Dudley Moore
- English
- Actor and composer
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Unseen Peter Sellers footage features in new Channel 5 documentary
Previously unseen home movie footage of Peter Sellers features in a new documentary about the comedy star coming to Channel 5, Peter Sellers: The Dark Side Of The Goon, part of a series of upcoming profiles that also includes Dudley Moore, Eric Sykes, Norman Wisdom and Diana Rigg.
British Comedy Guide, 8th September 2023Why, 60 years on, Spike Milligan's Bed Sitting Room is as relevant as ever
Spike Milligan's post-apocalyptic dark comedy The Bed Sitting Room has not been performed on stage for almost 40 years. Now, ahead of a rehearsed reading of the script that the former Goon wrote with John Antrobus, producer John Hewer recalls what drew him to the project...
John Hewer, Chortle, 13th June 2022Comedy duos who secretly hated each other
In his 2017 memoir, Matt Lucas recalls "hurling obscenities" at co-star David Walliams during an Australian live tour. The odd blazing row notwithstanding, the pair's relationship has been rosy compared to the bitter feuds that consumed earlier double acts. Here we look back at some of history's most troubled comedy partnerships.
The Telegraph, 23rd April 2020I saw Miller in Beyond the Fringe - I'm still dazzled
The Guardian's theatre critic was at the sketch group's first show in 1960. It was the beginning of a friendship ... and a satire boom that changed the world.
Michael Billington, The Guardian, 28th November 2019BBC releases some historic comedy moments
The BBC is making hundreds of clips from its archive available to watch on a new website. Comics featured include Spike Milligan, Pete and Dud, Kenny Everett and Billy Connolly.
Chortle, 10th September 2019When comedy double acts split
David Baddiel, Andy Zaltzman, Richard Herring and other comics on fame, failure and friendship.
Simon Parkin, The Guardian, 27th January 2018Recovered 'Not Only... But Also' sketches to be shown on TV
Missing sketches from Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's 1960s BBC series Not Only... But Also have been found and will be shown on TV soon.
British Comedy Guide, 8th December 2016Why I love Peter Cook
As the BBC screens a documentary featuring new material from the comedy master who died in 1995, Ben Dowell salutes a legend.
Ben Dowell, Radio Times, 16th November 2016Inside the secret world of Peter Cook
Two decades after he died we uncover a treasure trove of his comedy gold.
Victor Lewis-Smith, Radio Times, 16th November 2016TV review: The Undiscovered Peter Cook, BBC4
It's the kind of scoop every journalist/documentarist dreams of. Getting access to hitherto unseen archives of someone dead and famous. And that is exactly what Victor Lewis-Smith landed when Peter Cook's widow Lin allowed him to rummage through Cook's personal possessions in his Hampstead mews home that hadn't been touched since his death in 1995. The results have been painstakingly cherry picked and put together to produce this fascinating doc on a man who has already had umpteen fascinating docs made about him.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 16th November 2016