Terry Moore (actress)

Terry Moore (born Helen Luella Koford; January 7, 1929) is an American film and television actress who began her career as a child actor.

Moore was born January 7, 1929, in Glendale, California, and grew up in a Mormon family in Los Angeles.

Moore's early appearances include The Howards of Virginia (1940), On the Sunny Side (1942), My Gal Sal (1942), A-Haunting We Will Go (1942), True to Life (1943), Gaslight (1944) (playing Ingrid Bergman as a child), Since You Went Away (1944), Sweet and Low-Down (1944), and The Clock (1945).

Moore worked in radio in the 1940s, most memorably as Bumps Smith on The Smiths of Hollywood.

Moore's career received a boost when Columbia Pictures signed her to a long-term contract.

As Helen Koford, she had a supporting role in Son of Lassie (1945) and Shadowed (1946).

As "Jan Ford" she was billed third in The Devil on Wheels (1947) at Monogram.

She was uncredited in Heartaches (1948) and Summer Holiday (1948).

She had the lead in The Return of October (1948) with Glenn Ford, playing a character called Terry Ramsey, after which Terry became her stage name.

Moore was borrowed by RKO to star in Mighty Joe Young (1949), a film about a giant gorilla that won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.

George Pal cast her in The Great Rupert (1950) with Jimmy Durante.

At Columbia, Moore co-starred with Mickey Rooney in He's a Cockeyed Wonder (1950).

She also did Gambling House (1950) with Victor Mature at RKO, Two of a Kind (1951), Sunny Side of the Street (1951), and The Barefoot Mailman (1951).

Her photo was used on the cover of the second issue of the My Diary romance comic book (cover dated March 1950).

She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Come Back, Little Sheba (1952).

Moore played Marie Buckholder in Come Back, Little Sheba (1952), produced by Hal Wallis, with Burt Lancaster and Shirley Booth as co-stars.

She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance.

Moore began appearing in television shows like The Ford Television Theatre and appeared on the cover of Life magazine on July 6, 1953, as "Hollywood's sexy tomboy".

Elia Kazan cast Moore in the female lead in the 20th Century Fox drama Man on a Tightrope (1953).

Fox then signed Moore to a long-term contract.

It gave her the female lead in Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953), the second film in CinemaScope and a big hit.

Also popular was King of the Khyber Rifles (1953) with Tyrone Power.

Moore supported Fred Astaire in Daddy Long Legs (1955) and had the lead in some thrillers: Shack Out on 101 (1955) and Portrait of Alison (1955).

Between Heaven and Hell (1956) reunited her with Robert Wagner, the leading man in Beneath the 12-Mile Reef.

She guest-starred on TV shows like The 20th Century-Fox Hour, General Electric Theater, Playhouse 90, Climax!, Studio One in Hollywood, and Rawhide.

Fox used her in Bernardine (1957) with Pat Boone and Peyton Place (1957) with Lana Turner.

They then put her in the less popular A Private's Affair (1959).

She was Audie Murphy's leading lady in Cast a Long Shadow (1959).

Moore had the lead in Platinum High School (1960) and Why Must I Die? (1960), producing the latter.

Moore guest starred on Checkmate and The Rebel and had a regular role as a rancher's daughter in the NBC Western Empire.

She also appeared on the NBC interview program Here's Hollywood.

Other appearances during this period include Black Spurs (1965), Town Tamer (1965), Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, Waco (1966), and A Man Called Dagger (1968) as well as episodes of The Virginian, and Batman.

Moore's 1970s appearances included Quarantined (1970), Bonanza, The Daredevil (1972), Smash-Up on Interstate 5 (1976), and Death Dimension (1978).

In the 1980s Moore's roles included appearances in Double Exposure (1982), Hellhole (1985), Going Overboard (1989), American Boyfriends (1989), and Jake Spanner, Private Eye (1989) and episodes of Matt Houston, Knight Rider, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, True Confessions, and Wiseguy.

At age 55, Moore posed nude in the August 1984 issue of Playboy magazine, photographed by Ken Marcus.

She also appeared in theatre.

She appeared in and did the story for Beverly Hills Brats (1989).

Moore was in Murder, She Wrote; Marilyn and Me (both in 1991); American Southern (1995); Second Chances (1998) (which she also produced); Mighty Joe Young (1998); and Final Voyage (1999).

Moore produced but did not appear in America's Funniest Home Videos and Nandi (1998).

In the 2000s, Moore's appearances include roles in Stageghost (2000), Kill Your Darlings (2006), The Still Life (2007), Dewitt & Maria (2010), a guest-starring role as Lilly Hill on the crime series True Detective (2014), Aimy in a Cage (2015), Ray Donovan, and Silent Life (2019).