Ron Moody
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Ronald Moodnick (born Ronald Moodnick; 8 January 1924–11 June 2015) was an English actor, singer, composer, and author best known for his portrayal of Fagin in Oliver. (1968) and its 1983 Broadway revival.
In addition to a Tony Award and an Academy Award nomination for the film, Moody received a Tony Award nomination for the stage performance.
The Mouse on the Moon (1963), Mel Brooks' The Twelve Chairs (1970), and Flight of the Doves (1971), in which Moody shared the screen with Oliver! Jack Wild, co-star Jack Wild, appeared in the film. In two Disney films, Unidentified Flying Oddball (1979) and A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995), Moody has the unusual distinction of being depicted Merlin Merlin.
Early life
Moody was born in Tottenham, Middlesex, the son of Kate (née Ogden; 1898-1980) and Bernard/Barnett Moodnick (1896–1964), a studio executive. His father was a Russian Jew and his mother, a Lithuanian Jew, was "completely kosher," Moody said. He was a cousin of filmmaker Laurence Moody and actress Clare Lawrence. In 1930, his surname was legally changed to Moody's more anglicised spelling.
Education
Moody attended Southgate County School, which at the time was a state grammar school, and was based in Palmers Green, Middlesex, followed by the London School of Economics in Central London, where he studied to become an economist. He enlisted in the Royal Air Force (RAF) and became a radar technician during World War II.
Life and career
Despite training to be an economist, Moody began appearing in theater productions and later became a professional actor.
Moody performed in a variety of genres, but is perhaps best known for his role as Fagin in Lionel Bart's stage and film musical Oliver! Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist based on Oliver Twist. He appeared in the original West End production in 1960 and revived it in 1984 Broadway revival, winning a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical. He received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor (Musical/Comedy), the Best Actor award at the 6th Moscow International Film Festival, and an Academy Award nomination in the same category for his 1968 film Oliver! "Fate destined me to play Fagin," Moody says of the role. It was the start of a lifetime. "During filming] the summer of 1967 [during filming] was one of my life's best times." He reprised his role as Fagin in the 1983 Channel 4 television series The Other Side of London and then again in 1985 Royal Variety Performance in Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, before Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh.
In numerous children's television series, including Badger and Toad's appearance in Colin Dann's "The Animals of Farthing Wood, Noah's Island, Telebugs, and The Labyrinth, Moody appeared in several children's television series, as well as The Voice of Badger and Toad. Among his most well-known roles was that of Prime Minister Rupert Mountjoy (1963), alongside Margaret Rutherford, with whom he appeared again in Murder Most Foul (1964), one of Rutherford's Miss Marple films. In the 1963 Cliff Richard film The Great Orlando, he played French entertainer and mime artist The Great Orlando.He acted again with former Oliver!
Jack Wild, co-star Jack Wild in Flight of the Doves (1971).Following Patrick Troughton's departure from the role, Moody was offered, but he declined, the lead role in Doctor Who in 1969. He told several people (including Doctor Who companion Elisabeth Sladen) that ending the role was a decision he later regretted. In Mel Brooks' version of The Twelve Chairs (1970), he appeared Ippolit Vorobyaninov alongside Frank Langella (as Ostap Bender). He appeared on the black comedy Paradise Grove with Rula Lenska in 2003 and Edwin Caldecott, Jim Branning's long nemesis on the BBC soap EastEnders. He appeared in the Big Finish Productions Doctor Who Audio play Other Lives in 2005, portraying Duke of Wellington. He appeared in numerous BBC television shows, The Good Old Days, enacting passéiche/comic Victorian melodramas.
In 1980, Moody wrote The Devil You Don't, a book that was first published by Robson Books, London.
After They Were Famous, a British ITV1 nostalgia film After They Were Famous, a documentary about the film Oliver's surviving cast! Several of the film's musical numbers were reenacted. Moody, then 80, but also spry, and Jack Wild (seriously ill with oral cancer at the time) recreated their dance from the film's closing credits.
Moody appeared in an episode of BBC1's Casualty (aired on January 30, 2010) as a Scottish patient who had served with the Black Watch during the Second World War. On June 30, 2010, Moody appeared on stage at the end of Cameron Mackintosh's revival of Oliver. She gave a chuckle about the show's 50th anniversary. With the cast, he then reprised the "Pick a Pocket or Two" number.
