Moody earned a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination for the film. Other notable projects include The Mouse on the Moon, Mel Brooks’s The Twelve Chairs and Flight of the Doves. Moody died of natural causes in a London hospital on June 11, 2015.
About Ron Moody in brief
Ron Moody was an English actor, singer, composer and writer. He is best known for his portrayal of Fagin in Oliver! and its 1983 Broadway revival. Moody earned a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination for the film. Other notable projects include The Mouse on the Moon, Mel Brooks’s The Twelve Chairs and Flight of the Doves. Moody died of natural causes in a London hospital on June 11, 2015, aged 91. He was a cousin of director Laurence Moody and actress Clare Lawrence. He married a teacher, Therese Pilates, in 1985 and they had six children.
He served with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War and trained to be an economist. He also appeared in several children’s television series, including the voice of Badger and Toad in the TV Adaptation of Colin Dann’s The Animals of Farthing Wood, Noah’s Island, Telebugs, and Into the Labyrinth. In 2004, the British ITV1 nostalgia series After They Were Famous hosted a documentary of the surviving cast of the film Oliver! Several of the musical numbers were reenacted.
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