Dudley Moore him an unprecedented status as a romantic leading man. Moore followed up with the comedy film "Wholly Moses!", which was not a major success. In 1981 Moore appeared in the title role of the comedy "Arthur", an even bigger hit than "10". Co-starring Liza Minnelli and Sir John Gielgud, it was both commercially and critically successful, Moore receiving an Oscar nomination for Best Actor, whilst Gielgud won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as Arthur's stern but compassionate manservant. Moore lost to Henry Fonda (for "On Golden Pond"). He did, however, win a Golden Globe award for Best
Butler v Moore Butler v Moore Butler v. Moore reported in MacNally's "Rules of Evidence", [1802], 253, was an Irish case decided by the Master of the Rolls in Ireland, Sir Michael Smith. It is an important precedent in the issue of priest-penitent privilege in the UK. The case concerned the will of Bishop John Butler, 12th Baron Dunboyne, who had converted from Catholicism to Protestantism. He was alleged, however, to have returned to Catholicism and, thereby, to have come within a penal law which deprived "lapsed papists" of the power to make a will. Butler was Roman Catholic Bishop of Cork at