Jackie Moran

Acting

Jackie Moran

Born — Died

1923-01-26 — 1990-09-20

Place of birth

Mattoon, Illinois, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

38 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jackie Moran (January 26, 1923—September 20, 1990) was an American movie actor who, between 1936 and 1946, appeared in over thirty films, primarily in teenage roles. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jackie Moran, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Film credits

1970s · 2 titles

1940s · 18 titles

Since You Went Away poster
6.6

In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose patriarch has been called up to war, leaving behind his wife and two teen daughters.

Since You Went Away

1944

The Gang's All Here poster
5.4

Two friends take jobs as truck drivers, unaware that the trucking company is being targeted by a gang of saboteurs who will stop at nothing, including murder, to stop them.

The Gang's All Here

1941

Let's Go Steady poster
9.0

After learning they were duped by a con artist, two songwriters join forces with other swindled colleagues and use creative methods to promote their music.

Let's Go Steady

1945

Let's Go Collegiate poster
5.4

Rawley University is about to receive a star athlete who could give it the first championship rowing team it's ever had. Unfortunately, he gets drafted into the army before he's able to join the team. Two of the team's members get the bright idea of passing off a burly truck driver as the "athlete". Complications ensue.

Let's Go Collegiate

1941

Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble poster
6.2

Andy is going to Wainwright College as did his father. He sees a pretty blonde on the train and he is alternately winked at or slapped every time he sees her. Andy is clueless. On the train Andy meets Kay and Dr. Standish who are both headed for Wainwright. Andy likes Kay, but Dr. Standish also seems to take an interest in her. Things are going well at College with Kay, but the blonde is nice one minute and ignores Andy the next. When Andy finds out that the blonde is really identical twins, he tries to help them out with their father but gets caught at their rooming house after midnight.

Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble

1944

Song of the Open Road poster
8.0

A beautiful child star tires of life in the spotlight and so disguises herself and sneaks off to join a Civilian Conservation Corps camp to work with normal kids. It doesn't take her long to discover that being "normal" isn't easy as it looks. When a crop is in danger of being ruined because there are not enough people to harvest it, the girl employs some of her famous colleagues to lend a hand. Songs include: "Too Much in Love," "Here It Is Monday," "Delightfully Dangerous," "Hawaiian War Chant" and "Notre Dame."

Song of the Open Road

1944

Tomboy poster
NR

Family drama about a father raising his motherless teenage daughter in a small town.

Tomboy

1940

Henry Aldrich Haunts a House poster
7.0

Henry Aldrich and his high-school pals investigate a local haunted house.

Henry Aldrich Haunts a House

1943

Janie poster
6.0

Teenage Janie falls in love with a private from an Army base opposed by her editor father.

Janie

1944

Junior Prom poster
5.3

A wealthy man's son is running for high school student body president, and the boy's father tells the principal that if his son wins, he will make a sizable donation that will pay for the football team's much-needed uniforms.

Junior Prom

1946

Freddie Steps Out poster
4.0

When teen heartthrob Frankie Troy disappears, high schooler Freddie Trimble–a dead ringer for the crooner–is singled out by his so-called friends as the radio star. As hijinks ensue, things worsen when Troy's wife and newborn arrive.

Freddie Steps Out

1946

The Old Swimmin' Hole poster
7.0

Teenager Betty Elliott has decided to take over the business and social affairs of her father Doc Elliott. She thinks her father should marry the widowed mother, Julie Harper, of her boyfriend Chris Harper. Doc has been a real friend and father to Chris, who, under his guidance, has learned to take care of all the sick animals in town, but lack of money keeps the widow from sending Chris on to finish high school and medical training is out of the question. Wealthy Grandpa Harper sends his attorney Baker to tell Mrs. Harper that all of Jimmy's dreams could be realized if the widow, whom the grandfather dislikes, would give up custody of her son. The lawyer also begins to court Julie and this throws a kink in Betty's plans to see her father and the widow get married. Written by Les Adams

The Old Swimmin' Hole

1940

High School Hero poster
6.5

The Teen-Agers are down in the dumps: their football team faces almost-certain defeat, the school paper might need to suspend publication because circulation is so low, and the principal intends to replace student performers with professionals.

High School Hero

1946

Nobody's Darling poster
8.0

Ugly duckling Janie Farnsworth is a student at Pennington High School, and has a crush on Charles Grant, Jr., who is the writer and producer of the upcoming school play. But Chuck thinks that she is too untalented and unglamorous to have a part in his production....

Nobody's Darling

1943

Haunted House poster
5.2

Teenagers try to clear a friend accused of murder.

Haunted House

1940

There Goes Kelly poster
6.0

Two young men working as pages at a radio station try to get an audition for a girl they know who wants to be a singer. When the station's star singer is murdered, they decide to solve the crime themselves.

There Goes Kelly

1945

Betty Co-Ed poster
7.0

Joanne Leeds, a carnival hootchy-kootchy dancer, is accepted into a snobbish college sorority when it is assumed that she hails from a blue-blooded Virginia family.

Betty Co-Ed

1946

Three Little Sisters poster
7.0

The three Scott sisters, Susie, Hallie and Lily, live in the small town of Riverdale with their father Tom, a handyman whose laziness is legendary. The high-spirited sisters relieve the tedium by collaborating on Lily's correspondence with Pvt. Robert Mason, who is stationed in Arizona....

Three Little Sisters

1944

1930s · 14 titles

Gone with the Wind poster
7.9

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.

Gone with the Wind

1939

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer poster
6.6

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

1938

The Spirit of Culver poster
10.0

Tom Allen, an orphan accustomed to waiting in bread lines is awarded a scholarship to the Culver Military Academy. Talked into attending so that he can have free room and board, Allen initially resists the rigid discipline but later softens as he makes friends and sees the value to the hard work and discipline.

The Spirit of Culver

1939

Outcast poster
8.0

A physician in a small town suddenly finds himself the object of vilification and persecution when one of his patients commits suicide.

Outcast

1937

Valiant Is the Word for Carrie poster
6.7

Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul, whose dying mother is unable to protest against her son visiting such a woman. After Carrie has left town Paul runs away from his abusive father, and meets a girl named Lady who has run away from a burning trainwreck, not wanting to go back to the people she was with. Carrie comes back for Paul and ends up taking Paul and Lady to New York with her.

Valiant Is the Word for Carrie

1936

Michael O'Halloran poster
9.0

A wealthy woman's wild lifestyle finally drives her husband to take their two children, move out of the house and file for divorce. Positive she'll lose her children unless she shows the judge that she's changed her wild ways, she takes in two poor street kids, a brother and sister.

Michael O'Halloran

1937

Everybody's Hobby poster
6.2

A hobby-mad family makes their obsessions pay off.

Everybody's Hobby

1939

Mad About Music poster
7.0

A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father, and is eventually put in a position where she has to produce him. Interesting things happen as she talks a visiting Englishman into helping her out.

Mad About Music

1938

Arson Racket Squad poster
8.0

New York City fireman Bill O'Connell is assigned to the Arson Sqaud with the job of apprehending the for-profit gang of arsonists who are spreading terror and loss of property, including human life.

Arson Racket Squad

1938

Mother Carey's Chickens poster
6.0

A financially-strapped mother and her children relocate from the city to a small rural town.

Mother Carey's Chickens

1938

Buck Rogers poster
6.1

Buck Rogers and Buddy Wade are in the middle of a trans-polar dirigible flight when they are caught in a blizzard and crash. Buddy then releases a special gas to keep them in suspended animation until a rescue party can arrive. However, an avalanche covers the craft and the two are in suspended animation for 500 years. When they are found, they awake to find out that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane. Along with Lieutenant Wilma Deering, Buck and Buddy join in the fight to overthrow Kane and with the help of Prince Tallen of Saturn and his forces, they eventually do and Earth is free of Kane's grip.

Buck Rogers

1939

And So They Were Married poster
6.4

A bitter widow and a grumpy widower find themselves stuck in a hotel that is cut off from the outside by a snowstorm. Although both have no intention of getting married again, they begin to fall for each other. Their children, however, are determined to see that the "romance" never gets off the ground and do everything they can to see that they are kept apart.

And So They Were Married

1936

Meet Dr. Christian poster
7.0

The first of six films in the "Dr. Christian" series, starring Jean Hersholt as a small town doctor trying to convince local officials to approve funds for a new hospital.

Meet Dr. Christian

1939

Barefoot Boy poster
5.4

A spoiled boy sent to the country to grow-up. He has to deal with life, friends and crooks.

Barefoot Boy

1938