
Phillip Terry
Biography
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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.
Acting (54 movies)

Born to Kill
1947

Fugitive from a Prison Camp
1940

The Lost Weekend
1945

The Leech Woman
1960

To Each His Own
1946

Dead End Kids vs. Spies, Inc.
1940

The Monster and the Girl
1941

Money, Women and Guns
1958

Double Exposure
1944

Balalaika
1939

Music in Manhattan
1944

Hold That Kiss
1938

Are Husbands Necessary?
1942

Sweater Girl
1942

Pan-Americana
1945

On Borrowed Time
1939

Beat the Band
1947

You're Only Young Once
1937

Young Dr. Kildare
1938

Love Is a Headache
1938

Tell No Tales
1939

Four Girls in White
1939

Spring Madness
1938

Honolulu
1939

Navy Blue and Gold
1937

Calling Dr. Kildare
1939

It's a Wonderful World
1939

Miracles for Sale
1939

Fast and Furious
1939

George White's Scandals
1945

Wake Island
1942

Class of '74
1972

Ladies Courageous
1944

The Parson of Panamint
1941

Money to Loan
1939

Torpedo Boat
1942

Junior G-Men
1940

Radio Hams
1939

The Dark Horse
1946

North West Mounted Police
1940

The Explosive Generation
1961

Seven Keys to Baldpate
1947

Man from God's Country
1958

Deadline - U.S.A.
1952

Yellow Jack
1938

Mannequin
1938

Boys Town
1938

Bataan
1943

Joaquin Murrieta
1938

Marie Antoinette
1938

Anaesthesia
1938

The Navy vs. the Night Monsters
1966

Those Were the Days!
1940

Too Hot to Handle
1938
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