Michael D. Moore

Michael D. Moore
Moore (center) with Lois Wilson and Conrad Nagel in The Lost Romance (1921)
Born	Michael Sheffield October 14, 1914 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Died	March 4, 2013 (aged 98) Malibu, California, U.S.
Occupation	Film child actor, film director
Spouse(s)	Esther McNeil (m. 1933; d. 1992); Laurie Abdo (m. 1997; d. 2011)
Children	2 daughters; 5 grandsons; 4 great-grandchildren

Michael D. Moore (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 Dennis Michael Sheffield in Vancouver, British Columbia, He was the son of Thomas William Sheffield, a British marine engineer, and his wife, Norah Moore Sheffield, an actress from Dublin. He and his brother Patrick were Hollywood silent film child actors. At the age of 5 he appeared in his first film under the stage name "Mickey Moore", chosen because their mother "decided that the boys should work under her maiden name of Moore." He appeared in two dozen films, including The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (1924), until 1927 when he was 13.

In the early 1950s, Moore began working as an assistant director. He was first A.D. on dozens of major motion pictures including The Ten Commandments (1956), and Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957). He was an assistant director on several Elvis Presley musical films and directed Presley in the film Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966) for Paramount Pictures. Because of that, plus his experience directing a western film, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer hired him to direct rock and roll singer Roy Orbison in The Fastest Guitar Alive (1967). He worked exclusively as a director in film and television from 1965 to 1969.