Terry Moore

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1929-01-07 (96 years old)

Place of Birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

Terry Moore

Biography

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 s...

Acting

1965

City of Fear

as Suzan

1953

1955

Daddy Long Legs

as Linda Pendleton

2006

Kill Your Darlings

as Ella Toscana

1978

Death Dimension

as Madam Maria

1951

Two of a Kind

as Kathy McIntyre

1985

Hellhole

as Sidnee Hammond

1955

1957

Peyton Place

as Betty Anderson

1998

Second Chances

as Dallas Judd

1953

King of the Khyber Rifles

as Susan Maitland

1950

Gambling House

as Lynn Warren

1949

Mighty Joe Young

as Jill Young

1972

The Daredevil

as Julie Thompson

1950

The Great Rupert

as Rosalinda Amendola

1940

The Howards of Virginia

as Neighbor Girl (uncredited)

1946

Shadowed

as Virginia 'Ginny' Johnson (as Helen Koford)

2023

Merrily

as Betty Clurman

1956

Between Heaven and Hell

as Jenny Gifford

1953

Come Back, Little Sheba

as Marie Buckholder

1960

Why Must I Die

as Lois King

1953

Man on a Tightrope

as Tereza Cernik

1957

Bernardine

as Jean Cantrick

1940

Maryland

as Linda - Age 10 (uncredited)

2005

1960

Platinum High School

as Jennifer Evans

1950

1955

Portrait of Alison

as Alison Ford

1959

Cast a Long Shadow

as Janet Calvert

1968

A Man Called Dagger

as Harper Davis

1948

The Return of October

as Terry Ramsey

1951

Sunny Side of the Street

as Betty Holloway

1998

Mighty Joe Young

as Elegant Woman at Party

1943

True to Life

as Little Girl (uncredited)

1989

1965

Town Tamer

as Susan Tavenner

1951

1959

A Private's Affair

as Louise Wright

1989

Going Overboard

as Mistress

1965

Black Spurs

as Anna Elkins

2020

1989

Hoodwinked

as Sally

1991

Marilyn and Me

as Woman at Hyde's Funeral

2015

Aimy in a Cage

as Grandma Micry

1944

Gaslight

as Paula Alquist, age 14 (uncredited)

1987

1947

The Devil On Wheels

as Rusty Davis (as Jan Ford)

1942

A-Haunting We Will Go

as Dante's Young Admirer (uncredited)

1948

Summer Holiday

as Hatcheck Girl (uncredited)

1944

Since You Went Away

as Refugee Child on Train (uncredited)

1945

Son of Lassie

as Thea (as Helen Koford)

1944

Sweet and Low-Down

as Snub-Nosed Girl on Dance Floor (uncredited)

1941

One Foot in Heaven

as Choir Member (uncredited)

1945

The Clock

as Girl at Museum (uncredited)

1942

On the Sunny Side

as Schoolgirl (uncredited)

1942

My Gal Sal

as Carrie Dreiser (uncredited)

2000

Stageghost

as Olive

1966

Waco

as Dolly

2007

The Still Life

as Mrs. Stratford

2015

2003

Rita

as Self

1956

1971

Mean Justice

as Connie Garrett

1970

Quarantined

as Martha Atkinson

1999

Final Voyage

as Christina

1947

Heartaches

as Girl in Movie with Vic (uncredited)

2012

Margarine Wars

as Miriam Cuningham

Production

1989

1989

Beverly Hills Brats

as Original Story

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