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name: "Ida Moore"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ida-moore"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "1 March 1882"
died: "26 September 1964"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T02:38:27.784107+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Ida Moore

Actor. Born 1 March 1882 in Altoona, Kansas, USA. Died 26 September 1964.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 March 1882, Altoona, Kansas, USA
- **Died:** 26 September 1964
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 other
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1940s 78 (1), 1950s 74 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Moore, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60493529, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0601287/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/108434

## Biography

Ida Moore was an American actress. Born on 1 March 1882 in Altoona, Kansas, she died on 26 September 1964 in Los Angeles, California.

She made her film debut in *Lightnin'* (1925) and later appeared in numerous supporting roles, often as elderly or eccentric characters. Her credits include *The Egg and I* (1947), *Johnny Belinda* (1948) as Mrs. McKee, *The Dark Mirror* (1946), *Scandal Sheet* (1952), *The Country Girl* (1954), *Desk Set* (1957) and *Rock-a-Bye Baby* (1958). She also worked in television, with appearances in series such as *I Love Lucy*, *Alfred Hitchcock Presents* and *The Jack Benny Program*.

*Sources: imdb.com, encyclopedia.com, actoragecheck.com, findagrave.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1) — the average rests on these

- *Johnny Belinda* (1948), Fi1m 78, as Mrs. McKee — [page](https://film.one/film/johnny-belinda.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *The Country Girl* (1954), Fi1m 74, as Helen, Actress in Play (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/the-country-girl.md)

## Complete filmography (52)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Rock-a-Bye Baby* (1958), as Miss Bessie
- *Desk Set* (1957), as Old Lady
- *Alfred Hitchcock Presents* (1955), series, as Kitty
- *The Country Girl* (1954), as Helen, Actress in Play (uncredited) — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/the-country-girl.md)
- *A Slight Case of Larceny* (1953), as Old lady
- *Scandal at Scourie* (1953), as Mrs. Ames
- *Carson City* (1952), as Spinster on Stagecoach (uncredited)
- *Something to Live For* (1952), as Old Woman with Dog (uncredited)
- *Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder* (1952), as Martha Blake
- *Just This Once* (1952), as Mrs. Morgan
- *The First Time* (1952), as Old Lady
- *Scandal Sheet* (1952), as Needle Nellie
- *I Love Lucy* (1951), series, as Ruth Knickerbocker
- *Bannerline* (1951), as Mrs. Small
- *Leave It to the Marines* (1951), as Grandma Meek
- *Comin' Round the Mountain* (1951), as Granny McCoy
- *The Lemon Drop Kid* (1951), as Mrs. Feeney - The Bird Lady
- *Mr. Music* (1950), as Aunt Amy
- *Fancy Pants* (1950), as Elderly Mother (uncredited)
- *Backfire* (1950), as Sybil (uncredited)
- *The Inspector General* (1949), as Old Villager (uncredited)
- *Leave It to Henry* (1949), as Aunt Martha
- *Hold That Baby!* (1949), as Faith Andrews
- *Ma and Pa Kettle* (1949), as Emily
- *Rusty Leads the Way* (1948), as Mrs. Mungy (uncredited)
- *Johnny Belinda* (1948), as Mrs. McKee — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/johnny-belinda.md)
- *Shed No Tears* (1948), as Bus Passenger (Uncredited)
- *Money Madness* (1948), as Mrs. Ferguson
- *Champagne for Two* (1947), as Mrs. Benjamin Cowdy
- *The Egg and I* (1947), as Emily
- *High Barbaree* (1947), as Old Lady (uncredited)
- *Easy Come, Easy Go* (1947), as Angela Orange
- *It's a Joke, Son!* (1947), as Matilda Whipple
- *The Dark Mirror* (1946), as Mrs. O'Brien (uncredited)
- *The Bride Wore Boots* (1946), as Mrs. Walsh (uncredited)
- *Talk About a Lady* (1946), as Gossip
- *To Each His Own* (1946), as Miss Claflin
- *From This Day Forward* (1946), as Hairdresser
- *The Windjammer* (1945), as Grandmother
- *Girls of the Big House* (1945), as 'Mother' Fielding
- *The Girl of the Limberlost* (1945), as Bird Woman (uncredited)
- *Her Lucky Night* (1945), as Mama
- *Hi, Beautiful* (1944), as Landlady (uncredited)
- *The Town Went Wild* (1944), as Mrs. Jones
- *Riders of the Santa Fe* (1944), as Luella Tucker
- *The Soul of a Monster* (1944), as Mrs. Kirby (uncredited)
- *Reckless Age* (1944), as Customer
- *Once Upon a Time* (1944), as Old Lady on Subway (uncredited)
- *She's a Soldier Too* (1944), as Julia Kittredge
- *The Ghost That Walks Alone* (1944), as Cornelia Coates
- *Cutie on Duty* (1943), as Nosey Neighbor
- *Thank You* (1925), as Gossiping Woman

## Gallery

- ![Ida Moore in The Inspector General - cropped screenshot (1949)](https://film.one/media/person/1235952/gallery-8a65dd16b5dc.jpg) Ida Moore in The Inspector General - cropped screenshot (1949) — film screenshot (Warner Bros.), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Ida_Moore_in_The_Inspector_General.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Ida Moore](https://film.one/media/person/1235952/gallery-07b7eed4f812.jpg) Ida Moore — Image via TMDB

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