Tedde Moore Passes On

Tedde Moore, who played teacher Miss Shields in A Christmas Story (1983), died on August 5, 2026, at the age of 79. She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2009.Tedde Moore was born on April 11, 1947, in Toronto. Her father was actor Mavor Moore. Her mother was Darwina Faessler Moore. She attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and graduated in 1967. Not long after graduating she went back to Canada and appeared opposite Christopher Walken in the Stratford Festival production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.Tedde Moore made her television debut in a an episode of General Motors Presents in 1961. She made her film debut in 1971 in Rip-Off. During the Seventies, she appeared in the movies Second Wind (1976) and Murder by Decree (1979). She guest starred on the TV shows Dr. Simon Locke, Sidestreet, The Littlest Hobo, and For the Record. In the Eighties, she appeared in the movies The Amateur (1981), A Christmas Story (1983), Overnight (1986), and Rolling Vengeance (1987).…