Dudley Moore was born in England in 1935 he suffered from a birth defect called clubfoot
the right foot eventually straightens itself out but the left would never was completely normal
consequently the kids at school made fun of him because of that and he was kind of a small kid he
was a child prodigy on the organ in piano though and he attended Magdalen College Oxford to study
music but he mostly liked jazz he went to London after college to try to get an entertainment
career in acting or playing music he found success with the comedy revue show Beyond the Fringe and
that's where he met to the other comedian that he worked with later on Peter Cook they became
a comedy duo in the 60s and 70s they had a TV show in England on BBC on the BBC was called not only
but also and a couple of popular characters they did were Pete and Doug Peter Cook and Dudley Moore
made movies too they were in the wrong box that was in 1966 and also bedazzled in 1967 in the
mid to late 70s they put out some comedy albums that were pretty popular but all during this time
Dudley continued to his career as a jazz musician performing many many concerts and he even had his
own trio he was married four times to actresses Suzie Kendall and Tuesday Weld and also he was
married to Brogan Lane and Nicole Rothschild during those two marriages he had two sons he had
a son with Tuesday Weld born in 1976 and he had a son with Nicole Rothschild in 1995 in 1975 after
he married Tuesday Weld he moved to California and decided to try to make it big in America and he
was in some movies the first real notable movie he was in was foul play in 1978 that was the one with
Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase didn't have a big part in it but it was a you know what he tad was really
good then also he did the movie ten which was directed by Blake Edwards that was in 1979 and of
course his big hit was Arthur in 1981 and in that he was in that with Liza Minnelli and John Gielgud
and he was even Oscar nominated for that but he didn't win Henry Fonda beat him out for on Colton
ponds other movies followed he did six weeks with I think that was with Mary Tyler Moore 1982
lovesick in 83 and faithful years in 84 and McKean mod also in 84 one of the worst movies he ever
made was Santa Claus the movie in 1985 1985 that was a big bomb he tried to do the Arthur thing
again with Arthur - in 1988 and that didn't turn out well so his movie career kind of faded and he
tried to get some TV work going he did a couple of shows for CBS 1993 did Dudley and in 1994 he
was in a show called daddy's girls and they were both cancelled but he this whole time he continued
continued doing concerts and musical programs he actually was fired from the Barbra Streisand
movie the mirror has two faces for not being able to remember his lines this was the beginning of a
conditioning he had eventually caused his death in 1997 he had heart bypass surgery so he was
not doing so well his mind was failing him and a lot of people thought he was doing drugs or he
was drunk but he actually had a condition that was later diagnosed as progressive supe super nuclear
palsy that was eventually the thing that caused the the pneumonia that caused his death near the
end of his life he moved in with a friend of his who was a music critic and also a pianist her name
was Rena frucht or her and her husband had a house in Plainfield New Jersey and they took Dudley in
she had been friends with him for a few years and so he did Lee was actually living in their
basement for a while but after a time this put a big stress on the frick their family so he ended
up buying the house next door to their theirs that's where he eventually died in that in that
home next door but he did receive the in 2001 he was awarded commander of the Order of the British
Empire CBE and he traveled to England to accept the award from Prince Charles but this whole time
he was in a wheelchair and he really couldn't speak and then on the morning of March 27 2002
as I said earlier because of pneumonia caused by the palsy he died in Plainfield New Jersey marina
Fricker was said to be holding his hand when he died and she reported his final words where I can
hear the music all around me war was then buried at the hillside Cemetery and Scotch Plains New
Jersey which wasn't far from where he was living at the time they have a beautiful since memorial
stone there for him it's a sad story and he had a great talent and he did come to a saddening
you