Mickey Moore

For other people named Michael Moore, see Michael Moore (disambiguation).

Michael D. Moore
Moore (center) with Lois Wilson and Conrad Nagel in The Lost Romance (1921)
Born	Michael Sheffield October 14, 1914 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Died	March 4, 2013 (aged 98) Malibu, California, U.S.
Occupation	Film child actor, film director

Michael D. Moore (October 14, 1914 – March 4, 2013) was a Canadian-born American film director, second unit director, and child actor, when he was credited as Mickey Moore. He was credited as Michael Moore on all the films and TV shows he directed, and on most of the films on which he was second unit director.

Life and career

Born Michael Sheffield in Vancouver, British Columbia, both he and his brother Patrick were Hollywood silent film child actors. At the age of five he appeared in his first film under the stage name "Mickey Moore". He appeared in two dozen films, including The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (1924), until 1927 when he was 13.

In the early 1950s, Moore began working as an assistant director. He was first A.D. on dozens of major motion pictures including The Ten Commandments (1956), and Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957). He was an assistant director on several Elvis Presley musical films and directed Presley in the film Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966) for Paramount Pictures. Because of that, plus his experience directing a western film, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer hired him to direct rock and roll singer Roy Orbison in The Fastest Guitar Alive (1967). He worked exclusively as a director in film and television from 1965 to 1969.

He then became a second unit director, working on numerous majors films such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), Patton (1970), and The Man Who Would Be King (1975). He was credited as associate producer in charge of action and animal scenes for Quest for Fire (1981). In the 1980s, Steven Spielberg hired Moore as second unit director on Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. His association with Spielberg led him to direct the "Alamo Jobe" episode of the Amazing Stories television series. Moore was still active as a second unit director into his eighties. His most recent work was for Disney's 2000 film, 102 Dalmatians.

Moore attended Santa Monica High School in the 1930s. He played football in High School. He married and had two daughters, Sandra [1936] and Patricia [1937]. Both his daughters are married.

Death

Moore died at the age of 98 in Malibu, California in 2013.

External links

• Michael D. Moore at the Internet Movie Database
• Mickey(aged 7) with Jack Holt and Mary Miles Minter in the film All Souls Eve 1921 (Univ. of Washington, Sayre collection)