- Charles R. Moore
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Charles R. Moore Born Charles Randolph Moore
April 23, 1893
Chicago, Illinois U.S.Died July 20, 1947 (aged 54)
Los Angeles, California U.S.Occupation actor Years active 1917–1947 Charles R. Moore (April 23, 1893, Chicago, Illinois - July 20, 1947, Los Angeles, California) was an African-American actor who appeared in over 100 films in his acting career,[1] and was sometimes credited as Charles Moore or Charlie Moore[2] Moore played small parts such as servants, bootblacks, elevator operators, menial laborers, and, especially, railroad porters and Red Caps. Film buffs may remember him in Meet John Doe where he played the City Hall janitor trying to smoke a cigar while washing the floor on the Christmas Eve that John Doe has threatened to jump off the building. Moore was part of Preston Sturges' unofficial "stock company" of character actors, appearing in six of Sturges' films.[3] In Sullivan's Travels, Moore had a memorable moment as the chef who is propelled headfirst through the roof of the land yacht during the chase scene. Moore was also a dancer, but that skill was not often called for in his film appearances.[4]
Notes
- ^ Charles R. Moore at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ TCM Biography
- ^ Moore appeared in The Great McGinty, Christmas in July, Sullivan's Travels, The Palm Beach Story, Hail the Conquering Hero and The Sin of Harold Diddlebock. He was also in I Married a Witch, which Sturges produced.
- ^ Erickson, Hal Biography (Allmovie)
External links
- Charles R. Moore at the Internet Movie Database
- Charles R. Moore at AllRovi
Preston Sturges Broadway The Guinea Pig (writer & prod,1929) · Strictly Dishonorable (writer,1929) · Recapture (writer,1930) · The Well of Romance (musical:book & lyrics,1930) · Child of Manhattan (writer,1932)
1930s The Big Pond (dialogue,1930) · La grande mare (dialogue,1930) · Fast and Loose (add'l dialogue,1930) · Strictly Dishonorable (prev. play,1931) · They Just Had to Get Married (uncredited,1932) · Child of Manhattan (prev. play,1933) · The Power and the Glory (writer & dialogue dir,1933) · The Invisible Man (uncredited writer,1933) · Twentieth Century (uncredited,1934) · Thirty-Day Princess (writer,1934) · We Live Again (adapter,1934) · Imitation of Life (uncredited writer,1934) · The Good Fairy (writer,1935) · Diamond Jim (writer,1935) · Next Time We Love (uncredited,1936) · Love Before Breakfast (uncredited,1936) · One Rainy Afternoon (lyrics,1936) · Hotel Haywire (writer,1937) · Easy Living (writer,1937) · College Swing (uncredited writer,1938) · Port of Seven Seas (writer,1938) · If I Were King (writer,1938) · Never Say Die (writer,1939)
1940s Remember the Night (writer,1940) · Broadway Melody of 1940 (uncredited,1940) · The Great McGinty (writer & dir,1940) · Christmas in July (writer & dir,1940) · The Lady Eve (writer & dir,1941) · New York Town (uncredited,1941) · Sullivan's Travels (writer, dir & prod,1941) · Safeguarding Military Information (writer,1942) · I Married a Witch (unc. prod,1942) · The Palm Beach Story (writer & dir,1942) · Star Spangled Rhythm (actor,1942) · The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (writer, dir, prod, lyrics,1944) · Hail the Conquering Hero (writer, dir, prod, music, lyrics,1944) · The Great Moment (writer, dir & unc. prod,1944) · I'll Be Yours (writer,1947) · The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (writer, dir & unc. prod,1947) · Unfaithfully Yours (writer, dir & prod,1948) · The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (writer, dir & prod,1949)
1950s Vendetta (unc. writer & unc. dir,1950) · Strictly Dishonorable (prev. play,1951) · The French, They Are a Funny Race (writer & dir,1955) · The Birds and the Bees (prev. screenplay,1956) · Paris Holiday (actor,1958) · Rock-A-Bye Baby (prev. screenplay,1958)
Broadway &
posthumousMake a Wish (musical:book,1951) · Carnival in Flanders (musical:book & dir.,1953) · Unfaithfully Yours (prev. screenplay,1984)
Categories:- American film actor, 1890s birth stubs
- 1893 births
- 1947 deaths
- Actors from Illinois
- American actors
- American dancers
- American film actors
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