Jack Moore

As a child, Moore found himself fascinated with writing up whatever he could, which largely influenced him to later start a career in journalism. At 16, Moore started working at the Vancouver Sun by working as a copy runner, where he met Judith Wyles, another copy runner, in 1958. Both were 18 when they had their first child, Tam, and Moore became panic-stricken as he felt that he wasn't ready to be a father. Moore hurriedly moved from Vancouver to travel to New York in order to pursue a career as a journalist. Then, in 1968, Moore moved to Hong Kong. In Hong Kong, Moore was film critic for the South China Sunday Post-Herald. Moore married Lyla Fay King - a Vancouver-born Canadian secretary and co-worker - and had a honeymoon in Macau. Moore wrote some of the first major news articles about Bruce Lee following his Lee's rise to stardom (including an interview with Lee). Moore's earliest extant dub work includes all of the extant dubs of Bob Toole's group, recorded in 1970 and 1971. However, according to Moore in his 1973 article I Was Bruce Lee's Voice, he "got into the racket a few months after arriving." In 1972, after the dissolution of Toole's dubbing group, Moore began to appear in Ted Thomas's group, first in minor roles. Then, after Frank Mullen (one of Thomas's main "hero voices" since 1967) ceased dubbing for Thomas, Moore took over as the main "hero voice" for Thomas's group. In Moore's own estimation, he "took about a dozen movies where [he] did David Chiang." During the early 1970s, Moore's writing style proved to be particularly popular, as his book A Guide to Hong Kong's Saloons and Bawdy Houses became a bestseller in Hong Kong. The popularity of Moore's film reviews led to him hosting a film review show that aired in Hong Kong in the early 1970s. Moore divorced King and moved back to Vancouver in late 1972 or early 1973. Back in Vancouver, Moore found work in radio and worked as a journalist for the Westender and the Vancouver Courier. Moore later…

Known for

Acting

Born

1942-05-05 · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Died

2002-02-02