Phillip Terry
Acting
Born 1909-03-07
Died 1993-02-23
San Francisco, California, USA
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Phillip Terry (born Frederick Henry Kormann, March 7, 1909 – February 23, 1993) was an American actor.
Terry was born in San Francisco, California, the only child of German Americans, Frederick Andrew Kormann (1883–1948) and Ida Ruth Voll (1883–1954). He attended Stanford University, where he became interested in theatre. After a brief stay in New York, he went to London, in 1933, where he attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Afterwards he toured British provinces for four years doing stock theater. Upon returning to Hollywood he took a job with CBS Radio, where he performed in a number of plays on the air, specializing in Shakespearean roles. After a screen test at MGM in 193y he was awarded a contract with the studio. Among his motion picture appearances, he had a bit part in the movie Mannequin starring Joan Crawford.
Phillip Terry appeared in more than eighty movies over the span of his career. Many of the early roles were small and often uncredited. But in the 1940s, he received bigger and more numerous roles in some quality movies, such as The Lost Weekend (1945) starring Ray Milland, and To Each His Own (1946) starring Olivia de Havilland, who won one of her Oscars for her role in the film.
His career began to flag in the late 1940s. Through the 1950s and early 1970s, he took on occasional B movie roles including monster flick. In addition, he would accept television roles and was in episodes of The Name of the Game and Police Woman. He also made five guest appearances on Perry Mason.
In 1973, he retired and moved to Santa Barbara, California. He suffered the first of a series of strokes in 1978. Because of the strokes, he lost his mobility and communication and was an invalid for several years before his death at the age of 83. Terry died at his home in Santa Barbara. His ashes were scattered in the Pacific Ocean.
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Perry Mason
Lassie
Maverick
Police Woman
77 Sunset Strip
Mr. Novak
Wire Service
The Lost Weekend
Deadline - U.S.A.
Ladies Courageous
It's a Wonderful World
Marie Antoinette
North West Mounted Police
Born to Kill
Boys Town
Too Hot to Handle
Bataan
To Each His Own
The Monster and the Girl
Radio Hams
Man from God's Country
Honolulu
On Borrowed Time
Navy Blue and Gold
The Explosive Generation
Balalaika
Fast and Furious
Class of '74
Money, Women and Guns
You're Only Young Once
The Leech Woman
The Navy vs. the Night Monsters
Mannequin
Four Girls in White
Love Is a Headache
Tell No Tales
Hold That Kiss
Calling Dr. Kildare
Gangs Of The City
Music in Manhattan
Young Dr. Kildare
Yellow Jack
Sweater Girl
Junior G-Men
Spring Madness
Money to Loan
George White's Scandals
Those Were the Days!
Dead End Kids vs. Spies, Inc.
New Roadways
Pan-Americana
The Parson of Panamint
Miracles for Sale
Double Exposure
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