History Creator / DudleyMoore

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: An odd variant; the pair indulge in this in the opening to Derek and Clive's 'Come Again' record, mocking the listener for buying their record, that the listener's children will starve due to the wasted money, forcing the listener to endure periods of silence before promptly declaring that the listenr can't even return the item as they've likely gotten so angry they've thrown the record out the window.

* ''Flatland (1965)'' [[note]]Narrated this short film adaptation of ''Literature/Flatland''[[/note]]

* ''WesternAnimation/OscarsOrchestra'' [[note]]Voiced Oscar the piano.[[/note]]

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
* KavorkaMan: Despite his diminutive size and physical disability [[note]]Moore had a deformed leg, a club foot which took many painful operations in childhood to sort out and left him with a lifelong deformity[[/note]], Moore starred opposite some beautiful women in his films and had a disproportionate amount of romantic success in private life. The nickname "sex thimble" was applied to him by envious friends.
* TheNotCatch: The ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZEEgIti8sM Jump, you fucker, jump!]]" song from Derek and Clive, written and performed by Dudley, in which a man standing on a high ledge is encouraged to leap... only for the people underneath to fail to catch him, as watching him splat is more of a laugh.
* RefugeInAudacity: Ostensibly the entire point (and appeal for audiences) of the Derek and Clive recordings in all their drunken madness as Pete and Dud tackle all manner of things in the most vulgar way possible.

He and his comic partner Creator/PeterCook first came to fame as key members of Theatre/BeyondTheFringe. Their double act was subsequently parlayed into further stage revues, the long-running comedy sketch show ''Series/NotOnlyButAlso'', and later the rather extreme comedy duo in Britain known as Derek & Clive (this was used as a means of perfoming all the material deemed too extreme, or in too bad taste, for television). After their partnership dissolved in the late 1970s, Moore moved on to international success via Hollywood with the films ''[[Film/{{Ten}} 10]]'' and especially ''Film/{{Arthur 1981}}'', the latter of which yielded him an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nomination for Best Actor.

* ''[[Film/{{Bedazzled1967}} Bedazzled]]'' (1967)

* ''[[Film/{{Ten}} 10]]'' (1979)

* ''[[Film/{{Arthur 1981}} Arthur 2: On the Rocks]]'' (1988)

He and his comic partner Creator/PeterCook first came to fame as key members of Theatre/BeyondTheFringe. Their double act was subsequently parlayed into further stage revues, the long-running comedy sketch show ''Series/NotOnlyButAlso'', and later the rather [[UpToEleven extreme]] comedy duo in Britain known as Derek & Clive (this was used as a means of perfoming all the material deemed too extreme, or in too bad taste, for television). After their partnership dissolved in the late 1970s, Moore moved on to international success via Hollywood with the films ''[[Film/{{Ten}} 10]]'' and especially ''Film/{{Arthur 1981}}'', the latter of which yielded him an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nomination for Best Actor.

* UpToEleven: The "Derek and Clive" sketches, which were outrageously extreme and even for their day, racially offensive, derogatory to women, and often extremely homophobic. Pete and Dud appeared to take pride in this and seemed to be competing as to who could break the largest number of taboos in a single sentence. The 2004 semi-autobiographical film ''Not Only But Always...'' suggests that the [[RefugeInAudacity sheer audacity]] of the early Derek and Clive recordings prompted the duo to make more while Dudley was trying to break Hollywood.

* {{Corpsing}}: Cook was notorious for provoking this in Moore.

* ''Film/BestDefense'' (1984)

On top of all this, having been trained as a classical musician at {{UsefulNotes/Oxbridge}} Moore was also an acclaimed classical and jazz pianist whose improvisations were praised by some of the best.

If you were born between the 1980s and mid-1990s, chances are good that you remember him best as the narrator of the American dub of ''Film/TheAdventuresOfMiloAndOtis'', or as Spin (the host of the National Geographic video series, ''Series/ReallyWildAnimals'').

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[[caption-width-right:300:Moore (foreground, right) with Creator/PeterCook.]]

He and his comic partner Creator/PeterCook first came to fame as key members of Theatre/BeyondTheFringe. Their double act was subsequently parlayed into further stage revues, the long-running comedy sketch show ''Series/NotOnlyButAlso'', and later the rather [[UpToEleven extreme]] comedy duo in Britain known as Derek & Clive (this was used as a means of perfoming all the material deemed too extreme, or in too bad taste, for television). After their partnership dissolved in the late 1970s, Moore moved on to international success via Hollywood with the films ''[[Film/{{Ten}} 10]]'' and especially ''Film/{{Arthur}}'', the latter of which yielded him an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nomination for Best Actor.

* ''Film/{{Arthur}}'' (1981)

* ''[[Film/{{Arthur}} Arthur 2: On the Rocks]]'' (1988)

* DrinkingOnDuty: Moore's other grievance with Cook was a perception that his alcohol dependency was seriously out of hand and that Moore was left to carry the performances. Tragically, Moore's death was due to a degenerative neural disease called progressive supranuclear palsy, which even after its belated diagnosis led people to believe he had taken to the bottle and was becoming alcoholic himself (that [[Film/{{Arthur}} his most famous movie character]] was an alcoholic didn't help any).

* ''Film/UnfaithfullyYours'' (1984)

* ''Film/LikeFatherLikeSon'' (1987)

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: There's some evidence of this in his and Cook's early TV work. But not even ''bothering'' with the radar - the "Derek and Clive" performances, originally not meant for release and done for private circulation, but which "escaped" and later became a series of best-selling comedy albums.

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[[caption-width-right:285:Dud (foreground, right) with Creator/PeterCook.]]

He and his comic partner Creator/PeterCook first came to fame as key members of Theatre/BeyondTheFringe. Their double act was subsequently parlayed into further stage revues, the long-running comedy sketch show ''Not Only...But Also...'', and later the rather [[UpToEleven extreme]] comedy duo in Britain known as Derek & Clive (this was used as a means of perfoming all the material deemed too extreme, or in too bad taste, for television). After their partnership dissolved in the late 1970s, Moore moved on to international success via Hollywood with the films ''[[Film/{{Ten}} 10]]'' and especially ''Film/{{Arthur}}'', the latter of which yielded him an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nomination for Best Actor.

* TheReasonWhyYouSuckSpeech: An odd variant; the pair indulge in this in the opening to Derek and Clive's 'Come Again' record, mocking the listener for buying their record, that the listener's children will starve due to the wasted money, forcing the listener to endure periods of silence before promptly declaring that the listenr can't even return the item as they've likely gotten so angry they've thrown the record out the window.

* UpToEleven: The "Derek and Clive" sketches, which were outrageously extreme and even for their day, racially offensive, derogatory to women, and often extremely homophobic. Pete and Dud appeared to take pride in this and seemed to be competing as to who could break the largest number of taboos in a single sentence.

Dudley Stuart John Moore (19 April 1935 – 27 March 2002) was an English actor and comedian, born to upper-working class parents in Dagenham, [[UsefulNotes/HomeCounties Essex (or East London - it's complicated)]].