Fagin...Ron
Moody
(b January 8 1924)
Ron
Moody is an English comedian of film and stage, who had already played Fagin on
stage before remaking the role in the film. He made his Fagin far more
sympathetic than those before him on film. That leaves Bill Sikes as the only
real Bad Guy in the film. Films: The mouse on the moon 1963, Murder most foul
1965, The twelve chairs 1970, Flight of the doves 1971, Dial M for murder 1980
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"(---) and standing over them, with a toasting-fork in his hand, was a very old shrivelled Jew, whose villanous-looking and repulsive face was obscured by a quantity of matted red hair. He was dressed in a greasy flannel gown, with his throat bare; and seemed to be dividing his attention between the frying-pan and a clothes-horse, over which a great number of silk handkerchiefs were hanging." / Charles Dickens