Peter Edward Cook (November 17, 1937 - January 9, 1995) is an English actor, satirist, writer and comedian. Cook is widely regarded as the main light of the British satire explosion in the 1960s. He was closely associated with anti-establishment comedy that appeared in England and the United States in the late 1950s.
Called the "modern satirical father" by The Guardian , in 2005, Cook was ranked number one on Comedy Comedians, polls of over 300 comics, comedy writers, producers, and director of the English-speaking world.
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Cook was born in the home of his parents, "Shearbridge", on Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon. He is the only and oldest son of three children Alexander Edward "Alec" Cook (1906-1984), a colonial civil servant (serving as a political officer and then district officer in Nigeria, then as secretary of finance to the Gibraltar colony, followed by a return to Nigeria as the East-based Permanent Secretary, based in Enugu), and his wife Ethel Catherine Margaret (1908-1994), daughter of lawyer Charles Mayo. Cook's grandfather, Edward Arthur Cook (1869-1914), had also been a colonial civil servant, traffic manager for the Malay Federation State Railway in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya; stress ahead of an interview about promotions led him to commit suicide. His wife Minnie Jane (1869-1957, the daughter of Thomas Wreford, Thelbridge and Witheridge, Devon, and Stratford-upon-Avon, of the famous Devonshire family traced back to 1440), kept this fact in secret; Peter Cook only discovered the truth when later examining his family.
Cook was educated at Radley College and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he studied French and German. As a college student, Cook was originally meant to be a career diplomat like his father, but the English "had run out of colonies", as he said. Although politically very apathetic, especially later on when he showed deep distrust of politicians of all colors, he joined the University of Cambridge Liberal Club. On Pembroke Cook performed and wrote comedy sketches as a member of the Cambridge Footlights Club, where he became president in 1960. His hero is the author of fellow Footlights and Cambridge magazine writer David Nobbs.
While still at the university, Cook writes for Kenneth Williams, giving some sketches for the hit West End hit comedy hit Williams Piece Eight and a lot of follow-up, One Over the Eight , before finding excellence in itself in a four-person satirical stage performance, Beyond the Fringe , with Jonathan Miller, Alan Bennett and Dudley Moore.
Beyond the Fringe became a huge success in London after first performing at the Edinburgh Festival and incorporating Cook who mimicked the prime minister, Harold Macmillan. This was one of the first occasions of satirical satirical mimicry that had been tried in the live theater and it shocked the audience. During one show, Macmillan was at the theater and Cook departed from his script and verbally attacked him.
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Careers
1960s
In 1961, Cook opened The Establishment, a club on 18 Greek Street in Soho in central London, presenting fellow comedians in a night club setting, including American Lenny Bruce. Cook said it was a satirical place that mimicked the "good Berlin cabaret... which very much stopped the rise of Hitler and prevented the outbreak of the Second World War"; as a special place member, it is beyond the censorship restrictions.
Cook made friends and supported Australian comedian and actor Barry Humphries, who started his solo British career at the club. Humphries said in his autobiography, My Life As Me , that he found Cook's lack of interest in art and literature. Jazz trio Dudley Moore played in the club basement during the early 1960s.
In 1962, the BBC commissioned a pilot for a satire sketch television series based on the Establishment Club, but was not immediately picked up and Cook went to New York City for a year to do Beyond The Fringe on Broadway. When he returns, the pilot has been recreated as That's That Week Has and has made a star David Frost, something Cook hates.
The 1960s sarcas bang will come to an end and Cook says: "England will sink in giggles to the sea". He complained that Frost's success was based on a personal copy of the stage Cook and Cook dubbed him a "plagiaristic master", and said that his only regret in life, according to Alan Bennett, had saved Frost from drowning. This incident occurred in the summer of 1963, when the rivalry between the two men reached its peak. Cook realizes that Frost's drowning will be deliberate if he's not saved.
Around this time, Cook provides financial support for the Personalized Eyes satirical magazine, supporting it through tough times, especially in defamation trials. Cook invested his own money and asked for investment from his friends. For a while, the magazine was produced from the premise of the Establishment Club. In 1963, Cook married Wendy Snowden; The couple had two daughters, Lucy and Daisy, but the marriage ended in 1970.
Cook TV comedy expanded with Eleanor Bron, John Bird and John Fortune. His first regular television set was on Granada Television Braden Beat with Bernard Braden, where he performed his most enduring character: E.L Wisty static, obsolete and monotonous, which Cook had conceived for Radley College's Marionette Society.
Cook's comedy partnership with Dudley Moore caused Not Just... But Also . It was originally intended by the BBC as a vehicle for Moore's music, but Moore invited Cook to write a sketch and show up with him. Using some props, they created a dry, unreasonable television that proved very popular and lasted for three series between 1965 and 1970. Cook played characters like Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling and both men made Pete and Dud change their ego. Other sketches include "Superthunderstingcar", a parody of the TV show Gerry Anderson marionette, and Pastiche Cook's 1960s trendy art documentary - satirised in a segment of parody on Greta Garbo.
When Cook learned a few years later that videotape of the series was removed, a common practice at the time, he offered to buy footage from the BBC but was denied because of copyright issues. He suggested he can buy new tapes so the BBC did not need to remove the original, but this was also rejected. Of the original 22 programs, only eight are still complete. A compilation of six half-hour programs, The Best of What's Left of Not Only... But Also is featured on television and has been released on VHS and DVD.
With the The Wrong Box (1966) and Bedazzled (1967) Cook and Moore began to play a role in the movie together. Directed by Stanley Donen, the underlying story Bedazzled is credited to Cook and Moore and the scenario for Cook. A parody of Faust's comic, he stars Cook as George Spigott (the Devil) who seduces Stanley Moon (Moore), a frustrated chef, with a short order, with a promise for his heart's desire - unbeatable beauty and waiter in his café Margaret Spencer (Eleanor Bron) - in exchange for his soul, but repeatedly deceiving him. The film features a cameo appearance by Barry Humphries as Envy and Raquel Welch as Lust. Moore composed a soundtrack and co-writing music (with Cook) songs performed in the movie. Her jazz trio supported Cook on the theme, a parodic anti-love song, delivered by Cook in a flat monotone and incorporating familiar words, "You fill me with inertia."
In 1968, Cook and Moore briefly switched to ATV for four one-hour programs entitled Goodbye , based on the characters of Pete and Dud. Increasing Cook's alcoholism made him dependent on the guidance cards and the show was unpopular, as part of the publication of ITV listing magazine, TV Times, was suspended for strikes. John Cleese is a cast member.
1970s
In 1970, Cook took over a project initiated by David Frost for a satirical film about a rising opinion poll to become the President of Great Britain. Under Cook's guidance, the character became a model for Frost. The film, The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer, was not successful, although the cast has famous names (including the appearances of John Cleese of Monty Python and Graham Chapman, who co-wrote the film).
Cook became a favorite on the chat show circuit, but his own business hosted the BBC in 1971, Where Do I Sit? , said by critics as a disappointment. He was replaced after only two episodes by Michael Parkinson, the early Parkinson's career as a chatter host. Parkinson then asked Cook what his ideals were, Cook responded with excitement "[...] actually, my ambition is to silence you altogether!"
Cook and Moore sketch from Not Just.... But Also and Goodbye with new material to the reveal stage called Behind the Fridge . The show toured Australia in 1972 before moving to New York City in 1973, renamed as Goodnight . Cook often appears on stage and the worse for drinking. Nevertheless, the show proved very popular and won the Tony and Grammy Awards. When finished, Moore lives in the United States to pursue his film acting ambitions in Hollywood. Cook returned to England and in 1973 married actress and model Judy Huxtable.
Then, the more risky humor of Pete and Dud goes further on long notes playing as "Derek and Clive". The first record was initiated by Cook to reduce boredom during Broadway running Good Evening and using the material that was conceived years earlier for two characters but was considered too unheard of. One of these audio recordings was also filmed and the tension between the duo seemed to increase. Chris Blackwell circulates coffee piracy to friends in the music business. The recording popularity convinced Cook to release it commercially, though Moore was initially reluctant, fearing that his appearance as a Hollywood star would be underestimated. The two albums of Derek and Clive were subsequently released, the latter accompanied by a film.
Cook and Moore hosted Saturday Night Live on January 24, 1976 during the first season of the event. They performed a number of their classic stage routines, including "One Leg Too Little" and "Frogs and Peaches" among other things, in addition to participating in several skits with an ensemble player event.
In 1978, Cook appeared in the British music series Revolver as the manager of a ballroom where the emergence of punk and new wave action. For some groups, this is their first appearance on television. Cook's spicy comment is a typical aspect of the program.
In 1979, Cook recorded comedy segments as B-sides to 12-inch Sparks singles "Number One in Heaven" and "Tryouts for the Human Race". The lead songwriter, Ron Mael, often begins with a shallow situation in his lyrics, and then discusses the surreal tangent in Cook and S. J. Perelman's style.
Consequences album
Cook played many roles in the 1977 concept album Consequences , written and produced by former 10cc members Kevin Godley and Lol Creme. The comedic mix is ​​pronounced and progressive rock with environmental subtext, Consequences begins as the one Godley and Creme plan to show their discovery, an electric guitar effect called Gizmo, which they develop in 10cc.. This project developed into three sets of LP boxes. The comedy section was originally meant to be performed by players including Spike Milligan and Peter Ustinov, but Godley and Creme finally settled on Cook after they realized that he could do most of his own part.
The storyline centers on divorce that will happen to the ineffective British people Walter Stapleton (Cook) and his wife, Lulu (Judy Huxtable). When meeting their lawyer - Mr. Haig's greedy and overwhelming Mr. Pepperman (both played by Cook) - disruptive global chaos interrupts the process with strange and mysterious happenings, which seem to center on Mr. Blint (Cook), a musician and composer lives in a flat under Haig's office, which is connected with a large hole in the floor.
Although it has since developed the following cult because of Cook's presence, Consequences was released as punk sweeping the UK and proved a resounding commercial failure, seduced by critics who found the music indulge. The script and the story have a clear connection with Cook's own life - then his wife Judy Huxtable plays Walter's wife. Cook's struggle with alcohol is reflected in Haig drinking, and there is a parallel between Walter's and Lulu's divorce divorce and Cook's own divorce from his first wife. The sounds and accents Cook uses for Stapleton characters are similar to Cook's Beyond the Fringe colleague, Alan Bennett, and a book about Cook's comedy How Very Interesting , speculating that the playable characters by Cook in Consequences is a caricature of four cast members Beyond The Fringe Haig alcoholics representing Cook, the trembling Stapleton is Bennett, the Jew who is a parody of Miller, and the pianist Blint represents Moore.
Amnesty International Show
Cook appeared on the first three fundraising staged by humorous John Cleese and Martin Lewis on behalf of Amnesty International. The benefit was dubbed The Secret Policeman's Balls even though it was not until the third show in 1979 that the title was used. She appeared on all three nights of the first show in April 1976, A Poke in the Eye , as an individual player and as a member of the player Outside Fringe , which reunited for the first time since the 1960s. He also appeared in the Monty Python sketch, taking Eric Idle's place. Cook is on the album cast of the show and in the movie, Fun at Her Majesty's . He was in Amnesty's second gala in May 1977, The Night Without Sir Bernard Miles . It's titled The Mermaid Frolics for albums and special TV. Cook performs monologues and plays with Terry Jones.
In June 1979, Cook performed all four nights The Secret Policeman's Ball - in collaboration with John Cleese. Cook did some solo pieces and sketches with Eleanor Bron. He also leads the ensemble in the final - the "End of the World" sketch of Beyond The Fringe .
In response to the thorn in The Daily Telegraph that the event was a recycled material, Cook wrote an allusion to the summation. Justice Cantley in the trial of former Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe, summary now Think widely to show a bias in favor of Thorpe. Cook did it on the same night (Friday 29 June - third of four nights) and the next night. The nine-minute work, "Fully Problem for You", is considered by many fans and critics as one of the best work of Cook's career. Cook and show producer Martin Lewis released the album on Virgin Records titled "Here Comes the Judge: Live from live performances along with three studio tracks that scorched the Thorpe trial.
Though unable to take part in the 1981 gala, Cook provides a narration above the animated opening sequence of the movie made in 1982. With Lewis, he wrote and voiced radio ads to advertise movies in the UK. He also hosted a spoof film award ceremony that was part of the movie world premiÃÆ'¨re in London in March 1982.
After Cook's 1987 reunion with Moore for America's annual benefit to the homeless, Comic Relief (unrelated to British Comic Relief), Cook repeated the reunion for British audience by appearing with Moore on Amnesty's 1989 benefit The Secret Policeman's Biggest Ball .
1980s
In 1980, partly driven by the growing status of Moore movie stars, Cook moved to Hollywood and emerged as a tense British waitress to a rich American woman in a short US television sitcom, The Two of Us. i>, also made a cameo appearance in some of the movies that were not special. In 1980, Cook starred in a special LWT Peter Cook & amp; Co. This event includes a comedy sketch, including a parody of Tales of the Unexpected Tales of the Much As We Expected. It involves Cook as Roald Dahl, explaining his name is Ronald before he drops "n." The players include John Cleese, Rowan Atkinson, Beryl Reid, Paula Wilcox and Terry Jones.
In 1983, Cook played the role of Richard III in the first episode of Blackadder, The Foretelling, which parodied Laurence Olivier's portrayal. He narrated the short film "Diplomatix" by the Norwegian comedy trio of Kirkvaag, Lystad and MjÃÆ'¸en, who won the "Montreux City Special Prize" at the Montreux Comedy Festival in 1985. In 1986 he partnered Joan Rivers in English speaking shows. He appeared as Mr. Jolly in 1987 in The Comic Strip Presents' episode of Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door, playing a murderer who covered his murderous voice by playing Tom Jones records. That same year, Cook made a big splash on the coast of America when he appeared on The Princess Bride as the "Impressive Priestess" who led the wedding ceremony between Buttercup and Prince Humperdinck, pronouncing the now famous line "Mawage! "Also that year he spent time working with Martin Lewis on a political satire about the 1988 US presidential election for HBO, but his manuscript was not produced. Lewis suggests Cook's team with Moore to Telethon's US Comic Relief for the homeless. The duo reunited and sketched their "One Leg Too Little" them.
In 1988, Cook appeared as a contestant in the Whose Line Is It Anyway improvisation comedy show? Cook was declared the winner, his reward was to read the credit in the style of New York taxi driver - the character he described in Peter Cook & amp; Co.
Cook is sometimes called for a radio show on the phone-time Clive Bull at LBC in London. Using the name "Sven of Swiss Cottage," he thought of love, loneliness and haring in a mocking Norwegian accent. Jokes included Sven's attempts to find his estranged wife, where he often confessed to calling performances from around the world, and his hatred of Norway's obsession with fish. While Bull clearly realizes that Sven is fictitious he does not learn his true identity until later.
Revival
In late 1989, Cook married for the third time, to Malaysia-born property developer Chiew Lin Chong (1945-2016) in Torbay, Devon. She gave him stability in his personal life and he reduced his drinking, to the point that he was drunk a while. He lived alone in a small 18th century house on Perrins Walk, Hampstead, while his wife kept her own property for only 100 yards.
Cook returned to the BBC as Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling to perform with Ludovic Kennedy at A Life in Pieces . 12 interviews saw Sir Arthur recount his life on the basis of the Twelve Days of Christmas. An unscripted interview with Cook as Streeb-Greebling and satirist Chris Morris was recorded at the end of 1993 and broadcast as Why Bother? on BBC Radio 3. Morris describes it:
This is an improvisation style that is very different from what I've ever used, working with people like Steve Coogan, Doon Mackichan and Rebecca Front, as they are On the Hour and The Day Today things about trying to build character in a situation, and Peter Cook really do knight's move and double knight's move to make a joke or a silly scene that comes back to themselves, and that's amazing. I mean, I do not expect much that he will not be a dirty bag of pig fat with his hair falling out and can barely make out a sentence, because he does not provide much evidence that it will not be the case. However, in fact, he stumbled with a Safeways bag full of Kestrel beer and many fagots and then proceeded to jump about mentally with the agility of a grasshopper. Absolutely incredible.
On December 17, 1993, Cook appeared in Clive Anderson Talks Back as a four-character biscuit tester and alien abductee Norman House, football manager and motivational speaker Alan Latchley, judge Sir James Beauchamp and rock legend Eric Daley. The next day she appeared on BBC2 doing a link for Radio Night's "Arena" s. He also appeared on December 26, in 1993 a special Christmas of One Foot in the Grave ("One Foot in the Algarve"), playing a muckraking tabloid photographer. Before the end of the next year, her mother died, and Cook was sadly back to drinking heavily. She made her last TV appearance at the Pebble Mill at One event in November 1994.
Death
Cook died of gastrointestinal bleeding on January 9, 1995, age 57. He was cremated in the Golders Gold Crematorium and his ashes were buried in an unmarked plot behind St John-at-Hampstead, not far from his home on Perrins Walk.
Dudley Moore attended Cook's funeral at St John-at-Hampstead on May 1, 1995. He and Martin Lewis gave a two-night warning to Cook at The Improv in Los Angeles, on 15 and 16 November 1995, to mark what had happened. Cook's 58th Birthday.
Legacy
Cook was widely recognized as a powerful influence on many British comedians who followed him from amateur amateur clubs from British universities to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and then to radio and television. At his death some critics chose to see Cook's life as tragic, as far as the brilliance of his teenage years has not been sustainable in his final years. However, Cook himself has always maintained that he has no ambition at all for sustained success. He values ​​happiness with the friendship and joy of his life. Eric Idle and Stephen Fry said Cook did not waste his talent but instead the newspapers tried to waste it.
Some friends respected him with dedication in the closing of Fierce Creatures (1997), a comedy film written by John Cleese about a zoo in danger of being shut down. It stars Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline and Michael Palin. Dedication displays Cook's photo and live date and English naturalist and comedian Gerald Durrell.
In 1999, the tiny planet 20468 Petercook, in the main asteroid belt, was named Cook.
Channel 4 broadcasts Not Only But Always , a television film that educates the relationship between Cook and Moore, with Rhys Ifans describing Cook. In 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe a drama, Pete and Dud: Come Again written by Chris Bartlett and Nick Awde, examines the relationship from Moore's point of view. The drama was transferred to London's West End at The Venue in 2006 and toured the UK the following year. Tom Goodman-Hill starred as Cook and Kevin Bishop as Moore in the West End.
A green plaque was inaugurated by the Westminster City Council and the Heritage Foundation on the Establishment Club website on February 15, 2009 after an online campaign by satirist/event organizer Mark Biddiss, who also organized "The 1st 1st Peter Cook is a Birthday Party that has died. Public Wake "on the Establishment Club website to promote the plaque, featuring live reworking 'Derek & amp; The Clive material is titled "Derek & Clive Lively again".
A historic blue plaque was inaugurated by Torbay Civic Society on November 17, 2014 at Cook's birthplace, "Shearbridge", Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, with his widow Lin and other family members present. A blue plaque is further commissioned and erected at Torquay United's home, Plainmoor, Torquay, in 2015.
Movieography
- Bachelor of Hearts (1958) - Pedestrian on Street (not verified)
- Ten Thousand Talent Short Film (1960) (sound)
- What Happened Here TV Movies (1963)
- The Wrong Box (1966) - Morris Finsbury
- Alice in Wonderland (1966) - Mad Hatter
- Bedazzled (1967) - George Spiggott/The Devil
- A Dandy in Aspic (1968) - Prentiss
- Monte Carlo or Bust! (released in the US as Brave Young Men in the Street Jaunty They ) (1969) - Major Digby Dawlish
- Bed Seating (1969) - Inspector
- The Rise and Resurrection of Michael Rimmer (1970) - Michael Rimmer
- Behind the Fridge TV Movies (1971) - Various Characters
- Apple a Day TV (1971) - Tn Elwood Sr.
- Barry McKenzie's Adventure (1972) - Dominic
- Saturday Night at the Baths (1975) - Himself - in theater audience (unverified)
- Find Mistress (1976) - Lewenhak
- Eric Sykes Showing Some of Our Favorite Things Film Movies (1977) - Stagehand
- The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978) - Sherlock Holmes
- Derek and Clive Get Horn (1979) - Clive
- Peter Cook & amp; Co TV Movies (1980) - Various Characters
- Yellowbeard (1983) - Lord Percy Lambourn
- Supergirl (1984) - Nigel
- Kenny Everett's Christmas Carol TV Movies (1985) - Christmas Ghost Not Coming
- The Myth (1986) - Himself
- The Princess Bride (1987) - The Impressive Clriver
- Whoops Apocalypse (1988) - Sir Mortimer Chris
- No Hint (1988) - Norman Greenhough
- Getting It Right (1989) - Tn. Adrian
- Jake's Journey Film TV (1988) - King
- Great Balls of Fire! (1989) - First English Reporter
- The Craig Ferguson Story TV Movies (1991) - Fergus Ferguson
- One Leg in the Algarve (1993 film) - Martin Trout
- Black Beauty (1994) - Lord Wexmire (last film role)
- Peter Cook Talks Golf Balls (Video 1994) - Play 4 characters Alec Dunroonie/Dr Dieter Liedbetter/Major Thorough Glibble/Bill Rossi
TV Series
- Chronicle TV Series (1964) - (1 episode)
- Serial TV Series (1967) - (1 episode)
- Not Only... But Also TV Series (1965-1970) Various Characters (22 episodes)
- Not Just But Also. Peter Cook and Dudley Moore in Australia TV Mini Series (1971)
- Thirty Minutes Theater (1972) - Peter Trilby (1 episode)
- The Two of Us TV Series 1981 - 1982) - Robert Brentwood (20 episodes)
- The Black Adder TV Series (1983) Richard III (1 episode)
- Diplomatix TV Short (1985) - Narrator (sound)
- The Comic Strip Presents... (1988) - Mr. Jolly (1 episode)
- The Best of... What's There... Not Just... But Also (1990) - Pete/Own/other characters (1 episode)
- A Life in Pieces (TV Series Short 1990) - Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling (12 episodes)
- Roger Mellie: The Man on the Telly (1991) - Roger Mellie (voice)
- Gone to Seed (1992) - Wesley Willis - (6 episodes)
- Arena (1993) - (documentary) (2 episodes)
Amnesty International Performance:
- Fun at Her Majesty's (1976)
- The Mermaid Frolics (1977)
- The Secret Policeman's Ball (1979)
- Private Section of the Secret Police (1981)
- The Best of Amnesty: Featuring the Monty Python Stars (1999) Discussion
- "The Ballad of Spotty Muldoon" (1965)
- "Goodbye-ee" (1965) (both with Dudley Moore)
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