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Canada-born, Boston-reared W. Eugene Moore began his theatrical career supporting legendary stage stars Edwin Booth and Frederick Warde. He became a star in his own right with The Burglar, in which he toured for five years, and as a leading man with the Edwin Thanhouser Stock Company. When Thanhouser founded his own film company in New Rochelle, NY, and Jacksonville, FL, Moore signed on as a director, remarkably remaining with Thanhouser until almost 1917. Moore, who often appeared as an actor in his own films, directed such Thanhouser personalities as Florence LaBadie and Muriel Ostriche and was behind the megaphone for some of the little company's most important productions, including: Joseph in the Land of Egypt (1914), Cardinal Richelieu's Ward (1914), The Mill on the Floss (1915), The World and the Woman (1916), The Image Maker (1917), and A Modern Monte Cristo (1917). After the demise of Thanhouser in 1917, Moore directed Baby Marie Osborne in some of her popular potboilers.