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Dudley Moore
  • Birth Name:
    Dudley Stuart John Moore
  • Date of Birth:
    April 19, 1935
  • Zodiac Sign:
    Taurus
  • Place of Birth:
    Dagenham, Essex, England, UK
  • Place of Death:
    Plainfield, New Jersey, USA
  • Date of Death:
    March 27, 2002
  • Cause of Death:
    Pneumonia
  • Sex:
    Male
  • Nationality:
    American

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Dudley Moore

    Career

    Dudley Moore

    Trivia

    Dudley Moore
    • 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.
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    • Their pairing was so successful, it enjoyed a second season in 1966 and a third in 1970.
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    • They were particularly funny as the working-class characters "Pete" and "Dud".
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    • The duo then broke into the movies, including The Wrong Box (1966) and Bedazzled (1967).
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    • 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".
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    Quotes

    Dudley Moore
    • I have a very ribald sense of humor, which is conventionally known as obscene. - Unknown
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    • The ability to enjoy your sex life is central. I don't give a shit about anything else. My obsession is total. What else is there to live for? - Unknown
      submitted by - Amit Kher
    • The confidence I now have is rooted in the discovery that who I am is okay. - Unknown
      submitted by - Soha Ali
    • I think my own desire to be loved is what makes me sexually attractive. - Unknown
      submitted by - Aksh Dhiman
    • I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height...I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose...I wouldn't have been a comic. - Unknown
      submitted by - Amit Kher

    Biography

    Dudley Moore
    Last Updated: Thursday, August 20, 2009

    DudleyMoore -- 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 successful 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.

    DudleyIronically, 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. 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.

    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, despite being unable to speak and being wheelchair-bound. He died in Watchung, New Jersey on March 27, 2002, from the pneumonia related to progressive supra-nuclear palsy. He was 66 years old.

    Filmography

    Dudley Moore