Dennis Moore

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BIRTHDAY

January 26, 1908

Fort Worth, TX

DIED

March 01, 1964

RECENT CREDITS

Chicago Confidential (FILM) Sep. 1, 1957

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (FILM) May. 1, 1957

Tribute to a Badman (FILM) Apr. 1, 1956

One Desire (FILM) Aug. 1, 1955

I Died a Thousand Times (FILM) Jan. 1, 1955

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BIOGRAPHY

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American actor Dennis Moore made his first stage appearance with a Texas stock company in 1932. If his official bio is to be believed, Moore was 18 at the time, casting some doubt over his claim of having been a commercial pilot before inaugurating his acting career. Whatever the case, it is a matter of record that Moore entered films in 1936 when he was discovered by a Columbia Pictures talent scout. Two years later, he made the first of his many Westerns at Republic Pictures. In his earliest sagebrush appearances, he was a bit player, stunt man, or villain; in 1940, he attained his first cowboy leading role in The Man From Tascosa, though he would continue to take bad-guy parts (notably as a serial killer in the East Side Kids' 1941 feature Spooks Run Wild) even after his good-guy debut. In 1943, Moore joined Ray "Crash" Corrigan and Max Terhune as a member of the Range Busters in the Monogram Western series of the same name. Until his retirement from films in 1957, Moore alternated between Westerns and such serials as The Purple Monster Strikes (1945). Dennis Moore owns the distinction of starring in the last serial ever made by Republic, King of the Carnival (1956), and the last serial ever made in Hollywood, Columbia's Blazing the Overland Trail (1956).

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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