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This is Mark Rapp with Rapp on Jazz.
Best known for his comedic turns on television in the groundbreaking English program Beyond the Fringe and blockbuster films like 10 and Arthur, Dudley Moore was also a successful jazz pianist and composer.
Moore earned an organ scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford. There, he became an accomplished jazz pianist and composer, working with musicians such as John Dankworth and Cleo Laine.
During the 1960s, he formed the Dudley Moore Trio, which performed regularly on British TV, the Establishment.
He composed the soundtracks for many films, including The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Dudley Moore passed away in 2002 at the age of 66.
This has been Rapp On Jazz, a co-production of ColaJazz and SC Public Radio, made possible in part by Layman Poupard Publishers, producers of the Literary Criticism Series and the Dictionary of Literary Biography