Michael D. Moore

Michael D Moore born Dennis Michael Sheffield October 14 1914 March 4 2013 was a Canadianborn 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 OK 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 1967s 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 Disneys 2000 film 102 Dalmatians Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael D Moore licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia