Kieron MooreFilmography

Run Like a Thief

Actors: Ina Balin, Sancho Gracia, Bobby Hall, Victor Maddern, Scott Miller

Synopsis: A priceless cache of blue diamonds cause criminal chaos in this grim action drama that is set in the Mexican jungle. The excitement begins with the robbery of an armored car carrying the valuable gems. Something goes awry and all but one of the thieves die violently. The sole witness to the crime Read More

Arabesque

Actors: Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Alan Badel, Kieron Moore, Carl Duering

Synopsis: An expert in ancient hieroglyphics unexpectedly finds himself involved in a web of international intrigue in this chic, enjoyably tongue-in-cheek espionage adventure. Gregory Peck stars as David Pollock, an American professor whose predictable academic routine is overturned when he is hired to Read More

Son of a Gunfighter

Actors: Russ Tamblyn, James Philbrook, Fernando Rey, Kieron Moore, Maria Granada

Synopsis: In this western set during 1877 along the Mexican-American border, outlaws attack a stagecoach and find themselves defeated by an ace gunman with a hatred for evil-doers. The gunman decides to take off after the group leader, but the good guy shootist is hit while defending a beleaguered rancher Read More

Crack in the World

Actors: Dana Andrews, Janette Scott, Kieron Moore, Alexander Knox, Peter Damon

Synopsis: A scientist trying to better mankind nearly destroys the world as we know it in this sci-fi thriller. Dr. Stephen Sorensen (Dana Andrews) is doing research in geo-thermal energy; he's convinced that if men can find a way to drill through the earth's outer crust into the molten magma near the Read More

Bikini Paradise

Synopsis: Mission to Paradise is a British equivalent to those frolicsome female skinfests often seen on the USA network's Up All Night. British military officers Kieron Moore and John Baer are shipwrecked while on a reconnaissance mission. They soon discover to their delight that the island is Read More

The Thin Red Line

Actors: Keir Dullea, Jack Warden, James Philbrook, Ray Daley, Bob Kanter

Synopsis: Set during the Allied invasion of the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater during WWII, this film is based on the novel by James Jones. Keir Dullea is Private Doll, who dreads the invasion and steals a pistol to help him protect himself. Sergeant Welsh (Jack Warden), a caustic Read More

Hide and Seek

Actors: Ian Carmichael, Janet Munro, Curd Jürgens, George Pravda, Hugh Griffith

Synopsis: A professor of astronomy, David Garrett (Ian Carmichael), is involved with a highly confidential project to develop missiles. He runs into an old friend from the Soviet Union who is now the world chess champion. As David soon discovers, the champion is with a team working for sinister businessman Read More

The Model Murder Case

Synopsis: When a beautiful model is found shot in her apartment, a famous television star is felt to be the murderer in a failed extortion plot. Although the investigation turns up a surprise ending, by the time most viewers get there they could not care less who did it. Singularly uninspired murder drama. Read More

The Main Attraction

Actors: Nancy Kwan, Pat Boone, Mai Zetterling, Yvonne Mitchell, Kieron Moore

Synopsis: A rather innocent and naive tale of romance, The Main Attraction features clean-cut Pat Boone trying to drop his good-boy image and not wholly succeeding. He plays Eddie, who works in an Italian café until he is fired for mixing it up with some rowdies. Hitting the pavement, he runs into Gina (Mai Zetterling Read More

The Day of the Triffids

Actors: Howard Keel, Kieron Moore, Janette Scott, Nicole Maurey, Mervyn Johns

Synopsis: Adapted from the novel by John Wyndham, this intelligent British monster movie begins with a meteor shower so intensely bright that it blinds the majority of the world's population, rendering them vulnerable to attack from hordes of carnivorous plants known as "Triffidus Celestus" grown from Read More

Marauders of the Sea

Synopsis: When a friend is accused of mutiny and sentenced to death, Sir Francis Drake must make a difficult decision. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

I Thank a Fool

Actors: Susan Hayward, Peter Finch, Diane Cilento, Cyril Cusack, Kieron Moore

Synopsis: Dr. Susan Hayward makes a tragic mistake when she leaves her Canadian practice to follow her ailing, married lover to England. Dying slowly and in great pain, her love begs her to help him die quickly. With great compassion, she does so with a large morphine injection. Unfortunately, her mercy Read More

The 300 Spartans

Actors: Richard Egan, Ralph Richardson, Diane Baker, Barry Coe, David Farrar

Synopsis: A colorful action film about the Battle Of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. in which the Spartans defend themselves for a Persian invasion against overwhelming odds. King Leodinas (Richard Egan) rallies the locals to stop the attack of thousands of plundering Persian invaders led by evil King Xerxes (David Read More

Dr. Blood's Coffin

Actors: Kieron Moore, Hazel Court, Ian Hunter, Fred Johnson, Kenneth J. Warren

Synopsis: Between his internship in Canadian television and his A-feature work on The Ipcress File, Sidney J. Furie directed an old-fashioned horror flick called Doctor Blood's Coffin. Kieron Moore stars as research scientist Dr. Peter Blood, who's been experimenting with heart transplants. Thrown out of Read More

The Day They Robbed the Bank of England

Actors: Aldo Ray, Elizabeth Sellars, Hugh Griffith, Peter O'Toole, Kieron Moore

Synopsis: This crime caper based on a legendary robbery stars Aldo Ray as Norgate, the ringleader of the thieves out to steal a bundle from the Bank of England. But it is a young Peter O'Toole as the guard Fitch who steals the show -- two years before Lawrence of Arabia would make him an internationally Read More

The League of Gentlemen

Actors: Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey, Richard Attenborough, Bryan Forbes

Synopsis: An engrossing suspenser with dashes of comedy, League of Gentlemen is about a daring group of highly trained army men, turned bank robbers. When Hyde (Jack Hawkins) is drummed out of the army after years of devoted service, he decides to get back at society in general. One by one, he finds seven Read More

The Siege of Sidney Street

Actors: Donald Sinden, Nicole Maurey, Kieron Moore, Peter Wyngarde, Godfrey Quigley, Leonard Sachs

Synopsis: A real-life incident became the basis for this highly fictionalized drama about a January 1911 confrontation between political anarchists and London police in that city's Whitechapel district that resulted in an infamous, blazing gun battle. Sara (Nicole Berger) is an orphaned Russian girl who Read More

Disneyland: I Captured the King of the Leprechauns

Actors: Walt Disney, Pat O'Brien, Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Sean Connery

Synopsis: In its promotional material for the 1959 theatrical feature Darby O'Gill and the Little People, the Disney studio went into whimsical overdrive, hoping to convince the younger viewers that the leprechauns appearing in the film were not merely normal-sized actors made small via special effects, but Read More

Navy Heroes

Synopsis: A cynical wounded war hero becomes the athletic director at a boys' camp. The lively children brighten his days and make him more optimistic about life. ~ Steve Huey, All Movie Guide Read More

The Angry Hills

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Elisabeth Müller, Stanley Baker, Gia Scala, Theodore Bikel, Donald Wolfit

Synopsis: Robert Aldrich (Kiss Me Deadly) directed this cloak-and-dagger yarn (based on a bestseller by Leon Uris), filmed on sumptuous locations in Greece. Set in Athens in 1941, before the Nazis overran the country, Robert Mitchum plays American war correspondent Mike Morrison, who has come into the Read More

Darby O'Gill and the Little People

Actors: Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Sean Connery, Jimmy O'Dea, Kieron Moore

Synopsis: Baby boomers who may not remember the plot particulars of Walt Disney's Darby O'Gill and the Little People nonetheless retain fond memories of Disney's publicity campaign, which included an episode of the producer's weekly TV series, wherein the actor playing leprechaun king Brian (Jimmy O'Dea) Read More

The Key

Actors: William Holden, Sophia Loren, Trevor Howard, Oscar Homolka, Kieron Moore

Synopsis: The Key was adapted by Carl Foreman from Stella, a novel by Jan De Hartog. The time is WW2: The place, Plymouth England. Canadian tug captain David Ross (William Holden) and his British counterpart Chris Ford (Trevor Howard) pay a visit to Ford's lady friend Stella (Sophia Loren). Before the men Read More

The Steel Bayonet

Actors: Michael Caine, Kieron Moore, Michael Medwin, Robert Brown, Michael Ripper

Synopsis: This British WW II drama takes place in the wilds of Tunis. Major Gerrard (Leo Genn) is ordered to lead a desperate mission to capture a Nazi-held farmhouse. Despite the fact that this undertaking is tantamount to committing suicide, Gerrard has no trouble rounding up volunteers. There's a bit too Read More

Three Sundays to Live

Synopsis: After a former dance band leader is wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Desperate to prove his innocence, he busts out of prison, contacts his lover and embarks upon a desperate search for the one woman who witnessed the killing. Unfortunately, the real killer gets to her first Read More

Satellite in the Sky

Actors: Kieron Moore, Lois Maxwell, Donald Wolfit, Bryan Forbes, Jimmy Hanley

Synopsis: The topicality of Satellite in the Sky enabled the British-based Danzinger Bros. to release the film through Warner Bros., rather than their usual United Artists distribution channels. The story concerns the first manned space satellite, launched from England with commander Michael Hayden (Kieron Moore Read More

Blue Peter

Synopsis: The British-filmed The Blue Peter was released in the US under the title Navy Heroes. This was an oblique reference to the protagonist, a wartime hero played by Kieron Moore. Disoriented and aimless after the war, Moore accepts a job as a physical trainer at a school for boys. In helping these Read More

The Green Scarf

Actors: Michael Redgrave, Ann Todd, Kieron Moore, Richard O'Sullivan

Synopsis: The Green Scarf may be set in France, but its cast, crew, and overall tone is impeccably British. Michael Redgrave, hidden beneath a mattress of whiskers, portrays a French lawyer who takes on a seemingly hopeless case. His client, Kieron Moore, is a blind deaf-mute seaman accused of murder. Moore Read More

Conflict of Wings

Actors: John Gregson, Muriel Pavlow, Kieron Moore, Niall MacGinnis

Synopsis: The British Conflict of Wings was also released as Fuss over Feathers: Both titles are applicable, but only the second title captures the mood of the proceedings. The story takes plays in a Norfolk-country village, where the populace is up in arms over the announcement that the RAF plans to build Read More

Man in Hiding

Synopsis: Paul Henreid stars in the compact British noir thriller Man in Hiding. Henreid plays a detective, out to capture a slippery murderer. At one point, our hero is forced by circumstances to elude the law himself. Future "Miss Moneypenny" Lois Maxwell, former "Saint" Hugh Sinclair, and Kieron Moore Read More

Woman in Hiding

Synopsis: In this thriller, an imprisoned psycho killer's wife tries to start a new life. She changes her name and marries again. Her true identity is known only by her employer. The trouble begins when the killer escapes from prison. A detective pursues him and discovers that the killer is perfectly sane Read More

Recoil

Synopsis: In this action-filled crime drama, a young woman goes out to bring the criminals who robbed and murdered her father, a jeweler, by posing as a crook herself and infiltrating their gang. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Due Moglie Sono Troppe

Synopsis: In this comedy, a braggart and his new bride head for a honeymoon in Italy. There they go to the small village the groom claims to have freed all by himself. Unfortunately, the villagers are most unhappy to see him. Before he can safely continue his honeymoon, he must clear his name with them. Read More

David and Bathsheba

Actors: Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Raymond Massey, Kieron Moore, James Robertson Justice

Synopsis: David and Bathsheba is a respectable, slightly stodgy cinematic adaptation of the Old Testament story. King David (Gregory Peck), much beloved by his subjects and a war hero of long standing, falls victim to the sins of the flesh when he falls in love with Bathsheba (Susan Hayward), the wife of Read More

Ten Tall Men

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Jody Lawrance, Gilbert Roland, Kieron Moore, George Tobias

Synopsis: For his initial effort from his own Norma Productions, Burt Lancaster picked a winner in Ten Tall Men. Lancaster stars as "Sergeant Mike," a two-fisted Foreign Legionnaire presiding over a lovable band of mercenaries, sneak thieves and cutthroats. While sitting in the stockade for the umpteenth Read More

The Naked Heart

Actors: Michèle Morgan, Kieron Moore, Françoise Rosay, Jack Watling

Synopsis: The Naked Heart was also released as Maria Chapdelaine, which also happened to be the title of its source, a novel by Louis Hemon. Adapter-director Marc Allegret has fashioned the material into a vehicle for one of his most successful discoveries, Michele Morgan. This is the story of a young woman Read More

Maria Chapdelaine

Actors: Michèle Morgan, Kieron Moore, Philippe Lemaire, Françoise Rosay

Saints and Sinners

Actors: Kieron Moore, Christine Norden, Sheila Manahan, Michael Dolan, Maire O'Neill

Synopsis: Saints and Sinners is set in a remote Irish village where "appearances" take precedence over everything else. Having served two years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, Michael Kissane (Kieron Moore) returns to his home town of Kilwarra. While many of his old friends believe in Michael's Read More

Anna Karenina

Actors: Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson, Kieron Moore, Hugh Dempster, Mary Kerridge

Synopsis: This 1948 adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina was produced in England by Alexander Korda, and released in the US by 20th Century-Fox. Vivien Leigh plays the title role, a 19th-century Russian gentlewoman married to Czarist official Ralph Richardson. Though her marriage is not intolerable Read More

Mine Own Executioner

Actors: Burgess Meredith, Dulcie Gray, Michael Shepley, Christine Norden, Kieron Moore

Synopsis: London psychiatrist Burgess Meredith takes on the case of schizophrenic ex-POW Kieron Moore. So long as Meredith is diligent in his approach, Moore shows signs of improvement, and a lessening of his more violent tendencies. But the moment Meredith takes too much for granted, Moore goes off the Read More

A Man About the House

Actors: Margaret Johnston, Dulcie Gray, Guy Middleton, Felix Aylmer

Synopsis: A novel by Francis Brett Young and its theatrical adaptation by John Perry were the sources for the even-keeled melodrama A Man About the House. Handsome Italian laborer Kieron Moore works as caretaker of the Neopolitan villa inherited by plain-Jane Englishwomen Margaret Johnston and Dulcie Gray. Read More

The Voice Within

Synopsis: In this crime drama two brothers in the IRA become rivals when they fall in love with the same woman--their adopted step-sister. When one of the two needs to flee Ireland, the other is more than happy to oblige so he can have the girl to himself. Unfortunately, the conniving brother accidentally Read More