Terry Moore
Actor
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).
Filmography
Gaslight
as Paula Alquist, Age 14 (uncredited) 1944
Going Overboard
as Mistress 1989
Mighty Joe Young
as Jill Young 1949
Daddy Long Legs
as Linda Pendleton 1955
Peyton Place
as Betty Anderson 1957
Since You Went Away
as Refugee Child on Train (uncredited) 1944
The Clock
as Girl at Museum (uncredited) 1945
A-Haunting We Will Go
as Dante's Young Admirer (uncredited) 1942
Come Back, Little Sheba
as Marie Buckholder 1953
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
as Gwyneth Rhys 1953
Between Heaven and Hell
as Jenny Gifford 1956
Hellhole
as Sidnee Hammond 1985
Man on a Tightrope
as Tereza Cernik 1953
The Great Rupert
as Rosalinda Amendola 1950
Death Dimension
as Madam Maria 1978
Son of Lassie
as Thea (as Helen Koford) 1945