Charles R. Moore

Charles R. Moore

출생 : 1893-04-23, Chicago, Illinois, USA

사망 : 1947-07-20

약력

Charles R. Moore (April 23, 1893, Chicago, Illinois - July 20, 1947, Los Angeles, California) was an African-American actor who appeared in over 100 films in his acting career, and was sometimes credited as Charles Moore or Charlie Moore Moore played small parts such as servants, bootblacks, elevator operators, menial laborers, and, especially, railroad porters and Red Caps. Film buffs may remember him in Meet John Doe where he played the City Hall janitor trying to smoke a cigar while washing the floor on the Christmas Eve that John Doe has threatened to jump off the building. Moore was part of Preston Sturges' unofficial "stock company" of character actors, appearing in six of Sturges' films. In Sullivan's Travels, Moore had a memorable moment as the chef who is propelled headfirst through the roof of the land yacht during the chase scene. Moore was also a dancer, but that skill was not often called for in his film appearances.

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Charles R. Moore

참여 작품

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
Bootblack (uncredited)
Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull, dead-end book-keeping job for years, is let go by his pompous boss, advertising tycoon J.E. Wagglebury, with nothing but a tiny pension. Harold, who never touches the stuff, takes a stiff drink with his new pal... and another, and another. What happened Wednesday?
Suddenly It's Spring
Charlie
A WAC officer returns from the war to find her husband wants a divorce.
Without Reservations
Redcap (uncredited)
Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.
True to Life
Gabe the Butler (uncredited)
A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty about his charade when he falls in love with the family's pretty older daughter.
드라큐라의 아들
Matthew (uncredited)
브루스터 박사와 프랭크는 알루카드 백작이란 인물이 보내온 짐을 받게 된다. 그리고 브루스터 박사는 백작의 이니셜을 거꾸로 읽자 드라큘라라는 이름이 됨을 알고, 수상하게 생각한다. 그날 밤 캐서린의 아버지가 죽은 후 캐서린은 집을 집을 제외한 모든 권리를 언니에게 넘기게 되고, 알루카드 백작과 결혼식을 올리게 되는데...
Dixie
News Vendor (uncredited)
A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music publisher, but refuses to sell his most treasured composition: "Dixie." The film is based on the life of Daniel Decatur Emmett, who wrote the classic song "Dixie."
Strictly in the Groove
Cactus (uncredited)
College student, cattle baron, confused love story.
내 사랑 마녀
Rufus - Samuel's Servant (uncredited)
Rocksford, New England, 1672. Puritan witch hunter Jonathan Wooley is cursed after burning a witch at the stake: his descendants will never find happiness in their marriages. At present, politician Wallace Wooley, who is running for state governor, is about to marry his sponsor's daughter.
Sunset Serenade
Sam
Bad guys plot to trick a newly arrived Eastern girl out of a ranch which belongs to her infant ward. Roy, of course, saves the ranch for the girl. Songs include "I'm Headin's for the Home Corral," "He's a No Good Son of a Gun," "Sandman Lullaby," "Song of the San Joaquin," and "I'm a Cowboy Rockefeller."
팜 비치 스토리
Colored Porter
독창적이고 흥미로운 코미디 영화로 명성을 날린 프레스턴 스터지스의 1942년도 작품. 코믹한 오프닝 타이틀에서 톰과 제리의 결혼 장면이 보이고, ‘그리하여 두 사람은 영원히 행복하게 살았습니다’라는 자막이 뜬다. 그리고 뒤이어 ‘정말 그랬을까요?’라는 자막이 또다시 등장하는데 당연히 대답은 ‘아니오!’다. 결혼한 지 5년 된 톰(조엘 맥크레)과 제리(클로데트 콜버트) 부부. 그러나 발명가인 톰은 돈을 한 푼도 벌어오지 못한다. 아파트 월세조차 못 낼 형편이 되자 제리는 돈 많은 남자와 재혼해 톰이 발명에 전념할 수 있도록 재원을 마련해주기로 한다. 부자들이 모인다는 플로리다의 팜비치로 가는 기차를 탄 제리는 우연히 서반구에서 가장 부유한 남자 중 하나라는 존 하켄색커 3세를 알게 된다. 하켄색커는 제리에게 관심을 보이면서 선물공세를 퍼붓고, 한편 제리를 단념하지 못한 톰은 아내를 찾아 팜비치로 온다. 얼떨결에 하켄색커에게 톰을 오빠라고 소개한 뒤 제리는 진퇴양난에 빠지는데…
백주의 탈출
Pullman Waiter (uncredited)
2차 세계대전기간 동안의 샌프란시스코. 옷을 벗지도 못한 채 새벽 늦게 잠들었던 냉혹한 살인청부업자 필립 레이븐은 새로운 임무를 실행하기 위해 다시 깨어난다. 그 새로운 임무는 니트로케미컬 코퍼레이션이 생산하는 독가스의 제조공식을 갖고 있는 화학자 앨버트 베이커를 살해하는 일이다. 레이븐은 베이커와 그의 비서를 제거하고 공식을 가져다 준 댓가로 니트로케미컬의 간부이며 한 나이트클럽의 사장인 윌라드 게이츠에게 2만불을 받는다. 하지만 곧 게이츠의 음모에 걸려든 레이븐은 쫒기는 신세가 된다. 그레이엄 그린의 소설인 에 기초한 영화. 풍부한 심리적 분위기와 어두운 뉘앙스를 지닌 이 영화는 살인청부업자 필립 레이븐의 고통받은 영혼 속으로의 여행이다. 특히 이 영화를 통해 최초로 호흡을 맞춘 알랜 래드와 베로니카 레이크가 완벽한 앙상블 연기를 보여준다.
설리반의 여행
Colored Chef
영화감독인 존 설리반은 가난한 서민들의 삶을 다룬 "오 형제여 어디에 있는가?"라는 제목의 영화를 만들려고 계획 중이다. 영화소재를 찾기 위해 가난한 떠돌이처럼 차려 입고 길을 나섰던 그는 예상치 못했던 소동에 말려들고 급기야 감방에까지 갇히게 된다. 코미디 영화의 천재 프레스턴 스터지스의 40년대 클래식 중에서도 최고로 꼽히는 작품이며, 현기증 나는 유머의 코미디와 진지한 드라마가 이상적으로 결합된 작품이다. 코엔 형제의 는 바로 이 작품에 경의를 표한 영화.
Jesse James at Bay
Mose
When Jesse learns that Krager is cheating settlers, he and his gang rob trains to obtain money for them to purchase their land. Krager, finding a Jesse look alike in Burns, hires him to wreck havoc on the ranchers. When Jesse kills Burns he switches clothes and goes after the culprits.
작은 여우들
Simon
어느 남부 지방의 목화 공장을 경영하는 한 가정. 레지나(베티 데이비스 분)는 병든 남편의 재산을 이용하여 시카고에 있는 회사의 지분을 손에 넣으려고 한다. 한편 레지나의 두 오빠들은 동생 레지나의 재산을 이용해 자신들의 욕심을 채우려고 한다. 레지나는 요양 중인 남편 호레스(허버트 마샬 분)의 동의를 얻기 위하여 알렉산드라(테레사 라이트 분)를 보내 남편을 데려온다. 하지만 호레스는 레지나 형제의 음모를 눈치채고 투자에 동의하지 않는다. 그러자 레지나의 오빠인 오스카(칼 벤튼 레이드 분)는 자신의 아들 리오(댄 듀리어 분)가 은행에서 일하고 있는 점을 이용하여 호레스의 금고를 열어 주식을 빼돌려 마음대로 투자해 버린다. 우연히 은행에 들려 이 사실을 알게 된 호레스는 자신의 변호사를 시켜 새로운 유언을 작성하게 하고 이 사실을 부인에게 알린다. 레지나는 자신도 모르는 사이에 두 오빠가 이런 일을 꾸몄다는 사실에 놀란다. 자신은 돈을 위해 호레스와 결혼했다는 독설을 퍼붓는다. 호레스는 충격으로 쓰러지고 알렉산드라는 엄마를 원망하게 된다. 결국 호레스는 혼수 상태에서 깨어나지 못하고 죽음을 맞는다. 하지만 레지나는 이런 상황에서도 오빠에게 회사 지분의 75%를 달라고 협박한다. 이런 엄마의 모습을 지켜본 알렉산드라는 엄마의 욕심에 회의를 느끼게 되고, 결국 엄마를 뒤로 한 채, 냉정하게 집을 떠난다.
Kansas Cyclone
T-Bone (as Charles Moore)
The irrepressible Donald Barry is twice falsely accused of murder in this typical low-budget but well-mounted Republic Western. Barry plays Jim Randall, a lawman assigned to investigate a series of gold shipment robberies. Arriving in the middle of a hold-up, Randall finds himself accused of killing the driver (Yakima Canutt). Wells Fargo agent Cal Chambers (Milton Kibbee) vouches for his innocence, however, claiming him to be a noted geologist. Along with several of the prospectors, Jim devises a plan to prove that Jud Parker (Harry Worth) is using his dummy mine as a cover for stealing ore.
Desert Bandit
T-Bone Jones
Bantam-weight western star Don "Red" Barry certainly deserved his designation as "The Cowboy Cagney" in Republic's Desert Bandit. Barry is cast as two-fisted Texas Ranger Bob Crandall, who after being dishonorably discharged heads to the Mexican border to start life anew. He falls in with a gang of gun runners, headed by corrupt lawman Largo (William Haade). It turns out, of course, that Crandall's "disgrace" was merely a ruse to allow him to work undercover in bringing Largo and his minions to justice.
Sleepers West
Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.
Blonde Inspiration
Elevator Operator (uncredited)
A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.
세컨드 코러스
Sam - Elevator Operator (uncredited)
Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row. In the midst of a performance, Danny spies Ellen Miller who ends up being made band manager. Both men compete for her affections while trying to get the other one fired.
Tin Pan Alley
Porter at Railroad Station (uncredited)
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England.
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
Sam - Carriage Driver
Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf keeping one step ahead of the police in Havana trying to solve the crime and make a profit.
7월의 크리스마스
Porter in Maxford's Office (uncredited)
An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize.
So You Won't Talk?
Bootblack
A shy book reviewer is confused with a notorious gangster who has just been release from prison.
위대한 맥긴티
McGinty's Valet (uncredited)
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
Maryland
A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his father's trainer, he defies his mother by entering the Maryland Hunt.
Queen of the Mob
Cocktail Party Butler
Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.
Two Girls on Broadway
Porter at Bus Station (uncredited)
Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney who brings her younger sister Pat. Upon seeing Molly and Pat dance, the producer picks Pat for the show and gives Molly a job selling cigarettes. A wealthy friend of the producer named "Chat" Chatsworth also has his eye on Pat. Pat is teamed with Eddie in the specialty number as Kerns and Mahoney. Pat and Eddie soon realize that they are in love and must tell Molly. Pat balks at hurting Molly and goes out with Chat who already has five ex-wives.
스미스씨 워싱턴에 가다
Porter (uncredited)
잭슨시를 대표하는 상원의원이 임기 중에 급사한다. 잭슨시의 다른 상원의원인 조세프 페인은 잭슨시 주지사에게 전화를 걸어 새로운 상원의원을 선출하라고 지시한다. 새로운 의원의 조건은 페인과 그의 재정적 후원자인 짐 테일러의 댐건설 계획을 방해하지 않을 인물이어야 한다는 단서가 붙는다. 주지사는 고민 끝에 보이스카웃 단장인 제퍼슨 스미스를 임명한다. 아이들과 다람쥐나 잡으러 쫓아다니는 순박한 촌뜨기야말로 정치판의 꼭두각시 역할로 적격이라는데 의견을 같이했기 때문이다. 스미스는 죽은 아버지의 친구이자 존경하는 정치가인 페인 의원과 함께 워싱턴으로 향한다. 상원의원으로 임명된 제퍼슨은 잭슨시의 월워크 계곡에 소년 야영장을 만들려는 계획을 입안하여 상정하려 하지만 월워크 계곡에 댐을 건설하려는 페인과 테일러의 계획과 맞부딪친다. 이에 페인은 스미스를 등원시키지 않으려고 음모를 꾸미는데...
천사만이 날개를 가졌다
Charlie - Waiter
남미의 항구 바란카에 보니라는 미국인 쇼걸이 도착한다. 혼자서 여행 중이던 보니는 우연히 미국 출신의 비행사들을 만나 그들이 하는 항공 우편물 수송업무를 보게 되고 비행에 대한 그들의 열정과 동료애 등 낯설기 그지 없는 그들의 생활에 호기심을 느껴 그곳에 남기로 결심한다. 하지만 사실 그녀를 떠나지 못하게 한 건 항공사 사장인 제프였다. 그는 악천후에도 아랑곳없이 비행을 명하는 냉정한 면모가 보이는 사업가이다. 여자에게는 절대 부탁이란 걸 하지 않는다며 버릇처럼 되뇌는 제프는 보니의 선택에 별다른 언급을 하지 않고, 보니는 그런 그가 야속하면서도 그에게 점점 빠져드는 자신을 어찌 하지 못한다. 그러나 제프는 누구보다도 진한 동료애를 지닌 남자였고 악천후 속의 강행군도 동료인 더취에게 유리한 조건의 계약을 따주기 위해 약속한 비행 횟수를 채우기 위한 것이었다. 그러던 중 맥피어슨이라는 새 비행사가 도착하고 또 다른 갈등이 시작된다. 제프의 옛 애인인 주디의 남편이 되어 바란카를 찾은 맥피어슨은 제프의 항공사 비행사, 키드의 동생이 죽은 것과 관련이 있었기 때문이다. 킬 갤런이라는 본명을 가진 맥피어슨은 키드의 동생과 함께 비행기를 타고 가던 중 사고가 나자 그를 기내에 두고 혼자 낙하산을 타고 살아남았다는 이유로 비행사들 사이에서 평이 좋지 않았다. 비행사들은 맥피어슨의 영입을 반대하지만 큰 계약을 앞두고 있는 제프는 맥피어슨을 받아들이지 않을 수 없었고 비행사들간의 갈등과 그들 사이의 긴장이 계속되는 가운데 무리한 비행은 계속되는데...
Big Town Czar
Ray
When gangster Phil Daley gets rid of his chief Paul Burgess he has everything that money can buy, except the respect of his parents and his sweetheart Susan Warren. His younger brother Danny quits college and forces Phil to make him part of the gang. The overly-ambitious Danny fixes a prize-fight on which rival gang-leader Mike Luger loses heavily and, thinking that Phil has double-crossed him, sends gunmen out to kill Phil. They kill Danny instead and the frightened Phil flees to a country hideout. His chief lieutenant, Sid Travis, sets a trap for Phil when he returns.
Southward Ho!
Skeeter
Roy and Gabby return to Gabby's Texas ranch, after fighting with the Confederate military during the American Civil War, to find that a blustery Union Colonel whom they have previously hassled is now their district commander. Unbeknownst to the Colonel, however, is that the soldiers he believes have been sent to assist him are actually Union Army rejects who have come to loot the civilian populace under the guise of reinstituting normalcy to the former Confederate district.
Kentucky
Stable Swipe
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
Comet Over Broadway
Sam - Cleaning Man (uncredited)
Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
Adventure in Sahara
Gungadin
Agadez is a lonely French outpost baking under the desert sun and commanded by the cruel and oppressive Captain Savatt. To it comes, at his own request, Legionnaire Jim Wilson soon followed by his fiancée, Carla Preston, who has been tracing him from post to post. Legionnaires seize the fort and turn Savitt loose in the Arab-haunted desert with only a fraction of the water and food needed to get back to civilization. But Savitt gets through and returns to the fort at the head of an avenging troop of men. But Arabs surround Savitt and his men, and the mutineers, knowing that to leave the fort and aid them means their own death
Spring Madness
Excited Porter in Diner
Harvard senior Sam Thatcher (Lew Ayres) and his best friend and roommate, known as "The Lippencott" (Burgess Meredith), plan to go to Russia after graduation, a decision Sam has kept from his girlfriend, Alexandra Benson (Maureen O'Sullivan).
Professor Beware
Bootblack
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
Doctor Rhythm
Tooter, the Chauffeur
Dr. Bill Remsen pretends to be a policeman, and ends up being assigned to guard Judy Marlowe. Amazingly, he falls in love with her.
Start Cheering
Train Porter
After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
God's Step Children
School Superintent
Naomi, a light-skinned Black child, is abandoned by her mother and raised by the virtuous Mrs. Saunders. When the girl's fixation with whiteness turns her against her own race, she is sent to a convent. Hopelessly in love with her adoptive brother Jimmie, Naomi consents to marry his friend, but is repulsed by his darker skin and unrefined ways.
College Holiday
Red-Cap Porter
College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.
The Accusing Finger
Black Prisoner
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.
Killer at Large
Highpockets (uncredited)
A master of disguise poses as a wax figure to rob a safe of its jewels.
36 Hours to Kill
Red Cap
Duke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he has a winning sweepstake ticket and will win $150,000 if he can cash it in without getting apprehended
Page Miss Glory
The Porter (uncredited)
A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.
Diamond Jim
Cook
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
It's A Small World
Doorman (uncredited)
Socialite, privileged, Jane Dale and lawyer Bill Shevlin meet in an automobile accident at night, on a dirt road, in a storm, near a hick town which fleeces travelers through corrupt law enforcement.
I'll Fix It
Nifty
A power-broker ward-heeler, Bill Grimes, wields more power than the elected politicians and has no problem in getting matters-of-the-city handled in which ever way is best for his needs. But when he tries to fix his adored kid brother's place on the school football team, he meets his match in school-teacher Anne Barry.
He Was Her Man
Manhattan Turkish Bath Attendant
A safecracker goes straight after doing a stretch for a bum rap. He agrees to do one last job for his "pals".
Manhattan Melodrama
Black Man in Speakeasy (uncredited)
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
Fast Workers
Liar Fined in Court (Uncredited)
Gunner and Bucker are friends who work as riveters. Whenever Bucker gets the urge to marry, which is often, Gunner will hit on his girl to see if she is true or not. So far, Gunner hasn't failed. But one night, while Gunner is in jail, Bucker meets Mary, a tough dame with a line. He falls for her, and she falls for his money. But Mary is already a gal pal of Gunner, and no two know about the third one. The trouble starts when the triangle is revealed too late.
Girl Missing
Elevator Operator (Uncredited)
Kay and June, two showgirls, are hurt when they seek financial help from Daisy. On Daisy's wedding night when she is rendered missing, Kay and June decide to look for her to claim the reward.
Blonde Venus
American chemist Ned Faraday marries a German entertainer and starts a family. However, he becomes poisoned with Radium and needs an expensive treatment in Germany to have any chance at being cured. Wife Helen returns to night club work to attempt to raise the money and becomes popular as the Blonde Venus. In an effort to get enough money sooner, she prostitutes herself to millionaire Nick Townsend.
Million Dollar Legs
Porter (uncredited)
A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.
Beach Pajamas
Beach Pajamas is a 1931 Comedy short
The Exile
An idealistic young man is torn between a sultry Chicago nightclub owner and a Scottish South Dakotan farmgirl.
A Daughter of the Congo
A US cavalry officer rescues a mulatto girl, raised in Africa, from slavers.
His First Command
Homer (as Charles Moore)
A playboy is in love with a woman and enters the army thinking it will improve his chances with her.
The Ninety and Nine
Sam Grant
Melodramatic thriller, presented in 9.5mm format