Peter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universe (movie)

Peter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universe (movie)

  • Production country: United Kingdom
  • Production companies: BBC
  • Genre: Documentary, Comedy
  • Release date: 1/12/2002
  • Run time: 90 min.

Movie description

TV documentary tracing the life of the comedian and satirist from his school days, through the Cambridge Footlights, to Beyond the Fringe and his partnership with Dudley Moore. With contributions from Cook's school friends Peter Rabey and Jonathan Harlow; Cook's first wife Wendy Cook; Cambridge University friends Tim Harrold and Roger Law; Adrian Slade (ex-president of Cambridge Footlights); Jonathan Miller; Sir David Frost; Ned Sherrin; John Bassett (creator, Beyond The Fringe); Willie Donaldson (producer, Beyond The Fringe); John Cleese; Eric Idle; Michael Parkinson; Brenda Vaccaro; John Fortune; Nicholas Luard (co-owner with Cook of The Establishment club); actress Gaye Brown; Christopher Booker; Ian Hislop; Victor Lownes and Michael Bawtree (friends of Cook); Joe McGrath; Dick Clement; Mel Smith; Clive Anderson; tv producer and executive Paul Jackson; Harry Enfield, radio presenter Clive Bull, and archival interview footage of both Cook and Dudley Moore.

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Peter Cook

Peter Cook

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Dudley Moore

Dudley Moore

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Clive Anderson

Clive Anderson

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John Cleese

John Cleese

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Eric Idle

Eric Idle

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