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