Arthur (1981 film) won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Co-written by Christopher Cross, Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager and Peter Allen, it was performed by Christopher Cross. Sir John Gielgud also won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. The film was nominated for two other Academy Awards. Arthur Bach is a spoiled alcoholic from New York City, who likes to be driven in his chauffeured Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith limousine through Central Park. Arthur is heir to a portion of his family's vast fortune, which he is told will be his, only if he marries the upper class Susan Johnson, the daughter
Dudley Moore condition, he attended the ceremony at Buckingham Palace on 16 November to collect his honour in a wheelchair. Dudley Moore Dudley Stuart John Moore, CBE (19 April 193527 March 2002) was an English actor, comedian, musician and composer. Moore first came to prominence in the UK as one of the four writer-performers in the comedy revue "Beyond the Fringe" from 1960, and with one member of that team, Peter Cook, collaborated on the television series "Not Only... But Also". The double act worked on other projects until the mid-1970s, by which time Moore had settled in Los Angeles to concentrate