Ron Moody · Spotify · Courtesy of Spotify
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 8
Top works
- Novel Summer
- Amazon Box
- Off the cuff
- Oliver!
- A still untitled, (not quite) autobiography
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Group
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1964
- Active to
- 2018
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 6,117
- Total plays
- 29,950
Tags
Equipped with a crooked, leering smirk and devilish gleam in his eye, the homely, yet beautifully expressive mug of actor Ron Moody will be most assuredly remembered for one signature role, despite the fact that the talented comedian had much, much more to offer. Carol Channing may have had her Dolly Levi and Yul Brynner his King of Siam, but Moody would become the most delightfully engaging musical villain of all time. The son of a plasterer born in London in 1924, he never gave much of a look
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant
· 1998 · cited 16,278x
- PhysioBank, PhysioToolkit, and PhysioNet
· 2000 · cited 12,100x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,207x
- IntCal13 and Marine13 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves 0–50,000 Years cal BP
· 2013 · cited 9,541x
- Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans
· 2016 · cited 9,063x
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Key facts
- Born
- Ronald Moodnick , ( 1924-01-08 ) 8 January 1924, Tottenham , Middlesex , England
- Died
- 11 June 2015 (2015-06-11) (aged 91), London , England
- Alma mater
- London School of Economics
- Occupations
- Actor composer singer writer
- Years active
- 1952–2012
- Spouse
- Therese Blackbourn ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1985 )
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Ron Moody (born Ronald Moodnick; 8 January 1924 – 11 June 2015) was an English actor. He was best known for his portrayal of Fagin in Lionel Bart's 1960 stage musical Oliver!, originating the role in the initial London production and reprising it in the 1968 film adaptation and in West End and Broadway revivals in the 1980s. Moody earned a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination for the film, as well as a Tony Award nomination for the stage production. Other notable projects include The Mouse on the Moon (1963), Mel Brooks's The Twelve Chairs (1970) and Flight of the Doves (1971), in which Moody shared the screen with Oliver! co-star Jack Wild.
Early life and education
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ron Moody” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.