Phillip Terry (Actor)

Reviews of Phillip Terry Movies

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Movies starring Phillip Terry have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 60%.

The Lost Weekend - released in 1945 - is Phillip Terry's highest rated movie, with a score of 81% based on 340 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Phillip Terry is The Leech Woman - released in 1960 - with a score of 35% based on 21 reviews.

Actor Biography

Phillip Terry (born Frederick Henry Kormann, March 7, 1909 – February 23, 1993) what is 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 the 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 the 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 what 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.

Phillip Terry has acted in films with Cyril Ring, Barbara Bedford, Ernie Alexander and Robert Young.

Phillip Terry has worked with these film directors: Harold S. Bucquet, Billy Wilder, Robert Wise and Richard Brooks.