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Actor, Peter Cook, was born Peter Edward Cook on Nov 17, 1937 in Torquay, Devon. Cook died at the age of 57 on Jan 9, 1995 in Hampstead, London .

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Detective: All right, come on, come on, what's going on? Come on, what is it? Come on!
Clergyman: Please, sir, I beg of you, there's a dead man here.
Detective: All right, no one move!
[long pause while he realizes it's a church burial]
Detective: Finsbury?
Michael Finsbury, Julia Finsbury, Masterman Finsbury, Joseph Finsbury, Morris, John Finsbury: Yes?
Detective: MORRIS Finsbury!
John Finsbury: [turning Morris around and pointing at him] Yes.
Detective: Morris Finsbury, I arrest you for stealing £100,000.
Lawyer Patience: But the money has been returned, sir.
Detective: Who are you, sir? Some sort of accomplice?
Lawyer Patience: Certainly not: I am his solicitor.
Detective: Oh, you've brought your solicitor with you, have you? Yes, I've met your type before.
Lawyer Patience: No, no, no. I mean, I, I, I'm the administrator of the tontine.
Detective: Tontine?
Joseph Finsbury: Named after Lorenzo Tonti, a Neapolitan banker.
Detective: And who are you, sir?
Joseph Finsbury: I...
Masterman Finsbury: [interrupting] He's nobody. He's my young brother.
Detective: And who are you, sir?
Masterman Finsbury: None of your business, sir!
Detective: I shall have you arrested for indecent exposure!
Julia Finsbury: Oh!
Michael Finsbury: My grandfather was recently buried, sir.
Detective: And who are you, sir?
Julia Finsbury: He is Michael Finsbury.
Detective: And who are YOU, madam?
Michael Finsbury: She is Julia Finsbury, shortly to become... Julia Finsbury!
Detective: Young man, did you know there was a body in the piano?
Peacock: I did it.
Detective: Who is he?
Michael Finsbury: He is the butler, sir.
Detective: The butler did it?
Michael Finsbury: No, sir. I put the body there.
Detective: Is this true?
Morris Finsbury: Now what we need is a venal doctor.
John Finsbury: But - Uncle Joseph's dead! It's too late!
Morris Finsbury: Not for him, for us! Now, you remember that chambermaid you got into... um...
John Finsbury: ...thing.
Morris Finsbury: Thing. Who was the doctor who did the, um...
John Finsbury: ...thing. Uh, Pratt, Dr. Pratt.
Morris Finsbury: Was he venal?
John Finsbury: I - I didn't like to ask.
Morris Finsbury: Well, did he do the...
John Finsbury: ...thing. Yes.
Morris Finsbury: Good.
John Finsbury: But... what's he got to do with it?
Morris Finsbury: He's part of the plan. Now you and I are the only two people in the world who *know* that Uncle Joseph is, uh...
John Finsbury: ...thing.
Morris Finsbury: ...dead.


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Peter Cook Facts
Former comedy partner Dudley Moore was said to have based his title performance in "Arthur" partly on Cook, whose excessive drinking had soured his and Moore's comedic partnership in the 1970s.

For a number of years he was a regular caller to The Clive Ball radio show on LBC pretending to be a Swedish fisherman.

He was one of five comedians pictured on a set of UK postage stamps issued 23 April 1998. His caricatured likeness was on the 63p stamp. The other comedians honored were Tommy Cooper (20p), Eric Morecambe (26p), Joyce Grenfell (37p), and Les Dawson (43p).

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