Biography
Juanita Moore (October 19, 1914 – January 1, 2014) was an American film and television actress. She is the fifth black American to be nominated for an Academy Award in any category, and the third in the Supporting Actress category.
Known For
Complete Filmography
A Star Without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story
2022
A group of unknowns noticed that a legendary actress had no star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
Hollywood, The Dream Life of Lana Turner
2019
as Self (archive footage)
Portrait of Julia Jean Turner, from her childhood to her rise of fame as Lana Turner, to her last role.
Hollywood Legenden
2004
as Self
Documentary about Hollywood.
Rita
2003
as Self
Biography of 1940's sex goddess Rita Hayworth.
Lana Turner... a Daughter's Memoir
2001
as Self
A rare behind the scenes look at the tragedies and bitter disappointments that plagued one of MGM's most popular leading ladies
The Kid
2000
as Kenny's Grandmother
Powerful businessman Russ Duritz is self-absorbed and immersed in his work. But by the magic of the moon, he meets Rusty, a chubby, charming 8-year-ol...
Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood
1998
as Self
Louis Gossett Jr. takes viewers through a special documentary celebration of the groundbreaking achievements of African-American performers and their ...
Two Moon Junction
1988
as Delilah
A young Southern débutante temporarily abandons her posh lifestyle and upcoming, semi-arranged marriage to have a lustful and erotic fling with a rugg...
And They're Off
1982
as Sadie Johnson
A tender love story with Kentucky's thrilling thoroughbred racing world as the stage.
O'Hara's Wife
1982
as Ethel
Workaholic attorney Bob O'Hara is devastated when his wife dies suddenly. However, she returns to haunt him in order to persuade him to slow down, wat...
Paternity
1981
as Celia
Buddy Evans manages events at Madison Square Garden in New York City. He is a confirmed bachelor who lives with his housekeeper Celia. After coming in...
Fugitive Lovers
1975
as Assemblywoman Griffin
A swimming pool cleaner and a suicidal housewife set out on the run and are pursued by her corrupt lobbyist husband.
Deliver Us From Evil
1975
as Mrs Trindal
Violent and dramatic events dog the life of hot headed rebel Chris Townes. Drifting from one menial job to another, where he finds resentment and even...
Everybody Rides the Carousel
1975
as Stage 8 (voice)
Everybody Rides The Carousel invites the viewer along on eight "rides" through the different stages of life. Based on the work by Erik Erikson, one o...
Abby
1974
as Miranda 'Momma' Potter
When a minister's wife becomes possessed by Eshu, the Nigerian god of sexuality, an exorcist is called in to drive the evil spirit away.
Thomasine & Bushrod
1974
as Pecolia
A pair of thieves operate in the American South between 1911 and 1915, stealing from rich, white capitalists, and giving to Mexicans, Native Americans...
A Dream for Christmas
1973
as Fannie Mitchell
A Southern minister is assigned to a poor church in California where the congregation is drifting away and the church itself is scheduled for demoliti...
Fox Style
1973
as Cindy McDougal
A wealthy nightclub owner struggles to reconcile his country upbringing with his city environs.
The Mack
1973
as Mother
Goldie returns from five years at the state pen and winds up king of the pimping game. Trouble comes in the form of two corrupt white cops and a crime...
Skin Game
1971
as Viney
Quincy Drew and Jason O’Rourke, a pair of friends and con men—the former white, the latter a Northern-born free Black man— travel from town to town in...
Little Black Angels
1970
A racist woman who doesn't know about her own mixed heritage—even though she's lived with her black mother since birth—marries a pop singer. Everybody...
The Whole World Is Watching
1969
as Mrs. Harbeson
In this second pilot of "The Lawyers," a rotating segment of "The Bold Ones" series, the firm of Nichols, Darrell & Darrell defends the leader of a st...
Uptight
1968
as Mama Wells
Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own.
Rosie!
1967
as Nurse
An eccentric Los Angeles dowager decides to fight back when her two greedy daughters attempt to have her declared legally insane.
The Singing Nun
1966
as Sister Mary
Belgian nun Sister Ann is sent to another order where she's at first committed to helping troubled souls, like Nichole and little Dominic. When Father...
Papa's Delicate Condition
1963
as Ellie
A jolly, family-oriented railroad superintendent tries to get his act together when his love for the bottle starts to alienate him from his wife and o...
A Child Is Waiting
1963
as Mrs. Phillips (uncredited)
Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for intellectually disabled children. Jean Hansen, a former music teacher anxious to give her lif...
Walk on the Wild Side
1962
as Mama
At a 1930s New Orleans bordello, Hallie is the main attraction for both clients and the shrewd madam. The arrival of Dove Linkhorn, her lovesick sweet...
Tammy Tell Me True
1961
as Della
Tammy leaves the river in Mississippi to attend college, developing a relationship with Tom Freeman (John Gavin). Sandra Dee replaces Debbie Reynolds ...
Imitation of Life
1959
as Annie Johnson
In 1940s New York, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway has a chance encounter with a black single mother, who becomes her maid.
The Green-Eyed Blonde
1957
as Miss Randall
Blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (working under the pseudonym “Sally Stubblefield”) tells a rough-edged tale of life inside a 1950s women’s refo...
Bombers B-52
1957
as Clarissa (uncredited)
Sgt. Chuch Brennan always disliked playboy and hotshot, Col. Jim Herlihy. Now Chuck has even more reason to, Jim is dating his daughter, Lois.
The Helen Morgan Story
1957
as Backstage Maid
Torch singer Helen Morgan rises from sordid beginnings to fame and fortune only to lose it all to alcohol and poor personal choices.
Band of Angels
1957
as Budge
Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widowed father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and...
Something of Value
1957
as Tribal Woman
As Kenya's Mau Mau uprising tears the country apart, former childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier), a native, and Peter (Rock Hudson), a British co...
The Girl Can't Help It
1956
as Hilda
A down-and-out gangster hires a down-on-his-luck agent to make his girlfriend a recording star within six weeks.
The Opposite Sex
1956
as Powder Room Attendant (uncredited)
Former radio singer Kay learns from her gossipy friends that her husband, Steve, has had an affair with chorus girl Crystal. Devastated, Kay tries to ...
Ransom!
1956
as Shirley Lorraine
A wealthy business man stuns his wife and town with a televised response to his son's kidnappers.
Lord of the Jungle
1955
as Molu's Wife
The jungle boy tries to stop a herd of rogue elephants.
Women's Prison
1955
as Polyclinic 'Polly' Jones
A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.
Witness to Murder
1954
as Negress - Mental Patient
A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.
Affair in Trinidad
1952
as Dominique
A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer.
Lydia Bailey
1952
as Marie (uncredited)
A young Boston lawyer, Albron Hamlin, goes to Haiti in 1802 to find Lydia Bailey, whose estate he must settle. The island is war-torn in the strife be...
Skirts Ahoy!
1952
as Black Drill Team Member (uncredited)
Three young ladies sign up for some kind of training at a naval base. However, their greatest trouble isn't long marches or several weeks in a small b...
Pinky
1949
as Nurse (uncredited)
Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her g...
Cabin in the Sky
1943
as Nightclub Patron / Churchgoer (uncredited)
When compulsive gambler Little Joe Jackson dies in a drunken fight, he awakens in purgatory, where he learns that he will be sent back to Earth for si...
Star Spangled Rhythm
1942
as Dancer (uncredited)
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddie...
Belle Starr
1941
as Dressed-up Freed Slave (uncredited)
After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr Belle Shirley vows to take revenge. Breakin...
Broken Strings
1940
as Nightclub Patron
After noted violinist Arthur Williams suffers a hand injury which ends his playing career, his hopes are transferred to his son, who prefers swing mus...
Double Deal
1939
as Nightclub Patron
Tommy McCoy and "Dude" Markey are both in love with Harlem singer/dancer Nita. Markey robs a jewelry store and turns the loot over to gang-boss Murray...
Show Boat
1936
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
Cleopatra
1934
as Dancer / Slave Girl (uncredited)
The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.
Murder at the Vanities
1934
as Black Dancer in Ebony Rhapsody (uncredited)
Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading la...
So This Is Africa
1933
as Dancer (uncredited)
Broke lion tamers travel to Africa to make a movie about Amazon women, from a distance.