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Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995) was an English actor, satirist, writer and comedian. An extremely influential figure in modern British comedy, Cook is regarded as the leading light of the British satire boom of the 1960s. He was closely associated with the anti-establishment comedy that emerged in Britain and the United States in the late 1950s.
In 2005, Cook was ranked at number one in the Comedians' Comedian, a poll of over 300 comics, comedy writers, producers and directors throughout the English-speaking world.
Cook was born at his parents' house, "Shearbridge", in Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon. He was the only son and eldest of the three children of Alexander Edward "Alec" Cook (1906–1984), a colonial civil servant, and his wife Ethel Catherine Margaret, née Mayo (1908–1994). He was educated at Radley College and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he studied French and German. As a student, Cook initially intended to become a career diplomat like his father, but Britain "had run out of colonies", as he put it. Although politically largely apathetic, particularly in later life when he displayed a deep distrust of politicians of all hues, he did join the Cambridge University Liberal Club.
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Peter Cook on "Parkinson" Part 1
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore (In the pub)
Peter Cook obituary (Newsnight, 1995)
Peter Cook At A Slight Angle To The Universe
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore on "Parkinson"
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore (Aversion Therapy)
Secret Policeman's Ball: Peter Cook and John Cleese 'Interesting Facts'
Episode 4 - Peter Cook
Peter Cook biased judge
Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook (1995)
Clive Anderson interviews Griff Rhys Jones and Peter Cook
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore Father and Roger
Peter Cook - Teaching Ravens To Fly Underwater
Secret Policeman's Ball: Peter Cook and Dudley Moore 'Frog and Peach'
Peter Cook on Clive Anderson Talks Back
Peter Cook on Clive Anderson show
Television Archive: Have I Got News For You December 1992 Peter Cook Douglas Adams
Stephen Fry attacks media coverage of Peter Cook's death
Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Peter Sellers "The Gourmets" Sketch from Not Only But Also
The Undiscovered Peter Cook
Peter Cook
Peter Cook - A Conservative
Peter Cook, 1987
The Undiscovered Peter Cook (2016)
Actors: Wendy Worthington (actress), Marcy Goldman (actress), Chet Grissom (actor), Maria Monedero (actress), Darcy Martin (actress), Monica Percich (actress), James Geralden (actor), Jerome William (actor), Alexis Pacheco (actor), David zucker (producer), Gary Thomas (writer), Gary Thomas (director), Lydia Thomas (actress), Enrique Velasquez (actor), Charlene Lovings (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: David Walliams (actor), David Frost (actor), Max Richter (composer), Rafe Spall (actor), Dilys Laye (actress), Nuala Alen-Buckley (miscellaneous crew), Richard Knight (miscellaneous crew), Roy Sharman (editor), Eamonn Andrews (actor), John Yorke (producer), Melanie Hill (actress), Paul Courtenay Hyu (actor), Paul Anderson (actor), Abi Bach (producer), Tom Allen (actor),
Plot: In the 1950s Frankie Howerd, the famous radio and film comedian, meets a young waiter Dennis Heymer, who,like himself,is a closet homosexual. Their relationship blossoms into a partnership, rather than a purely sexual one, and Dennis becomes Frankie's manager. By the early 1960s however things are looking bleak for Frankie. He has lost popularity with mainstream audiences and suffered a nervous breakdown.He is full of self hatred about his appearance - he wears a wig - and his homosexuality, putting huge stress on his relationship with Dennis. Matters are not helped by the death of Frankie's mother Edith. However, Frankie is able to reinvent himself as a satirical comedian, with a gig at Peter Cook's Establishment Club and his fortunes soar,with successful television comedies and a well-publicised appearance at the Oxford Union.
Keywords: argument, broken-crockery, chat-up-line, childhood-sexual-abuse, depression, gay, gay-couple, gay-kiss, hand-job, homosexualActors: Jill McCullough (miscellaneous crew), George Faber (producer), Rhys Ifans (actor), David Sterne (actor), Colin Towns (composer), Richard Durden (actor), Alan Cox (actor), Elizabeth Hawthorne (actress), Peter Rowley (actor), Charles Pattinson (producer), Jonathan Aris (actor), John Leigh (actor), Timothy Balme (actor), Barbara Darragh (costume designer), Robin Soans (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Actors: Phil Cool (actor), Phil Cool (actor), Phil Cool (actor), Phil Cool (actor), Phil Cool (actor), Phil Cool (actor), Phil Cool (actor), Phil Cool (actor), Phil Cool (writer), Phil Cool (actor), Phil Cool (actor), Phil Cool (actor), Phil Cool (actor), Phil Cool (actor), Phil Cool (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Noni Hazlehurst (actress), Paul D. Barron (producer), Keith Thompson (miscellaneous crew), Fiona Cochrane (miscellaneous crew), Danny Adcock (actor), Annie Byron (actress), Colin McEwan (actor), Alan Fletcher (actor), Steve Jodrell (actor), Maurie Ogden (actor), David Rapsey (producer), Glenda Hambly (writer), Glenda Hambly (director), Margaret Ford (actress), Claire Haywood (actress),
Plot: A single mother, Fran (Noni Hazlehurst) is selflessly devoted to her children. But something is lacking in her life, and that something is the love of a man her own age. Her efforts to juggle a love life with her home life are largely unsuccessful.
Keywords: brunette, character-name-in-title, child-molestation, independent-film, mother-daughter-relationship, mother-son-relationship, one-word-title, perth-australia, single-mother, title-directed-by-femalePete & Dud discussing women over a pint of beer.
Newsnight, 09/01/1995 - Includes interviews with Jonathan Miller and John Bird. Not my copyright - just sharing found ephemera.
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore in a very funny interview with Michael Parkinson.
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore. "Aversion Therapy"
The Ball is back for 2012! Follow us at http://www.facebook.com/secretpoliceman for exclusive comedy, behind the scenes gossip and prizes that money can't buy. In this clip: Peter Cook winds John Cleese up something chronic, from the 1979 Ball.
Peter Cook satiric interpretation of a judge during the Jeremy Thorpe trial (1979)
Peter Cook as Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling, telling of how he tried to teach ravens to fly underwater. Please rate and comment.
The Ball is back for 2012! Follow us at http://www.facebook.com/secretpoliceman for exclusive comedy, behind the scenes gossip and prizes that money can't buy. Dudley Moore interviews Peter Cook as Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling over his disastrous restaurant, the Frog and Peach.
Ian Hislop, Angus Deayton and Paul Merton are joined by Peter Cook and Douglas Adams in December 1992. Revenue from the ads goes to the rights holders and Google, not me. © BBC 1992. This does not appear to be accessibly archived elsewhere. Will rapidly comply with any takedown request.
Following the media coverage of Peter Cook's death in January 1995, Stephen Fry felt compelled to defend Cook and his achievements from criticism about his 'failure' to fulfil his potential. (As Jonathan Ross said shortly afterwards: "of course he fulfilled his youthful potential - he fulfilled it when he was still young".) This was broadcast about 36 hours after Cook's death.
Sketch from the first series of Not Only But Also originally broadcast on 20 March 1965 and starring Peter Cook and Dudley Moore with Peter Sellers.
You better listen
It's thin
It's a powder keg.
You better listen to me.
Take me home.
I don't want to go.
Take me back to the safe.
You know better.
You better listen.
It's a powder keg.
You better listen.
Retreat from Enniskillen
I had a dream
Bruised it coloured
It going to hurt me
Manchester city center
Caroline
Take me back
I can't get the bus.
Do you know what they say. You better listen
he's a powder keg.
You better listen to me
Sickening in its infection.
His radioactive radio-head drips with powder
His aura, round halo, thin.
Listen to me.
Thin.
Retreat.
Head loaded people avoid bad luck.
Hives away.
Confined to the university in the town.
Powder, retreat from Enniskillen
I don't want to go.
Take me home
Take me back to town, Mark.
Don't you know, the town is a powder keg.