Moore was an all-round entertainer, Mr Norman said, but the actor and comedian was probably disappointed later in life that he had not quite matched his potential. It was for these roles that Moore would be best remembered around the world, film director Michael Winner said. In Britain, however, it would be the celebrated partnership with Peter Cook and his outstanding piano playing which would stand out most in people's minds, he added. We're off to Cuddly Dudley's house he's cute as he can be. With his fur of gold and his nose so cold he's cuddly as can be. He's got riddles and jokes and the fun that he pokes is never aimed at me. Here's the place that he lives and the name that he gives is Cuddly. Other meanings [ edit ] Rather than use council-owned buildings as a venue to conduct the count at the referendum earlier this year, Croydon opted to spend public money to hire Trinity School. I actually forgot that I'd sent it in, so it was a surprise when I got a message telling me that Dudley had made the top 10!

Moore's movie career began in the 1960s with roles in comedies such as Bedazzled and Monte Carlo Or Bust. As Rayner began the segment he would sing the following song. Music by Arthur Pryor. Lyrics by an unknown source. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, on 22 May 1924 (although Dudley later pretended to be younger, claiming to be 29 in early 1959 whilst Allmusic said he was born in the 1930s) he started performing when very young with a "native song and dance act" for tourists. In 1947 he went to Britain where he spent a year in the play Sauce Tartare at the Cambridge Theatre in the West End, before singing in clubs for 6 months. He then played in Folies Bergeres at the Hippodrome, London and toured Australia in Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate, before joining Sid Milward's Comedy orchestra, The Nit Wits, supporting Max Bygraves. Deby explained: "We have three other dogs, Paddy, Somba and Beau, and Dudley loves playing with his brothers. He was very good looking. He was little cuddly Dudley, or a grubby cherub as Jonathan Miller once described him. He had a tremendous personality, very amusing. A very nice bloke."

The insignificant version was not what his close friends and colleagues remembered yesterday as they paid tribute to "Cuddly Dudley". When he went public with his illness he joked that he contracted the disease, which afflicts one in 100,000 people, as a favour to the other 99,999 members of the Screen Actors' Guild. Hageman, William (18 February 2009). "In search of Bozo". Chicago Tribune . Retrieved 21 February 2011.

Dudley is an old-fashioned, One Nation Tory who believes in state spending on the arts, housing and public transport, all key areas that matter to Croydon residents, but which are opposed by the hard right Councillors Fisher and Pollard.” The whole experience provided me with so much support during a difficult time - I made a genuine friendship."This policy has been described as “absolutely wrong, it’s inappropriate, and potentially may even be against the law”, the view not of some left-wing firebrand, but of Tory government minister Grant Shapps.

Here are Ray Rayner and Cuddly Dudley on the TV show, Ray Rayner and Friends on WGN-TV Channel 9 in Chicago. The dog came equipped with a cardboard dog house, automobile, locomotive, and Super Jet in box form. The instructions for assembling the toys were on the boxes, with Cuddly Dudley’s name on them. They were very colorful and eye-catching. It was a perfect Christmas gift for thousands of children in Chicago. I never own one because I only remembered him from The Ray Rayner Show, which aired Monday through Friday on WGN-TV Channel 9. For several years before his death at home in New Jersey yesterday afternoon, he had been battling a handicap which proved fatal, a debilitating degenerative brain illness. Despite the global attention, some messages are sent from much closer to home, and have provided much-needed support for Deby and her family. Just down the road from Beverly Hills are the beaches of Santa Monica, where the sun always seems to shine. The beach promenades are full of people on rollerblades. All of them are tall and nobody adorns their well-toned muscles with much in the way of clothes. Everywhere you turn there are examples of physical perfection. It's not much like Dagenham, where Dudley Moore was born. It's a place that could turn an Essex boy's head, especially when that head is always turned upwards, craning for approval.Inside Croydon: brought to you from the heart of the borough, free of charge, an independent voice standing for freedom of speech for the people of Croydon In 1988 Moore married again. This time he chose an aspiring model/actress called Brogan Lane who was working as a waitress when the couple met. The only thing surprising about Lane was her hair - it was brown. Otherwise she fits the pattern. Tall and beautiful, she towered six inches above Moore, who happened to be dating the tall, blonde actress Susan Anton when the two met. How has Mead responded to the Ombudsman’s latest critique of his shambolic mishandling of homeless people in Croydon? Does he man-up and take responsibility, as a good Conservative should? Or does he turn round and blame the victims of his and the council’s dreadful combination of callousness and incompetence? Music has been Moore's saviour, professionally and psychologically. He has made good money as a concert jazz pianist and his recordings have sold well. He says he retreats to one of his three pianos when times get tough. It seems a fitting irony that the brilliant Oxford organ scholar who abandoned music for the stage and screen seeks refuge in Tinseltown in Grieg and Mozart, his favourite composers.

Animal lover Deby said: "I saw a post on Facebook from Thortful which was asking people to send in photos of their dogs, so I sent in all four. I'm always sending photos of the dogs in to things like that. The cloth-capped duo, who developed a cult following in the 1960s with their "Pete and Dud" partnership on Not Only... but Also, a sketch comedy series, are widely credited with changing the face of British comedy.The Ombudsman has joined Newsnight‘s criticism of the squalid conditions at Gilroy Court, the B&B establishment on London Road that is paid so much public money by our council to “house” the homeless. The Ombudsman’s report described Gilroy Court as “unsuitable”.