Dickie Moore
Biography
Dickie Moore (born John Richard Moore Jr.) 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.
Moore died, age 89, in 2015.
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Full filmography
- Omnibus (1952)
- Lux Video Theatre (1950) as Tony
- Lux Video Theatre (1950) as Carter Lockwood
- Out of the Past (1947) as The Kid
- Sergeant York (1941) as George York
- Heaven Can Wait (1943) as Henry Van Cleve - Age 15 (uncredited)
- Peter Ibbetson (1935) as Gogo
- Blonde Venus (1932) as Johnny Faraday
- The Life of Emile Zola (1937) as Pierre Dreyfus
- The Blue Bird (1940) as Brunig (uncredited)
- The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936) as Joseph Meister
- Madame X (1937) as Allan Simonds
- Man's Castle (1933) as Joey
- Fireman, Save My Child (1932) as Child Watching Baseball Game
- Bad Boy (1949) as Charlie
- Oliver Twist (1933) as Oliver Twist
- So Big! (1932) as Young Dirk De Jong
- Blue Skies (1929)
- Gabriel Over the White House (1933) as Jimmy Vetter
- Behind Locked Doors (1948) as Mental patient (uncredited)
- Eight Iron Men (1952) as Pvt. Muller
- The Little Red Schoolhouse (1936) as Dickie Burke
- Happy Land (1943) as Peter Orcutt
- Shirley Temple: America's Little Darling (1993) as Self