Bert Moorhouse

Biography

Bert Moorhouse was an American character actor whose career spanned the late silent era to the mid-1950s. He began with notable roles in Rough Ridin' Red and Hey Rube! in 1928, and went on to appear in over 130 films and 200 extra roles. A prolific actor, Moorhouse's career slowed with illness, culminating in a tragic posthumous appearance in the 1954 film Dangerous Mission. He died in 1954 at 59, due to a self-inflicted gunshot wound.