Dudley Moore

Dudley Moore was an English comedian, actor and musician from Dagenham, Essex, who began his professional career in the late 1950s and early 1960s in British comedy revues and as a jazz pianist. A classically trained pianist who developed a parallel career as a jazz musician and film composer, he moved between improvised jazz, comic songs and orchestral film scoring, and his work intersected with British comedy and international cinema.