Moosie Drier

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Moosie Drier
Born (1964-08-06) August 6, 1964 (age 59)
Chicago, Illinois
, U.S.
OccupationDirector/ Voice Artist
Years active1971–present
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Drier Attending Television Academy Event Honoring Lily Tomlin
Drier Attending Television Academy Event Honoring Lily Tomlin

Moosie Drier (born August 6, 1964) is an American

voice actor
and as a director.

Life and career

Drier was born in Chicago but raised in California. He was named after former New York Yankee Bill "Moose" Skowron, who was a friend of Drier's father. He attended U.S. Grant High School, Van Nuys, California. Drier began his television career as a recurring performer on

deaf boy in two 1972 episodes of Lassie. During this period, Drier had movie roles in the 1972 Jack Lemmon comedy, The War Between Men and Women, the 1972 Barbra Streisand comedy Up the Sandbox, and the made-for-TV comedies Roll, Freddy, Roll! (1974) and All Together Now (1975). In 1977 he was cast in Oh, God! starring John Denver and George Burns. He followed this with a prominent role in the Alan Freed screen biography American Hot Wax (1978), in which the adolescent Drier recounts his reaction to Buddy Holly
's death in a broken voice.

At the age of ten, Drier began voice acting as a regular character on

Hunter (1986), Just the Ten of Us (1988), The Munsters Today (1990), and Jack & Jill
(2000).

During his early acting career, Drier also appeared in three

developmentally disabled title character. His late 1970s and early 1980s roles included When Every Day Was the Fourth of July (1978) and Peter Benchley's thriller Hunters of the Reef (1978). Other teen roles consist primarily of biographical dramas; most notably, Drier played a young Mickey Rooney in the 1978 Judy Garland biography Rainbow. The year 1978 also saw the filming of the made-for TV Jack Albertson vehicle Charlie and the Great Balloon Chase, which was not released until three years later. In the 1980s made-for-TV movie Homeward Bound, he played a terminally ill young man, Bobby Seaton, who spends a last summer vacation repairing his relationship with his father, Jake, played by David Soul
.

During the late 1990s, Drier accepted minor roles in the sci-fi space-ship hijack thriller

Hauru no ugoku shiro (Eng: Howl's Moving Castle) in 2004, and Madagascar
(2005).

Drier directed episodes of such series as

Sherman Oaks
as well as the critically acclaimed Love Like Blue in 2007, also at the Whitefire Theatre.

Personal life

Selected filmography

Television

Filmography (actor)

Filmography (director)

Theater (director/producer)

  • 2005: Precious Piglet and Her Pals
  • 2007: Love Like Blue
  • 2012: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  • 2013: God of Carnage
  • 2014: Hollywood Shorts, Lend Me a Tenor, Littlest Angel
  • 2015: Hollywood Shorts, Dead Pilots Society, Hound of the Baskervilles

Bibliography

  • Holmstrom, John. The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995. Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, p. 349-350.

External links

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