American child actress (1936–2021)

Patricia Sharyn Moffett (September 12, 1936 – December 23, 2021) was an American child actress who appeared in films during the 1940s.

Contents

• 1 Life and career
• 2 Filmography
• 3 References
• 4 Further reading
• 5 External links

Life and career

Moffett was born in Alameda, California on September 12, 1936, to a show business family. Her parents were R.E. Moffett and Gladyce Lloyd Roberts, a singer and dancer, respectively. When she was four years old, her parents moved to Beverly Hills, California to explore her potential as a movie actress. Her younger brother, Gregory Moffett, was also a child actor.

At the age of 11 months, Moffett appeared in In Old Chicago for 20th Century Fox. By age five, she appeared in the 1942 Three Stooges short film Even as IOU as a daughter whose family was dispossessed. At age 7, Moffett played the lead in the film My Pal Wolf (1944), which marked her feature screen debut. In 1944, she signed a seven-year contract with RKO Pictures. Overall, she appeared in a dozen films, including The Body Snatcher (1945), the film noir The Locket (1946), Child of Divorce (1946), Banjo (1947), and Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948). In later years, she made occasional appearances at conventions and film festivals. She died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on December 23, 2021, at the age of 85.

In 1955, Moffett married minister James Forrest. and she ministered with him in churches for more than 50 years. They had three children, and he died in 2011.

Filmography

References

Further reading

• Best, Marc. Those Endearing Young Charms: Child Performers of the Screen (South Brunswick and New York: Barnes & Co., 1971), pp.:192–196.

External links

• Sharyn Moffett at IMDb
• Sharyn Moffett at the American Film Ins*ute