Dudley Moore

Dudley Moore is my idea of genuine range made flesh. Oxford-trained at Magdalen, he broke through with Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s satire boom, then proved equally serious as a jazz pianist, a composer, a comedian and a leading man. Two Golden Globes, a Grammy, a Tony and a CBE is an almost unfair spread of honors. What moves me is that none of it felt like dabbling; each craft was the real thing. To make people laugh and still command a keyboard is a rare kind of grace, and since his death in 2002 I've only grown more impressed by the sheer density of his talent.

Dudley Stuart John Moore (19 April 1935 – 27 March 2002) 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.

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Name (English)

Dudley Moore

Name (Japanese)

ダドリー・ムーア

Reading

だどりー・むーあ

Born

April 19, 1935 – March 27, 2002

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Boar

Origin

Hammersmith, United Kingdom

Blood type

Private

Height

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Agency

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Occupation

actor / comedian / composer / jazz musician / screenwriter

Elementary school

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Junior high

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High school

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University

Magdalen College

Awards & achievements

• Commander of the Order of the British Empire
• 1982 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
• Grammy Awards
• 1963 Special Tony Award
• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
• 1985 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

Spouse

Private

Children

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Parents

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Siblings

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Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%83%89%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BC%E3%82%A2

Tags

• actor
• comedian
• composer

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.