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.
Dickie Moore Biography / Wiki
Name | Dickie Moore |
Also Know | John Richard Moore Jr., Dickey Moore, Dick Moore, Hal Roach’s Rascals, Our Gang |
Gender | Male |
Known For | Acting |
Place of Birth | Los Angeles, California, USA |
Date of Birth | 1925-09-12 |
Age(as in 2022) | 89 |
Deathday | 2015-09-07 |
Dickie Moore Acting Movies
Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
Oliver Twist | Oliver Twist | 1933-02-28 | An orphan boy in 1830s London is abused in a workhouse, then falls into the clutches of a gang of thieves…. |
Jive Junction | Peter Crane | 1943-12-16 | A young classical musician becomes the conductor a high-school all-girl jive band to entertain the troops…. |
Tomorrow’s Youth | Thomas Hall Jr. | 1934-10-14 | A look at how his parents’ divorce affects the life of a young boy…. |
The Boy and the Eagle | The Cripple Boy | 1949-07-01 | A crippled boy discovers a wounded bald eagle, nurses it back to health, tames and teaches it to fly. One day, a rattlesnake is about to strike the bo… |
The Expert | Dickie Foster | 1932-03-05 | An elderly gentleman arrives for an extended stay with his grown son in Chicago…. |
In Love with Life | Laurence ‘Laury’ Applegate | 1934-05-11 | Professor John Sylvestus Applegate has been dismissed from his college teaching position for objecting too loudly to the predominant part that footbal… |
The World Accuses | Tommy Weymouth | 1934-11-11 | When a middle aged woman accepts a job at a day care center she comes across the child she gave up early in life…. |
Lincoln in the White House | Tad Lincoln | 1939-02-11 | This short chronicles Abraham Lincoln’s presidency from his inauguration through delivery of the Gettysburg Address…. |
Cody of the Pony Express | Bill Cody | 1950-04-05 | Buffalo Bill Cody battles a gang of outlaws secretly headed by an unscrupulous lawyer…. |
Deception | Dickie Allen | 1932-11-04 | Modest programmer denotes a young man’s rise to fame in wrestling matches he doesn’t realize have been “fixed”, and ensuing romantic turbulence…. |
Swellhead | Billy Malone | 1935-05-04 | Baseball player Terry McCall is a very good baseball player, who doesn’t mind bragging about his skills on the baseball diamond and also his off-the-f… |
Obey the Law | Dickie Chester | 1933-03-11 | In this drama, an immigrant barber becomes a US citizen and works hard to uphold his ideals of personal freedom and rights. He is a total supporter of… |
So Big! | Young Dirk De Jong | 1932-04-30 | A farmer’s widow takes on the land and her late husband’s tempestuous son…. |
Manhattan Parade | Junior Roberts | 1931-12-24 | Director Lloyd Bacon’s 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop…. |
The Little Red Schoolhouse | Dickie Burke | 1936-03-02 | Upset by discipline at school, a 17-year-old runs away to New York City and learns there are worse problems than going to his little red school house…. |
Timothy’s Quest | Timothy | 1936-01-31 | Timothy (Dickie Moore), an orphan, is sent with his sister, Gay (Sally Martin), to a farm run by Vilda Cummins (Elizabeth Patterson, an old maid with … |
Hidden Power | Stevie Garfield | 1939-09-07 | Dr. Garfield gets so involved in his research for an antitoxin for severe burns that he completely neglects his wife, Virginian, and their young son, … |
Blonde Venus | Johnny Faraday | 1932-09-23 | American chemist Ned Faraday marries a German entertainer and starts a family. However, he becomes poisoned with Radium and needs an expensive treatme… |
Winner Take All | Dickie Harmon | 1932-07-16 | Overworked boxer Jim goes to a health ranch in New Mexico to recover where he falls in love with Peggy and her sickly son. Once recovered, Jim leaves … |
Miss Annie Rooney | Marty White | 1942-05-29 | A poor girl falls for a wealthy young man. He invites her to his gala birthday party, but she doesn’t have the right kind of dress to wear, so her fam… |
Disorderly Conduct | Jimmy | 1932-03-20 | When motorcycle cop Dick Fay gives a ticket to Phyllis Crawford, her father’s graft-fed influence leads to his demotion to foot patrolman…. |
The Gladiator | Bobby | 1938-08-14 | A man returns to college and is talked into joining he football team and is a real joke on the team, until he is given a drug that gives him super str… |
Shirley Temple: America’s Little Darling | Himself | 1993-08-31 | There never was a star quite like her. Adored by adults and children alike, at four she already led at the Box Office – ahead of Gable and Cooper. Her… |
Gabriel Over the White House | Jimmy Vetter | 1933-03-31 | A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fata… |
Gallant Lady | Deedy Lawrence | 1933-12-07 | Unwed mother gives up baby for adoption and hopes to get it back when the adoptive mother dies…. |
The Racing Strain | Bill Westcott as a Little Boy | 1932-12-30 | A race-car driver whose career is on the skids because of his drinking falls for a rich society girl. That motivates him to clean up his act and resum… |
The Adventures of Martin Eden | Johnny | 1942-02-26 | Author writes about his experiences sailing at sea, struggles to get his work published…. |
16 Fathoms Deep | George Athos | 1948-07-25 | A bitterly jealous sponge fisherman tries to sabotage a fellow diver…. |
Free Wheeling | Dickie | 1932-09-30 | Stymie takes Dickie for a ride in his runaway car and cures his stiff neck…. |
Birthday Blues | Dickie | 1932-11-12 | Dickie throws a birthday party to try to raise money to buy his mother a birthday present…. |
Three Who Loved | Sonny Hanson | 1931-07-03 | A bank teller’s love life falls apart when he’s accused of embezzling…. |
The Devil Is Driving | ‘Buddy’ Evans | 1932-12-09 | Gabby Denton, a hard-drinking, down-on-his-luck drifter, seems to get a chance at redemption when his brother-in-law helps get him a job as a mechanic… |
Upperworld | Tommy Stream | 1934-04-19 | A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably until the woman’s manager decides to blackmail the m… |
My Bill | Bill Colbrook | 1938-07-08 | An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children…. |
Hook and Ladder | Dickie | 1932-08-27 | The gang, while playing firemen, come upon a real fire…. |
The Kid from Borneo | Dickie | 1933-04-15 | The gang goes to a circus sideshow to visit Dickie and Spanky’s uncle, mistakenly believing he is “The Wild Man from Borneo.”… |
The Star Witness | Ned Leeds | 1931-08-22 | A tough District Attorney goes after a murderous crime gang, only to find that his witnesses, an innocent family, have clammed up in fear of reprisals… |
Peter Ibbetson | Gogo / Peter, age 8 | 1935-11-07 | When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter i… |
Passion Flower | Tommy | 1930-12-06 | A bored society woman invites scandal and heartache when she falls in love with her low-born chauffeur…. |
The Arkansas Traveler | Benjamin Franklin ‘Benny’ Allen | 1938-10-14 | The Arkansas Traveler, an itinerant printer, returns to a small town to help save The Daily Record, a newspaper started by Mr. Allen, an old friend wh… |
Eight Iron Men | Pvt. Muller | 1952-12-01 | During the World War II in Italy, Sergeant Joe Mooney is leading his small squad on the front-lines but is ordered to avoid rescuing a soldier trapped… |
Man’s Castle | Joie | 1933-11-20 | An unemployed man turns to crime when he gets his girlfriend pregnant…. |
The Human Side | Bobbie Sheldon | 1934-09-01 | The story of a theatrical producer, his divorced wife and their four children…. |
Without Children | David Sonny Cole Jr. as a Child | 1935-04-15 | Struggling architect David Cole is encouraged by his boss, Phil Graham, to fraternize with high society as a means of drumming up business. This inadv… |
Little Men | Demi | 1934-01-01 | The former Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for homeless boys. One of the boys, Nat, invites Dan, a street kid, t… |
Tuna Clipper | Frankie Pereira | 1949-04-11 | Hoping to become a lawyer, Alec (Roddy McDowall) becomes a tuna fisherman in order to pay a debt. This turn of events puts Alec on the outs with his t… |
So Red the Rose | Middleton Bedford | 1935-12-20 | During the American Civil War, Valette Bedford waits patiently for her husband Duncan Bedford, to return home, praying that she will not become a wido… |
This Side of Heaven | Freddie | 1934-02-02 | A family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement…. |
Fifteen Wives | Young Boy | 1934-07-15 | Shortly after his arrival from South America to New York, Steven Humbolt is found dead in his apartment at the Savoia Hotel. Inspector Decker Dawes in… |
Fireman, Save My Child | Child Watching Baseball Game | 1932-02-20 | Joe Grant is an inventor, fireman and baseball player in his small hometown. He gets an offer to play in a big team and hopes to get more money for hi… |
Dangerous Years | Gene Spooner | 1947-12-07 | Jeff Carter has put an end to the town’s delinquency with a boys’ club. Young hoodlum Danny shows up and influences teenagers Doris, Willy and Leo. Th… |
The Great Mr. Nobody | ‘Limpy’ Barnes | 1941-02-15 | A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit…. |
Out of the Past | The Kid | 1947-11-25 | Jeff Bailey seems to be a mundane gas station owner in remote Bridgeport, CA. He is dating local girl Ann Miller and lives a quiet life. But Jeff has … |
Happy Land | Peter Orcutt | 1943-11-10 | An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that the boy’s life was cut short before he h… |
The Member of the Wedding | Soldier | 1952-12-25 | Tomboy, Frances ‘Frankie’ Addams, dreams of running away with her brother and new fiancée away from the Deep South…. |
Killer Shark | Jonesy | 1950-03-19 | A college student takes a break and goes out to sea with his father, the captain of a shark-hunting boat. When his inexperience results in an accident… |
Sweet and Low-Down | Military Cadet General ‘Mogie’ Cramichael | 1944-09-21 | After their annual free concert at Chicago’s Dearborn Settlement, Benny Goodman and his band are packing up to go to their next engagement when a kid … |
Million Dollar Legs | Willie – Angela’s Brother | 1932-07-08 | A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money…. |
Cradle Song | Alberto | 1933-11-19 | In a deeply cloistered convent, nun Dorothea Wieck (Mädchen in Uniform) raises a foundling to be Evelyn Venable. But at 17, what if, guided by a kind… |
Behind Locked Doors | Mental patient (uncredited) | 1948-09-13 | Behind the locked doors of a mental institution resides crooked politico Judge Drake (Herbert Heyes), free from prosecution so long as he pretends to … |
Sergeant York | George York | 1941-09-27 | Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep rel… |
Youth Runs Wild | Georgie Dunlop | 1944-09-01 | The teens of a defense-plant town hop on the road to juvenile delinquency while their parents are busy with the war…. |
Bad Boy | Charlie | 1949-02-22 | A lawman tries to find the source of a juvenile delinquent’s bad behavior…. |
The Bride Wore Red | Pietro | 1937-10-08 | A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor…. |
The Office Wife | Dickie the Boy at Beach (uncredited) | 1930-08-23 | Larry, a publisher, wants Kate to write a book about the ‘Office Wife’. An executive stenographer’s duties creates a relationship approaching that of … |
The Matrimonial Bed | Trebel’s Son (uncredited) | 1930-08-01 | Five years after Adolphe’s death in a train wreck, he is discovered very much alive and with amnesia. Unfortunately he and his first wife are remarrie… |
The Story of Louis Pasteur | Joseph Meister | 1936-02-22 | A true story about Louis Pasteur, who revolutionized medicine by proving that much disease is caused by microbes, that sanitation is paramount and tha… |
The Squaw Man | Little Hal | 1931-09-04 | Jim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion for embezzlement actually committed by his cousin Lord Henry… |
Love, Honor and Behave | Ted (child) | 1938-03-12 | Comedy about a weak husband, afraid to say “no” to his new wife, who realizes he must assert himself to save his marriage…. |
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star | Self | 2002-08-01 | In this documentary on the life of Joan Crawford, we learn why she should be remembered as the great actress she was, and not only as “mommie dearest…. |
Aloha | Junior Bradford | 1931-04-26 | In the South Seas, a half-caste island girl refuses to follow tradition and marry a fellow islander, instead falling in love with a white man and heir… |
A Dispatch from Reuters | Reuter as a Boy | 1940-10-19 | German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency…. |
Mush and Milk | Dickie | 1933-05-27 | When Cap’s back pension finally comes in, he treats the gang to a day at an amusement park…. |
The Eve of St. Mark | Zip West | 1944-05-22 | Quizz West is conscripted into the United States Army in late 1940. Prior to being shipped out first to San Francisco, then the Philippines, Quizz and… |
Blue Skies | 1929-03-16 | Better known for her work in talkie “weepers,” Helen Twelvetrees made a few preliminary appearances in such late silent films as Fox’s Blue Skies. The… | |
The Beloved Rogue | Baby Francois (uncredited) | 1927-03-12 | François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot…. |
Son of the Gods | Sam Lee as a Child (uncredited) | 1930-03-09 | The popular Caucasian-looking son (Richard Barthelmess) of a wealthy Chinese businessman lives away from his widowed father and passes as white, but e… |
Seed | Johnny Carter as a Child | 1931-05-14 | Bart is a clerk for a publishing company; he has written a novel. His wife Peggy and he have five children. Bart’s former girlfriend Mildred is manage… |
Union Depot | Little Boy (uncredited) | 1932-01-14 | Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend S… |
The Under-Pup | Jerry Binns | 1939-08-31 | A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families. At first made fun of and ridiculed beca… |
Confessions of a Co-Ed | Patricia’s Son | 1931-07-11 | A young college student gets pregnant by the man she loves, but circumstances prevent their marrying, so she marries a classmate she doesn’t love. Soo… |
Hollywood’s Children | Self | 1982-02-24 | A documentary about child actors in Hollywood, exploring their history from the early days of film…. |
Madame X | Boy at Puppet Show (uncredited) | 1929-08-17 | A young, unfaithful wife and mother is thrown out by her cold, unforgiving husband, the Attorney General of France. She is barred from ever seeing her… |
The Life of Emile Zola | Pierre Dreyfus | 1937-10-02 | Biopic of the famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair…. |
The Blue Bird | Young Lad (uncredited) | 1940-01-15 | An ungrateful girl and her little brother are transported in their dreams by a fairy to a wonderland, tasked with finding the mythical blue bird of ha… |
Heaven Can Wait | Henry Van Cleve – Age 15 (uncredited) | 1943-08-05 | Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is sure he deserves after living a life of profligacy… |
Madame X | Allan Simonds | 1937-10-01 | An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her i… |
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