Terry Moore (actress)
Terry Moore | |
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_001.JPG) Terry Moore in Peyton Place (1957) | |
| Born | Helen Luella Koford January 7, 1929 Glendale, California, United States |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1940–present |
| Spouse(s) | Glenn Davis (1951-52) Eugene McGarth (1956-58) Stuart Cramer (1959-72) Richard Carey (1979-1980) (divorced)[1] Jerry Rivers (1992-2001; his death) |
| Partner | Howard Hughes (1949-1976) (disputed)[2] |
| Children | Stuart Warren Cramer IV (b. 1960) Grant Cramer |
Helen Luella Koford (born January 7, 1929), better known as Terry Moore, is an American film and television actress.
Early life
Born January 7, 1929, in Glendale, California, as Helen Luella Koford, Moore grew up in a Mormon family in Los Angeles, California. She worked as a child model before making her film debut in Maryland in 1940. Moore was billed as Judy Ford, Jan Ford, and January Ford before taking Terry Moore as her name in 1948.
Career
Moore worked in radio in the 1940s, most memorably as Bumps Smith on The Smiths of Hollywood. She has starred in several box-office hits, including Mighty Joe Young (1949), Come Back, Little Sheba (1952) (for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress), and Peyton Place (1957). She appeared on the cover of Life magazine for July 6, 1953, as "Hollywood's sexy tomboy". Moore's photo was used on the cover of the second issue of the My Diary romance comic book (cover dated March 1950).[3][4]
During the 1950s, Moore worked steadily in films such as The Great Rupert (1950), Two of a Kind (1951), Man on a Tightrope (1953), Daddy Long Legs (1955), Between Heaven and Hell (1956), Bernardine (1957), A Private's Affair (1959), and Why Must I Die? (1960).
By the 1960s, Moore's film career had faltered. She had begun to appear less frequently in films. However, she did make films such as Platinum High School (1960), She Should Have Stayed in Bed (1963), Black Spurs (1965), Town Tamer (1965), Waco (1966), and A Man Called Dagger (1967). Lacking film roles, Moore appeared on television. In 1962, she appeared as a rancher's daughter in the NBC western Empire. She also appeared on the NBC interview program Here's Hollywood.
After the 1960s, Moore semiretired from acting, only completing two films in the 1970s; by the 1980s, though, her career had resumed with minor roles in low-budgeted B-movies. Moore has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7080 Hollywood Blvd.
At age 55, Moore posed nude in the August 1984 issue of Playboy magazine, photographed by Ken Marcus.
In 2014, she guest-starred in the role of Lilly Hill on the crime series True Detective, starring Matthew McConaughey.
Personal life
Moore's first marriage, in 1951 to American football player and Heisman Trophy winner Glenn Davis, lasted one year. A subsequent marriage to Eugene McGarth, in 1956, lasted three years. One year after this marriage ended, Moore married Stuart Cramer after his divorce from Jean Peters;[5] one of the two children from this 13-year marriage is actor Grant Cramer. Following the dissolution of this marriage in 1972, Moore did not remarry for 20 years. Her 1992 marriage to Jerry Rivers lasted until his death in 2001.
Selected filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | Maryland | Uncredited | |
| The Howards of Virginia | Neighbor Girl | Uncredited | |
| 1942 | On the Sunny Side | Little Girl | Uncredited |
| My Gal Sal | Carrie Dreiser | Uncredited | |
| A-Haunting We Will Go | Dante's Young Admirer | Uncredited | |
| 1943 | True to Life | Little Girl | Uncredited |
| 1944 | Gaslight | Paula Alquist - Age 14 | Uncredited |
| Since You Went Away | Refugee Child on Train | Uncredited | |
| 1945 | The Clock | Girl at Museum | Uncredited |
| Son of Lassie | Thea | Credited as Helen Koford | |
| 1946 | Shadowed | Virginia 'Ginny' Johnson | Credited as Helen Koford |
| 1947 | The Devil on Wheels | Rusty Davis | Credited as Jan Ford |
| 1948 | The Return of October | Terry Ramsey | From now on credited as Terry Moore |
| 1949 | Mighty Joe Young | Jill Young | |
| 1950 | The Great Rupert | Rosalinda Amendola | |
| He's a Cockeyed Wonder | Judy Sears | ||
| 1951 | Gambling House | Lynn Warren | |
| Two of a Kind | Kathy McIntyre | ||
| Sunny Side of the Street | Betty Holloway | ||
| The Barefoot Mailman | Adie Titus | ||
| 1952 | Come Back, Little Sheba | Marie Buckholder | Nominated: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress |
| 1953 | Beneath the 12-Mile Reef | Gwyneth Rhys | |
| King of the Khyber Rifles | Susan | ||
| 1955 | Daddy Long Legs | Linda Pendleton | |
| Shack Out on 101 | Kotty | ||
| The United States Steel Hour | Caroline Schwendinger | Episode: "Scandal at Peppernut" | |
| 1956 | Portrait of Alison | Alison Ford | |
| Between Heaven and Hell | Jenny Gifford | ||
| The 20th Century Fox Hour | Ann Winslow | Episode: "The Moneymaker" | |
| 1957 | Bernardine | Jean Cantrick | |
| Peyton Place | Betty Anderson | ||
| 1958 | Studio One | Annabelle | Episode: "The Man Who Asked for a Funeral" |
| 1959 | Rawhide | Dallas | Episode: "Incident Of The Tumbleweed" (Season 1 Episode 1 9 January 1959) |
| Cast a Long Shadow | Janet Calvert | ||
| A Private's Affair | Louise Wright | ||
| 1960 | Platinum High School | Jennifer Evans | Alternative title: Trouble at Sixteen |
| Why Must I Die? | Lois King | ||
| 1961 | The Rebel | Janice | Episode: "The Executioner" |
| 1962–1963 | Empire | Connie Garrett | 20 episodes |
| 1963 | Burke's Law | Sarah Kingston | Episode: "Who Killed Eleanora Davis?" |
| 1965 | Black Spurs | Anna | |
| Town Tamer | Susan Tavenner | Co-starred with Dana Andrews | |
| City of Fear | Suzan | ||
| 1966 | My Three Sons | Eleanor | Episode: "Steve and the Huntress" |
| Waco | Dolly | ||
| 1967 | Batman | Venus | 3 episodes |
| 1968 | A Man Called Dagger | Harper Davis | |
| 1970 | Quarantined | Martha Atkinson | Television movie |
| Bonanza | Lydia Yates | Episode: "Gideon the Good" | |
| 1976 | Smash-Up on Interstate 5 | Trudy | Television movie |
| 1978 | Death Dimension | Madam Maria | |
| 1983 | Matt Houston | Emily Armor | Episode: "A Novel Way to Die" |
| Knight Rider | Molly Friedrich | Episode: "K.I.T.T. the Cat" | |
| Fantasy Island | Audrey Wilkins | Episode: "The Butler's Affair/Roarke's Sacrifice" | |
| 1985 | Hellhole | Sidnee Hammond | |
| 1988 | Wiseguy | Dr. Leitner | Episode: "Phantom Pain" Uncredited |
| 1989 | Going Overboard | Mistress | |
| American Boyfriends | Al Walker | ||
| Beverly Hills Brats | Veronica | ||
| 1991 | Marilyn & Me | Woman at Hyde's Funeral | Television movie |
| 1995 | American Southern | Peggin | |
| 1998 | Mighty Joe Young | Elegant Woman at Party | |
| Second Chances | Dallas Taylor Judd | ||
| 1999 | Final Voyage | Christina | |
| 2000 | Stageghost | Olive | |
| 2006 | Kill Your Darlings | Ella Toscana | |
| The Still Life | Mrs. Stratford | ||
| 2007 | The Desert Rose | Jamie Shaw | |
| 2009 | Ariel | Liz | |
| 2010 | Dewitt & Maria | Terry | |
| 2012 | Margarine Wars | Miriam Cuningham | |
| 2014 | Aimy in a Cage | Grandma | |
| True Detective | Lilly Hill | Episode: "Form and Void" | |
| Mansion of Blood | Natalie | ||
| 2016 | Ray Donovan | Nazani Minassian | Episode: "Norman Saves the World" |
| Merrily | Betty Clurman | TBA |
References
- ^ "Actress Terry Moore wins part of Hughes' wealth". The Telegraph. May 25, 1983.
- ^ Hack, Richard (2007). Hughes: The Private Diaries, Memos and Letters. Phoenix Books. pp. 387–388. ISBN 9781597775496.
- ^ Brevoort, Tom; Gilbert, Laura, ed. (2008). "1950s". Marvel Chronicle A Year by Year History. Dorling Kindersley. p. 51. ISBN 978-0756641238.
{{cite book}}:|first2=has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "GCD :: Issue :: My Diary #2". comics.org.
- ^ McCarthy, Todd (2000). Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood. Grove Press. p. 659. ISBN 978-0-8021-3740-1.
External links
- Official website
- Terry Moore at IMDb
- Old Skool with Terry and Gita on Star!
