Dick Moore Dead: Former Child Star Was 89, Little Dickie Moore, the admired above adolescent star, has died. He was 89.
The bedmate of acclaimed extra Jane Powell, Moore began his continued career in appearance business if he was alone 11 months old, arena John Barrymore as an baby in the 1927 bashful film, The Admired Rogue. He would go on to arise in added than 100 films over the next 30 years, and was after the longtime agent for AFTRA.
His abounding memorable awning performances included starring roles in Oliver Twist, Sergeant York, The Life of Louis Pasteur and Heaven Can Wait. He is apparently best known, however, for his appearances in the Our Assemblage comedies and as the admirer who gave Shirley Temple her aboriginal awning kiss in the 1942 blur Miss Annie Rooney.
He started alive consistently at the age of four, actualization in as abounding as 12 affection films a year. A part of his aboriginal credits were Cecil B. DeMille’s The Squaw Man, So Big with Barbara Stanwyck, and Blonde Venus with Marlene Dietrich and newcomer Cary Grant. In 1932, ambassador Hal Roach recruited him for Our Gang, area he formed with Spankie, Stymie and the assemblage for a year afore resuming his career in affection films, including Little Men, Man’s Castle with Spencer Tracy, Peter Ibbetson with Gary Cooper, The Life Of Emile Zola with Paul Muni and The Bride Wore Red with Joan Crawford, a part of others.
After confined in World War II as a contributor for Stars And Stripes in the Pacific Theater, Moore abounding academy in Los Angeles, majoring in journalism. He again alternate to acting as Dick Moore and appeared in Out Of The Past with Robert Mitchum and in Tuna Clipper with Roddy MacDowell. He aswell co-produced, co-directed and acted in a abbreviate accountable blur alleged The Boy And The Eagle that was nominated for an Academy Award in 1949. His endure blur was The Member Of The Wedding in 1952.
Relocating to New York, he formed in radio, television, summer stock, Broadway and Off-Broadway, both as an amateur and director, afore his career took a new turn. He became complex with Actors’ Equity, and served on its administering Council afore acceptable editor of their annual and accessible relations counsel. He larboard Equity in 1964 to become artistic administrator for films, affairs and shows for a arch commercial bureau and again was a chief accessory with a above accessible relations firm. He formed his own accessible relations firm, Dick Moore and Associates, in 1966.
His 1984 book, Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, is an autobiographical annual of his adolescence in the cine business that explores the hardships that abounding adolescent actors face growing up in foreground of the cameras. He was aswell columnist of Opportunities in Acting Careers and co-author of a abstraction on The Relationship of Amateur to Professional in the American Theatre.
Besides his wife, he is survived by his sister, arranger Pat Kingsley, his son Kevin Moore, and by abundant grandchildren, stepchildren and step-grandchildren.
The bedmate of acclaimed extra Jane Powell, Moore began his continued career in appearance business if he was alone 11 months old, arena John Barrymore as an baby in the 1927 bashful film, The Admired Rogue. He would go on to arise in added than 100 films over the next 30 years, and was after the longtime agent for AFTRA.
His abounding memorable awning performances included starring roles in Oliver Twist, Sergeant York, The Life of Louis Pasteur and Heaven Can Wait. He is apparently best known, however, for his appearances in the Our Assemblage comedies and as the admirer who gave Shirley Temple her aboriginal awning kiss in the 1942 blur Miss Annie Rooney.
He started alive consistently at the age of four, actualization in as abounding as 12 affection films a year. A part of his aboriginal credits were Cecil B. DeMille’s The Squaw Man, So Big with Barbara Stanwyck, and Blonde Venus with Marlene Dietrich and newcomer Cary Grant. In 1932, ambassador Hal Roach recruited him for Our Gang, area he formed with Spankie, Stymie and the assemblage for a year afore resuming his career in affection films, including Little Men, Man’s Castle with Spencer Tracy, Peter Ibbetson with Gary Cooper, The Life Of Emile Zola with Paul Muni and The Bride Wore Red with Joan Crawford, a part of others.
After confined in World War II as a contributor for Stars And Stripes in the Pacific Theater, Moore abounding academy in Los Angeles, majoring in journalism. He again alternate to acting as Dick Moore and appeared in Out Of The Past with Robert Mitchum and in Tuna Clipper with Roddy MacDowell. He aswell co-produced, co-directed and acted in a abbreviate accountable blur alleged The Boy And The Eagle that was nominated for an Academy Award in 1949. His endure blur was The Member Of The Wedding in 1952.
Relocating to New York, he formed in radio, television, summer stock, Broadway and Off-Broadway, both as an amateur and director, afore his career took a new turn. He became complex with Actors’ Equity, and served on its administering Council afore acceptable editor of their annual and accessible relations counsel. He larboard Equity in 1964 to become artistic administrator for films, affairs and shows for a arch commercial bureau and again was a chief accessory with a above accessible relations firm. He formed his own accessible relations firm, Dick Moore and Associates, in 1966.
His 1984 book, Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, is an autobiographical annual of his adolescence in the cine business that explores the hardships that abounding adolescent actors face growing up in foreground of the cameras. He was aswell columnist of Opportunities in Acting Careers and co-author of a abstraction on The Relationship of Amateur to Professional in the American Theatre.
Besides his wife, he is survived by his sister, arranger Pat Kingsley, his son Kevin Moore, and by abundant grandchildren, stepchildren and step-grandchildren.
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