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).

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; 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 to 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

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