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
Arthur Pierce Butler Arthur Pierce Butler Arthur Pierce Butler was an American teacher and educational administrator. Butler co-founded the Morristown School (now the Morristown-Beard School) in Morristown, New Jersey with former Harvard University classmates Francis Woodman and Thomas Quincy Brown. Butler was born to Edward Knowles Butler and Frances Elizabeth Lewis Pierce on April 21, 1866 in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from the Roxbury Latin School in West Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1884. Butler then received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1888. Following his graduation from college, he began working for the Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Company. Butler