In a business that burns through people quickly, Dickie Moore is a long-distance runner who has spent far more time working than being talked about. For much of the audience, Dickie Moore is The Kid from 'Out of the Past', whatever else the credits say. 'Sergeant York' is a second title with real reach. The filmography reaches back well before the best-known title. Casting directors have gone to him for drama more than for anything else. There are 90 entries on the filmography, most of them supporting work in other people's stories.
Dickie Moore
89 years (Sep 12, 1925 – Sep 7, 2015)Los Angeles, California, USA
89 Movies1 Series
In a business that burns through people quickly, Dickie Moore is a long-distance runner who has spent far more time working than being talked about. For much of the audience, Dickie Moore is The Kid from 'Out of the Past', whatever else the credits say. 'Sergeant York' is a second title with real reach. The filmography reaches back well before the best-known title. Casting directors have gone to him for drama more than for anything else. There are 90 entries on the filmography, most of them supporting work in other people's stories.
Dickie Moore (born John Richard Moore Jr.; September 12, 1925 – September 7, 2015) was an American actor. He was one of the last survivors of the silent film era. Moore made his acting and screen debut at the age of 18 months in the John Barrymore film The Beloved Rogue (1927). By the time he had turned ten he was a popular child star and had appeared in 52 films. Moore continued as a child star for many more years, and was the actor who gave Shirley Temple her first romantic screen kiss when that honor was bestowed upon him in 1942's Miss Annie Rooney.
As with many child actors, once Moore got older the roles began to dry up. He made his final film in 1950, but was still in the public eye with the 1949 to 1955 television series Captain Video and His Video Rangers (1949). He then retired from acting for a new career in publicity.