Army Air Forces and served with that branch's First Motion Picture Unit making training films, such as Target-Invisible, in which Moore co-starred with fellow actor Arthur Kennedy. Subsequently, he was cast as an occasional player in B Westerns and the lead in four Republic Studio cliffhangers and in two films for Columbia Pictures.ĭuring World War II, Moore enlisted in the U.S. Moore in his 1996 autobiography I Was That Masked Man noted that Hollywood producer Edward Small persuaded him around 1940 to adopt the stage name 'Clayton'.

Moving to Hollywood in the late 1930s, he worked as a stuntman and bit player between modeling jobs.

Moore as a young man worked successfully as a John Robert Powers model. Hayt Elementary School, Sullivan Junior High School, and Senn High School on the far North Side of Chicago.

Highly athletic as a boy, 'Jack' became a circus acrobat by age eight, and later, in 1934, he appeared at the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago with a trapeze act. That same census also documents that a full-time maid, Amelia Hirsch, lived with the Moore family, an indication of the household's relative prosperity at the time. Moore's father, according to the federal census of 1930, was a native of New York and supported his family in Chicago by working as a real estate broker. Born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1914, Moore was the youngest of three sons of Theresa Violet ( née Fisher) and Charles Sprague Moore.

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