Albert Moses

Albert Moses KStJ
Albert Moses in 2005
Born	19 December 1937 Gampola, Kandy District, British Ceylon
Died	15 September 2017 (aged 79) London, England
Burial place	St. Andrew's Church, Gampola, Sri Lanka
Years active	1970–2017
Children	3[1]

Albert Moses,

He was born on 19 December 1937 in Gampola, Kandy. He started to work at the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya. Then he moved to Africa for employment and finally to London to learn drama and theatre. He was fluent in English, Arabic, Tamil, Sinhalese, moderate German and Sanskrit and excellent in fencing, dancing, singing, motor-cycle stunts, karate and judo.^[3]

Moses died in September 2017 in London at the age of 79. He was buried at St. Andrew's Church in his native Gampola, Sri Lanka.^[4]

Career

He had begun to act by the 1960s in

His final film was The Snarling (2018),[6] in which he played tribute to his role in An American Werewolf in London (1981). The Snarling is dedicated to his memory.

Selected credits

Theatre

• Freeway - National Theatre;
• Phædra Britannica - National Theatre (with Diana Rigg);
• Long March to Jerusalem - Watford Palace Theatre

Film

• White Cargo (1973) - Arab (uncredited)
• The Man Who Would Be King (1975, A John Huston film with Sean Connery, Michael Caine and Christopher Plummer) - Ghulam
• EMI
  ) - Indian shopkeeper
• James Bond
  film) - Barman
• What's Up Nurse! (1978, a Derek Ford sex comedy) - 1st Asian
• Rank
  ) - Doctor
• The Awakening (1980, Columbia Pictures) - (uncredited)
• An American Werewolf in London (1981, a John Landis movie) - Hospital Porter
• The Great Quest - with Oliver Reed;^[7]
• Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982, Alan Parker film) - Janitor
• James Bond
  film) - Saddrudin - undercover British agent in India
• Al-mas' Ala Al-Kubra (1983) - Indian officer (uncredited)
• Scandalous (1984, with Sir John Gielgud and Pamela Stephenson) - Vishnu
• EMI, a George Roy Hill
  film) - Green Grocer
• Foreign Body (1986) - Paramedic #2
• The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli and Baloo (1997, Columbia Pictures
  ) - Conductor
• East Is East (1999, a BAFTA award-winning Film4 production) - Abdul Karim
• The Snarling (2018) - Hospital Patient

Television

• Queenie - Hollywood mini-series with Kirk Douglas;
• On the Buses - London Weekend Television;
• Warship - BBC television drama;
• Robin's Nest - Thames Television sitcom;
• Mind Your Language - London Weekend Television sitcom (nearly 50 episodes broadcast between 1977 and 1986);
• Juliet Bravo - BBC television drama;
• Granada Television (4 episodes, with Charles Dance, OBE
  );
• BBC television comedy
  ;
• The Benny Hill Show - Thames Television comedy;
• ITV Central
  drama;
• The Bill - talkbackTHAMES television drama (5 episodes);
• Never the Twain - Thames Television sitcom;
• Granada Television
  ;
• London's Burning - London Weekend Television drama;
• Tandoori Nights - Channel 4
• Crocodile Shoes (Adrian Lynn's accountant)

Other

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• Produced 13 episodes of Mind Your Language;
• Produced and directed Gabriella, a television film produced on location in Malta;
• Hosted, produced and directed a talent contest variety show
• Wrote The Seventh Commandment, a television drama;
• Wrote Side by side, a television comedy;
• Wrote Don't talk to strangers, a television thriller;
• Wrote The Jokers, a television drama;
• Published children's books Tales from India,^[8] The hawk and the turtles,^[9] and Mustapha Mouse goes to the city;^[10]
• Published a book of 87 poems^[11]
• Past chairman of the Asian, Caribbean, Oriental and Asian Artistes of
  EQUITY
  .
• Ex-governor of a St Albans school.
• Was on board of directors for a St Albans theatre company.
• Past member of the London regional committee of ITV under the chairmanship of Lord Lipsey.
• Past chairman of the St Albans Film Society.
• Trustee and patron of the Ivy Trust, a children's charity.
• Volunteered at a local hospital.
• Volunteered at a local school, running a film workshop for children.
• Volunteered at a local retirement home.
• Retired voluntary teacher from a local college, teaching English to foreign students. (See the Mind Your Language page for the irony of this!)
• Moses was a Knight of the Order of St John.

References

1. ^ "A Celebration of Sri Lankan actor Albert Moses (1937-2017)". From Sweden with Love. 2017-12-16. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
2. ^ "'Mind Your Language' star Albert Moses dead at 79". Dhaka Tribune. 2017-12-09. Retrieved 2019-05-03.
3. ^ ^{a b c} "Thousand Apologies, I'm Ranjeet Singh". Sunday Times. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
4. ^ "Albert Moses of Mind Your Language fame laid to rest today". Daily News. 2017-12-09.
5. ^ "IMDb Mind Your Language".
6. ^ Raybould, Pablo (2018), The Snarling, Laurence Saunders, Chris Simmons, Ben Manning, retrieved 2018-08-14
7. ISBN 0-7535-0519-3
   .
8. ISBN 0-9528630-0-6
   .
9. ^ Moses, Albert; Roberts, Pam (2005). The hawk and the turtles. Sagittarius Enterprises.
10. ^ Moses, Albert; Roberts, Pam (2005). Mustapha Mouse goes to the city. Sagittarius Enterprises.
11. ISBN 0-9528630-1-4
    .

External links

• Official website
• Albert Moses at
  IMDb
• An interview with Albert Moses about 007