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).
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as Grandma Micry
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as Lilly Hill(1 ep)
as Miriam Cuningham
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as Ella Toscana
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as Woman at Hyde's Funeral
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as Mrs. McCormack
as Sidnee Hammond
as Florence(1 ep)
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as Molly Friedrich(1 ep)
as Emily Armor(1 ep)
as Madam Maria
as Mrs. Clark(1 ep)
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as Julie Thompson
as Connie Garrett
as Martha Atkinson
as Harper Davis
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as Venus(3 eps)
as Suzan
as Susan Tavenner
as Anna Elkins
as Sarah Kingston(1 ep)
as Nikki Manners(1 ep)
as Felice Knight(1 ep)
as Connie Garrett(32 eps)
as Connie(1 ep)
as Alma Wilson(1 ep)
as Self(1 ep)
as Lois King
as Jennifer Evans
as Janice Dutton(1 ep)
as Lydia Yates(1 ep)
as Janet Calvert
as Louise Wright
as Dallas Storm(1 ep)
as Betty Anderson
as Eleanor
as Self(1 ep)
as Jean Cantrick
as Jenny Gifford
as Lisa
as Kotty
as Alison Ford
as Ann Winslow(1 ep)
as Linda Pendleton
as Rosa(1 ep)
as Chris(1 ep)
as Julie(1 ep)
as Susan Maitland
as Gwyneth Rhys
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as Marie Buckholder
as Evvy Jeffers(1 ep)
as Susan Randall(1 ep)
as Adie Titus
as Betty Holloway
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as Lynn Warren
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as Jill Young
as Annabelle(1 ep)
as Terry Ramsey
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as Virginia 'Ginny' Johnson (as Helen Koford)
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