Michael D. Moore

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Michael D. Moore (not to be confused with the American film maker Michael Moore), was born October 16, 1914 in Victoria, British Columbia. He is a Canadian-born American film actor and director.

Born Michael Sheffield, 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." Between then and the time he reached the age of thirteen in 1927, he performed in two dozen chidren's roles on film. 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 (1956), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), Patton (1970), 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 1967's The Fastest Guitar Alive.

In the 1980s, Steven Spielberg would hire Moore as assistant director for all three Indiana Jones films. Well into his eighties, Moore was still active, serving as the second unit director for Disney's 2000 film, 102 Dalmatians.