Mickey Moore
Michael D. Moore | |
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| Born | Dennis Michael Sheffield October 14, 1914 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Died | March 4, 2013 (aged 98) Malibu, California, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1919–2007 |
| Spouses | Esther McNeil
(m. 1933; died 1992)Laurie Abdo
(m. 1997; died 2011) |
| Children | 2 daughters; 5 grandsons; 4 great-grandchildren |
Michael D. Moore (born Dennis Michael Sheffield, October 14, 1914 – March 4, 2013) was a Canadian-born American film director,
Life and career
Dennis Michael Sheffield was born in
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
Moore attended Venice High School in the 1930s where he played football. He married high school sweetheart Esther McNeil in 1933 and had two daughters, Sandra Kastendiek-Drake (born 1936) and Patricia Newman (born 1937). McNeil died in 1992 and Moore married Laurie Abdo, formerly a personal assistant of Paramount producer Howard W. Koch, five years later; Abdo died in 2011.[2]
Death
Moore died of congestive heart failure at the age of 98 in Malibu, California on March 4, 2013.[2]
Filmography
As second unit director
References
- ISBN 9781439180419. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
- ^ a b c d Moore's obituary in the L.A. Times
- ^ a b Jarrett, Diane (Summer 2016). "Micky Moore: Acting with Pickford ... Directing with Spielberg". Films of the Golden Age (85): 68–91.
- ^ IMDb
Bibliography
- Holmstrom, John. The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995, Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, pp. 73–74.
External links
- Michael D. Moore at IMDb
- Mickey(aged 7) with Jack Holt and Mary Miles Minter in the film All Souls Eve 1921 (Univ. of Washington, Sayre collection)
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