Ron Moody

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Ron Moody (1975)

Ron Moody , actually Ronald Moodnick (born January 8, 1924 in London , † June 11, 2015 there ), was a British actor .

Life

The son of a plasterer began to be interested in acting late. After training at the London School of Economics , he actually wanted to work in business.

At the age of 29, Moody appeared in revues and as a stand-up comedian and began his acting career in the late 1950s at the theater and in musicals , for example in Leonard Bernstein's Candide in 1959 . He didn't have a big role there, but it led to his breakthrough in the musical version of the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens . He played in Oliver! the sneaky pickpocket Fagin . After a few supporting roles in television series such as Mit Schirm, Charme und Melone (The Avengers) , director Carol Reed hired him in 1968 to film the musical Oliver! , in which Moody played his Fagin role again and which promptly earned him an Oscar nomination.

A year later, in 1969, Moody got the offer to succeed Patrick Troughton as leading actor in the British science fiction series Doctor Who , but he turned down the role. Once, however, he had a role in a radio play version of Doctor Who , as Duke of Wellington in Other Lives (2005).

On television, he continued to take on numerous leading roles and guest appearances in series, including in the long-standing soap opera EastEnders , in Starsky & Hutch , Rauchende Colts (Gunsmoke) , Mord ist ihr Hobby (Murder, She Wrote) , Hart but cordially (Hart to Hart) or as a speaker in the animated series When the Animals Left the Forest .

German-speaking television viewers know Moody mainly from the numerous reruns of the Miss Marple crime thriller Four Women and a Murder ( Murder Most Foul , 1964), in which he plays the director Driffold Cosgood of a theater group - alongside Margaret Rutherford , with whom he is a The year before, she also appeared in front of the camera in the film comedy Even the little ones want to go up (The Mouse on the Moon) .

Moody had six children with his wife Therese Blackbourn Moody, whom he married in 1985. He lived in the London borough of Southgate .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

  • 1969: Nominated for Best Actor for an Oscar for his role in Oliver!
  • 1969: Awarded the Golden Globe for best leading actor for his role in Oliver!
  • 1984: Tony nomination (theater award) for his role as Fagin in the revival of the musical "Oliver!"
  • 1984: Theater World Special Award at the Tony Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Ron Moody  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Associated Press : Actor Ron Moody dies at 91; earned Oscar nomination for role as Fagin in 'Oliver!' . In: Los Angeles Times , June 11, 2015, accessed June 11, 2015.
  2. ↑ Portrait of Ron Moody . In: The New York Times . Retrieved June 22, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Moody, Ron
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moodnick, Ronald (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England , UK
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 2015
Place of death London , England , UK