Don Terry

Don Terry

Born: August 8, 1902
Died: October 6, 1988
in Natick, Massachusetts, USA

Movies for Don Terry...

White Savage
Title: White Savage
Character: Gris
Released: April 23, 1943
Type: Movie
A native boy plays Cupid for a shark fisherman and a South Sea Islands princess.
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Don Winslow of the Coast Guard
Title: Don Winslow of the Coast Guard
Character: Comdr. Don Winslow
Released: April 6, 1943
Type: Movie
Don Winslow (titular hero of the serial "Don Winslow of the Navy") is reassigned to the United States Coast Guard, to guard the coast against saboteurs and sneak attacks.
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Sherlock Holmes in Washington
Title: Sherlock Holmes in Washington
Character: Howe
Released: March 24, 1943
Type: Movie
In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington. The British government calls on Sherlock Holmes to recover it.
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Moonlight in Havana
Title: Moonlight in Havana
Character: Eddie Daniels
Released: October 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Allan Jones stars as hotshot baseball player Johnny Norton, in Havana for spring training. It turns out that Johnny has a beautiful singing voice, but only when he's suffering from a cold. Enterprising nightclub manager Barney Crane (William Frawley) attempts to inflict poor Johnny with cold germs, resulting in unchecked zaniness whenever our hero recovers sufficiently to lose his voice. The film's 63-minute running time manages to accommodate the drunken comedy relief of Hugh O'Connell and Jack Norton, and an abundance of musical numbers, courtesy of Allan Jones, Jane Frazee, the Horton Dancing Group, the Jivin' Jacks and Jills and Grace & Nicco.
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Overland Mail
Title: Overland Mail
Character: Buckskin Billy Burke
Released: September 22, 1942
Type: Movie
Two investigators for a stagecoach company are assigned to find out why the company's stages keep being ambushed. They discover that the culprits are white men disguised as Indians, and they set out to discover who is behind the plot.
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Drums of the Congo
Title: Drums of the Congo
Character: Captain Kirk Armstrong
Released: July 17, 1942
Type: Movie
A safari sets out to find a meteorite that fell in the African jungle.
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Top Sergeant
Title: Top Sergeant
Character: Sgt. Dick 'Rusty' Manson
Released: June 14, 1942
Type: Movie
An army sergeant recognises a young recruit as the man responsible for his brother's death, while attempting a robbery.
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Danger in the Pacific
Title: Danger in the Pacific
Character: Dr. David Lynd
Released: June 10, 1942
Type: Movie
Scientist-explorer David Lynd leaves wealthy bride-to-be June Claymore at the altar to join photographer Andy Parker and British secret service agent Leo Marzeli in search of rare minerals. They soon run afoul of crooked trader Tagani, who's been busily stockpiling weapons in the hills on behalf of his Nazi partners.
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Escape from Hong Kong
Title: Escape from Hong Kong
Character: Rusty
Released: May 15, 1942
Type: Movie
Three American vaudeville entertainers become involved with spies in Hong Kong, just before Pearl Harbor.
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Unseen Enemy
Title: Unseen Enemy
Character: Canadian Army Captain William Flynn Hitchcock, aka Bill Flinn, posing as Captain Wilhelm Roering
Released: March 10, 1942
Type: Movie
The Unseen Enemy in this wartime meller is Nick (Leo Carrillo), the outwardly effusive manager of a San Francisco waterfront café. To make enough money to ensure his daughter Gen's (Irene Hervey) entree into society, Nick sells his services to a gang of foreign spies, who then use Nick's establishment as a rendezvous point. The plan is to covertly send out a Japanese vessel for the purpose of raiding and destroying American merchant ships. The spies' secret code is hidden in the lyrics of a song called "Lydia", which the unwitting Gen performs on request day after day.
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Valley of the Sun
Title: Valley of the Sun
Character: Lieutenant
Released: February 6, 1942
Type: Movie
An Arizona frontiersman steals an Indian agent's girlfriend, followed by trouble.
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Don Winslow of the Navy
Title: Don Winslow of the Navy
Character: Cmdr. Don Winslow
Released: January 6, 1942
Type: Movie
A movie serial in 12 Chapters: US naval officer Don Winslow is given command of Tangita Island, near Pearl Harbor, where a ring of saboteurs is trying to destroy ships carrying supplies to the troops stationed in the islands and sabotage the war effort under orders from an unknown leader.
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Hold That Ghost
Title: Hold That Ghost
Character: Strangler (uncredited)
Released: August 8, 1941
Type: Movie
Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.
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In the Navy
Title: In the Navy
Character: Reef (uncredited)
Released: May 30, 1941
Type: Movie
Popular crooner Russ Raymond abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using an alias, Tommy Halstead. However, Dorothy Roberts, a reporter, discovers his identity and follows him in the hopes of photographing him and revealing his identity to the world. Aboard the Alabama, Tommy meets up with Smoky and Pomeroy, who help hide him from Dorothy, who hatches numerous schemes in an attempt to photograph Tommy/Russ being a sailor.
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Mutiny in the Arctic
Title: Mutiny in the Arctic
Character: Cole
Released: April 17, 1941
Type: Movie
A pair head to the frozen wastes with an expedition in search of radium deposits. Certain members of the group succumb to greed, plotting to bump off the others and claim the radium for themselves.
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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Title: You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Character: Ping-Pong Player (uncredited)
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax money out of him, or in McCarthy's case, steal some outright.
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Squadron of Honor
Title: Squadron of Honor
Character: District Attorney Don Blane
Released: June 28, 1938
Type: Movie
Squadron of Honor takes place during an American Legion convention, with newsreel shots of the genuine article interspersed among the reenacted scene. A murder is committed, and young legionnaire Blane (Don Terry) wants to find out who's responsible. The cops are convinced that pacifistic munitions executive Metcalf (Thurston Hall) committed the crime, but in fact Metcalf has been framed by pro-war armaments manufacturer Kimball (Robert Warwick).
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The Secret of Treasure Island
Title: The Secret of Treasure Island
Character: Larry Kent
Released: March 17, 1938
Type: Movie
A variety of people are searching for a long-hidden treasure somewhere on an island. Chapters: 1. The Isle of Fear, 2. The Ghost Talks, 3. The Phantom Duel, 4. Buried Alive, 5. The Girl Who Vanished, 6. Trapped by the Flood, 7. The Cannon Roars, 8. The Circle of Death, 9. The Pirate's Revenge, 10. The Crash, 11. Dynamite, 12. The Bridge of Doom, 13. The Mad Flight, 14. The Jaws of Destruction, 15. Justice
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When G-Men Step In
Title: When G-Men Step In
Character: Frederick 'Fred' Garth
Released: March 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Having paid for the education and legal training of his younger brother, Bruce, with the idea that he would become a lawyer and join his business, Frederick Garth, a racketeer posing as an honest businessman, is dismayed when he learns that Bruce has become a G-Man instead.
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Who Killed Gail Preston?
Title: Who Killed Gail Preston?
Character: Inspector Kellog
Released: February 24, 1938
Type: Movie
A temperamental singer's murder leaves a nightclub full of suspects.
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Paid to Dance
Title: Paid to Dance
Character: William Dennis
Released: December 11, 1937
Type: Movie
Government undercover agents William Dennis and Joan Barclay are working to solve the disappearances of girls working as "taxi-dancers" from dance halls operated by Jack Miranda and his henchman Nifty.
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A Dangerous Adventure
Title: A Dangerous Adventure
Character: Tim Sawyer
Released: July 21, 1937
Type: Movie
This drama chronicles the education of a naive, rich young woman who inherits a steel mill. To help her keep it running she unites with a man. Meanwhile two crooks try to destroy her production in order to force her to sell it to them for very little money. They are thwarted at the last moment.
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A Fight to the Finish
Title: A Fight to the Finish
Character: Duke Mallor
Released: June 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A feud between taxicab companies forms the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when the hero is double-crossed and framed for a murder by his rival with whom he was competing for the position of fleet superintendent in the city's biggest cab company.
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Whistlin' Dan
Title: Whistlin' Dan
Character: Bob Reid
Released: March 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A cowboy and sidekick infiltrate a rustler gang to avenge the murder of their pal.
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Lady with a Past
Title: Lady with a Past
Character: Party Guest (Uncredited)
Released: February 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A wealthy girl hires a male escort to make one of her male friends jealous. She spreads rumours about her character that makes her popular amongst all bachelors in the city including her friend.
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Untamed
Title: Untamed
Character: Gregg
Released: November 23, 1929
Type: Movie
In her first Talkie, Joan Crawford plays Bingo, a jungle-raised oil heiress, who turns Manhattan upside down in her hunt for Andy McAllister, the man of her dreams. Unfortunately for Bingo, Andy is penniless and refuses to agree to the match until he can provide for the wild, rich girl. Andy's prideful position is more than encouraged by Bingo's Uncle Ben, who seeks to scuttle their love match.
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Border Romance
Title: Border Romance
Character: Bob Hamlin
Released: May 25, 1929
Type: Movie
In a cantina across the border, Bob Hamlin shoots a man that threatens his friend. He and his pals escape but return that night for the dance as Bob is attracted to Conchita. Running once more from the Rurales, Bob takes Conchita. They escape again only to find themselves pinned down when Buck and his gang of horse thieves attack.
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The Valiant
Title: The Valiant
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: May 19, 1929
Type: Movie
A man condemned to execution tries to convince two women that he is not their son and brother, and that they must get on with their lives.
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Fugitives
Title: Fugitives
Character: Dick Starr
Released: January 27, 1929
Type: Movie
Nightclub singer Alice Carroll is found in the office of club owner Al Barrow, who is lying dead on the floor. Alice has been overheard threatening to kill Barrow rather than give in to his advances. She protests her innocence, but the District Attorney doesn't believe her and charges her with Barrow's murder. However, things aren't quite as cut-and-dried as the D.A. believes them to be.
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Me, Gangster
Title: Me, Gangster
Character: Jimmy Williams
Released: October 20, 1928
Type: Movie
Told in the form of a diary, the story details the rise and fall of gangster boss Jimmy Williams.