Tom Moore appeared in his first motion picture in 1912 and directed the 1915 film The Secret Room. Frequently cast as the romantic lead, he starred in many silent films as well as in some of the first sound films.
In 1914, he married silent film star Alice Joyce, with whom he had a daughter named Alice who, in later years, would act in films with her father.
While in New York City on New Year’s Eve 1920 Tom Moore met the young French actress Renée Adorée. A whirlwind romance ensued and six weeks after meeting, they were married on February 12, 1921 in his home in Beverly Hills, California. The marriage lasted only a few years and in 1931 Tom Moore married a third time to Eleanor Merry.
The Great Depression saw many studios close and much consolidation as the motion industry went through tough times and Tom Moore retired from film in the mid 1930s. Ten years later, he returned to act in minor supporting roles.
Tom Moore died in Santa Monica, California. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1640 Vine Street.
Moore established an in-house Psychoacoustics Laboratory that is studying the perception of complex auditory signals, an in-house Neural Nets Laboratory that is investigating the use of auditory models as pre-processors for neural nets designed to perform speech recognition, and efforts to investigate the g-excess effect and to develop a research program for spatial disorientation.
Moore has conducted a series of experiments investigating signal processing capabilities of human and animal auditory systems which formed the basis for developing analog models of the auditory system and the in-house development of an automatic speech recognition system.
Moore pioneered the use of speech as an input signal in single-cell neurophysiological studies, a practice that is now in general use in neurophysiological investigations of the auditory system.
Moore probably was not aware of this; at any rate he never availed himself of it.
Moore's reputation in the literary world of his time was of the highest, as is shown from the business arrangements made for the copyright of "Lalla Rookh" (1817).
MOORE, Memoirs, Journals, and correspondence, edited by LORD JOHN RUSSELL (London, 1853-6); GWYNN, ThomasMoore (London,1905); GUNNING, Moore, Poet and Patriot (Dublin, 1900); Memoirs of the author prefixed to the poems collected by Moore himself (1841); VALLET, Etude sur lavie et les oeuvres de ThomasMoore (Paris, 1886).
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