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Dudley Moore Dudley Stuart John Moore , CBE ( 19 April 193527 March 2002 ) was an English actor , comedian , musician , and composer . Moore first came to prominence in the UK as a leading figure in the British satire boom of the 1960s . He was one of the four writer-performers in the comedy revue Beyond the Fringe from 1960 that created a boom in satiric comedy , and with one member of that team , Peter Cook , collaborated on the BBC television series Not Only.. . But Also . They worked together on other projects until the mid-1970s , by which time Moore had settled in Los Angeles to concentrate on his film acting . His career as a comedy film actor was marked by hit Hollywood films , particularly Foul Play ( 1978 ) , 10 ( 1979 ) and Arthur ( 1981 ) . For Arthur , Moore was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and won a Golden Globe Award . He received a second Golden Globe for his performance in Micki & Maude ( 1984 ) . Early life . Moore was born at the original Charing Cross Hospital in central London , the son of Ada Francis ( née Hughes ) , a secretary , and John Moore , a railway electrician from Glasgow . Moore was brought up in Dagenham , Essex . He was short at and had club feet that required extensive hospital treatment . Coupled with his small stature , made him the butt of jokes from other children . His right foot responded well to corrective treatment by the time he was six , but his left foot was permanently twisted and his left leg below the knee was withered . He remained self-conscious throughout his life . Moore became a chorister at the age of six . At age 11 he earned a scholarship to the Guildhall School of Music , where he took up harpsichord , organ , violin , musical theory and composition . He rapidly developed into a highly talented pianist and organist and was playing the organ at local church weddings by the age of 14 . He attended Dagenham County High School where he received musical tuition from a dedicated teacher , who became a friend and confidant to Moore and continued to correspond with him until 1994 . Moore won an organ scholarship to Magdalen College , Oxford , where he was tutored by the composer Bernard Rose . While studying music and composition there , he also performed with Alan Bennett in the Oxford Revue . During his university years , Moore developed a love of jazz music and became an accomplished jazz pianist and composer . He began working with musicians such as John Dankworth and Cleo Laine . In 1960 he left Dankworths band to work on Beyond the Fringe . Career . Beyond the Fringe . John Bassett , a graduate of Wadham College , Oxford recommended Moore , his jazz bandmate and a rising cabaret talent , to producer Robert Ponsonby , who was putting together a comedy revue entitled Beyond the Fringe . Bassett also chose Jonathan Miller . Moore then recommended Alan Bennett , who in turn suggested Peter Cook . Beyond the Fringe was at the forefront of the 1960s UK satire boom , although the shows original runs in Edinburgh and the provinces in 1960 had had a lukewarm response . When the revue transferred to the Fortune Theatre in London , in a revised production by Donald Albery and William Donaldson , it became a sensation , thanks in some part to a favourable review by Kenneth Tynan . There were also a number of musical items in the show , using Dudley Moores music , most famously an arrangement of the Colonel Bogey March in the style of Beethoven , which Moore appears unable to bring to an end . In 1962 the show transferred to the John Golden Theatre in New York , with its original cast . President John F . Kennedy attended a performance on 10 February 1963 . The show continued in New York until 1964 . Partnership with Peter Cook . When Moore returned to the UK he was offered his own series on the BBC , Not Only.. . But Also ( 1965 , 1966 , 1970 ) . It was commissioned specifically as a vehicle for Moore , but when he invited Peter Cook on as a guest , their comedy partnership was so notable that it became a permanent fixture of the series . Cook and Moore are most remembered for their sketches as two working-class men , Pete and Dud , in macs and cloth caps , commenting on politics and the arts , but they also fashioned a series of one-off characters , usually with Moore in the role of interviewer to one of Cooks upper-class eccentrics . The pair developed an unorthodox method for scripting the material , using a tape recorder to tape an ad-libbed routine that they would then have transcribed and edited . This would not leave enough time to fully rehearse the script , so they often had a set of cue cards . Moore was famous for corpsing so , as the programmes often went out live , Cook would deliberately make him laugh in order to get an even bigger reaction from the studio audience . The BBC wiped much of the series , though some of the soundtracks ( which were issued on record ) have survived . In 1968 Cook and Moore briefly switched to ATV for four one-hour programmes entitled Goodbye Again ; however , they were not as critically well-received as the BBC shows . On film , Moore and Cook appeared in the 1966 British comedy film The Wrong Box , before co-writing and co-starring in Bedazzled ( 1967 ) with Eleanor Bron . Set in Swinging London of the 1960s , Bedazzled was directed by Stanley Donen . The pair closed the decade with appearances in the ensemble caper film Monte Carlo or Bust and Richard Lesters The Bed Sitting Room , based on the play by Spike Milligan and John Antrobus . In 1968 and 1969 Moore embarked on two solo comedy ventures , firstly in the film 30 is a Dangerous Age , Cynthia and secondly , on stage , for an Anglicised adaptation of Woody Allens Play It Again , Sam at the Globe Theatre in Londons West End . In the 1970s the relationship between Moore and Cook became increasingly strained as the latters alcoholism began affecting his work . In 1971 , however , Cook and Moore took sketches from Not Only...But Also and Goodbye Again , together with new material , to create the stage revue Behind the Fridge . This show toured Australia in 1972 before transferring to New York City in 1973 , re-titled as Good Evening . Cook frequently appeared on and off stage the worse for drink . Nonetheless , the show proved very popular and it won Tony and Grammy Awards . When the Broadway run of Good Evening ended , Moore stayed on in the U.S . to pursue his film acting ambitions in Hollywood , but the pair reunited to host Saturday Night Live on 24 January 1976 during SNLs first season . They performed a number of their classic stage routines , including One Leg Too Few and Frog and Peach , among others , in addition to participating in some skits with the shows ensemble . It was during the Broadway run of Good Evening that Cook persuaded Moore to take the humour of Pete and Dud further on long-playing records as Derek and Clive . Chris Blackwell circulated bootleg copies to friends in the music business and the popularity of the recording convinced Cook to release it commercially as Derek and Clive ( Live ) ( 1976 ) . Two further Derek and Clive albums , Derek and Clive Come Again ( 1977 ) and Derek and Clive Ad Nauseam ( 1978 ) , were later released . The latter was also filmed for a documentary , Derek and Clive Get the Horn . In the film it is clear tensions between the two men were at a breaking point , with Moore at one point walking out of the recording room singing , Breaking up is so easy to do . In 2009 , it came to light that , at the time , three separate British police forces had wanted them to be prosecuted under obscenity laws for their Derek and Clive comedy recordings . The last significant appearance for the partnership was in 1978s The Hound of the Baskervilles , where Moore played Dr . Watson to Cooks Sherlock Holmes , as well as three other roles : in drag ; as a one-legged man ; and at the start and end of the film as a flamboyant and mischievous pianist . He also wrote the films score . Co-star Terry-Thomas described it as the most outrageous film I ever appeared in .. . there was no magic .. . it was bad! . The film was not a success critically or financially . Moore and Cook eventually reunited for the annual American benefit for the homeless , Comic Relief , in 1987 , and again in 1989 for a British audience at the Amnesty International benefit The Secret Policemans Biggest Ball . Moore was deeply affected by the death of Cook in 1995 , and for weeks would regularly telephone Cooks home in London , just to hear his friends voice on the telephone answering machine . Moore attended Cooks memorial service in London and , at the time , many people who knew him noted that Moore was behaving strangely and attributed it to grief or drinking . In November 1995 , Moore teamed up with friend and humorist Martin Lewis in organising a two-day salute to Cook in Los Angeles that Moore co-hosted with Lewis . In December 2004 the Channel 4 television station in the United Kingdom broadcast Not Only But Always , a TV film dramatising the relationship between Moore and Cook , although the principal focus of the production was on Cook . Around the same time the relationship between the two was also the subject of a stage play called by Chris Bartlett and Nick Awde . For this production Moore is the main subject . Set in a chat-show studio in the 1980s , it focuses on Moores comic and personal relationship with Cook and the directions their careers took after the split of the partnership . Music . During the 1960s he formed the Dudley Moore Trio , with drummer Chris Karan and bassist Pete McGurk . Following McGurks suicide in June 1968 , Peter Morgan joined the group as his replacement . Moores admitted principal musical influences were Oscar Peterson and Erroll Garner . In an interview he recalled the day he finally mastered Garners unique left-hand strum and was so excited that he walked around for several days with his left hand constantly playing 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 regularly on British television , made numerous recordings and had a long-running residency at Peter Cooks London nightclub , the Establishment . Amongst other albums , they recorded The Dudley Moore Trio , Dudley Moore plays The Theme from Beyond the Fringe and All That Jazz , The World of Dudley Moore , The Other Side Of Dudley Moore and Genuine Dud . Moore was a close friend of record producer Chris Gunning and played piano ( uncredited ) on the 1969 single Broken Hearted Pirates which Gunning produced for Simon Dupree and the Big Sound . In 1976 he played piano on Larry Normans album In Another Land , in particular on the song The Sun Began to Rain . In 1981 he recorded Smilin Through with Cleo Laine . He composed the soundtracks for the films Bedazzled ( 1967 ) , 30 is a Dangerous Age , Cynthia ( 1968 ) , Inadmissible Evidence ( 1968 ) , Staircase ( 1969 ) , The Hound of the Baskervilles ( 1978 ) and Six Weeks ( 1982 ) , among others . Later career in film , television and music . In the late 1970s Moore moved to Hollywood , where he had a supporting role in the hit film Foul Play ( 1978 ) with Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase . The following year saw his breakout role in Blake Edwardss 10 , which became one of the biggest box-office hits of 1979 and gave him an unprecedented status as a romantic leading man . Moore followed up with the comedy film Wholly Moses! , which was not a major success . In 1981 Moore appeared in the title role of the comedy Arthur , an even bigger hit than 10 . Co-starring Liza Minnelli and Sir John Gielgud , it was both commercially and critically successful , Moore receiving an Oscar nomination for Best Actor , whilst Gielgud won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as Arthurs stern but compassionate manservant . Moore lost to Henry Fonda ( for On Golden Pond ) . He did , however , win a Golden Globe award for Best Actor in a Musical/Comedy . In the same year , on British television , Moore was the featured guest subject on An Audience With... . His subsequent films , Six Weeks ( 1982 ) , Lovesick ( 1983 ) , Romantic Comedy ( 1983 ) and Unfaithfully Yours ( 1984 ) were only moderate successes . He won another Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Musical/Comedy in 1984 , starring in the Blake Edwards directed Micki + Maude , co-starring Amy Irving . Later films , including Best Defense ( 1984 ) , ( 1985 ) , Like Father Like Son ( 1987 ) , , a sequel to the original , Crazy People ( 1990 ) , Blame It on the Bellboy ( 1992 ) and an animated adaptation of King Kong , were inconsistent in terms of both critical and commercial reception . Moore eventually disowned the Arthur sequel , but , in later years , Cook would tease him by claiming he preferred Arthur 2 : On the Rocks to Arthur . In 1986 he once again hosted Saturday Night Live , albeit without Peter Cook this time . Moore was the subject of the British This Is Your Life , for a second time , in March 1987 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at his Venice Beach restaurant ; he had previously been honoured by the programme in December 1972 . In addition to acting , Moore continued to work as a composer and pianist , writing scores for a number of films and giving piano concerts , which were highlighted by his popular parodies of classical favourites . He also appeared as Ko-Ko in Jonathan Millers production of The Mikado in Los Angeles in March 1988 . In 1991 he released the album Songs Without Words and in 1992 Live From an Aircraft Hangar , recorded at Londons Royal Albert Hall . He collaborated with the conductor Sir Georg Solti in 1991 to create a Channel 4 television series , Orchestra! , which was designed to introduce audiences to the symphony orchestra . He later worked with the American conductor Michael Tilson Thomas on a similar television series , Concerto ! ( 1993 ) , likewise designed to introduce audiences to classical music concertos . Moore appeared in two series for CBS , Dudley ( 1993 ) and Daddys Girls ( 1994 ) ; however , both were cancelled before the end of their run . Moore had been interviewed for The New York Times in 1987 by the music critic Rena Fruchter , herself an accomplished pianist , and the two became close friends . By 1995 Moores film career was on the wane and he was having trouble remembering his lines , a problem he had never previously encountered . It was for this reason he was sacked from Barbra Streisands film The Mirror Has Two Faces . However , his difficulties were , in fact , due to the onset of the medical condition that eventually led to his death . Opting to concentrate on the piano , he enlisted Fruchter as an artistic partner . They performed as a duo in the US and Australia . However , his disease soon started to make itself apparent there as well , as his fingers would not always do what he wanted them to do . Further symptoms such as slurred speech and loss of balance were misinterpreted by the public and the media as a sign of drunkenness . Moore himself was at a loss to explain this . He moved into Fruchters family home in New Jersey and stayed there for five years ; however , this placed a great strain both on her marriage and her friendship with Moore , and she later set him up in the house next door . Restaurant . Tony Bill and Dudley Moore founded a restaurant in 1983 ( closed in November 2000 ) , 72 Market Street Oyster Bar and Grill , in Venice , California . Personal life . Moore was married and divorced four times : to actresses Suzy Kendall ( 15 June 1968 – 15 September 1972 ) , Tuesday Weld ( 20 September 1975 – 18 July 1980 ; by whom he had a son Patrick on 26 February 1976 ) , Brogan Lane ( 21 February 1988 – 1991 ) , and Nicole Rothschild ( 16 April 1994 – 1998 ; one son , Nicholas , born on 28 June 1995 ) . He maintained good relationships with Kendall , Weld and Lane , but expressly forbade Rothschild to attend his funeral . At the time his illness became apparent , he was going through a difficult divorce from Rothschild while at the same time sharing a house in Los Angeles with her and her previous husband . Moore dated Susan Anton in the early 1980s , with a lot of talk being made of their height difference : Moore at and Anton at . In 1994 , Moore was arrested and charged with domestic assault after allegedly assaulting his then-girlfriend , Nicole Rothschild . Illness and death . In April 1997 , after spending five days in a New York hospital , Moore was informed that he had calcium deposits in the basal ganglia of his brain and irreversible frontal lobe damage . In September 1997 he underwent quadruple coronary artery bypass surgery in London . He also suffered four strokes . On 30 September 1999 , Moore announced that he was suffering from the terminal degenerative brain disorder progressive supranuclear palsy ( PSP ) , a Parkinson-plus syndrome , some of the early symptoms being so similar to intoxication that he had been reported as being drunk , and that the illness had been diagnosed earlier in the year . Moore died on the morning of 27 March 2002 as a result of pneumonia , secondary to immobility caused by the palsy , in Plainfield , New Jersey , at the age of 66 . Rena Fruchter was holding his hand when he died ; she reported his final words were I can hear the music all around me . Moore was interred at Hillside Cemetery in Scotch Plains , New Jersey . Fruchter later wrote a memoir of their relationship entitled Dudley Moore ( Ebury Press , 2004 ) . Honours and awards . In 1981 Moore won the Golden Globe for Best Actor for his role in Arthur , for which he was also Oscar-nominated . In November 2001 , Moore was appointed a Commander of the Order of The British Empire ( CBE ) . Despite his deteriorating condition , he attended the ceremony at Buckingham Palace on 16 November to collect his honour in a wheelchair . Filmography and television shows . - The Third Alibi ( 1961 ) – Piano accompanist ( uncredited ) - Flatland ( 1965 ) , ( Short ) – A Square ( voice ) - The Wrong Box ( 1966 ) – John Finsbury - Bedazzled ( 1967 ) – Stanley Moon - 30 is a Dangerous Age , Cynthia ( 1968 ) – Rupert Street - Monte Carlo or Bust ! ( 1969 ) ( aka Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies ) – Lt . Barrington - The Bed Sitting Room ( 1969 ) – Police Sergeant - Alices Adventures in Wonderland ( 1972 ) – Dormouse - Jackanory ( 1973 ) - Narrator - One episode ( The Village without Music ) - Saturday Night at the Baths ( 1975 ) – Himself – in theater audience ( uncredited ) - Foul Play ( 1978 ) – Stanley Tibbets - The Hound of the Baskervilles ( 1978 ) – Doctor Watson / Mrs . Ada Holmes / Mr . Spiggot / Piano Player - Derek and Clive Get the Horn ( 1979 ) – Derek - 10 ( 1979 ) – George Webber - The Muppet Show ( 1979 ) ( TV Series ) – Himself – Special Guest Star - BBC Horizon ( 1979 , Episode : Its About Time ) - Wholly Moses ! ( 1980 ) – Harvey Orchid / Herschel - Arthur ( 1981 ) – Arthur Bach - Six Weeks ( 1982 ) – Patrick Dalton - Lovesick ( 1983 ) – Saul Benjamin - Romantic Comedy ( 1983 ) – Jason Carmichael - Unfaithfully Yours ( 1984 ) – Claude Eastman - Best Defense ( 1984 ) – Wylie Cooper - Micki + Maude ( 1984 ) – Rob Salinger - ( 1985 ) – Patch - The Adventures of Milo and Otis ( 1986 ) – Narrator ( English version , voice ) - Like Father Like Son ( 1987 ) – Dr . Jack Hammond / Chris Hammond - ( 1988 ) – Arthur Bach - The Jim Henson Hour ( 1989 ) – Himself ( Miss Piggys Hollywood segment ) - Crazy People ( 1990 ) – Emory Leeson - Orchestra ! ( 1991 , TV Series ) - Blame It on the Bellboy ( 1992 ) – Melvyn Orton - Really Wild Animals ( 1993–1998 ) ( TV Series ) – Spin ( voice ) - Dudley ( 1993 ) ( TV series ) – Dudley Bristol - Concerto ! ( 1993 , TV Series ) - The Pickle ( 1993 ) – Planet Cleveland Man ( uncredited ) - Daddys Girls ( 1994 , TV Series ) – Dudley Walker - Parallel Lives ( 1994 ) – Imaginary Friend / President Andrews - Oscars Orchestra ( 1994 ) – Oscar - The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson ( 1995 ) – Dudley Moore - A Weekend in the Country ( 1996 ) – Simon Farrell - The Mighty Kong ( 1998 ) – Carl Denham / King Kong ( voice ) ( final film role ) Discography . UK chart singles . - Goodbye-ee , 1965 , Peter Cook and Dudley Moore - The Ballad of Spotty Muldoon , 1965 , Peter Cook and Dudley Moore Jazz discography . - Strictly for the Birds b/w Duddly Dell , 1961 ( Parlophone R 4772 ) - The Dudley Moore Trio ( Derek Hogg , drums ; Hugo Boyd , double bass ) - The Other Side of Dudley Moore , 1965 ( Decca LK 4732 Mono ) The Dudley Moore Trio ( Pete McGurk - double bass , Chris Karan - drums ) - Genuine Dud , 1966 ( Decca LK 4788 Mono ) The Dudley Moore Trio ( Pete McGurk - double bass , Chris Karan - drums ) - From Beyond The Fringe , 1966 ( Atlantic RecordsStandard 2 017 ) - The Dudley Moore Trio , 1969 ( Decca Records ( UK ) / London Records ( US ) PS558 ) - Dudley Moore plays the Theme from Beyond the Fringe and All That Jazz , 1962 ( Atlantic 1403 ) - The World of Dudley Moore , ( Decca SPA 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 and Dudley Moore , ( Finesse Records FW 38091 ) - Strictly for the Birds – Cleo Laine and Dudley Moore , ( CBS A 2947 ) - The Theme from Beyond The Fringe and All That Jazz , ( Collectibles COL 6625 ) - Live from an Aircraft Hangar ( Martine Avenue Productions MAPI 8486 ) - Songs Without Words , 1991 ( GRP/BMG LC 6713 ) - The First Orchestrations – Dudley Moore and Richard Rodney Bennett , played by John Bassett and his Band , ( Harkit Records HRKCD 8054 ) - Jazz Jubilee , ( Martine Avenue Productions MAPI 1521 ) - The Dudley Moore Trio at Sydney Town Hall , 2 May 1978 ( with Peter Morgan on bass and Chris Karan on drums ) . Produced by Peter Wall . - Today , The Dudley Moore Trio - again with Morgan and Karan ( see above ) recorded at United Sound , Sydney , in 1971 , with some mono tracks added from a 1961 London session . No details . Comedy discography . - Beyond The Fringe ( West End recording ) ( 1961 ) - Beyond The Fringe ( Broadway recording ) ( 1962 ) - Not Only Peter Cook But Also Dudley Moore ( 1965 ) - Once Moore with Cook ( 1966 ) - Peter Cook and Dudley Moore Cordially Invite You to Go to Hell ! ( 1967 ) - Goodbye Again ( 1968 ) - Not Only But Also ( 1971 ) - Behind the Fridge ( 1971 ) AUS #35 - The World 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 . Arranged as Piano Solos Transcribed from the Decca L.P . The Other Side of Dudley Moore . Essex Music . Further reading . - Roger Wilmut , From Fringe to Flying Circus : Celebrating a Unique Generation of Comedy 1960–1980 , Eyre Methuen Ltd , 1980 - Dudley Moore : An Intimate Portrait , Rena Fruchter , Ebury Press , 2004 , . - Julian Upton , Fallen Stars , Headpress , 2004 . External links . - The Films of Dudley Moore , film clip compilation , 5 minutes - Obituary at CNN.com - Affectionately Dudley , 2006 Radio 4 programme - Dudley Moores appearance on This Is Your Life