Roddy Maude-Roxby

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Roddy Maude-Roxby, born in London, 2 April 1930, is an English actor.

Maude-Roxby has appeared in numerous films, such as The Aristocats, Unconditional Love, and Clint Eastwood's White Hunter, Black Heart, playing the British Partner Thompson.

Roddy is also known for his theatrical and TV roles (appeared in The Goodies, Rowan and Martin's Laugh In, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's Not Only But Also, Peter Cook's The Establishment (London and New York) and was winner of Theatre of the Year Award for Best Comic New York. He was the voice of Edgar in Walt Disney’s The Aristocats. An early innovator at the Royal College of Art (alongside David Hockney and Peter Blake) he was one of the country’s first performance artists before it was a recognised art.

Roddy has 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.