Roderick A. Maude-Roxby (born 2 April 1930) is a retired English actor.
He has appeared in numerous films, such as
Walt Disney's ''
The Aristocats'', where he voiced the greedy butler Edgar Balthazar (his only voice role); ''
Unconditional Love''; and
Clint Eastwood
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's ''
White Hunter Black Heart'', playing Thompson.
An early innovator at the
Royal College of Art, RCA, alongside
David Hockney and
Peter Blake, he was one of the UK's first
performance artists, before it was a recognized art form. At the RCA he edited ARK magazine in 1958 and was president of the college's Theatre Group.
He had a joint exhibition with Blake at the Portal Gallery in 1960.
He also collaborated in a pre-''
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'' series with
Michael Palin and
Terry Jones, called ''
The Complete and Utter History of Britain''. He also made theatrical and television appearances in, among other shows, ''
The Goodies,'' ''
Rowan and Martin's Laugh In
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,'' ''
Not Only... But Also'' and ''
The Establishment''. He won the Theatre of the Year Award for Best Comic New York in 1968 for his work as a stand-up comedian.
Maude-Roxby has also worked with masks and improvisation for over 40 years and was a co-creator of improvisational games developed at the
Royal Court Theatre, and then as "Theatre Machine" with
Keith Johnstone. In 1992 Maude-Roxby starred as imprisoned alien Mercantor in the experimental BBC1 Saturday morning children's magazine show Parallel 9.
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1930 births
Living people
20th-century English male actors
21st-century English male actors
Male actors from London
English male film actors
English male television actors
English male voice actors
English performance artists
Alumni of the Royal College of Art
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