Dudley Stuart John Moore

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

Moore first came to prominence in the UK as one of the four writer-performers in the comedy revue Beyond the Fringe from 1960, and with one member of that team, Peter Cook, collaborated on the television series Not Only... But Also. The double act worked on other projects until the mid-1970s, by which time Moore had settled in Los Angeles to concentrate on his movie acting. His solo career as a comedy film actor was heightened by the success of hit Hollywood films, particularly Foul Play, 10 and Arthur. He received an Oscar nomination for the latter role. Moore was married and divorced four times: to actresses Suzy Kendall, Tuesday Weld (by whom he had a son in 1976), Brogan Lane, and Nicole Rothschild (one son, born in 1995). In April 1997, after spending five days in hospital in New York, Moore was informed that he had calcium deposits in the basal ganglia of his brain and irreversible frontal lobe damage.
In September of that year, Moore underwent quadruple heart bypass surgery in London. In September 1999, Moore announced that he was suffering from the terminal degenerative brain disorder progressive supranuclear palsy, some of the early symptoms being so similar to intoxication that he had been reported as being drunk, and that the illness had been diagnosed earlier in the year.

Dudley Moore died on the morning of March 27, 2002, age 66, as a result of pneumonia, secondary to immobility caused by the palsy.. Moore is interred at Hillside Cemetery in Scotch Plains, New Jersey.