
Died at 91
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Dudley Stuart John Moore CBE (19 April 1935 – 27 March 2002) was an English actor, comedian, musician and composer. Moore first came to prominence in the UK as a leading figure in the British satire boom of the 1960s. He was one of the four writer-performers in the comedy revue Beyond the Fringe from 1960 that created a boom in satiric comedy. With a member of that team, Peter Cook, Moore collaborated on the BBC television series Not Only... But Also. As a popular double act, Moore's buffoonery contrasted with Cook's deadpan monologues. They jointly received the 1966 British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance and worked together on other projects until the mid-1970s, by which time Moore had settled in Los Angeles to concentrate on his film acting. Moore's career as a comedy film actor was marked by hit films, particularly Bedazzled (1967), set in Swinging Sixties London (in which he co-starred with Cook) and Hollywood productions Foul Play (1978), 10 (1979) and Arthur (1981). For Arthur, Moore was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and won a Golden Globe Award. He received a second Golden Globe for his performance in Micki & Maude (1984). Moore was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1987 and was made a CBE by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace on 16 November 2001 in what was his last public appearance.

Dudley Moore

Mr. Mxyzptlk
for Mr. Mxyzptlk in Ilya Salkind's Superman III (1983)
Suggested by optimistic_writer

What if Ilya Salkind's treatment of Superman III was actually used for the final film? Before the credits roll, it's revealed that Lois has transferred out of Metropolis and is replaced by a young woman named Lana Lang and she and Clark take a liking to each other. It is then revealed through flashback that another being escaped Krypton, another young baby, a girl, who remains unnamed. She lands on Colu, the home world of Brainiac who adopts her. She grows up and Brainiac begins to show affection for her and asks her to marry him but she denies it and leaves for Earth. Here, she finds Clark Kent/Superman and they fall in love (they aren't related in this universe) and she becomes Supergirl. Brainiac eventually finds them and starts to wreck havoc on Earth which involves changing Superman's personality to make him unpredictable, going back in time to the dark ages and becoming a tyrant, and fighting in a pocket dimension against Superman and Supergirl. As well as the Man of Steel meeting the being from the 5th dimension, Mr. Mxyzptlk. [Poster by Peter Stults]