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).
106 acting credits
Acting · 106
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Bonanza
1959
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
The Love Boat
1977
True Detective
2014
Batman
1966
Knight Rider
1982
The Virginian
1962
My Three Sons
1960
Climax!
1954
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
Burke's Law
1963
Rawhide
1959
Studio One
1948
What's My Line?
1950
Wiseguy
1987
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
Matt Houston
1982
The Rebel
1959
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
The Ford Television Theatre
1952
General Electric Theater
1953
Empire
1962
Gaslight
1944
Mighty Joe Young
1998
Peyton Place
1957
Kill Your Darlings
2006
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
1953
Going Overboard
1989
Mighty Joe Young
1949
Hellhole
1985
Tab Hunter Confidential
2015
Since You Went Away
1944
Daddy Long Legs
1955
Lionpower from MGM
1967
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
2021
Death Dimension
1978
My Gal Sal
1942
Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
2014
Second Chances
1998
The Howards of Virginia
1940
Son of Lassie
1945
Final Voyage
1999
The Clock
1945
Cast a Long Shadow
1959
Come Back, Little Sheba
1953
Between Heaven and Hell
1956
The Great Rupert
1950
Portrait of Alison
1955
Aimy in a Cage
2015
Black Spurs
1965
Waco
1966
A Private's Affair
1959
Town Tamer
1965
W.A.R.: Women Against Rape
1987
King of the Khyber Rifles
1953
Frank and Ava
2020
Gambling House
1950
Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies
2000
A-Haunting We Will Go
1942
Hoodwinked
1989
Beverly Hills Brats
1989
Shack Out on 101
1955
Silent Life: The Story of the Lady in Black
2023
True to Life
1943
Summer Holiday
1948
Rita
2003
Mean Justice
1971
The Return of October
1948
Man on a Tightrope
1953
The Barefoot Mailman
1951
Smash-Up on Interstate 5
1976
Buzz
2005
Bernardine
1957
Merrily
2023
Stageghost
2000
Marilyn and Me
1991
Why Must I Die
1960
The Still Life
2007
Maryland
1940
Quarantined
1970
Heartaches
1947
Margarine Wars
2012
Two of a Kind
1951
Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach
1996
A Man Called Dagger
1968
Sweet and Low-Down
1944
On the Sunny Side
1942
Sinatra! Eternity
2025
Shadowed
1946
Platinum High School
1960
One Foot in Heaven
1941
The Devil On Wheels
1947
The Daredevil
1972
Do It Debbie's Way
1983
City of Fear
1965
No Right to Kill
1956
Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies
2021
The Weird World of Weird
1970
Sunny Side of the Street
1951
The Story of Terry Moore: The Last Living Legend of Hollywood
2024
Mansion of Blood
2015
He's a Cockeyed Wonder
1950
Paesano
1975