Peter Cook

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BIRTHDAY

November 17, 1937

Torquay, Devon, England, UK

DIED

January 09, 1995

RECENT CREDITS

The Secret Policeman's Ball (FILM) Jan. 1, 2003

Off His Rockers (FILM) Jul. 17, 1992

Great Balls of Fire! (FILM) Jun. 30, 1989

Getting It Right (FILM) May. 5, 1989

Without a Clue (FILM) Oct. 21, 1988

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BIOGRAPHY

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Cambridge-educated Peter Cook was, along with Dudley Moore, David Frost and Jonathan Miller, one of the founders of the irreverent British comedy troupe "Beyond the Fringe." When the group came to Broadway (an event celebrated on a near-nightly basis on such TV programs as The Jack Paar Program and The Ed Sullivan Show), Cook shared a Tony award with his fellow Fringers. Together with longtime collaborator Dudley Moore, Cook split off into a two-man act. The towering Cook and diminutive Moore co-starred in such cheeky British comedies as The Wrong Box (1968) and The Hound of the Baskervilles (1968), usually writing all their own material. The best of their filmic collaborations was Bedazzled, a breezily sacrilegious update of the "Faust" legend. While they remained friends, Cook and Moore eventually decided that they'd fare better as "singles." Cook continued to write for and appear in such films as Supergirl (1984), The Princess Bride (1986) and Great Balls of Fire (1989), and also co-starred with Mimi Kennedy on the 1981 American TV sitcom The Two of Us. Peter Cook died of a gastrointestinal hemorrhage at the age of 57.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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