- Phillip Terry
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birthname = Frederick Henry Kormann
birthdate =March 7 ,1909
location = San Francisco,California
deathdate = death date and age |1993|2|23|1909|3|7
deathplace = Santa Barbara,California
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spouse = Joan Crawford (1942-1946)
Rosalind Lee (?-1993)Phillip Terry (
March 7 ,1909 –February 23 ,1993 ) was an Americanactor .He was born Frederick Henry Kormann in San Francisco,
California , the only child of German Americans, Frederick Andrew Kormann (1883–1948) and Ida Ruth Voll (1883–1954).He attended grade school in
Glendale, California . His father was achemical engineer in the oil fields who moved often. To ensure he receive a stable education, his parents sent him to live with relatives inNew Jersey and attend school while they travelled.During the holidays, he would return to his parents in such places as
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma , andBurkburnett, Texas . When he completed high school, he rejoined them for good. He worked for a time in the oil fields as a roustabout, then a tool pusher and rig builder. When he was seventeen, they moved back to San Francisco.He attended
Stanford University , where he played football. He then became interested intheatre . After a brief stay in New York, he went toLondon , in 1933, where he enrolled at theRoyal Academy of Dramatic Art .He later went to
Hollywood, California and took a job withCBS Radio, where he performed in a number of plays on the air. In 1937, aMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer talent scout heard him in one of these broadcasts and arranged an interview. Terry made ascreen test and was awarded acontract with the studio. Among his motion picture appearances, he had a bit part in the movie "Mannequin" starringJoan Crawford and the lead in "Seven Keys to Baldpate " (1947).Two years later he signed with Paramount, where he starred in "
The Parson of Panamint ". He then did supporting roles in "Wake Island" and "Bataan", the latter on which was when he was on "loan-out" toMGM .When he left Paramount, he signed with
RKO and was in "Music in Manhattan ", "George White's Scandals " and "Pan-Americana ".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) starringRay Milland , and "To Each His Own" (1946) starringOlivia de Havilland , who won one of her Oscars for her role in the film.When his career began to slide in the late 1940s he turned his attention to
real estate . He was a good salesman andinvestor , and eventually became very wealthy.He was married on
July 21 ,1942 , at the Hidden Valley Ranch inVentura County, California , to actressJoan Crawford . They were divorced in 1946. He was then married to Rosalind Lee, a woman with no connection to show business.Terry never completely abandoned acting. During the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s, he took on occasional movie roles. Some of his better
B movie s from this period include "The Leech Woman " (1960), withGrant Williams , and "The Navy VS. the Night Monsters " (1966), with bodacious B-actressMamie Van Doren .Sometimes he would accept
television roles and was in episodes of "The Name of the Game" and "Police Woman".In 1973, he
retired and moved toSanta Barbara, California .He suffered the first of a series of strokes in 1978. Because of the strokes, he lost his
mobility andcommunication and was an invalid for several years before his death at the age of 83.Phillip Terry died at his home in Santa Barbara. He was
cremated and his ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean.External links
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