Biography
From Wikipedia Thomas J. "Tom" Moore (May 1, 1883 – February 12, 1955) was an Irish-born American actor and director. He appeared in at least 186 motion pictures from 1908 to 1954. Frequently cast as the romantic lead, he starred in silent movies as well as in some of the first talkies. Born in Fordstown Crossroads, County Meath, Moore, along with his brothers, Owen, Matt, and Joe (1895–1926), and their sister Mary (1890-1919) emigrated to the United States. Owen and Matt also had successful m...
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Complete Filmography
Yesterday and Today
1953
as (archive footage)
A compilation of early-day silent films that serves as a glimpse back to the formative days of the movie industry as a salute to Hollywood's Golden Ye...
The Redhead and The Cowboy
1951
as Gus
Gil Kyle finds himself caught up in the politics and unrest of the American Civil War and soon gets himself framed for a murder. His only alibi is Can...
The Screen Writer
1950
as Bit Role (uncredited)
This short film focuses on the job of the Hollywood screenwriter.
The Walls of Jericho
1948
as Man (uncredited)
In a small town in Kansas, a county attorney in an unhappy marriage falls in love with another woman.
Moss Rose
1947
as Coroner's Foreman (uncredited)
When a music-hall dancer is murdered, a moss rose marks the page of a Bible next to her body. Luckily, another chorus girl saw a gentleman leaving the...
Polo with the Stars
1941
as Self
A short in the WB Hollywood Novelty series (production number 7301) about the training of polo ponies. Buddy Rogers buys one of the ponies in training...
Ten Laps to Go
1936
as Mr. Corbett, Norma's Father
Larry Evans, champion race car driver, is envied by his chief rival, Eddie DeSylva, who has more ambitions than merely winning the races; he has desig...
The Girl on the Front Page
1936
as Brace
The heiress to a powerful newspaper owner gets a job at the paper under an assumed name and helps break up a blackmail racket.
Robin Hood of El Dorado
1936
as Sheriff Hannan
In the 1840's Mexico has ceded California to the United States, making life nearly impossible for the Mexican population due to the influx of land and...
Bombay Mail
1934
as Civil Surgeon
In India, a police inspector investigates a murder that took place on a train between Calcutta and Bombay.
Mr. Broadway
1933
as 2nd Suitor (archive footage)
Ed Sullivan shows night spots all over New York in this movie, joking and listening to stories the patrons tell.
See You Tonight
1933
as Riley the Butler
A society woman falls for a man she meets on the beach. The man decides to teach her a lesson by masquerading as his butler.
Men Are Such Fools
1932
as Tom Hyland
An immigrant and his wife arrive in America hoping to make it big in the world of music. Shortly thereafter, though, the husband finds out his wife is...
Stout Hearts and Willing Hands
1931
Stout Hearts and Willing Hands is a 1931 short comedy film directed by Bryan Foy. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1932 for Best Short Subject...
The Last Parade
1931
as Mike O'Dowd
During the war two friends love the same nurse. After the war one becomes a detective, the other a racketeer.
The Costello Case
1930
as Mahoney
An Irish policeman handles gangsters, a mystery woman and a wise-guy reporter.
The Woman Racket
1930
as Tom Hayes
During a raid, a cop lets a pretty speakeasy employee escape and later begins dating her. Although she loves him, his salary and dull life leave her w...
Side Street
1929
as Jimmy O'Farrell
Three New York Irish brothers cross paths as policeman, doctor and bootlegger.
Anybody Here Seen Kelly?
1928
as Pat Kelly
A French girl falls in love with an American soldier, and after the War she follows him to New York, where he is a police officer. A lost film.
The Siren
1927
as Peter Dane
A high-society woman, Glenna Marsh (Dorothy Revier), is arrested for the murder of gigolo-gambler Cole Norwood (Norman Trevor), but his honest casino ...
The Wise Wife
1927
as John Blaisdell
John Blaisdell, a stolid businessman married for 10 years, concludes that romantic love is a thing of the past for him. His wife, Helen, a very domest...
Cabaret
1927
as Tom Westcott
Gloria Trask, who has risen from a squalid East Side environment to stardom in Costigan's nightclub, is admired by Tom Westcott, detective, and Sam Ro...
Syncopating Sue
1926
as Eddie Murphy
Susan Adams, who works as a pianist in a Broadway music store, has ambitions for a stage career. Arthur Bennett, famous theater producer and successfu...
The Clinging Vine
1926
as Jimmie Bancroft
When a hardened businesswoman who goes by the initials A.B. overhears someone calling her an “Amazon” because of her butch ways, she agrees to a more...
Good and Naughty
1926
as Gerald Gray
Four middle-aged actors jointly adopt an orphaned baby girl, raising her in a backstage milieu.
The Song and Dance Man
1926
as Happy Farrell
Song and Dance Man was based on the play of the same name by George M. Cohan. Tom Moore plays vaudevillian Happy Farrell, who gives up show biz to tak...
A Kiss for Cinderella
1925
as Policeman
An adaption of a novel by Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie.
Under the Rouge
1925
as Whitey
War buddies Whitey and Skeeter have become safecrackers. On a job, Skeeter is surprised by the police and killed. Later Whitey discovers that the lowl...
The Trouble With Wives
1925
as William Hyatt
William Hyatt (Tom Moore) runs an exclusive shoe store, and his happy marriage to Grace (Florence Vidor) is nearly derailed by his well-meaning, but h...
Pretty Ladies
1925
as Al Cassidy
Maggie, a headlining comedienne with the Follies, takes a fall off the stage into the orchestra pit and lands on the drum of musician Al Cassidy. One ...
Adventure
1925
as David Sheldon
David Sheldon owns a plantation in the Solomon Islands. Many of his field hands die of blackwater fever, and then he becomes sick himself. Joan Lackla...
Dangerous Money
1924
as Tom Sullivan
Boardinghouse servant Adele Clark is unexpectedly awarded the ownership of a certain piece of New York City property known as Clark's Field. The trust...
One Night in Rome
1924
as Richard Oak
The story of a great Italian Duchess and of the baffling mystic, L Enigma
Manhandled
1924
as Jimmy Hogan
Comedy which concerns the struggles of an ambitious department store sales clerk who is caught up in New York high society.
Big Brother
1923
as Jimmy Donovan
When gangster Jimmy Donovan is made guardian of Midge, the 7-year-old brother of his friend Big Ben Murray, he decides to reform and rear Midge proper...
Rouged Lips
1923
as James Patterson III
Thrifty orphan Norah MacPherson meets wealthy young James Patterson, who gets her a job as a chorus girl. They fall in love. To put up a good front, s...
Mary of the Movies
1923
as Tom Moore (uncredited)
Mary's kid brother needs an operation and, in order to pay for it, Mary goes to a Hollywood studio and applies for a job as an actress. Mary is given ...
The Harbour Lights
1923
as Lieutenant David Kingsley
A lieutenant saves an heiress from a wicked squire and is framed for murder.
A Trip to Paramountown
1922
as Self
Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, featuring dozens of stars captured candidly and at wor...
Over the Border
1922
as Sgt. Flaherty
Jen Galbraith is in love with Sgt. Tom Flaherty of the Royal Mounted. She is the daughter of Peter Galbraith, who is engaged in smuggling moonshine wh...
Mr. Barnes of New York
1922
as Mr. Barnes
An English naval officer and a Corsican youth have a duel, and the Corsican is killed. The young man's sister, Marina Paoli, swears vengeance on the k...
Beating the Game
1921
as 'Fancy Charlie'
Professional safecracker Fancy Charlie breaks into the apartment of G.B. Lawson, a criminologist, and mistakenly believes that he has robbed a fellow ...
Made in Heaven
1921
as William Lowry
William Lowry rescues Claudia Royce from a burning building, and upon hearing that her parents are trying to force her to accept millionaire Leland, w...
Officer 666
1920
as Travers Gladwyn
Upon learning that notorious art thief Alf Wilson plans to steal his valuable paintings, idle millionaire Travers Gladwyn decides to amuse himself by ...
Stop Thief
1920
as Jack Dougan
When Jack Dougan and Snatcher Nell, partners in crime as well as love, decide to purloin the gifts at the wedding of Madge Carr to James Cluney, Nell ...
The Gay Lord Quex
1919
as The Marquis of Quex
Having followed the road of romance through many countries, Lord Quex finally falls in love with Muriel Eden. After resisting Lord Quex because of his...
Lord and Lady Algy
1919
as Lord Algy
Lord and Lady Algy separate amicably after he breaks his promise not to gamble again on the horses. When the wife of soap magnate Brabazon Tudway, is ...
One of the Finest
1919
as Larry Hayes
Traffic cop Larry Hayes takes care of four-year-old Mary Jane, the daughter of Gus Andrews, a criminal sent to prison because of Larry, and Nellie, a ...
A Man And His Money
1919
as Harry Lathrop
Inheriting a fortune allows Harry Lathrop to indulge in extravagant spending and wild wine parties with chorus girls, decides to change his ways after...
Thirty a Week
1918
as Dan Murray
Although she is engaged to the wealthy Freddy Ruyter, Barbara Wright prefers her father's handsome Irish chauffeur, Dan Murray, and marries him. The n...
Stake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand
1918
as Soldier Boy
The Kaiser is playing cards with King Albert of Italy, who loses, but is rescued by Miss Liberty Loan.
Just for Tonight
1918
as Theodore Whitney Jr.
Theodore Whitney, Sr. asks his son Theodore, "Ted" Jr., to search for a missing stock certificate. During his search Ted meets and falls in love with ...
The Fair Pretender
1918
as Don Meredith
Madge Kennedy stars as a young woman of modest means, posing as a millionairess in order to attend a hoity-toity society ball, where she hopes to snar...
The Lesson
1918
as Chet Vernon
Bored by the slow pace of life in her little home town, Helen Drayton rebels when her friends and relatives assume that she will marry her friend and ...
The Danger Game
1918
as Jimmy Gilpin
Wealthy Clytie Rogers writes a novel in which a society girl commits a burglary, but it is "roasted" by critic Jimmy Gilpin, who writes that her story...
The Floor Below
1918
as Hunter Mason
Patricia O'Rourke, a good-natured prankster who works as a copy girl for the Sentinel , angers her co-worker Stubbs and is about to lose her job when ...
Dodging a Million
1918
as Jack Forsythe
Mabel plays Arabella Flynn, a shop girl who mistakenly thinks she is an heiress. She gets in a jam on a spending spree only to discover that she actua...
Brown of Harvard
1918
as Tom Brown
Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for th...
The Cinderella Man
1917
as Anthony Quintard
When Marjorie Caner returns from abroad, she is quite lonely in her millionaire father's big house. Learning that a young poet, Anthony Quintard, is l...
The Wild Girl
1917
as Donald MacDonald
A dying stranger abandons a baby girl in a gypsy camp, with a note explaining that on her eighteenth birthday, she is to inherit a Virginia estate. Th...
The Primrose Ring
1917
as Bob MacLean
Margaret MacLean, who has been saved from life in a wheelchair by the miracle of medicine, vows to devote her life to caring for crippled children. Sh...
Sold Out
1916
as Tom Carter
This picture tells of Leila Austen, a wealthy girl, who leaves Halsey Brent, a young suitor, to marry Tom Carter, a mining engineer.
The Tight Rein
1916
as Jack McCall - the Mill Owner's Son
Two wealthy mill owners wishing to consolidate their riches plot the arranged marriage of their children despite that pair’s indifference to each othe...
The Secret Room
1915
as Dr. Wayne
A scientist tries to transfer the personality of a man into his mentally retarded son.
The Secret Room
1915
Director
A scientist tries to transfer the personality of a man into his mentally retarded son.
The Cabaret Singer
1915
as George Randall - a Millionaire
The Denton's marital happiness brings home to Randall the loneliness of his own existence. Shortly afterwards, the young man meets Pearl Eltinge, a ca...
The Cabaret Singer
1915
Director, Writer
The Denton's marital happiness brings home to Randall the loneliness of his own existence. Shortly afterwards, the young man meets Pearl Eltinge, a ca...
The Mystery of the Sleeping Death
1914
as Dano / Guy Harrison
A mystery film in which two people fall into a mysterious sleep coma; an Oriental hypnotist then tries to reawaken them.
The Barefoot Boy
1914
as Rives - the Artist
Eleanor Warren is loved by Harold Rives, a struggling artist. Although fond of the young man, Eleanor longs for the comforts of wealth.
The Brand
1914
as Burton Manning - a Young Millionaire
Mary's lot. always hard, becomes doubly so upon her father's death. Desiring to re-marry, the girl's stepmother conspires to get her out of the way.
The Vampire's Trail
1914
as Horace Payne - a Wealthy Broker
A young mother wants to be with her child so much that she is cross to her husband when he asks her to spend a pleasant evening with him away from hom...
The Cabaret Dancer
1914
as Don Packard - an Artist
Don Packard, an artist, forgets his country sweetheart, Martha, and falls in love with his model, Linee. The boy marries Linee and takes her to his ho...
The Shadow
1914
as Ware - Sarah's Former Suitor
Driven to desperation by the enmity of Jane, her step-daughter, Sarah, Dean's second wife, turns to Ware, a friend of the family and a former suitor, ...
Her Husband's Friend
1914
as Charles Dane - the Friend
Believing her husband no longer loves her, Alice Lund consents to elope with Cater. She writes the man a note to this effect. Dane and the Lunds are w...
Primitive Man
1913
as Dan - a Mountaineer
Allan loves Betty, a mountain girl. Not sure that she loves the boy. Betty declines to marry him. Dan, a rough mountaineer, lives a secluded life, wit...
Our New Minister
1913
as Thaddeus Strong - the New Minister
Lem Ransom, the village drunkard, steals the Widow Huggins' bonds while under the influence of liquor, at the instigation of Hannibal Chapman, an unsc...
The Fatal Legacy
1913
as Jack Halleck - the Son
On his wedding eve Henry Halleck opens a sealed envelope which has been handed down to each generation, and learns that the family is cursed with a lu...
The Strange Story of Elsie Mason
1912
as Jack Hollis
Little Elsie, scarcely two years of age, awakens one morning and crawls out of the house, dragging her doll. The little tot creeps to the nearby railr...
A Drunkard's Reformation
1909
as Man in the Audience
A man arrives home late and drunk as usual. His wife reminds him that he's supposed to take their daughter out to a play. While watching the play, he'...
The Voice of the Violin
1909
as Servant
A music teacher is in love with Helen, one of his students, but she rejects him. In his hurt he joins an anarchist group who plan to blow up a rich ca...
The Criminal Hypnotist
1909
as Party Guest (unconfirmed)
To a reception there is invited a celebrated professor of hypnotism, and during the evening he obliges with an exhibition of his wonderful powers. Sev...
The Helping Hand
1908
as Man in Office / Wedding Guest
Mack Sennett appears as a wedding guest in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
The Christmas Burglars
1908
as Customer
Mack Sennett appears as one of character Mike McLaren's assistants in this film produced by the Biograph Company.