The Hindu : Dudley Moore dead

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Friday, Mar 29, 2002

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Dudley Moore dead

LOS ANGELES: British-born actor and comedian Dudley Moore(in the picture), who starred in ``10'' and ``Arthur,'' has died at 66 after a long battle against a rare brain disorder, a spokesman here said. The spokesman said Mr. Moore died at his home in New Jersey on Wednesday morning. A jazz pianist and an actor and comedian, he became one of Hollywood's most improbable sex symbols in the 1980s thanks to his starring role opposite sultry Bo Derek in ``10''. The son of a typist and a railway electrician, the diminutive Moore won a music scholarship to Oxford University where he joined Alan Bennett, Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook in the satirical ``Beyond the Fringe'' revue which brought great acclaim from both sides of the Atlantic. After a TV debut in 1959, Mr. Moore teamed up with Cook, vowing 1960s audiences with their pub banter as ``Dud and Pete,'' dressed in flat caps and raincoats.

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