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The performer Kaycee Moore died on Aug. 13 at the age of 77.
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During a 14-year span, Moore appeared in three masterworks of the L.A. Rebellion era, emerging as perhaps the most powerful — if ultimately under-recognized — lead actor of the Black American filmmaking movement spanning from the late 1960s to the late 1990s.
The paucity of opportunities afforded to Black actresses by the film industry during Moore’s peak period and her own unwillingness to audition and act unless summoned have resulted in a filmography of just five credits.
But the brevity of Moore’s resume should by no means minimize her enormous artistry.
Born Kaycee Collier in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1944, Moore got married as a teenager in 1959 and raised two children with her first husband.
In the early 1970s, she moved to Los Angeles and took a job with the makeup line Max Factor. Unsettled by life in that metropolis, Moore gravitated to acting as a therapeutic practice, finding work in student films and local