Perry Moore

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William Perry Moore IV (born November 4, 1971 in Richmond , Virginia , † February 17, 2011 in Manhattan , New York ) was an American film producer and director .

Life

Childhood and youth

Perry Moore grew up as the son of William and Nancy Morris Moore in Virginia Beach on the US Atlantic coast. He has two sisters. As a teenager, Moore graduated from the Norfolk Academy in Norfolk, Virginia in 1990 before enrolling at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville , where he received his BA in film studies four years later in 1994 . During the Bill Clinton presidency in the mid-1990s, Moore worked briefly as an intern at the White House .

Career

Moore gained his first experience in film and television in 1996, initially at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in New York City and finally behind the scenes at The Rosie O'Donnell Show , which was also produced in New York. When the film production company Walden Media was founded in 2001 , Moore played a key role in its development. In 2003 he made his debut as a filmmaker as executive producer of the drama I Am David starring James Caviezel .

In 2005 Moore was instrumental in securing the film rights to The Chronicles of Narnia . Moore was executive producer on both the first film, The Chronicles of Narnia: The King of Narnia, which hit theaters in 2005, as well as the two sequels.

In 2008 Moore was behind the camera for the first time as a director. Together with Hunter Hill he directed the drama Lake City, for which he was able to win Sissy Spacek and Rebecca Romijn as actresses.

Perry Moore came out as gay at an early age . In 2007 he wrote the novel Hero in which, with Thom Creed, he not only created a hero with superpowers, but also a hero who was gay. In May 2008 Moore received the Lambda Literary Award for this.

death

On February 17, 2011, Perry Moore was found dead by his partner Hunter Hill, with whom he had shot Lake City , in their apartment in New York's SoHo neighborhood . Forensic medicine assumes a drug overdose , which was the fatality of the producer.

Filmography

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/19/books/19moore.html

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personal data
SURNAME Moore, Perry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moore IV, William Perry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film producer and film director
DATE OF BIRTH 4th November 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Richmond , Virginia
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 2011
Place of death Manhattan , New York City