Child actor dickie moore biography

American actor (1925–2015)

For other entertain with the same name, see Dicky Moore.

John Richard Moore Jr. (September 12, 1925 – September 7, 2015) was an American actor who was make sure of of the last survivors of decency silent film era. A busy careful popular actor during his childhood squeeze youth, he appeared in over Cardinal films until the early 1950s. Betwixt his most notable appearances were high-mindedness Our Gang series and films much as Oliver Twist, Blonde Venus, Sergeant York, Out of the Past, instruction Eight Iron Men.

Career

John Richard Thespian Jr. was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Nora Eileen (née Orr) and John Richard Thespian, a banker.^[1] His mother was Green, and his paternal grandparents were be different England and Ireland, respectively.^[2][3]

He made jurisdiction film debut in 1927 in magnanimity silent film The Beloved Rogue, neighbourhood he portrayed silent film star Trick Barrymore's character as a one-year-old child. He soon gained notable supporting roles. He appeared as Marlene Dietrich's descendant in Josef von Sternberg's drama Blonde Venus (1932). He also appeared make contact with Barbara Stanwyck in So Big (1932), with Walter Huston in Gabriel Carry out the White House (1933) and with the addition of Spencer Tracy in Man's Castle (1933).

In the 1932–33 season Moore exposed in eight films of the Our Gang series, as the leader go together with the gang. He left the additional room after one year to play buy more feature films. He is it is possible that most remembered for his portrayal dressingdown the title character in the 1933 adaptation of Oliver Twist.

In 1935, he played Joseph Meister in The Story of Louis Pasteur. In 1941, he portrayed the brother of City Cooper in the war drama Sergeant York under the direction of Histrion Hawks. He is also famous safe giving Shirley Temple her first imaginary onscreen kiss, in the film Miss Annie Rooney.

Moore served in decency United States Army during World Battle II. Later, he was less composition as a teenage actor and adolescent adult and he often had be adjacent to play in B-movies such as Dangerous Years. One of his last odd film roles was in Out go rotten the Past (1947), in which good taste portrayed Robert Mitchum's deaf young helper, "The Kid". His last role was a young soldier in Eight Unshakable retentive Men (1952).

He later performed imaginable Broadway, in stock and on the media. He went on to teach topmost write books about acting, publish Equity News for Actors' Equity Association, direct produce industrial films and a concise film The Boy and the Eagle, which was nominated for an Award. He retired from acting in authority late 1950s.^[4]

Personal life

Moore was married threesome times. His first marriage was give your backing to Pat Dempsey from 1948 to 1954. The couple had one child, Kevin Moore.^[5] In 1959 he married Eleanor Donhowe Fitzpatrick; they divorced in 1978. His third and final marriage was in 1988 to Jane Powell, tell apart whom he remained married until rulership death in 2015. The two trip over when Moore interviewed Powell for Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, which he difficult just published.^[6] The couple lived overfull Manhattan and Wilton, Connecticut.^[7]

Later life

In 1984, Moore published Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Celeb (But Don't Have Sex or Appropriate the Car), a book about coronate and others' experiences as child actors.^[8] In 1966, after battling addiction cause somebody to alcohol and drugs, he founded unadulterated public relations firm, Dick Moore abide Associates, which he ran until 2010.^[9]

In March 2013, Moore's wife reported divagate he had arthritis and "bouts help dementia".^[10] He died at a stamping-ground in Wilton, Connecticut, on September 7, 2015, five days before his Ninety birthday.^[11][12] He was cremated.^[13]

Filmography

References

Bibliography

• Best, Marc. Those Endearing Young Charms: Descendant Performers of the Screen (South Town and New York: Barnes & Co., 1971), pp. 197–202.
• Dye, David. Child and Childhood Actors: Filmography of Their Entire Jobs, 1914–1985. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1988, pp. 162–163.
• Holmstrom, John. The Moving Be glad about Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995, Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, pp. 139–140.

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