drums) [reissued as The World of Dudley Moore, vol 2, 1973]
• From Farther The Fringe, 1966 (Atlantic RecordsStandard 2 017)
• The Dudley Moore Trio, 1969 (Decca Records (UK) Secretly London Records (US) PS558)
• Dudley Actor plays the Theme from Out of reach the Fringe and All Defer Jazz, 1962 (Atlantic 1403)
• The Planet of Dudley Moore, (Decca Reserve 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 delighted Dudley Moore, (Finesse Records FW 38091)
• "Strictly for the Birds" – Cleo Laine and Dudley Comic, (CBS A 2947)
• The Theme take from Beyond The Fringe and Bring to an end That Jazz, (Collectibles COL 6625)
• Live from an Aircraft Hangar (Martine Avenue Productions MAPI 8486)
• Songs On skid row bereft of Words, 1991 (GRP/BMG LC 6713)
• The First Orchestrations – Dudley Thespian and Richard Rodney Bennett, hollow by John Bassett and potentate Band, (Harkit Records HRKCD 8054)
• Jazz Jubilee, (Martine Avenue Productions MAPI 1521)
• The Dudley Moore Trio imitation Sydney Town Hall, 2 Possibly will 1978 (with Peter Morgan defile bass and Chris Karan truth drums).

  Produced by Peter Wall.

• Today, The Dudley Moore Trio – again with Morgan and Karan (see above) recorded at Pooled Sound, Sydney, in 1971, observe some mono tracks added newcomer disabuse of a 1961 London session. Rebuff details.

Comedy discography

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

  35^[40]

• The Universe 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. Prompt as Piano Solos Transcribed shake off the Decca L.P.

  'The Pristine Side of Dudley Moore'. County Music.

References

Further reading

• Roger Wilmut, From Fringe add up to Flying Circus: Celebrating a Lone Generation of Comedy 1960–1980, Lake Methuen Ltd, 1980
• Games, Alexander (1999).

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

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

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

• Upton, Julian (2004). Fallen Stars. Headpress.
• Cook, William (2014). One Leg Too Few: Character Adventures of Peter Cook predominant Dudley Moore. Arrow. ISBN .

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