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Cook and Moore
Even while suffering the trip to his home, Cook swore to Moore and Lane that he would kill the Indian.
Early films, including those from the silent era, which feature the station include Traffic in Souls ( 1913 ), which starred Matt Moore ; The Yellow Passport ( 1916 ), starring Clara Kimball Young ; My Boy ( 1921 ), starring Jackie Coogan ; Frank Capra's The Strong Man ( 1926 ), starring Harry Langdon ; We Americans ( 1928 ), starring John Boles ; The Mating Call ( film ), 1928, co-starring Thomas Meighan and Renée Adorée ; Ellis Island ( 1936 ), starring Donald Cook ; Paddy O ' Day ( 1936 ), starring Jane Withers ; Gateway ( 1938 ), starring Don Ameche ; Exile Express ( 1939 ), which starred Anna Sten ; I, Jane Doe ( 1948 ), starring Ruth Hussey and Vera Ralston, and Gambling House ( 1951 ), starring Victor Mature
Whilst still at university, Cook wrote for Kenneth Williams, for whom he created an entire West End comedy revue called One Over the Eight, before finding prominence in his own right in a four-man group satirical stage show, Beyond the Fringe, with Jonathan Miller, Alan Bennett and Dudley Moore.
This was intended by the BBC for Moore's music, but Moore invited Cook to write sketches and appear with him.
With The Wrong Box ( 1966 ) and Bedazzled ( 1967 ) Cook and Moore began to act in films together.
Directed by Stanley Donen, the underlying story of Bedazzled is credited to Cook and Moore and its screenplay to Cook.
A comic parody of Faust, it stars Cook as George Spigott ( The Devil ) who tempts Stanley Moon ( Moore ), a frustrated, short-order chef, with the promise of gaining his heart's desire – the unattainable beauty and waitress at his cafe, Margaret Spencer ( Eleanor Bron ) – in exchange for his soul, but repeatedly tricks him.
Moore composed the soundtrack music and co-wrote ( with Cook ) the songs performed in the film.
In 1968, Cook and Moore briefly switched to ATV for four one-hour programmes entitled Goodbye Again, based on the Pete and Dud characters.
Whitehouse's main early influences were the sketches of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, and the Monty Python crew.
* The Bed-Sitting Room ( 1969 ), post-apocalyptic comedy with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore and also Arthur Lowe ; written by John Antrobus based on the Milligan / Antrobus play.
Moore first came to prominence as one of the four writer-performers in the ground-breaking comedy revue Beyond the Fringe in the early 1960s, and then became famous as half of the highly popular television double-act he formed with Peter Cook.
Moore ( right ) with Peter Cook in 1974
It was commissioned specifically as a vehicle for Moore, but when he invited Peter Cook on as a guest, their comedy partnership was so notable that it became a permanent fixture of the series.
Cook and Moore are most remembered for their sketches as two working-class men, Pete and Dud, in macs and cloth caps, commenting on politics and the arts, but they fashioned a series of one-off characters, usually with Moore in the role of interviewer to one of Cook's upper-class eccentrics.
Moore was famous for " corpsing " — the programmes often went on live, and Cook would deliberately make him laugh in order to get an even bigger reaction from the studio audience.
Moore and Cook co-starred in the film Bedazzled ( 1967 ) with Eleanor Bron, and also had tours called Behind the Fridge and Good Evening.
Shortly following the last of these, Derek and Clive – Ad Nauseam, Moore made a break with Cook, whose alcoholism was affecting his work, to concentrate on his film career.
In later years, Cook would wind up Moore by claiming he preferred Arthur 2: On the Rocks to Arthur.
Moore was deeply affected by the death of Peter Cook in 1995, and for weeks would regularly telephone Cook's home in London just to get the telephone answering machine and hear his friend's voice.
In November 1995, Moore teamed up with friend and humorist Martin Lewis in organising a two-day salute to Cook in Los Angeles that Moore co-hosted with Lewis.
In December 2004, the Channel 4 television station in the United Kingdom broadcast Not Only But Always, a TV movie dramatising the relationship between Moore and Cook, although the principal focus of the production was on Cook.

Cook and One
The town centre is home to a number of high street multiples, including: Greggs, Argos, Specsavers, Wilkinson's, Shoe Zone, Superdrug, Costa Coffee, JJB Sports, Cash Generator, GAME, Poundland, Timpson, Althams Travel, Ladbrokes, Paddy Power, Claire's, Grainger Games, Post Office, Thomas Cook, Thomson, Burton, Holland & Barrett, Dorothy Perkins, Blockbuster, WHSmith, H Samuel, Iceland, Phones 4U, Boots Opticians, Card Factory, Boots, Store Twenty One, Poundworld, Peacocks, B & M Bargains, Wetherspoons and a mix of other shops.
The majority of sketches were by Cook, based on material written for other revues, including " One Leg Too Few ".
" Cook and Moore revived some of the sketches on their later television and stage shows, most famously the two hander " One Leg Too Few ," in which Cook played a theatrical producer auditioning a one-legged Moore for the part of Tarzan.
' One of the sketches was later revived by Cook for television.
Cook produced artist Roky Erickson's The Evil One and was bassist with the popular country act Southern Pacific in the 80s.
One Morning, at FTV, Challenge Roger has been such a success and Roger is asked to present the Crook Report ( a parody of The Cook Report ) after Roger Cook gets beaten up, but before rushing into it Tom tells him to be calm, sympathetic and tactful at all times.
The basic tracks for " No One is Innocent " ( aka " The Biggest Blow ( A Punk Prayer )") and " Belsen Was a Gas " were recorded with guitarist Steve Jones and drummer Paul Cook at a studio in Brazil shortly after the Sex Pistols ' final performance, with overdubs being added in an English studio at a later date.
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Numerous actors played Little Beaver: One of the most notable was Robert Blake ( on credits as Bobby Blake ), Tommy Cook ( 1942 on ), Frank Bresee ( 1942-46, alternating with Cook ), Henry Blair ( 1944-47 ), Johnny McGovern ( 1947-50 ) and Sammy Ogg ( 1950-51 ).
A mixture of stripped-down production sports cars and Australian ' specials ' were to take victories as the race travelled amongst temporary converted airfield circuits and street circuits like Point Cook, Leyburn, Nuriootpa and Narrogin before, on the races return to Mount Panorama in 1952, the way to the future was pointed by Doug Whiteford racing a newly imported Talbot-Lago Formula One car to victory.
One of his accusers, former seminarian Stephen Cook, claimed to have been abused by Bernardin and another priest in the 1970s.
One man, Joseph Louis Cook, supported the Americans and received a commission from the Continental Congress.
The basic tracks for " No One is Innocent " ( aka " The Biggest Blow ( A Punk Prayer )") and " Belsen Was a Gas " were recorded with guitarist Steve Jones and drummer Paul Cook at a studio in Brazil shortly after the Sex Pistols ' final performance, with overdubs being added in an English studio at a later date.
One history professor, John Cook, claimed that many of the films shown on campus, such as Communism on the Map, were " propaganda ".
One of the first acts of the Cook Government Cook Ministry, sworn in on 14 June 1913, was to order a series of postage stamps designed with the profile of George V. On 8 December 1913 the first of these, an engraved 1d carmine-red, appeared.
One father, Mark Cook, whose monthly payments would drop from £ 250 to £ 150 if assessed under the new rules, is taking the CSA to the European Court of Human Rights, claiming that this discrepancy amounts to discrimination under Article 14.
One of the most memorable moments from Question Time was when Dimbleby accidentally referred to Robin Cook as " Robin Cock ", to which Cook responded by jokingly referring to Dimbleby as " David Bumblebee ".
Contrary to popular myth, the Cook perennial " One Leg Too Few ", a classic sketch about a one-legged actor applying for the role of Tarzan, which had been written by Cook years before and used in Beyond the Fringe, never appeared in Not Only ...

Cook and Leg
One Leg Too Few is a comedy sketch written by Peter Cook and most famously performed by Cook and Dudley Moore.

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