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Michael D. Moore

Michael D. Moore

Directing1914Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Biography

Michael D. Moore (born Dennis Michael Sheffield, 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 (or Micky 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. Born Michael Sheffield in Victoria, British Columbia, both he and his brother Patrick were Hollywood 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 until 1927 when he was 13. In the early 1950s, Moore began working as an Assistant Film Director and would fill that role or as a Second unit director on more than sixty films. He played a key part in a number of major motion pictures including The Ten Commandments, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Patton, and The Man Who Would Be King in 1975. He also worked as an assistant director on several Elvis Presley musical films and directed Presley in the 1966 film, Paradise, Hawaiian Style for Paramount Pictures. Because of that, plus his experience directing a western film, MGM hired him to direct rock singer Roy Orbison in 1967's The Fastest Guitar Alive. He was the associate producer in charge of action & animal scenes for Quest for Fire. In the 1980s, Steven Spielberg hired Moore as assistant director for both the second and third Indiana Jones films. Moore worked as second unit director on Raiders of the Lost Ark. His association with Spielberg also led him to direct one episode ("Alamo Jobe") in the acclaimed TV series Amazing Stories. Well into his eighties, Moore was still active, his most recent work being as the second unit director for Disney's 2000 film, 102 Dalmatians.

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Acting History

2000
102 Dalmatians
Second Unit Director
1998
Wrongfully Accused
Second Unit Director
1996
101 Dalmatians
Second Unit Director
1994
Little Giants
Second Unit Director
1993
The Three Musketeers
Second Unit Director
Cool Runnings
Second Unit Director
1992
Chaplin
Second Unit Director
The Mighty Ducks
Second Unit Director
1991
Toy Soldiers
Second Unit Director
1989
Ghostbusters II
Second Unit Director
1988
Willow
Second Unit Director
Funny Farm
Second Unit Director
1987
Ishtar
Second Unit Director
Outrageous Fortune
Second Unit Director
1985
Sylvester
Second Unit Director
Amazing Stories
TVDirector1 eps
1984
1983
Never Say Never Again
Second Unit Director
1982
Six Pack
Second Unit Director
1981
Zorro: The Gay Blade
Second Unit Director
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Second Unit Director
1980
Raise the Titanic
Second Unit Director
1979
The Electric Horseman
Second Unit Director
1977
Airport '77
Second Unit Director
Damnation Alley
Second Unit Director
1976
The Missouri Breaks
Second Unit Director
1975
Rooster Cogburn
Second Unit Director
The Man Who Would Be King
Second Unit Director
1974
Mame
Second Unit Director
The Yakuza
Assistant Director
1973
Emperor of the North
Second Unit Director
Badge 373
Second Unit Director
1972
Portnoy's Complaint
Assistant Director
1971
Sometimes a Great Notion
Assistant Director
1970
Patton
Second Unit Director
1969
1967
1966
Talion
Director
1965
The Sons of Katie Elder
Assistant Director
1964
The Carpetbaggers
Assistant Director
1963
A New Kind of Love
Assistant Director
1962
Girls! Girls! Girls!
Assistant Director
1961
Blue Hawaii
Assistant Director
1960
G.I. Blues
Assistant Director
1959
The Trap
Assistant Director
Don't Give Up the Ship
Assistant Director
Don't Give Up the Ship
Second Unit Director
1958
Houseboat
Assistant Director
Hot Spell
Assistant Director
King Creole
Assistant Director
1957
Beau James
Assistant Director
The Tin Star
Assistant Director
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Assistant Director
1956
Pardners
Assistant Director
The Ten Commandments
Assistant Director
1955
Hell's Island
Assistant Director
The Seven Little Foys
Assistant Director
You're Never Too Young
Assistant Director
1954
Living It Up
Assistant Director
1953
Money from Home
Assistant Director
The Caddy
Assistant Director
The War of the Worlds
Assistant Director
1952
The Turning Point
Assistant Director
1951
When Worlds Collide
Assistant Director
1950
Fancy Pants
Second Assistant Director
The Furies
Second Assistant Director
1949
The Great Gatsby
Second Assistant Director
1948
The Paleface
Second Assistant Director
1947
California
Second Assistant Director
1934
1927
Good as Gold
as Buck Brady, as a child
1924
Cytherea
as Randon Child (as Mickey Moore)
1922
Manslaughter
as Dicky Evans
1921
All Souls' Eve
as Peter Heath (as Mickey Moore)
Shame
as David, at 5
1920
Polly of the Storm Country
as Wee Jerry (as Mickey Moore)

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Personal Info

Known For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
10/14/1914
Day of Death
3/4/2013
Place of Birth
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada