“I have decided to come forward to tell my friends and the public that I am being treated for a disease closely related to Parkinson”
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Dudley Moore
Dudley Stuart John Moore was an English actor, comedian, musician and composer. He 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 groundbreaking satirical comedy revue Beyond the Fringe from 1960 to 1964. With another member of that team, Peter Cook, Moore collaborated on the BBC television series Not…
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entertainment · English actor, comedian and musician (1935–2002) · actor · comedian · composer · jazz musician · screenwriter · pianist · film actor · film director · television actor · musician · also Dudley Moore, Dudley Stuart John Moore, Moore
Born 19 April 1935 · Died 27 March 2002 · Q310343
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2026· 3 entries
“surrounded by friends, his nurse and medical aides at the time of his passing”
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Representative Riley Moore | (.gov): Congressman Riley M. Moore Presents Check for $1 Million for Pennsboro and Ritchie County Water Project
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2009· 1 entry
It came to light that, at the time, there were attempts to have them prosecuted under obscenity laws for their "Derek and Clive" comedy recordings
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2006· 1 entry
Released album “Dudley”.
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2002· 4 entries
Died 2002-03-27.
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“Dudley Moore, ator inglês, que sofre de uma doença degenerativa no cérebro, revoltado com boatos de que estaria à beira da morte”
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“It seems that a lot of people, who haven’t known of me as a pianist, think I’ve just started off as a comedian. And so for them the piano was something extra. But, of course, playing the piano was something that came before all of what’s happened now.”
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“Maybe the memory does play tricks. Increasingly, I'm thinking, 'What was their name? I knew that name yesterday.' I think that's what happens. At some point, I'll forget that I ever worked with Peter Cook, I suppose, and Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller.”
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1995· 1 entry
And for weeks would regularly telephone Cook's home in London, just to hear his friend's voice on the telephone answering machine
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1994· 1 entry
Moore was arrested and charged with domestic assault after allegedly assaulting his then-girlfriend and soon-to-be wife, Nicole Rothschild
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1993· 2 entries
Released album “Dudley Moore introduces Concerto! Mozart: Concerto for Flute and Harp”.
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Released album “Concerto!”.
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1992· 1 entry
Released album “Smilin' Through”.
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1991· 4 entries
Released album “Songs Without Words”.
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To create a Channel 4 television series, Orchestra
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Released the album Songs Without Words and in 1992 Live From an Aircraft Hangar, recorded at London's Royal Albert Hall
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Released album “Orchestra!”.
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1989· 1 entry
Narrated the US version of the 1989 film The Adventures of Milo & Otis
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1987· 3 entries
And was made a CBE by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace on 16 November 2001 in what was his last public appearance
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And again in 1989 for a British audience at the Amnesty International benefit The Secret Policeman's Biggest Ball
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By the music critic Rena Fruchter, herself an accomplished pianist, and the two became close friends
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1986· 1 entry
Once again hosted Saturday Night Live, albeit without Peter Cook this time
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1985· 1 entry
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Micki & Maude (1985).
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1984· 2 entries
Starring in the Blake Edwards directed Micki & Maude, co-starring Amy Irving
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Released album “Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 / Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a”.
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1983· 1 entry
(closed in November 2000), 72 Market Street Oyster Bar and Grill, in Venice, California
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1982· 1 entry
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Arthur (1982).
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1981· 2 entries
Recorded Smilin' Through with Cleo Laine
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Moore appeared in the title role of the comedy Arthur, an even bigger hit than 10
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1976· 1 entry
Played piano on Larry Norman's album In Another Land, in particular on the song The Sun Began to Rain
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1974· 1 entry
Released album “Good Evening”.
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1971· 3 entries
However, Cook and Moore took sketches from Not Only
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With some mono tracks added from a 1961 London session
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And ran in London's west end between 1972 and 1973 before transferring to New York City in 1973, re-titled Good Evening
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1969· 1 entry
Released album “30 Is A Dangerous Age, Cynthia!”.
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1968· 4 entries
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
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Released album “Goodbye Again”.
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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 Allen's Play It Again, Sam at the Globe Theatre in Lon
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Released album “Bedazzled”.
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1965· 1 entry
Released album “Not Only Peter Cook but Also Dudley Moore”.
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1963· 1 entry
Awarded Special Tony Award for Beyond the Fringe (1963).
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1962· 2 entries
Released album “Plays the Theme From Beyond the Fringe & All That Jazz”.
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The show transferred to the John Golden Theatre in New York, with its original cast
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1960· 1 entry
Moore left Dankworth's band to work on Beyond the Fringe
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1958· 1 entry
Joined John Dankworth's big band on piano
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1955· 1 entry
Moore won an organ scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was tutored by the composer Bernard Rose and from where he graduated in 1958
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1935· 1 entry
Born 1935-04-19.
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