Terry Moore
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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).
Known for
Credits
Lionpower from MGM (1967)
as Self - Harper Davis (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gaslight (1944)
as Paula Alquist, Age 14 (uncredited)
Daddy Long Legs (1955)
as Linda Pendleton
Mighty Joe Young (1998)
as Elegant Woman at Party
The Clock (1945)
as Girl at Museum (uncredited)
Death Dimension (1978)
as Madam Maria
Peyton Place (1957)
as Betty Anderson
Buzz (2005)
Actor
Rita (2003)
as Self
Going Overboard (1989)
as Mistress
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953)
as Gwyneth Rhys
Mighty Joe Young (1949)
as Jill Young
Between Heaven and Hell (1956)
as Jenny Gifford
Man on a Tightrope (1953)
as Tereza Cernik
Paesano (1975)
as Self
Smash-Up on Interstate 5 (1976)
as Trudy
A-Haunting We Will Go (1942)
as Dante's Young Admirer (uncredited)
Come Back, Little Sheba (1953)
as Marie Buckholder
Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies (2021)
as Self - (archive footage)
Two of a Kind (1951)
as Kathy McIntyre
On the Sunny Side (1942)
as Schoolgirl (uncredited)
Tab Hunter Confidential (2015)
as Self
Final Voyage (1999)
as Christina
The Howards of Virginia (1940)
as Neighbor Girl (uncredited)
Hoodwinked (1989)
as Sally
He's a Cockeyed Wonder (1950)
as Judy Sears
Do It Debbie's Way (1983)
as Self
Waco (1966)
as Dolly
Gambling House (1950)
as Lynn Warren
The Great Rupert (1950)
as Rosalinda Amendola
Second Chances (1998)
as Dallas Judd
Hellhole (1985)
as Sidnee Hammond
King of the Khyber Rifles (1953)
as Susan Maitland
Frank and Ava (2020)
as Self
Sinatra! Eternity (2025)
as Self
The Devil On Wheels (1947)
as Rusty Davis (as Jan Ford)
Black Spurs (1965)
as Anna Elkins
Son of Lassie (1945)
as Thea (as Helen Koford)
Town Tamer (1965)
as Susan Tavenner
My Gal Sal (1942)
as Carrie Dreiser (uncredited)
Summer Holiday (1948)
as Hatcheck Girl (uncredited)
One Foot in Heaven (1941)
as Choir Member (uncredited)
Beverly Hills Brats (1989)
as Veronica
Shack Out on 101 (1955)
as Kotty
City of Fear (1965)
as Suzan
Since You Went Away (1944)
as Refugee Child on Train (uncredited)
Platinum High School (1960)
as Jennifer Evans
Why Must I Die (1960)
as Lois King
Aimy in a Cage (2015)
as Grandma Micry
The Clouded Image (1957)
as Eleanor
True to Life (1943)
as Little Girl (uncredited)
Kill Your Darlings (2006)
as Ella Toscana
Cast a Long Shadow (1959)
as Janet Calvert
The Return of October (1948)
as Terry Ramsey
Bernardine (1957)
as Jean Cantrick
Quarantined (1970)
as Martha Atkinson
A Private's Affair (1959)
as Louise Wright
Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach (1996)
as Self
The Still Life (2007)
as Mrs. Stratford
Margarine Wars (2012)
as Miriam Cuningham
Mansion of Blood (2015)
as Natalie
W.A.R.: Women Against Rape (1987)
as Mrs. McCormack
Shadowed (1946)
as Virginia 'Ginny' Johnson (as Helen Koford)
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists! (2021)
as Self
The Barefoot Mailman (1951)
as Adie Titus
Marilyn and Me (1991)
as Woman at Hyde's Funeral
The Daredevil (1972)
as Julie Thompson
Sweet and Low-Down (1944)
as Snub-Nosed Girl on Dance Floor (uncredited)
Silent Life: The Story of the Lady in Black (2023)
as Lady in Black
The Story of Terry Moore: The Last Living Legend of Hollywood (2024)
as Herself
Maryland (1940)
as Linda - Age 10 (uncredited)
Stageghost (2000)
as Olive
Mean Justice (1971)
as Connie Garrett
A Man Called Dagger (1968)
as Harper Davis
The Weird World of Weird (1970)
Actor
Sunny Side of the Street (1951)
as Betty Holloway
Merrily (2023)
as Betty Clurman
Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies (2000)
as Self
Portrait of Alison (1955)
as Alison Ford
No Right to Kill (1956)
as Lisa
Heartaches (1947)
as Girl in Movie with Vic (uncredited)
Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film (2014)
as Self