Terry Moore
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).
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CREDITS
PHOTOS
TV Series
Burke's Law
6
The Colgate Comedy Hour
6.8
My Three Sons
6.5
Batman
7.3
Knight Rider
7.5
Studio One
5
General Electric Theater
6.25
Wiseguy
6.5
Rawhide
7.2
The Virginian
6.5
Climax!
3.273
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
5.714
The Rebel
5.1
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
7
True Detective
8.287
Empire
6.8
The 20th Century Fox Hour
5.429
Burke's Law
6
Burke's Law
6
The Ed Sullivan Show
6.8
Bonanza
7.5
Climax!
3.273
Climax!
3.273
The Love Boat
6.3
What's My Line?
6.9
The Mike Douglas Show
5.375
Empire
6.8
Murder, She Wrote
7.5
The Love Boat
6.3
Matt Houston
6.2
Movies
City of Fear
8.5
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
5.922
Daddy Long Legs
6.3
Kill Your Darlings
5.813
Death Dimension
4.3
Two of a Kind
6.7
Hellhole
4.9
Shack Out on 101
5.9
Peyton Place
6.737
Second Chances
7.711
King of the Khyber Rifles
5.7
Gambling House
6.1
Mighty Joe Young
6.333
The Daredevil
6
The Great Rupert
5.6
The Howards of Virginia
6.5
Shadowed
6
Merrily
0
Between Heaven and Hell
5.9
Come Back, Little Sheba
7.4
Why Must I Die
5
Man on a Tightrope
6.516
Bernardine
7
Maryland
6.2
Buzz
0
Platinum High School
6
He's a Cockeyed Wonder
3.3
Portrait of Alison
6.2
Cast a Long Shadow
6.4
A Man Called Dagger
6
The Return of October
5.8
Sunny Side of the Street
6
Mighty Joe Young
6.291
Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
7.5
True to Life
6
Beverly Hills Brats
5
Town Tamer
6.4
The Barefoot Mailman
4
A Private's Affair
1
Going Overboard
2.3
Black Spurs
6.059
Frank and Ava
5.1
Hoodwinked
6.333
Marilyn and Me
6.1
Aimy in a Cage
4.706
Gaslight
7.481
W.A.R.: Women Against Rape
3.1
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
4
The Devil On Wheels
4.3
The Weird World of Weird
7
A-Haunting We Will Go
6
Summer Holiday
4.9
Since You Went Away
6.5
Son of Lassie
6
On the Sunny Side
6
Sweet and Low-Down
5.2
One Foot in Heaven
6.583
The Clock
7.2
The Story of Terry Moore: The Last Living Legend of Hollywood
0
My Gal Sal
5.846
Stageghost
6
Waco
6.4
The Still Life
3
Mansion of Blood
3
Rita
8.5
Smash-Up on Interstate 5
5.4
Do It Debbie's Way
0
No Right to Kill
0
Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies
0
Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach
7
Mean Justice
7
Quarantined
5
Silent Life: The Story of the Lady in Black
3
Final Voyage
3.8
Heartaches
4.5
Margarine Wars
0