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Dudley Moore in When Things Were Rotten (1975)

Dudley Moore, Richard Dimitri, Henry Polic II, and Ron Rifkin in When Things Were Rotten (1975)

Dudley Moore and Peter Cook in Saturday Night Live (1975)

Dudley Moore and Peter Cook in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978)

Dudley Moore and Peter Cook in Bedazzled (1967)

Dudley Moore, Andrea Allan, and Peter Cook in The Wrong Box (1966)

Dudley Moore, Peter Cook, and Ralph Richardson in The Wrong Box (1966)

Michael Caine, Dudley Moore, Peter Cook, Irene Handl, John Mills, Nanette Newman, Ralph Richardson, and John Tatham in The Wrong Box (1966)

John Gielgud, Dudley Moore, and Liza Minnelli in Arthur (1981)

Dudley Moore and Steve Gordon in Arthur (1981)

Dudley Moore and Geraldine Fitzgerald in Arthur (1981)

Dudley Moore and Liza Minnelli in Arthur (1981)

Dudley Moore and Doug Sheehan in 10 (1979)

Amy Irving and Dudley Moore in Micki + Maude (1984)

Dudley Moore and Ann Reinking in Micki + Maude (1984)

André René Roussimoff, Amy Irving, Dudley Moore, and H.B. Haggerty in Micki + Maude (1984)

Daryl Hannah and Dudley Moore in Crazy People (1990)

J.T. Walsh, Dudley Moore, Paul Reiser, Bill Smitrovich, and Doug Yasuda in Crazy People (1990)

Dudley Moore, Shigeru Tsuyuki, Chatran, and Pû in The Adventures of Milo and Otis (1986)

Daryl Hannah, Dudley Moore, Thomas Barad, Tony Bill, Mitch Markowitz, and Robert K. Weiss in Crazy People (1990)

Dudley Moore and Kirk Cameron in Like Father Like Son (1987)

Dudley Moore in Like Father Like Son (1987)

John Lithgow and Dudley Moore in Santa Claus (1985)

Dudley Moore, Bronson Pinchot, Jim Carter, John Grillo, Andreas Katsulas, and Alex Norton in Blame It on the Bellboy (1992)

Patsy Kensit, Bryan Brown, Dudley Moore, Bronson Pinchot, Jim Carter, Richard Griffiths, Andreas Katsulas, Alex Norton, and Penelope Wilton in Blame It on the Bellboy (1992)

Dudley Moore and Mark Herman in Blame It on the Bellboy (1992)

Patsy Kensit, Bryan Brown, Dudley Moore, Richard Griffiths, Alison Steadman, and Penelope Wilton in Blame It on the Bellboy (1992)

Bo Derek and Dudley Moore at "The 61st Annual Academy Awards"

"Arthur 2, On The Rocks" Dudley Moore, John Gielgud

Blake Edwards, Dudley Moore, and Bruce Catlin in 10 (1979)

Dudley Moore and Jeannot Szwarc in Santa Claus (1985)

Kathleen Turner and Dudley Moore in The 42nd Annual Golden Globe Awards (1985)

Dudley Moore and Chatran in The Adventures of Milo and Otis (1986)

Dudley Moore, the gifted comedian who had at least three distinct career phases that brought him great acclaim and success, actually started out as a musical prodigy as a child. Moore -- born in Dagenham, Essex, England to working class parents in 1935 -- won a music scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford, to study the organ. At university, he also studied composition and became a classically trained pianist, though his forte on the piano for public performance was jazz. After graduating from Magdalen College in 1958, Moore was offered a position as organist at King's College, Cambridge, but turned it down in order to go to London and pursue a music and acting career. Fellow Oxonian Alan Bennett (Exter Colelge, B.A., Medieval History, 1957) had already recommended him to John Bassett, who was putting together a satirical comedy revue called "Beyond the Fringe". "Beyond the Fringe" was to be Moore's first brush with fame, along with co-stars Bennett, future theatrical director Jonathan Miller (now Sir Jonathan, who studied Medicine at Cambridge and was a physician), and Peter Cook, who was destined to become Moore's comic partner during the 1960s and '70s.

It was Miller who had recommended Cook for "Beyond the Fringe", in much the same way that Bennett had bird-dogged Moore. Cook, who had studied modern languages at Cambridge, had been part of the famous Cambridge theatrical, the Footlights revue in 1959, had subsequently gone to London to star in a West End revue for Kenneth Williams, "Pieces of Eight". This old-fashioned review was such a success there was a sequel, "One Over the Eight". He was advised by his agent not to star in the Fringe with the three others as he was a professional, whereas they were amateurs. Ironically, the great success of "Beyond the Fringe", which was a new kind of satirical comedy, would doom the very old-fashioned reviews that Cook had just tasted success in. "Beyond the Fringe" not only won great acclaim in the UK, but it was a hit in the U.S.. The four won a special Tony Award in 1963 for their Broadway production of "Beyond the Fringe" and there was a television program made of the revue in 1964.

Moore and Cook were offered the TV show Not Only... But Also (1965) by the BBC in 1965. Peter Cook was on as a guest. Their pairing was so successful, it enjoyed a second season in 1966 and a third in 1970. They were particularly funny as the working-class characters "Pete" and "Dud". The duo then broke into the movies, including The Wrong Box (1966) and Bedazzled (1967). In 1974, the duo won their second Tony Award for their show "Good Night", which was the stage version of their TV series "Not Only... But Also".

In the mid- to late 1970s, they issued three comic albums in the guise of the characters "Derek" and "Clive" (Moore and Cook, respectively), two lavatory attendants that many viewed as reincarnations of their earlier TV characters "Pete" and "Dud". The albums, ad-libbed in a recording studio while the two drank vast quantities of alcohol, were noted at the time for their obscenity. Their typical routine was a stream-of-consciousness fugue by Cook, interspersed with interjections by Moore. With their obscenity-laden, free-formed riffs, Derke and Clive presaged the more free-wheeling shock comedy of the 1980s and '90s.

They subsequently split up as Moore could no longer tolerate Cook's alcoholism. Under the influence, Cook would become abusive towards Moore, whose acting career was undergoing a renaissance in the late '70s while his career has stalled. Ironically, it was playing an alcoholic that brought Moore to the summit of his success as an actor.

After marrying American actress Tuesday Weld in 1975, Moore moved to the U.S. and began a second career as a solo screen comedian, stealing the show from Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn as the horny conductor in the movie comedy, Foul Play (1978). When George Segal dropped out of the movie 10 (1979), director Blake Edwards cast Moore in the lead role as the composer undergoing a mid-life crisis. It was a huge hit, but was surpassed by his Oscar-nominated turn as the dipsomaniac billionaire in Arthur (1981). In the early 1980s, Moore was a top box office attraction. In 1983, the National Alliance of Theater Owners named him the Top Box Office Star-Male of the Year.

His career began petering out after he turned down the lead in Splash (1984), a role that helped establish Tom Hanks as a top movie comedian and position him for his transition into movie drama and super-stardom. As Hanks star waxed, Moore's star waned, and by 1985 he was reduced to playing an elf in Santa Claus (1985), one of the all time turkeys. Even a second turn as "Arthur" in Arthur 2: On the Rocks (1988) couldn't revive his box office, the dependent clause of the title all too well describing his career. His TV series Dudley (1993) was a bust, and the 1990s proved a wasteland for the once-honored and prosperous comedian.

Moore was deeply affected by the January 1995 death of Peter Cook by a gastrointestinal hemorrhage at the age of 57. Moore organized a two-day memorial to Cook in Los Angeles that was held in November 1995. Less than four years later, in September 1999, Moore announced that he was afflicted with progressive supra-nuclear palsy, a disease for which there is no treatment.

Dudley Moore was invested as a Commander of the Order of The British Empire (one step below knighthood) in June 2001. Moore personally attended the ceremony at Buckingham Palace to accept his CBE from Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales (later King Charles III), despite being unable to speak and being wheelchair-bound. He died in Watchung, New Jersey on March 27, 2002, a month shy of his 67th birthday, from the pneumonia related to progressive supra-nuclear palsy.

Dudley Moore was married four times, to actresses Suzy Kendall, Tuesday Weld, Brogan Lane and Nicole Rothschild, and had two sons, one with Tuesday Weld and one with Nicole Rothschild.

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