Career
After retiring from boxing he took up acting, appearing in several films in the 1930s. His success led to commercial ventures such as the Gunner Moir boxing glove, and he appeared in a newspaper advertising campaign for Phosferine tonic, which continued for several years. He also trained the wrestler George Hackenschmidt.
Burns subsequently claimed to have prolonged the fight in order to increase the value of the film rights to the fight, which he held.
Moir"s boxing career never recovered from the defeat, and he lost his national title to "Iron" Hague in his next fight, which also had the EBU European title at stake. He had eight further fights, winning only two, and retired from boxing in 1913 after unsuccessfully challenging Bombardier Billy Wells (whom he had beaten three years earlier in a non-title fight) for the British title.
He went on to work as manager of the Canterbury Music Hall in London. In 1922 he was fined £500 for slander after allegations regarding motor-lamp maker William Nelson and Moir"s son, James.
Moir unsuccessfully appealed the verdict in 1923.
He wrote an instructional book, The Complete Boxer, which was published in 1930, and subsequently took up acting, appearing in films such as Third Time Lucky (1931), Madame Guillotine (1931), and The Mystery of the Mary Celeste (1935). He died on 12 June 1939 in hospital in Sutton, Surrey after a long illness, aged 60.