Here is the biography of Dudley Moore:
Dudley Moore was born in 1935 in Dagenham, Essex, England to working-class parents. He was a musical prodigy as a child and won a music scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied the organ and composition. After graduating in 1958, Moore turned down a position as organist at King's College, Cambridge to pursue a music and acting career in London.
Moore's first brush with fame came with the satirical comedy revue "Beyond the Fringe" in 1960, alongside fellow Oxonians Alan Bennett, Jonathan Miller, and Peter Cook. The show was a huge success, and the four won a special Tony Award in 1963 for their Broadway production.
Moore and Cook went on to star in the TV show "Not Only... But Also" from 1965 to 1970, and then broke into films with "The Wrong Box" (1966) and "Bedazzled" (1967). They won their second Tony Award in 1974 for their stage show "Good Night", which was the stage version of their TV series.
In the late 1970s, Moore and Cook released three comic albums as the characters "Derek" and "Clive", which were notable for their obscenity and free-form riffs. However, their partnership eventually ended due to Cook's alcoholism.
Moore married American actress Tuesday Weld in 1975 and moved to the US, where he began a second career as a solo screen comedian. He starred in the hit films "Foul Play" (1978),"10" (1979),and "Arthur" (1981),and was named the Top Box Office Star-Male of the Year in 1983.
However, Moore's career began to decline in the late 1980s, and he appeared in a string of flops, including "Arthur 2: On the Rocks" (1988). He also starred in the TV series "Dudley" (1993),which was a bust.
Moore was deeply affected by the death of Peter Cook in 1995 and organized a memorial service in Los Angeles. In 1999, he announced that he was afflicted with progressive supra-nuclear palsy, a disease for which there is no treatment.
Moore was invested as a Commander of the Order of The British Empire in 2001 and attended the ceremony at Buckingham Palace despite being unable to speak and being wheelchair-bound. He died in 2002 from pneumonia related to progressive supra-nuclear palsy, at the age of 66.
