Editing Dudley Moore (section)

==Illness and death==
In April 1997, after spending five days in a New York hospital, Moore was informed that he had calcium deposits in the [[basal ganglia]] of his brain and irreversible frontal lobe damage. He underwent quadruple [[coronary artery bypass surgery]] in London and also suffered four strokes.<ref name=disease>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/461376.stm | title=Dudley Moore has rare brain disease |work=BBC News |date=30 September 1999 |access-date=29 March 2010}}</ref>

On 30 September 1999, Moore announced that he was suffering from the terminal degenerative brain disorder [[progressive supranuclear palsy]] (PSP), a [[Parkinson-plus syndrome]].<ref name=disease />
As some of its early symptoms are very similar to intoxication, he had been reported as being drunk.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=112573&page=1 | title=Fatigued Dudley Moore Says End Is Near |work=ABC News |date=4 December 2000 |access-date=30 September 2023 |quote=The star says early symptoms of the illness led many to believe he was drunk. 'People started saying I was drunk on stage. It was dreadful,' he says.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1054068.stm | title='Dudley Moore talks of his "mystery disease" |work=BBC News |date=4 December 2000 |access-date=30 September 2023 |quote=People started saying I was drunk on stage... it was dreadful.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=101251&page=1 | title=Dudley Moore Dead at 66 |work=ABC News |date=27 March 2002 |access-date=30 September 2023 |quote=Sadly, Moore said that many friends and fans mistook him for his Arthur character when his illness first caused his speech to slur.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Walters |first=Barbara |url=https://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=123930&page=1 | title='20/20': Dudley Moore Battles Brain Disease |work=ABC News |date=27 March 2002 |access-date=30 September 2023 |quote=WALTERS: What do you most want people to know? / MOORE: I want them to know that I'm not intoxicated. / WALTERS: You're not drunk. / MOORE: No. And I just want them to know that I am going through this disease as well as I can.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Rupani-Smith |first=Sylvia |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/20/well/live/after-a-fall-then-another-a-devastating-diagnosis.html | title=The Falls Were Bad. The Diagnosis Was Worse. |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=20 October 2016 |access-date=30 September 2023 |quote=The actor Dudley Moore, of the movie 'Arthur,' had the disease. Many people presumed he was drunk when they'd see him staggering, but he was actually losing his balance, often, because of the condition.}}</ref> However, the illness had been diagnosed earlier that year.<ref name=disease/> In November 1999, Moore made his first public appearance since disclosing his illness, reading poetry, alongside [[Julie Andrews]], at a benefit concert in [[Philadelphia]] for the charity ''Music for All Seasons''. At first Moore struggled, but soon he settled in and began to joke and ad-lib. He then received a standing ovation, for what was to be his last performance.<ref name="Ovation for ailing Dudley"/> His disease would quickly progress, eventually requiring him to use a wheelchair.

Moore died on the morning of 27 March 2002<ref name=la/> as a result of [[pneumonia]], secondary to immobility caused by his PSP, in [[Plainfield, New Jersey]], at the age of 66. Rena Fruchter  was holding his hand when he died; she reported his final words were "I can hear the music all around me."<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6H8vBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT248 |title=There's Been A Life! |isbn=9781845029685 |access-date=24 April 2016|last1=Norton |first1=Alex |date=17 November 2014 |publisher=Black & White }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://lists.monstersandcritics.com/popculture/people/famous-last-words/ |title=Famous last words |work=Julian James, Monster lists - Lists.MonstersAndCritics.com |access-date=24 April 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160612111046/http://lists.monstersandcritics.com/popculture/people/famous-last-words/ |archive-date=12 June 2016 }}</ref> Moore was interred at [[Hillside Cemetery (Scotch Plains, New Jersey)|Hillside Cemetery]] in [[Scotch Plains, New Jersey]]. Fruchter later wrote a memoir of their relationship titled ''Dudley Moore'' ([[Ebury Press]], 2004).