Everything about Ron Moody totally explained
Ronald Moodnick, known as
Ron Moody (born
8 January 1924) is a
British actor.
Life and work
Born in
Tottenham,
North London, he's worked in a variety of genres, but is perhaps best known for his starring role as the villainous yet loveable
Fagin in the musical
Oliver!, based on
Oliver Twist by
Charles Dickens. He created the role in the original
West End production, and reprised it on
Broadway and in the
1968 film version, for which he was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Actor.
He has appeared in several
children's television series, including
The Animals of Farthing Wood,
Noah's Island,
Telebugs,
Into the Labyrinth, and the
Discworld series.
Moody played French entertainer and
mime artist The Great Orlando in the
1963 Cliff Richard film
Summer Holiday.
In
1969, he was offered, but declined, the lead role in
Doctor Who, following the departure of
Patrick Troughton from the part. He played
Edwin Caldecott, an old nemesis of
Jim Branning in
EastEnders. He played
Ippolit Vorobyaninov alongside
Frank Langella (as
Ostap Bender) in
Mel Brooks' version of
The Twelve Chairs (1970). In
2005, he acted in the
Big Finish Productions Doctor Who audio play
Other Lives, playing the
Duke of Wellington.
Moody married
pilates teacher Therese Blackbourn in
1985. They are the parents of six children, the youngest born when Moody was in his early seventies.
In 2005 the British
ITV1 nostalgia series
After They Were Famous hosted a documentary of the surviving cast of the motion picture Oliver!. Several of the films musical numbers were reenacted. Most notable and poignant perhaps was Moody, then 81 but still spry, and
Jack Wild (the
Artful Dodger from Oliver! and seriously ill with oral cancer at the time of the shooting) recreating their dance from the closing credits of the movie.
He is also the cousin of the
Coronation Street director Laurence Moody.
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