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.

While studying music and composition there he also performed with Alan Bennett in the Oxford Revue. Rena Fruchter was holding his hand when he died and Dudley Moore reported his final words were "I can hear the music all around me. He began working with such leading musicians as John Dankworth and Cleo Laine.

His fame as a comedy film actor was later heightened by success in hit Hollywood films such as Foul Play 10 with Bo Derek and Arthur in the late 1970s and early 1980s respectively. Dudley Stuart John Moore CBE (19 April 1935 – 27 March 2002) was an English actor comedian composer and musician. He was frequently referred to in the media as "Cuddly Dudley" or "The Sex Thimble" a reference to his short stature and reputation as a "ladies' man".