Roger Moore
Date of birth: 1900-09-21
Place of birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Joseph I. Young, Joseph Young, Joe Young
Biography
Roger Moore (born Joseph I. Young) was an American screen actor, his career active from 1924 to 1953. He was the older brother of actor Robert Young.
Movie Credits
Kansas City Confidential
1952-11-11
An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery.
House of Strangers
1949-07-01
Ruthless Italian-American banker Gino Monetti is engaged in a number of criminal activities. Three o
Fangs of Vengeance
1926-08-31
A short film starring "Fearless" the dog and directed by William Bertram.
The Girl from Everywhere
1927-12-11
Mack Sennett comedy short subject spoofing filmmaking, with girls, lions, and limburger cheese.
Any Number Can Play
1949-07-15
When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend mo
East Side, West Side
1949-12-22
A vain businessman puts strains on his happy marriage to a rich, beautiful socialite by allowing him
Hitler's Madman
1943-06-10
In 1942, a young paratrooper in the RAF returns to Czechoslovakia to encourage his fellow countrymen
Go for Broke!
1951-05-04
A tribute to the U.S. 442nd Regimental Combat Team, formed in 1943 by Presidential permission with J
The Iron Nag
1925-08-09
A jail break turns into a race.
The Soapsuds Lady
1926-11-22
The Soapsuds Lady is a 1925 silent comedy.
Hot Cakes for Two
1926-01-17
Hot Cakes for Two is a silent film comedy
Trimmed in Gold
1926-02-14
Two barbers, Billy and Andy head out West when one of their customers tells them that gold can liter
Her Actor Friend
1926-08-29
Taking Alice and Ruth to a show with Alice 's father & his boss's money they see that its leading ma
The Perils of Petersboro
1926-09-26
Alice Day is the pretty maid who wins the heart of Danny O'Shea, a young artist who motors down to P
Should Sleepwalkers Marry?
1927-01-23
Should Sleepwalkers Marry? is a 1927 comedy short
The Jolly Jilter
1927-03-13
Silent comedy short film starring Ben Turpin
A Small Town Princess
1927-03-20
A small town princess gets hired for the movies.
Tulsa
1949-04-13
It's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in
The Shadow
1940-01-05
The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible a
Flickering Youth
1924-04-27
Flickering Youth is a 1924 silent Comedy.
The Boss Didn't Say Good Morning
1937-09-11
Carey Wilson narrates this MGM Miniature short in which an average office worker suffers all week-en
Dancing Sweeties
1930-07-19
Bill is a hot shot dancer who partners with Jazzbo, until he sees Molly at the dance. He enters the
Three Little Pigskins
1934-12-08
The stooges are mistaken by a gangster for the "Three Horsemen of Boulder Dam", famous football play
Better Behave
1928-10-05
Physical comedy drives this vehicle for then-famous clown Poodles Hanneford, part of a legendary Bri
Lime Juice Nights
1931-03-22
Karl Dane & George K. Arthur trading places while dining.
Circus Today
1926-03-07
Two circus hands create chaos.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1953-07-14
Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the dis
Black Oxfords
1924-05-18
In this Mack Sennett comedy, a mother and daughter fear foreclosure because their mortgage payment i
Saturday Afternoon
1926-01-31
Harry and his friend have planned to go out for an afternoon of fun. But first, Harry must figure ou
Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies
1925-06-14
An eccentric inventor has thought of a way that automobiles can run on radio waves, without gasoline
The Fuller Brush Girl
1950-09-15
A daffy door-to-door saleswoman blunders into a murder investigation.
Spanking Breezes
1926-03-14
"Spanking Breezes" is a short Mack Sennett comedy.
Broke in China
1927-04-23
Donald Drake, a deep sea gondolier ex soda jerk, arrives at the All Nation Cafe in Shanghai. The pro
Run, Girl, Run
1928-01-15
A women's track team is preparing for a big meet against a rival college, but the coach is having tr
Too Many Highballs
1933-02-10
Harold Hobbs doesn't much like that his lazy, sponging and unemployed brother-in-law Claude and his
The Bad and the Beautiful
1952-12-25
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer,
The Rodeo
1929-03-24
The film begins with a family at home having a meal. The biggest laugh involved some candles being s
Hot Hoofs
1933-06-18
Moran and Mack decide to attend the races and end up winning a large sum on a horse named Mud Lark.
Picking Peaches
1924-02-02
A series of sketches with a shoe clerk, his wife, and his extra-curricular activities. The shoe cler
State of the Union
1948-04-30
An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both
Sworn Enemy
1936-09-11
A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.
Thunder Afloat
1939-09-15
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
Miracles for Sale
1939-08-10
A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
Nazi Agent
1942-03-01
Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a
Nick Carter, Master Detective
1939-12-13
Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter
Sergeant Madden
1939-03-24
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
Shanghaied Lovers
1924-03-30
Shanghaied on his wedding day, Harry struggles to cope with a cruel captain while fending off a sail
Wall Street Blues
1924-08-09
A bumbling bank custodian becomes an unlikely hero when he foils a robbery.
Fury
1936-06-05
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the
Strange People
1933-06-16
All 12 jury members who sent an innocent man to the gallows are gathered together for a demonstratio
Good Bad Boys
1940-09-07
Alfalfa and the gang decide to turn to a life of crime, but Spanky tries to trick them with a fake b
Andy Hardy's Dilemma: A Lesson in Mathematics... and Other Things
1940-01-01
Andy wants to buy a new car so he goes into the judge's home office where his father is about to wri
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1949-04-18
A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1905 auto mechanic, to Arthurian England, 528 A.D., where he i
Pat and Mike
1952-06-13
Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf
Dangerous When Wet
1953-06-18
The health conscious, dairy-farming Higgins family begin each day with an invigorating swim. One day
Bashful Jim
1925-03-07
Shy Ralph Graves is inspired by a movie hero to go after the girl he loves (Alice Day). A Mack Senne
The Gold Ghost
1934-03-16
Dumped by his girlfriend, Buster drives west and winds up in a ghost town called Vulture City, where
Panama Hattie
1942-09-30
Sailors and spies mingle in between the acts at Hattie's nightclub in the Canal Zone.
Slightly Dangerous
1943-04-01
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a ne
The First Hundred Years
1938-03-12
David and Lynn are a happily married couple. When David gets his dream job in another state, Lynn, a
Mutiny Ahead
1935-03-01
A wealthy playboy winds up getting himself involved with mobsters and a search for buried treasure.
Sock and Run
1929-12-20
Wacky Frenchman Alphonse (Snub Pollard) competes in an American boxing match.
Smith's Landlord
1926-09-19
Third release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies. Omar the dog, usually the most sedate
Trifles That Win Wars
1943-07-17
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short looks at how a few specific inventions made a major contrib
Wedding Worries
1941-12-13
The Our Gang kids worry that Darla's new stepmother will be an evil stepmother like of fairy tale fa
This Time for Keeps
1942-03-01
A young newlywed (Robert Sterling) finds working for his nasty father-in-law difficult.
A Gun in His Hand
1945-09-15
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young man graduates from the police academy at the to
Torture Money
1937-01-02
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, police go after a fraud operation that stages automobil
Blossoms in the Dust
1941-08-15
Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very y
Grand Central Murder
1942-05-01
Conniving Broadway starlet Mida King has plenty of enemies, so when she's found murdered at Grand Ce
Love at First Flight
1928-01-29
Love at First Flight is a 1928 comedy short.
Forgotten Treasure
1943-07-24
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short highlights the film preservation efforts of the Muse
Fingers at the Window
1942-04-22
In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparen
Pickup on South Street
1953-05-27
In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when
Young Man with Ideas
1952-05-02
A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.
Father of the Bride
1950-05-18
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she annou
Too Young to Kiss
1951-11-22
Eric Wainwright, a busy impresario, is besieged by hordes of wannabe concert stars, eager for their
The Tall Target
1951-08-17
A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train rid
Whirlpool
1950-01-13
The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habi
Double Wedding
1937-10-15
A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-control
Naughty Nanette
1927-04-15
The Jazz Age rages in this comedy film starring Viola Dana as the madcap title character madly dashi
After the Thin Man
1936-12-25
Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, an
Speed in the Gay Nineties
1932-04-03
It's 1890. Inventor Ed Martin has long believed and has openly stated that man will someday be able
Murder in the Fleet
1935-05-24
A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find t
Baby Talks
1929-09-11
First Episode in the Sunny Jim 2-reel sound comedy series. A young couple have an argument on the wa
Swing Shift Maisie
1943-10-01
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in
Let's Make It Legal
1951-10-31
A woman divorces her husband of 20 years because he gambles too much.
Culinary Carving
1939-07-01
A Pete Smith Specialty explaining the finer points of meat carving, shown by an expert.
The Lure of Hollywood
1931-07-05
Two aspiring actresses encounter mishaps during a shoot.
The Fuller Brush Man
1948-06-01
Poor Red Jones gets fired from every job he tries. His fiancée gives him one last chance to make goo
Act of Violence
1949-01-22
A former prisoner of war, Frank Enley is hailed as a hero in his California town. However, Frank has
The Plastic Age
1925-12-15
Hugh Carver is an athletic star and a freshman at Prescott College. He falls in love with Cynthia Da
Small Town Girl
1953-04-10
Rick Belrow Livingston, in love with Broadway star Lisa, is sentenced to 30 days in jail for speedin
Too Hot to Handle
1938-09-16
While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pi
Just a Bear
1931-03-29
Andy Clyde & Harry Gribbon go hunting.
Calling Hubby's Bluff
1929-02-03
Late silent short with a Hal Roach approach to situational comedy. Bevan is battling a widow and his