Victor Moore

Biography

Victor Moore was born on February 24, 1876 in Hammonton, New Jersey, USA as Victor Frederick Moore. He was an actor, known for Swing Time (1936), Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) and The Seven Year Itch (1955). He was married to Shirley Paige and Emma Littlefield. He died on July 24, 1962 in East Islip, Long Island, New York, USA. 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 22. Moore, or his family, was into buying real estate. A building in the Jackson Heights section of Queens is named after him. The Victor Moore Arcade is bounded by Roosevelt Ave., Broadway (Queens' Broadway) and 75th St. It houses 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).

Known For

The Seven Year Itch

as Plumber

Swing Time

as Pop Cardetti

Make Way for Tomorrow

as Barkley Cooper

It Happened on Fifth Avenue

as Aloysius T. McKeever

Ziegfeld Follies

as Lawyer's Client (segment "Pay the Two Dollars")

We're Not Married!

as Melvin Bush

The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self

Gold Diggers of 1937

as J. J. Hobart

On Our Merry Way

as Ashton Carrington

Star Spangled Rhythm

as Bronco Billy