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Moosie Drier

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Moosie Drier
Born(1964-08-06)August 6, 1964(age 60)
Chicago, Illinois,U.S.
OccupationDirector/ Voice Artist
Years active1971–present
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Drier Attending Television Academy Event Honoring Lily Tomlin
Drier Attending Television Academy Event HonoringLily Tomlin

Moosie Drier(born August 6, 1964) is an Americantelevisionandfilmactor.He is best known for his roles as Adam Landers inOh, God!and Riley onKids Incorporated.Drier had regular appearances onRowan & Martin's Laugh-InandThe Bob Newhart Show.He has also worked as avoice actorand as a director.

Life and career

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Drier was born inChicagobut raised inCalifornia.He was named after former New York Yankee Bill "Moose" Skowron, who was a friend of Drier's father. He attendedU.S. Grant High School,Van Nuys, California. Drier began his television career as a recurring performer onRowan & Martin's Laugh-Infrom the middle of season three to the final season in 1973, hosting a "Kid News for Kids" segment. His first dramatic role was as adeafboy in two 1972 episodes ofLassie.During this period, Drier had movie roles in the 1972Jack Lemmoncomedy,The War Between Men and Women,the 1972Barbra StreisandcomedyUp the Sandbox,and the made-for-TV comediesRoll, Freddy, Roll!(1974) andAll Together Now(1975). In 1977 he was cast inOh, God!starringJohn DenverandGeorge Burns.He followed this with a prominent role in theAlan Freedscreen biographyAmerican Hot Wax(1978), in which the adolescent Drier recounts his reaction toBuddy Holly's death in a broken voice.

At the age of ten, Drier began voice acting as a regular character onABC’s 1974These Are the Days.Other recurring television roles included Howie Borden, the son of series regular Howard (Bill Daily) onThe Bob Newhart Show,and onCBS’s short-lived seriesExecutive Suiteas B.J. Koslo. He made appearances onThe Waltons(1973),Adam-12(1973),Apple's Way(1974),Police Story(3 episodes, 1974–75),Emergency!(2 episodes; 1975),Doc(1975), andLittle House on the Prairie(1976),CHiPs(1980),Family Ties(1983),Kids Incorporated(1984),Diff'rent Strokes(1986),The A-Team(1986),Highway to Heaven(1986),Blacke's Magic(1986),Cagney & Lacey(1986),Hunter(1986),Just the Ten of Us(1988),The Munsters Today(1990), andJack & Jill(2000).

During his early acting career, Drier also appeared in threeABC Afterschool Specials,in one of which,Hewitt's Just Different,Drier had a lead role as Willie Arthur, the friend of thedevelopmentally disabledtitle character. His late 1970s and early 1980s roles includedWhen Every Day Was the Fourth of July(1978) andPeter Benchley's thrillerHunters of the Reef(1978). Other teen roles consist primarily of biographical dramas; most notably, Drier played a youngMickey Rooneyin the 1978Judy GarlandbiographyRainbow.The year 1978 also saw the filming of the made-for TVJack AlbertsonvehicleCharlie and the Great Balloon Chase,which was not released until three years later. In the 1980s made-for-TV movieHomeward Bound,he played a terminally ill young man, Bobby Seaton, who spends a last summer vacation repairing his relationship with his father, Jake, played byDavid Soul.

During the late 1990s, Drier accepted minor roles in the sci-fi space-ship hijack thrillerVelocity Trap(1997) andStorm(1999), a thriller about a secret military weather control machine gone awry. Since 2000, he has specialized in voice-over work in such films asTeaching Mrs. Tingle(1999),American Beauty(1999),What Lies Beneath(2000)Shrek(2001),40 Days and 40 Nights(2002),The Shape of Things(2003),Jungle Book 2(2003),the Lion King 1½(2004),The Chronicles of Riddick(2004),Hauru no ugoku shiro(Eng:Howl's Moving Castle) in 2004, andMadagascar(2005).

Drier directed episodes of such series asReba(2005) andToo Late with Adam Carolla(2005). He directed a well-received children's musical,Precious Piglet and Her Palsat the Whitefire Theatre inSherman Oaksas well as the critically acclaimedLove Like Bluein 2007, also at the Whitefire Theatre.

Personal life

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Selected filmography

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Television

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Filmography (actor)

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Filmography (director)

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Theater (director/producer)

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  • 2005:Precious Piglet and Her Pals
  • 2007:Love Like Blue
  • 2012:Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  • 2013:God of Carnage
  • 2014:Hollywood Shorts,Lend Me a Tenor,Littlest Angel
  • 2015:Hollywood Shorts,Dead Pilots Society,Hound of the Baskervilles

Bibliography

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  • Holmstrom, John.The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995.Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, p. 349-350.
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