Overview
Terry Moore (born Helen Luella Koford, January 7, 1929) is an American film and television actress who began her career as a child actor. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Come Back, Little Sheba (1952).
Biography
Child actress
Moore was born January 7, 1929, in Glendale, California, and grew up in a Mormon family in Los Angeles. She worked as a child model before making her film debut in Maryland (1940). She was billed as Judy Ford, Jan Ford, and January Ford before taking Terry Moore as her name in 1948.
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).
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).
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