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Full Ben Moor Biography
He was born on 8th February 1969 in Wimbledon and grew up in Whitstable. He studied History at University College, Oxford and while there he performed in The Oxford Revue with Richard Herring, Al Murray and others, graduating in 1990.
Moving to London, Moor wrote sketches for Week Ending and Spitting Image and developed his own work. In 1995 he created Elastic Planet for BBC Radio 4 which populated surreal storytelling with real world personalities such as Patrick Moore and Raymond Baxter. It was narrated by Oliver Postgate.
Television credits include a clown in Knowing Me, Knowing You... with Alan Partridge, a quiz participant in Time Gentlemen Please and various roles in Fist of Fun and ITV's Planet Mirth.
In 2000, he played Lord John Dervis in the Bristol Old Vic and West End production of A Busy Day by Fanny Burney. His one-man shows include A Supercollider for the Family, Poppy Day and My Last Week With Modolia. In 2001 Moor wrote and performed in Three Wishes with Janice Phayre, directed, as many of his shows have been, by Erica Whyman. In 2004 he adapted Black Cocktail, a novella by Jonathan Carroll, and performed it at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Moor's journalism work has appeared in newspapers and magazines such as The Guardian, The Observer and The Idler.
Recently he created Undone for BBC Radio 7, a scifi comedy series in which he also played the role of Tankerton Slopes.
His play Coelacanth, adapted from the stage one-man show performed at the Edinburgh Fringe of 2005, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2006. |
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