- Born
- Died
- Birth nameVictor Fred Moore
- Height5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
- Victor Moore was born on February 24, 1876 in Hammonton, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Swing Time (1936), The Seven Year Itch (1955) and It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947). He was married to Shirley Paige and Emma Littlefield. He died on July 23, 1962 in East Islip, Long Island, New York, USA.
- SpousesShirley Paige(January 16, 1942 - July 23, 1962) (his death)Emma Littlefield(June 23, 1903 - June 23, 1934) (her death, 3 children)
- ParentsOrville Edwin MooreSarah Annette Davis
- RelativesKate May Moore(Sibling)Carl Edwin Moore(Sibling)Ora Edna Moore(Sibling)
- Moore and his first wife were a vaudeville team for several decades before her death. Moore did not announce his marriage to Shirley Paige until they had been married for a year and a half. At the time of the announcement he was 67 and she was 21.
- Property Moore owned in the Jackson Heights section of Queens became the Victor Moore Arcade, which was bounded by Roosevelt Ave., Broadway (Queens' Broadway) and 75th St. It opened in 1941 and housed stores, offices, a bus terminal and two entrances to a subway station. The Victor Moore Arcade was actually seen in a movie. Henry Fonda exits from the subway at this building at the start of Alfred Hitchcock's The Wrong Man (1956).
- His last film was The Seven Year Itch (1955).
- The Victor Moore Arcade in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York, which connected subway entrances and exits to an adjacent bus terminal was wiped out of existence in 2005 when the Roosevelt Ave. subway station was rebuilt. The name, however, was transferred to the present Victor A. Moore Bus Terminal.
- His first part was a non-speaking role in an 1893 Boston Theatre production of "Babes in the Woods". He subsequently appeared on Broadway and in vaudeville (1913-15). Came to Los Angeles for an appendectomy in 1915, and decided to stay and try his luck in the movies. He initially appeared in 5-reel features for Jesse L. Lasky, then starred in his own series of one-reel situation comedies for Paramount, 1916-17. Resumed stage work in 1918 with only occasional forays to the screen until the mid-30's.
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