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Del Moore (May 14, 1916 - August 30, 1970) was
a comedian, a television and movie actor,
and a radio announcer.
Born Marion Delbridge Moore in Pensacola, Florida, he began his
career in radio before moving to
television. In 1952, he appeared in the first of several So You Want To…
Warner Bros. comedy shorts with George O'Hanlon. He co-starred in the
early television comedy Life with Elizabeth (1953-1955)
opposite Betty
White. A good friend of Jack Webb, with whom he had served in the United States Army Air
Forces during World War II, Moore appeared in many
episodes of Dragnet and Adam-12. For several years
in the late 1950s he hosted a daily children's program opposite
Willy the Wolf (a muppet-like adult size character) on KTTV Channel
11 in Los
Angeles.
Moore played supporting roles in several Jerry Lewis films, including The Big Mouth
and The Patsy. He made his
feature-film debut in Lewis' Cinderfella in 1960, and was the
university president in 1963's The Nutty Professor. He was
also in the 1967 teen film Catalina Caper, which later
appeared as an "experiment" in a 1990 episode of Mystery Science Theater
3000.[1]
Moore died of a heart attack in Encino,
California in 1970 at the age of 54.[2]
Survived by his wife, Gayle, he was interred in Forest Lawn
Memorial Park in Glendale, California. [3]
For his pioneering work on television, Del Moore received a
“Star” on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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