-- DJ Actor Dudley Moore Dies At Age 66 Of Pneumonia --
LOS ANGELES (AP)--Actor Dudley Moore, an unlikely Hollywood heartthrob in "10"
and "Arthur" as a cuddly pip-squeak whose charm melted female hearts, died
Wednesday at his home in Plainfield, N.J., a spokeswoman said. He was 66.
Moore died at 11 a.m. EST, said publicist Michelle Bega in Los Angeles. He
died of pneumonia as a complication of progressive supranuclear palsy, she said.
There was more than a touch of autobiography in "10," the 1979 film in which
Moore played a musician determined to marry a perfect woman. But the happy
ending eluded him in real life. Four marriages ended in divorce.
He confessed to being driven by feelings of inferiority about his
working-class origins in Dagenham, east London, and because of his height of
five feet, 2 1/2 inches. In later life he also spoke of the pain of being
rejected by his mother because he was born with a deformed left foot.
Comedians, he said in an interview with Newsday in 1980, are often driven by
such feelings. "I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of
strength. Because of height. ... I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the
nose, I wouldn't have been a comic."
LOS ANGELES (AP)--Actor Dudley Moore, an unlikely Hollywood heartthrob in "10"
and "Arthur" as a cuddly pip-squeak whose charm melted female hearts, died
Wednesday at his home in Plainfield, N.J., a spokeswoman said. He was 66.
Moore died at 11 a.m. EST, said publicist Michelle Bega in Los Angeles. He
died of pneumonia as a complication of progressive supranuclear palsy, she said.
There was more than a touch of autobiography in "10," the 1979 film in which
Moore played a musician determined to marry a perfect woman. But the happy
ending eluded him in real life. Four marriages ended in divorce.
He confessed to being driven by feelings of inferiority about his
working-class origins in Dagenham, east London, and because of his height of
five feet, 2 1/2 inches. In later life he also spoke of the pain of being
rejected by his mother because he was born with a deformed left foot.
Comedians, he said in an interview with Newsday in 1980, are often driven by
such feelings. "I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of
strength. Because of height. ... I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the
nose, I wouldn't have been a comic."
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