Date of Birth : Apr 19th 1935
British actor and comedian who became a star after making the film 10. He came from a working-class background and was notably short, at 5 foot 2 1/2 inches.
While studying music at Oxford University (Magdalen College, where he was an organ scholar), Moore became friends with Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Alan Bennett. In the early 1960s, they appeared in Beyond the Fringe, a comedy revue which many see as a forerunner to Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Arguably, Beyond the Fringe launched the 1960s Satire Boom. After enormous success in Britain, it transferred to the USA, where it was also a hit.
Moore teamed up with Cook several times in his career, most notably in the television series Not Only But Also…. Cook and Moore often appeared in sketches as two working-class men (Pete and Dud) in macs and cloth caps, commenting on politics and the arts. Moore was famous for corpsing – the programmes often went out live, and Cook would deliberately make him laugh in order to get an even bigger reaction from the studio audience.
CAREER
Crazy People ( 1990 )
Arthur 2: On The Rocks ( 1989 )
Like Father Like Son ( 1988 )
Santa Claus The Movie ( 1985 )
Unfaithfully Yours ( 1984 )
Arthur ( 1981 )
10 ( 1980 )