
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).

The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961

Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984

Bonanza
TV • 1959

The Love Boat
TV • 1977

The Love Boat
TV • 1977

Batman
TV • 1966

True Detective
TV • 2014

The Virginian
TV • 1962

Climax!
TV • 1954

Climax!
TV • 1954

Climax!
TV • 1954

Studio One
TV • 1948

My Three Sons
TV • 1960

Knight Rider
TV • 1982

Rawhide
TV • 1959

Burke's Law
TV • 1963

Burke's Law
TV • 1963

Burke's Law
TV • 1963