Ron Moody

Ron Moody

Nascimento : 1924-01-08, London, England, UK

Morte : 2015-06-11

História

Ronald Moodnick, conhecido como: Ron Moody, (Tottenham, 8 de janeiro de 1924 - Londres, 11 de junho de 2015) foi um ator inglês. Moody trabalhou em uma variedade de gêneros, mas talvez seja mais conhecido por seu papel como Fagin em Lionel Bart (teatro) e no filme musical Oliver!, baseado em Oliver Twist de Charles Dickens. Ele criou o papel na versão original de West End, e reprisou em 1984 na Broadway e no filme de 1968, para o qual ele foi indicado para o Oscar de Melhor Ator e ganhou o Globo de Ouro de Melhor Ator Comédia ou Musical. Moody faleceu em Londres em 11 de junho de 2015, ele tinha 91 anos.

Perfil

Ron Moody
Ron Moody
Ron Moody

Filmes

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Self (archive footage)
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise journeys through Brooks’ early years in the creative beginnings of live television — with Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows — to the film genres he so successfully satirized in Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, High Anxiety, and Spaceballs — to the groundbreaking Broadway musical version of his first film, The Producers. The documentary also delves into his professional and personal ups and downs — his childhood, his first wife and subsequent 41-year marriage to Anne Bancroft — capturing a never-before-heard sense of reflection and confession.
A Sense of Carol Reed
Himself
The film director, Carol Reed, is the subject of this documentary short. The illegitimate son of the famous stage actor, 'Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree' , Reed was brilliant with actors, especially child actors, making him the perfect person to bring Oliver! to the screen. Reed is best known for three films he made in the late 1940s, and the documentary offers generous clips from Odd Man Out, The Fallen Idol, and the most famous of all, The Third Man. The film director, John Boorman, the assistant director, Guy Hamilton, the actors, Ron Moody and Bryan Forbes and the cinematographer, Oswald Morris, are among the interviewees.
Moussaka & Chips
Officer David Tomlinson
Getaway driver Miles Foster is placed in witness protection after the murder of his friend Andres by Astin Brody, a shady underworld boss. Miles is hidden on the Greek Island of Zanthi with a recently graduated female MI6 officer, Charlotte Green. Shalom Godsall, Brody's disgruntled number two, has recommended two Irish assassins take out Miles, much to their surprise as a father and son assassin team they h ave a terrible track record. Godsall, however, is working with American secret service to oust his rival Astin Brody and take the top job. Nothing is going to plan; the assassins have found their target and are getting close. Miles and Charlotte are not getting on at all and the special relationship between the British and American secret service is at breaking point.
Procura-se um Cachorro
Maurice Todd
New age travelers kidnap the prized dog of a Bristol Antiques dealer, with dire consequences.
Revelation
Sir Isaac Newton
Since A.D. 50, a mysterious sacred artifact known as the Loculus has been at the center of a bloody clandestine war. Missing for a few hundred years, the puzzling relic has suddenly reappeared in the present day, bringing with it a terrible secret that could spell doom for all of mankind. Now it's up to Magnus Martel to subvert a murderous secret society and uncover the truth behind the ancient treasure.
Um Garoto na Corte do Rei Arthur
Merlin
O jovem Calvin Fuller (Thomas Ian Nicholas) vive no mundo atual e acaba vivendo a aventura dos sonhos de qualquer garoto de sua idade. Ele é mandado à lendaria corte do rei Arthur pelo mago Merlin (Ron Moody) com uma missão: salvar o reino de Camelot. Para tal, o garoto deve derrotar o vilão Lorde Belasco (Art Malik), treinar para ser um cavaleiro e resgatar a princesa Katey (Paloma Baeza), que se apaixonou por ele.
Emily's Ghost
Dawson
Emily, a young Edwardian girl stifled by the constraints put on the women of her time, moves with her family to the ancestral home in the country, and begins to see the ghost of another girl.
How's Business
Pawnshop Broker
During World War II a young city boy is evacuated to the country.
A Ghost in Monte Carlo
Alphonse
A chance meeting between British nobleman and lovely young Mistral foils a plot by her manipulating Aunt Emilie to avenge the death of her sister, Mistral's mother, who died in childbirth. But when an unscrupulous blackmailer and a rapacious Rajah enter the plot, the growing attraction between Lord and convent girl becomes yet more fraught with Danger.
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Azdak
The hardships faced by a woman trying to survive a bloody civil war while caring for the abandoned child of the deposed former ruler.
Where Is Parsifal?
Baron Gaspard Beersbohm
Tucked away in his castle, a hypochondriac inventor plays generous host to a revolving cast of wacky guests. But to pay off his mounting debts, he must sell either a powerful businessman or a rich gypsy on his latest creation: a laser skywriter.
O Homem com a Lente Mortal
King Awad
Duas perigosas armas nucleares são roubadas e posteriormente vendidas a um grupo terrorista, fato que pode desencadear a próxima Grande Guerra. O repórter televisivo Patrick Hale precisa investigar o caso e acaba se envolvendo em toda a trama envolvendo a polícia, o governo e líderes de instituições religiosas e políticas, mas inesperadamente surge uma pista de que seu próprio governo pode estar envolvido no crime.
Dial M for Murder
Capt. 'Swann' Lesgate
A London businessman concocts an intricate plan to murder his unfaithful wife for her money.
Othello
Iago
Adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
O Estranho Aliado do Rei Arthur
Merlin
Tom Trimble, um astronauta, e seu androide, Hermes, voltam por acidente aos tempos do Rei Arthur. Ele tenta ganhar a confiança do Rei afirmando que sabe que Mordred e Merlin irão traí-lo.
Dominique
Dr. Rogers
The wife of a greedy man comes back to haunt him after he scares her to death.
Benji's Very Own Christmas Story
Kris Kringle
While on a publicity tour in Switzerland, Benji, Cindy Smith, and Patsy Garrett convince Kris Kringle that his place on Christmas Eve is delivering presents to all "his" families all over the world.
Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas
Himself
Bing Crosby and his family spend Christmas at the estate of a distant relative in England.
The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It
Dr. Henry Gropinger ( Kissinger )
John Cleese is hilarious as the descendant of Sherlock Holmes in this modern detective drama of international power politics and intrigue. Unlike his illustrious grandfather however, he only succeeds in bungling every job he organizes. Also stars Arthur Lowe as the "bionic" grandson of Dr. Watson, Stratford Johns as the Commissioner of Police, and Connie Booth as Mrs. Hudson.
Rocky Marciano Is Dead
Harry
Boxing's lost its soul. The noble art is now big business, and Harry's a has-been manager. But his dream remains-to find a champion, a new Louis, a new Marciano.
Legend of the Werewolf
Zookeeper
A travelling circus in 19th century France adopts and showcases a feral "wolf boy", who grows into adulthood only to kill the one-man band. He runs off to Paris, where he develops a jealous, overprotective crush on a prostitute, leading him to attack her client, incurring a pursuit by a determined police surgeon.
Dogpound Shuffle
Steps
A man who has lost his beloved pet dog enlists the help of a young drifter in finding the animal. This leads to a series of misadventures, including a confrontation with a hulking dog-pound worker and a stint providing the entertainment at a millionaire's party.
As Trapaças do Falcão
Hawk Dove
While fleeing across the Irish countryside, two orphans are pursued by their villainous uncle, a master of disguises.
Banzé na Rússia
Ippolit Vorobyaninov
A Revolução Russa transforma um honrado milionário em miserável. Tentando reverter a situação, ele sai à procura de uma cadeira a qual esconde jóias valiosas deixadas por sua sogra.
David Copperfield
Uriah Heep
A made for TV movie of the Charles Dickens' classic novel, turns Dickens' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield Robin Phillips as a young man, brooding on a deserted beach, recalling his youth. The characters are all trotted out in choppy flashbacks as David remembers his life as a young orphan, brought to London and passed around from relatives, to guardians, to boarding school.
Oliver!
Fagin
Adaptação musical da obra Oliver Twist de Charles Dickens, um conto clássico de um órfão que foge do lugar onde trabalha e se junta com um grupo de meninos comandados por Dodger Artful e é treinado para ser um pickpockets, um batedor de carteiras, pelo mestre ladrão Fagin.
The Sandwich Man
Rowing Coach
A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
Every Day's a Holiday
Professor Leonardo Bastinado
A group of teenagers take jobs at a holiday camp for the summer and enter a TV talent show
San Ferry Ann
German
A motley crew of British characters ride The San Ferry Ann to the shores of France where they embark on a weekend of calamity. The campervan family led by Dad and Mum (David Lodge and Joan Sims) create chaos from the moment they set their tires on the shore resulting in frequent run-ins with the Gendarme, while Lewd Grandad (Wilfred Brambell) finds his own misadventures with a newly acquainted friend, a mad German ex-soldier (Ron Moody). Also aboard for the ride is a saucy hitchhiker (Barbara Windsor) who causes a few heads to turn including that of a fellow traveller (Ronnie Stevens) who pursues her affection with comic results. By the end of this weekend the French may well be wishing to say 'au revoir' to these trouble-making tourists. San Ferry Ann is a humorous take on the tradition of the British get-away. A classic sound effect comedy that sits with the likes of similarly praised titles such as 'The Plank', 'Futtock's End' and 'Rhubarb Rhubarb'.
The Rise and Fall of Nellie Brown
A delightful Christmas musical about a young Jamaican woman who flees her humdrum Liverpool lodgings in search of her glamorous London cousin. Broadcast live on 28 December 1964, this rare TV musical is one of few to have survived from the 1960s. A tale of Afro-Caribbean immigration, the show is unusual for its time in that it doesn't labour the issues around racial tensions in Britain, but simply celebrates Christmas and family.
A Velha Investiga
H. Driffold Cosgood
Quando Miss Jane Marple (Margaret Rutherford) se junta a uma companhia teatral depois que um chantagista é assassinado, vários membros da tropa também são despachados por este misterioso assassino.
Ladies Who Do
Police Inspector
The "Ladies Who Do" are office cleaners. One of them discovers some hot stock tips and they make a fortune. They then make good use of it to save their old neighbourhoods from the wicked developer.
O Rato na Lua
Prime Minister Rupert Mountjoy
Sequel to The Mouse that Roared; The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the castle. To get the money necessary to put in a new set of plumbing, they request foreign aid from the U.S. for Space Research. The Russians then send aid as well to show that they too are for the internationalization of space. While the grand Duke is dreaming of hot baths, their one scientist is slapping together a rocket. The U.S. and Soviets get wind of the impending launch and try and beat them to the moon.
Tudo Começou em Paris
Orlando
1960s musical showcasing Cliff Richard. Four bus mechanics working for London Transport strike up a deal with the company: they do up a one of the company's legendary red double decker buses and take it to southern Europe as a mobile hotel. If it succeeds, they will be put in charge of a whole fleet. While on the road in France they pick up three young British ladies whose car breaks down and offer to take them to their next singing job in Athens. They also pick up a stowaway, who hides the fact that she's a famous American pop star on the run, chased by the media and her parents.
A Pair of Briefs
Sidney Pudney
She's new in chambers, and he's a troublemaker. But what 'is' the true status of the old lady's wartime marriage, and can the two young legal minds find the answer?
Cuidado com as Viúvas
Gabrielle
A petty crook gallantly consoles wealthy widows and is doing all right in his chosen profession until he meets and falls in love with a lovely baroness, who knows all about get-rich-quick schemes.
Alice Through the Looking Box
Mad Hatter
A Christmas TV special in which Alice does not go through a looking glass, but through a TV set.
Follow a Star
Violinist
Norman Truscott is a store worker who dreams of stardom. Vernon Carew is a singer whose star is fading. Vernon manages to get a recording of Norman singing and passes it off as himself.
Davy
The Unicyclist (uncredited)
The Mad Morgans are a family song and dance act touring the British Music Halls. Young Davy is the star of the act but should he stay with his family or strike out on his own ? The last comedy to be produced at Ealing Studios.