Michael Moore

Michael Francis Moore was born in Flint, Michigan on April 23, 1954,
and was raised in its Davison suburb. He is the son of Helen Veronica
(Wall), a secretary, and Francis Richard Moore, who worked on an auto
assembly line. He has Irish, as well as English and Scottish, ancestry.Moore studied journalism at the University of Michigan-Flint, and also
pursued other hobbies such as gun shooting, for which he even won a
competition. Michael began his journalistic career writing for the
school newspaper “The Michigan Times,” and after dropping out of
college briefly worked as editor for “Mother Jones.”He then turned to filmmaking, and to earn the money for the budget of
his first film Roger & Me (1989) he
ran neighborhood bingo games. The success of this film launched his
career as one of America’s best-known and most controversial
documentarians. He has produced a string of documentary films and TV
series predominantly about the same subject: attacks on corrupt
politicians and greedy business corporations. He landed his first big
hit with
Bowling for Columbine (2002)
about the bad points of the right to bear arms in America, which earned
him an Oscar and a big reputation. He then shook the world with his
even bigger hit
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004), making
fun of President George W. Bush. This is
the highest-grossing documentary of all time. Michael is known for
having the guts to give his opinion in public, which not many people
are courageous enough to do, and for that is respected by many.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Francesco Bori