Actor · Acting

Terry Moore

Born 1929-01-07

📍 Los Angeles, California, USA

Born Helen Luella Koford on January 7, 1929, the Los Angeles, California native worked as a model before she made her film debut at age 11 in 20th Century Fox's Maryland (1940). Throughout the 1940s, she worked under a variety of names (her own, Judy Ford and January Ford) before settling on Terry Moore in 1948. Placed under contract by Columbia, Moore was loaned out to RKO for one of her most famous films, RKO's Mighty Joe Young (1949); she received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in Paramount's Come Back, Little Sheba (1952). In the 1970s, she was in the news more than she was in motion pictures, asserting that she was the secret wife of the late billionaire Howard Hughes. She has starred in 77 feature films and listed among her leading men are Hollywood's leading legends; including Burt Lancaster, John Wayne, Cary Grant, Tyrone Power, Glenn Ford, Mickey Rooney and Robert Wagner. Since she was a pilot herself, Terry played a major role in preparing Leonardo DiCaprio for his portrayal of Howard Hughes in The Aviator (2004).

Filmography 106

Sinatra! Eternity

as Betty Clurman

Silent Life: The Story of the Lady in Black

as Lady in Black

Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies

as Self - (archive footage)

Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!

as Grandma Micry

Mansion of Blood

Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film

as Miriam Cuningham

as Mrs. Stratford

Kill Your Darlings

as Ella Toscana

Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies

Mighty Joe Young

as Elegant Woman at Party

Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach

as Woman at Hyde's Funeral

Beverly Hills Brats

Going Overboard

W.A.R.: Women Against Rape

as Mrs. McCormack

as Sidnee Hammond

Murder, She Wrote

Do It Debbie's Way

as Molly Friedrich

Death Dimension

Smash-Up on Interstate 5

as Julie Thompson

as Connie Garrett

as Martha Atkinson

The Weird World of Weird

A Man Called Dagger

as Harper Davis

Lionpower from MGM

as Self - Harper Davis (archive footage) (uncredited)

as Susan Tavenner

as Sarah Kingston

as Nikki Manners

as Felice Knight

The Mike Douglas Show

Platinum High School

as Jennifer Evans

as Janice Dutton

Cast a Long Shadow

as Janet Calvert

A Private's Affair

as Louise Wright

as Dallas Storm

as Betty Anderson

as Jean Cantrick

Between Heaven and Hell

as Jenny Gifford

No Right to Kill

Shack Out on 101

Portrait of Alison

The 20th Century Fox Hour

Daddy Long Legs

as Linda Pendleton

King of the Khyber Rifles

as Susan Maitland

Beneath the 12-Mile Reef

as Gwyneth Rhys

Man on a Tightrope

as Tereza Cernik

Come Back, Little Sheba

as Marie Buckholder

General Electric Theater

as Evvy Jeffers

The Ford Television Theatre

as Susan Randall

The Barefoot Mailman

Sunny Side of the Street

as Betty Holloway

as Kathy McIntyre

He's a Cockeyed Wonder

The Colgate Comedy Hour

The Great Rupert

as Rosalinda Amendola

What's My Line?

as Self - Mystery Guest

Mighty Joe Young

The Return of October

as Terry Ramsey

The Ed Sullivan Show

as Hatcheck Girl (uncredited)

as Girl in Movie with Vic (uncredited)

The Devil On Wheels

as Rusty Davis (as Jan Ford)

as Virginia 'Ginny' Johnson (as Helen Koford)

as Girl at Museum (uncredited)

as Thea (as Helen Koford)

Sweet and Low-Down

as Snub-Nosed Girl on Dance Floor (uncredited)

Since You Went Away

as Refugee Child on Train (uncredited)

as Paula Alquist, Age 14 (uncredited)

as Little Girl (uncredited)

A-Haunting We Will Go

as Dante's Young Admirer (uncredited)

as Carrie Dreiser (uncredited)

On the Sunny Side

as Schoolgirl (uncredited)

One Foot in Heaven

as Choir Member (uncredited)

The Howards of Virginia

as Neighbor Girl (uncredited)

as Linda - Age 10 (uncredited)