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Dickie Moore 1925 - 2015

John Richard Moore Jr. was born on September 12, 1925 at California. He married Pat Dempsey on December 17, 1948 and they later divorced in 1954. They had a child Kevin Moore. He married Jane Powell in 1948, and they were married until John's death on September 7, 2015.

John Richard Moore Jr.

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September 12, 1925

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(Child Star - Movie Star) John Richard "Dickie" Moore, Jr. (September 12, 1925 – September 7, 2015) Married to Jane Powell. Public Relations Executive. Famous Child Star. Dick Moore, a public relations executive who was known as Dickie when he was a Hollywood child star, playing the movies’ first talking Oliver Twist and later giving Shirley Temple what was widely publicized as her first on-screen kiss, died on Monday in Connecticut. He was 89. Helaine Feldman, who works for his company, Dick Moore & Associates, confirmed the death but said she was not sure where it had occurred. Mr. Moore lived in Wilton, Conn. Mr. Moore was not yet a year old and evidently cute as a button when he made his movie debut in the 1927 silent feature “The Beloved Rogue,” which starred John Barrymore as the 15th-century French poet and gadabout François Villon. Young Dickie, uncredited, played Villon as an infant. He very quickly became a busy youngster, appearing in dozens of features and short films, many before he turned 12, including “Blonde Venus” (1932), in which he played Marlene Dietrich’s son, and “The Story of Louis Pasteur” (1936), in which he played a boy saved from rabies by Paul Muni. In 1932-33, he appeared regularly in “Our Gang” shorts (the series was known as “The Little Rascals” when the films were shown on television). He was 6 when he played the title role in Hollywood’s first sound adaptation of Charles Dickens’s “Oliver Twist” (1933). Mr. Moore claimed that the much-ballyhooed kiss he gave Shirley Temple in “Miss Annie Rooney” (1942) — he was 16, she was 14 — was his first kiss on screen or off (though Temple, as she admitted in her autobiography, couldn’t say the same — and she had actually been kissed on screen at least once before). Decades later, Mr. Moore wrote about the peculiar and not terribly nourishing life of child actors in a 1984 book, “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star (But Don’t Have Sex or Take the Car),” in which he described his own experiences and those of others whom he interviewed. He recalled that when he was 8, he was so used to inscribing autographed pictures for fans that he signed his mother’s birthday card “from your friend Dickie Moore.” John Richard Moore Jr. was born in Los Angeles on Sept. 12, 1925. Though his acting career, which also included some stage work and a role in the Robert Mitchum film noir “Out of the Past” (1947), did not end for good until the 1950s — his last film was “The Member of the Wedding” in 1952 — it was on the wane by the time he kissed Temple. He spent two years in the Army at the end of World War II, serving as a correspondent for the newspaper Stars and Stripes. After his discharge he briefly studied journalism at Los Angeles City College. He went on to produce and star in an Academy Award-nominated short film, “The Boy and the Eagle” (1949), about a disabled young man who nurses a wounded eagle back to health. Mr. Moore was later the public relations director for Actors’ Equity Association, the stage actors union, as well as editor of its magazine, before starting his own public relations firm in 1966. He was married three times and divorced twice. In 1988 he married the actress Jane Powell, who had also been a child star. They met during the research for his book. She survives him. His survivors also include a son, Kevin; a stepson, Geary; two stepdaughters, Lindsay and Suzanne; a sister, Pat Kingsley; and several grandchildren and step-grandchildren.
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1925

Birthday

September 12, 1925

Birthdate

California

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Ethnicity & Family History

Moore was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Nora Eileen (Orr) and John Richard Moore Sr., a banker. His mother was Irish, and his paternal grandparents were from England and Ireland.
Military Service

Moore served in the United States Army during World War II.
Professional Career

Filmography The Beloved Rogue (1927) as Baby Francois (film debut) Object: Alimony (1928) as Jimmy Rutledge Jr. (as Dickey Moore) Madame X (1929) as Boy at Puppet Show Son of the Gods (1930) as Sam Lee – as a Boy The Three Sisters (1930) as The Child Let Us Be Gay (1930) as Young Bobby Brown The Matrimonial Bed (1930) as One of Susan's Sons Lawful Larceny (1930) as The Dorsey Child The Office Wife (1930) as Dickie – Boy at the Beach Passion Flower (1930) as Tommy Wallace Aloha (1931) as Junior Bradford Seed (1931) as Johnny Carter as a Child Three Who Loved (1931) as Sonny Hanson Confessions of a Co-Ed (1931) as Patricia's Son The Star Witness (1931) as Ned Leeds The Squaw Man (1931) as Little Hal Sob Sister (1931) as Kidnapped Boy Husband's Holiday (1931) as Philip Boyd Manhattan Parade (1931) as Junior Roberts Union Depot (1932) as Little Boy Fireman, Save My Child (1932) as Herbie The Expert (1932) as Dickie Disorderly Conduct (1932) as Jimmy So Big! (1932) as Dirk De Jong (younger) When a Feller Needs a Friend (1932) Million Dollar Legs (1932) as Willie – Angela's Brother Winner Takes All (1932) as Dickie Harmon Hook and Ladder (1932, Short) as Dickie (as Hal Roach's Rascals) Blonde Venus (1932) as Johnny Faraday Free Wheeling (1932, Short) as Dickie Deception (1932) as Dickie Allen Birthday Blues (1932, Short) as Dickie (as Our Gang) The Devil Is Driving (1932) as 'Buddy' Evans The Racing Strain (1932) as Bill Westcott as a Little Boy A Lad an' a Lamp (1932, Short) as Dickie (as Our Gang) Fish Hooky (1933, Short) as Dickie (as Our Gang) Oliver Twist (1933) as Oliver Twist Obey the Law (1933) as Dickie Chester Forgotten Babies (1933, Short) as Dickie (as Our Gang) Gabriel Over the White House (1933) as Jimmy Vetter The Kid from Borneo (1933, Short) as Dickie (as Our Gang) Mush and Milk (1933, Short) as Dickie (as Our Gang) The Wolf Dog (1933, Serial) as Boy at Airport Cradle Song (1933) as Alberto Man's Castle (1933) as Joey Gallant Lady (1933) as Deedy Lawrence This Side of Heaven (1934) as Freddie Upper World (1934) as Tommy Stream In Love with Life (1934) as Laurence 'Laury' Applegate Fifteen Wives (1934) as Young Boy The Human Side (1934) as Bobbie Sheldon Tomorrow's Youth (1934) as Thomas Hall Jr The World Accuses (1934) as Tommy Weymouth Little Men (1934) as Demi Swellhead (1935) as Billy Malone Without Children (1935) as David Sonny Cole Jr. as a Child So Red the Rose (1935) as Middleton Bedford Peter Ibbetson (1935) as Gogo – Peter Age 8 Timothy's Quest (1936) as Timothy The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936) as Joseph Meister The Little Red Schoolhouse (1936) as Dickie Burke The Life of Emile Zola (1937) as Pierre Dreyfus Madame X (1937) as Allan Simonds The Bride Wore Red (1937) as Pietro Love, Honor and Behave (1938) as Ted – as a child My Bill (1938) as Bill Colbrook The Gladiator (1938) as Bobby The Arkansas Traveler (1938) as Benjamin Franklin 'Benny' Allen Lincoln in the White House (1939, Short) as Tad Lincoln The Under-Pup (1939) as Jerry Binns Hidden Power (1939) as Stevie Garfield The Blue Bird (1940) as Young Lad A Dispatch from Reuter's (1940) as Reuter as a Boy The Great Mr. Nobody (1941) as 'Limpy' Barnes Sergeant York (1941) as George York The Adventures of Martin Eden (1942) as Johnny Miss Annie Rooney (1942) as Marty White Heaven Can Wait (1943) as Henry Van Cleve – Age 15 Happy Land (1943) as Peter Orcutt Jive Junction (1943) as Peter Crane The Song of Bernadette (1943) as Adolard Bouhouhorts – Age 15 The Eve of St. Mark (1944) as Zip West Youth Runs Wild (1944) as Georgie Dunlop Sweet and Low-Down (1944) as Military Cadet General Carmichael Out of the Past (1947) as The Kid Dangerous Years (1947) as Gene Spooner 16 Fathoms Deep (1948) as George Behind Locked Doors (1948) as Jim Bad Boy (1949) as Charlie Tuna Clipper (1949) as Frankie Pereira Captain Video and His Video Rangers (1949, TV Series) as Jeff Killer Shark (1950) as Jonesy Cody of the Pony Express (1950, Serial) as Bill Cody Lux Video Theatre (1951–1953, TV Series) as Tony/Carter Lockwood The Member of the Wedding (1952) as Soldier Eight Iron Men (1952) as Pvt. Muller (final film) Omnibus (1957, TV Series) as Lt. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart (final appearance)
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2015

Death

September 7, 2015

Death date

Unknown
Cause of death

Wilton, CT
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Dickie Moore.

He was very nice to meet in the hallway of the Actors' Equity Building in Manhattan.

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He volunteered for the Army during WWII.

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He volunteered for the Army during WWII.

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Dickie Moore Sep 12, 1925 - Sep 7, 2015

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1948

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Dickie Moore 1925 - 2015

John Richard Moore Jr.'s History: 1925 - 2015

Introduction

Birthday

Ethnicity & Family History

Military Service

Professional Career

Death

25 Memories, Stories & Photos about John

John Moore's Family Tree & Friends

John Moore's Family Tree

Pat Dempsey

Dickie Moore

Jane Powell

Dickie Moore

John's Friends

Other John Moore Biographies

Other Moore Family Biographies

Other people named Jarral Moore - Kenn Moore