Terry Moore

ActorProducerWriter Jan 7 (age 97) Los Angeles, California, USA 1940–2024 (84 year career)

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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 performan…

Known For

Film

Gaslight

Paula Alquist, Age 14 (uncredited)

Film

Mighty Joe Young

Elegant Woman at Party

Film

Mighty Joe Young

Jill Young

Film

Peyton Place

Betty Anderson

Film

Daddy Long Legs

Linda Pendleton

Film

The Clock

Girl at Museum (uncredited)

Film

Come Back, Little Sheba

Marie Buckholder

Film

America's Funniest Home Videos

Producer

Filmography

Acting (104)

Movies (79)

The Story of Terry Moore: The Last Living Legend of Hollywood

2024

as Herself

Merrily

2023

as Betty Clurman

Silent Life: The Story of the Lady in Black

2023

as Lady in Black

3.0

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

2021

as Self

4.7

Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies

2021

as Self - (archive footage)

Frank and Ava

as Self

Mansion of Blood

as Natalie

Aimy in a Cage

as Grandma Micry

Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film

2014

as Self

7.5

Margarine Wars

2012

as Miriam Cuningham

The Still Life

as Mrs. Stratford

Kill Your Darlings

as Ella Toscana

Buzz

Rita

as Self

Stageghost

as Olive

Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies

2000

as Self

Final Voyage

1999

as Christina

4.2

Mighty Joe Young

1998

as Elegant Woman at Party

6.3

Second Chances

1998

as Dallas Judd

7.7

Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach

1996

as Self

7.0

Marilyn and Me

1991

as Woman at Hyde's Funeral

Hoodwinked

as Sally

Going Overboard

as Mistress

Beverly Hills Brats

as Veronica

W.A.R.: Women Against Rape

as Mrs. McCormack

Hellhole

as Sidnee Hammond

Do It Debbie's Way

as Self

Death Dimension

1978

as Madam Maria

4.1

Smash-Up on Interstate 5

as Trudy

The Daredevil

as Julie Thompson

Mean Justice

as Connie Garrett

Quarantined

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)

Waco

as Dolly

City of Fear

as Suzan

Black Spurs

as Anna Elkins

Town Tamer

as Susan Tavenner

Why Must I Die

as Lois King

Platinum High School

as Jennifer Evans

Cast a Long Shadow

as Janet Calvert

A Private's Affair

as Louise Wright

Bernardine

as Jean Cantrick

Peyton Place

as Betty Anderson

Between Heaven and Hell

1956

as Jenny Gifford

6.1

No Right to Kill

1956

as Lisa

Daddy Long Legs

as Linda Pendleton

Shack Out on 101

as Kotty

Portrait of Alison

as Alison Ford

Come Back, Little Sheba

as Marie Buckholder

Man on a Tightrope

as Tereza Cernik

King of the Khyber Rifles

1953

as Susan Maitland

5.7

Beneath the 12-Mile Reef

as Gwyneth Rhys

The Barefoot Mailman

as Adie Titus

Sunny Side of the Street

as Betty Holloway

Two of a Kind

as Kathy McIntyre

Gambling House

as Lynn Warren

He's a Cockeyed Wonder

1950

as Judy Sears

3.3

The Great Rupert

1950

as Rosalinda Amendola

5.7

Mighty Joe Young

1949

as Jill Young

6.4

The Return of October

1948

as Terry Ramsey

5.8

Summer Holiday

1948

as Hatcheck Girl (uncredited)

4.9

The Devil On Wheels

1947

as Rusty Davis (as Jan Ford)

3.9

Heartaches

1947

as Girl in Movie with Vic (uncredited)

4.5

Shadowed

1946

as Virginia 'Ginny' Johnson (as Helen Koford)

6.0

The Clock

1945

as Girl at Museum (uncredited)

7.1

Son of Lassie

1945

as Thea (as Helen Koford)

6.0

Gaslight

1944

as Paula Alquist, Age 14 (uncredited)

7.5

Sweet and Low-Down

1944

as Snub-Nosed Girl on Dance Floor (uncredited)

5.2

Since You Went Away

1944

as Refugee Child on Train (uncredited)

6.5

True to Life

1943

as Little Girl (uncredited)

7.0

On the Sunny Side

1942

as Schoolgirl (uncredited)

6.0

My Gal Sal

1942

as Carrie Dreiser (uncredited)

5.6

A-Haunting We Will Go

1942

as Dante's Young Admirer (uncredited)

6.0

One Foot in Heaven

1941

as Choir Member (uncredited)

6.6

The Howards of Virginia

1940

as Neighbor Girl (uncredited)

6.5

Maryland

1940

as Linda - Age 10 (uncredited)

6.2

Sinatra! Eternity

as Self

Television (25)

True Detective

as Lilly Hill

Wiseguy

Murder, She Wrote

as Florence

Knight Rider

as Molly Friedrich

Matt Houston

as Emily Armor

The Love Boat

as Mrs. Clark

Batman

as Venus

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Burke's Law

as Sarah Kingston

The Virginian

as Alma Wilson

Empire

as Connie Garrett

Empire

as Connie

The Mike Douglas Show

as Self

My Three Sons

Bonanza

as Lydia Yates

Rawhide

as Dallas Storm

The Rebel

as Janice Dutton

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

1957

as Self

7.0

The 20th Century Fox Hour

as Ann Winslow

Climax!

as Rosa

General Electric Theater

1953

as Evvy Jeffers

6.4

What's My Line?

1950

as Self - Mystery Guest

6.9

The Colgate Comedy Hour

as Self

Studio One

as Annabelle

The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self

Crew (3)

Movies (2)

Beverly Hills Brats

Original Story

Beverly Hills Brats

Producer

Television (1)

America's Funniest Home Videos

1989

Producer

6.6