Michael D. Moore

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,…

Directed

1. Amazing Stories (1985) — Director
2. Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966) — Director
3. An Eye for an Eye (1966) — Director
4. Kill a Dragon (1967) — Director
5. Buckskin (1968) — Director
6. Mister Deathman (1977) — Director
7. Hondo (1967) — Director
8. The Fastest Guitar Alive (1967) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The King of Kings (1927) — Mark (as Micky Moore)
2. Manslaughter (1922) — Dicky Evans
3. Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy (2003) — Self (as Michael Moore)
4. Something to Think About (1920) — Bobby Markely (as Mickey Moore)
5. Polly of the Storm Country (1920) — Wee Jerry (as Mickey Moore)
6. Shame (1921) — David, at 5
7. The Mask (1921) — Mickey, their son (as Mickey Moore)
8. I Am Guilty (1921) — The Child (as Mickey Moore)
9. The Impossible Mrs. Bellew (1922) — Lance Bellew, Jr. (age 4)
10. The Love Charm (1921) — Little Boy
11. Mine to Keep (1923) — Joy Child
12. The Man from Red Gulch (1925) — Little Jimmie Falloner
13. The Lost Romance (1921) — Allen Erskine Jr (as Mickey Moore)
14. The Test of Donald Norton (1926) — Wen-dah-ban - as a boy
15. All Souls' Eve (1921) — Peter Heath (as Mickey Moore)
16. No Man's Gold (1926) — Jimmy Rogers
17. Cytherea (1924) — Randon Child (as Mickey Moore)
18. Parted Curtains (1920) — Bobby Masters
19. Truxton King (1923) — Prince Robin
20. Exit the Vamp (1921) — Junior Shipley
21. The Price of Redemption (1920) — Billy
22. The Unpainted Woman (1919) — Olaf
23. Silent Hollywood: Cult, Stars, Scandals (2005) — Self
24. Good as Gold (1927) — Buck Brady, as a child