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{{Short description|American artist and character animator}}
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{{Infobox person
|name = Fred Moore
|birth_name = Robert Fred Moore
|birth_date = {{Birth date|1911|9|7|mf=y}}
|birth_place = [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], U.S.
|death_date = {{death date and age|1952|11|23|1911|9|7}}
|death_place = [[Burbank, California]], U.S.
|occupation = Artist and [[animator]]
|employer = [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Walt Disney Productions]] (1930–1946, 1948–1952)<br />[[Walter Lantz Productions]] (1946–1948)
}}
'''Robert Fred Moore''' (September 7, 1911 – November 23, 1952), was an American artist and [[animator]] for [[Walt Disney Animation Studios]]. Often called "'''Freddie'''," he was born and raised in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]]. Despite limited formal art training, he rose to prominence at Disney very quickly in the early 1930s, due to his great natural talent and the tremendous appeal of his drawings. His drawings are still greatly admired by animators and animation fans.
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===Early life and career beginnings===
Moore was born in Los Angeles and is best known for being the resident specialist in the animation of [[Mickey Mouse]]. He is most notable for redesigning the character in 1938 for his landmark role in "[[The Sorcerer's Apprentice]]" in ''[[Fantasia (1940 film)|Fantasia]]'', a look which remains Mickey's official look to this day. His animation of the earlier Mickey Mouse design was especially memorable in the 1938 short ''[[Brave Little Tailor]]'', the last significant appearance of the "pie-eyed" Mickey.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Fred Moore |url=https://d23.com/walt-disney-legend/fred-moore/ |access-date=2024-07-07 |website=D23 |language=en-US}}</ref>
Moore's other significant work at the studio included ''[[Three Little Pigs (film)|The Three Little Pigs]]'', on which he was the principal animator; animation supervision of the dwarfs in ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs]]''; most of Lampwick in ''[[Pinocchio (1940 film)|Pinocchio]]'' (all of the poolroom scene and until halfway through his transformation to a donkey); and Timothy the mouse in ''[[Dumbo]]''.<ref name=":0" /> Lampwick, who had red hair and buck teeth, has been largely believed to be a self-caricaturization of Fred Moore, as he was responsible for much of the character's designs and scenes. Moore animated some scenes of the mice from ''[[Cinderella (1950 film)|Cinderella]]'', some scenes of the oysters as well as some of the later scenes of the White Rabbit in ''[[Alice in Wonderland (1951 film)|Alice In Wonderland]]'', and did the mermaids in the Mermaid Lagoon for ''[[Peter Pan (1953 film)|Peter Pan]]''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Canemaker |first=John |title=Walt Disney's Nine Old Men and the Art of Animation |publisher=Disney Editions |year=2001 |isbn=978-0-7868-6496-6 |___location=New York |pages=225–226}}</ref>
Moore was well known around the studio for his drawings of innocently [[sexual attraction|sexy]], often [[nude]], [[women]], referred to as "Freddie Moore Girls." Some of his girl designs found their way into Disney films: for example, the [[centaur]]ettes in ''Fantasia'' and the teenage girls in the "All the Cats Join In" segment of ''[[Make Mine Music]]''. (In "All The Cats Join In", Moore personally animated the sequence at the beginning, when the girl answers the telephone and then quickly showers and dresses, through to her scene putting on lipstick in front of her mirror). Moore's enduring influence can also be seen in the design of Casey's daughters in the 1954 short "Casey Bats Again". His [[good girl art]] remains iconic and influential. A model sheet for [[Ariel (The Little Mermaid)|Ariel]] in the 1989 Disney film ''[[The Little Mermaid (1989 film)|The Little Mermaid]]'' made specific distinctions between the design of that character and a "Freddie Moore Girl."
Moore's drawings and design style have come to epitomize the formative years of the studio in between [[Ub Iwerks]]' departure in 1930 and the ascension of the "[[Nine Old Men]]", after which studio design was dominated by animator [[Milt Kahl]], along with storyboard artist [[Bill Peet]], and later production designer [[Ken Anderson (animator)|Ken Anderson]]. During the 1930s, Moore, [[Art Babbitt]], [[Norm Ferguson (animator)|Norm Ferguson]], [[Bill Tytla]], and Ham Luske were the dominant Disney animators whose pioneering work culminated in 1937 with the breakthrough of ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs''.
Moore was a close friend of fellow animators [[Ward Kimball]] and [[Walt Kelly]], though he apparently had a quieter and more reserved nature than either of them. Many surviving gag drawings by Kelly from the period of ''Pinocchio'' show Kimball as the corrupt Lampwick, with boyish Moore as Pinocchio. Moore and Kimball were also caricatured as song and dance men in the 1941 Mickey Mouse short ''[[The Nifty Nineties]]''. Moore makes a brief (and quiet) live-action appearance in the 1941 feature ''[[The Reluctant Dragon (1941 film)|The Reluctant Dragon]]'', along with Kimball and animator [[Norm Ferguson (animator)|Norm Ferguson]] during one of the studio tour sequences. Kimball has discussed surreptitiously performing some of Moore's Disney work when Moore was too inebriated to finish it.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://cartoonician.com/ward-kimballs-final-farewell/ |title=''Ward Kimball's Final Farewell'', Hogan's Alley #11 |access-date=2016-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306095332/http://cartoonician.com/ward-kimballs-final-farewell/ |archive-date=2016-03-06 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
He talked little about his family. His daughters were Sue Moore and Melinda Moore. Later on, his daughter Sue had married and had another daughter named Kelly Hall, who now resides in Tacoma, Washington, with her two children. Melinda married and had two children; her son Christian resides in the Bay Area and her daughter Timothia resides in Los Angeles.
===Brief departure and return to ''Disney''===
Fred Moore was briefly fired from Disney Studios in 1946 due to his alcoholism. Through former Disney Animator [[Dick Lundy (animator)|Dick Lundy]], he was hired at [[Walter Lantz Productions]], where he redesigned the characters of [[Woody Woodpecker]] and [[Andy Panda]] during a two-year stint that ended with his return to Disney in 1948 due to Lantz temporarily closing his studio because of financial Issues.
===Accident and death===
Moore was already at work animating the mermaids and the lost boys for ''[[Peter Pan (1953 film)|Peter Pan]]'' when both he and his second wife, Virginia, were injured in a traffic accident early on the evening of Saturday, November 22, 1952, when their car was struck head-on while she made a U-turn on a rural highway through [[Big Tujunga Canyon]] near the [[Angeles National Forest]]. The Moores were reportedly returning from a day spent watching an [[American football]] game with fellow Disney artist [[Jack Kinney]]. Moore died the following day at St. Joseph's Hospital in [[Burbank, California]], located across the street from the Disney Studios, from a [[cerebral hemorrhage]] resulting from a concussion.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Amidi |first=Amid |author-link=Amid Amidi |date=2006-08-08 |title=Freddie Moore Slandered Again? |url=https://www.cartoonbrew.com/old-brew/freddie-moore-slandered-again-2058.html |access-date=2024-07-07 |website=Cartoon Brew |language=en-US}}</ref> Moore is interred at [[Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)]] in a plot overlooking the Disney Studios.
Fred Moore was posthumously inducted as a [[Disney Legend]] by the studio in 1995,<ref name=":0" /> and posthumously received the animation industry's Winsor McCay Award in 1983.<ref>{{Cite web |title=51st Annual Annie Awards |url=https://annieawards.org/ |access-date=2024-07-07 |website=annieawards.org |language=en}}</ref>
==Filmography==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! Year
! Title
! Credits
! Characters
|-
| 1937 || ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs]]'' || Supervising Animator ||
|-
|rowspan="2"| 1940 || ''[[Pinocchio (1940 film)|Pinocchio]]'' || Animation Director ||
|-
|''[[Fantasia (1940 film)|Fantasia]]'' || Animation Supervisor - Segments "''[[The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Dukas)|The Sorcerer's Apprentice]]''" and "''[[Symphony No. 6 (Beethoven)|The Pastoral Symphony]]''" ||
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1941 || ''[[The Reluctant Dragon (1941 film)|The Reluctant Dragon]]'' || Animator ||
|-
|''[[Dumbo]]'' || Animation Director ||
|-
| 1943 || ''[[Saludos Amigos]]'' (Short) || Animator ||
|-
| 1945 || ''[[The Three Caballeros]]'' || Animator ||
|-
| 1946 || ''[[Make Mine Music]]'' || Animator ||
|-
| 1947 || ''[[Fun and Fancy Free]]'' || Directing Animator ||
|-
| rowspan="6" | 1948 || ''[[The Mad Hatter (film)|The Mad Hatter]]'' (Short) || Animator || [[Woody Woodpecker]]
|-
|''Wacky-Bye Baby'' (Short) || Animator || Woody Woodpecker
|-
|''Playful Pelican'' (Short) || Animator<ref>{{cite web | url=https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/andy-panda-in-playful-pelican-1948/ | title=Andy Panda in "Playful Pelican" (1948) | }}</ref> || [[Andy Panda]]
|-
|''Pixie Picnic'' (Short) || Animator ||
|-
|''[[Wet Blanket Policy]]'' (Short) || Animator<ref>{{cite web | url=https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/wet-blanket-policy-1948/ | title="Wet Blanket Policy" (1948) | }}</ref> || Woody Woodpecker
|-
|''Wild and Woody!'' (Short) || Animator<ref>{{cite web | url=https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/dick-lundys-wild-and-woody-redux/ | title=Dick Lundy's "WILD AND WOODY!" (Redux) | }}</ref> || Woody Woodpecker
|-
| 1949 || ''[[The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad]]'' || Character Animator ||
|-
|rowspan="2"| 1950 || ''[[Cinderella (1950 film)|Cinderella]]'' || Character Animator ||
|-
|''[[The Brave Engineer]]'' (Short) || Animator ||
|-
|rowspan="4"| 1951 || ''Plutopia'' (Short) || Animator ||
|-
|''[[Alice in Wonderland (1951 film)|Alice in Wonderland]]'' || Character Animator ||
|-
|''[[R'coon Dawg]]'' (Short) || Animator ||
|-
|''Fathers Are People'' (Short) || Animator ||
|-
|rowspan="2"| 1952 || ''[[Pluto's Party]]'' (Short) || Animator ||
|-
|''[[Pluto's Christmas Tree]]'' (Short) || Animator ||
|-
|rowspan="3"| 1953 || ''[[Peter Pan (1953 film)|Peter Pan]]'' || Character Animator ||
|-
|''[[The Simple Things]]'' (Short) || Animator ||
|-
|''Football Now and Then'' (Short) || Animator ||
|-
| 1954 || ''Casey Bats Again'' (Short) || Animator ||
|-
| 1957 - 1979 || ''[[Walt Disney anthology television series|Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color]]'' (TV Series) || Animator - ''[[List of Walt Disney anthology television series episodes|6 Episodes]]'' ||
|-
| 1980 || ''Mickey Mouse Disco'' (Short) || Animator ||
|-
| 1987 || ''[[The Puppetoon Movie]]'' || Puppetoon Creative Artist: United States ||
|-
| 1995 || ''[[Frank and Ollie]]'' (Documentary) || Caricaturist ||
|-
| 2000 || ''[[Fantasia 2000]]'' || Animation Supervisor - Segment "''The Sorcerer's Apprentice''" ||
|-
|}
==See also==
{{Portal|Biography}}
* ''[[A Trip Through the Walt Disney Studios]]'', a documentary from 1937
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
*{{IMDb name|0601216|Fred Moore}}
*[https://blackwingdiaries.blogspot.com/search/label/Fred%20Moore Blackwing Diaries blog postings on Fred Moore--with extensive examples of artwork.]
*[https://blackwingdiaries.blogspot.com/2006/08/on-death-truth-and-animation-history.html A Blackwing Diaries editorial from Jennifer Lerew exposing attempts to smear Fred Moore.]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927215838/http://www.cartoonbrew.com/old-brew/freddie-moore-slandered-again A Cartoon Brew editorial from Amid Amidi exposing inaccuracies about Fred Moore in Jeff Lenburg's ''Who's Who in Animated Cartoons''.]
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