Matt Moore (actor)

Matt Moore
Advertisement for The Jilt (1922) with Ralph Graves, Marguerite De La Motte, and Matt Moore
Born	(1888-01-08)January 8, 1888 Kells, County Meath, Ireland
Died	January 21, 1960(1960-01-21) (aged 72) Hollywood, California, U.S.
Resting place	Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles
Occupation	Actor, film director
Years active	1912–1958
Relatives	Tom Moore (brother) Owen Moore (brother)

Matthew Moore (January 8, 1888 – January 21, 1960) was an Irish-born American actor and director. He appeared in at least 221 motion pictures from 1912 to 1958.

Born in Kells, Ireland, he and his brothers, Tom, Owen, and Joe (1895–1926), and a sister Mary Moore (1890-1919), he emigrated to the United States as a steerage passenger on board the S.S. Anchoria and was inspected on Ellis Island in May 1896 . They all went on to successful movie careers.

Once his brothers made a name for themselves, Moore made his debut in the role as the minister in the silent short Tangled Relations (1912) starring Florence Lawrence and Owen Moore. In 1913, Matt Moore had a prominent role in the "white slavery" drama, Traffic in Souls.

Moore played the role as Hector MacDonald in the MGM crime/drama The Unholy Three (1925) co-starring Lon Chaney and Mae Busch, which was a huge hit that year. He played the role as Stanley "Stan" Wentworth in Coquette (1929) opposite Mary Pickford and Johnny Mack Brown. Coquette was the first talkie of Pickford, ex-wife of his brother Owen.