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Personal data Frederick Henry KORMANN 

• Alternative name: Phillip Terry
• He was born on March 7, 1909 in San Francisco, California, USA.
• Profession: Actor.
• He died on February 23, 1993 in Santa Barbara, California, USA, he was 83 years old.

Household of Frederick Henry KORMANN

(1) He is married to Lucille Fay le SUEUR.

They got married in the year 1942, he was 32 years old.

The couple were divorced in 1946.

(2) He is married to (Not public).

They got married in the year 1949, he was 39 years old.

The couple were divorced in 1954.

(3) He is married to (Not public).

They got married in the year 1973, he was 63 years old.

Notes about Frederick Henry KORMANN

Phillip Terry (born Frederick Henry Kormann, March 7, 1909 – February 23, 1993) was an American actor.

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Early years
Terry was born in San Francisco, California, the only child of German Americans, Frederick Andrew Kormann (1883–1948) and Ida Ruth Voll (1883–1954). His father was a chemical engineer in the oil fields who moved often. To ensure he receive a stable education, his parents sent him to live with relatives in New Jersey and attend school while they travelled.

He attended grade school in Glendale, California.[citation needed] (A 1945 newspaper item reported that Terry "had elementary education in various schools in the oil country around Texas and Oklahoma."[1]) He attended Iona High School in New York and Sacred Heart College in San Francisco.[1]

During the holidays, he would return to his parents in such places as Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and Burkburnett, 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 interested himself in theatricals and resolved to become an actor")[1] and where he played football. He then became interested in theatre. After a brief stay in New York, he went to London, in 1933, where he enrolled at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Career
After studying at the Royal Academy, he toured British provinces for four years doing stock theater. He went to Hollywood, California and took a job with CBS Radio, where he performed in a number of plays on the air, specializing in Shakespearean roles.[1] In 1937, a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer talent scout heard him in one of these broadcasts and arranged an interview. Terry made a screen test and was awarded a contract with the studio. Among his motion picture appearances, he had a bit part in the movie Mannequin starring Joan Crawford.

Two years later he signed with Paramount, where he starred in The Parson of Panamint, The Monster and the Girl. He then did supporting roles in Wake Island and Bataan, the work on the latter occurring when he was on "loan-out" to MGM. During World War II Terry was classified "4F" unfit for military service due to defective vision.[2]

When he left Paramount, he signed with RKO and was in Music in Manhattan, George White's Scandals, Pan-Americana, Born to Kill and the lead in Seven Keys to Baldpate (1947).

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.

Investing
When his career began to slide in the late 1940s he turned his attention to real estate. He was a good salesman and investor, and eventually became very wealthy.

Marriages
He was married on July 21, 1942, at the Hidden Valley Ranch in Ventura County, California, to film star Joan Crawford.[3] They were divorced in 1946. Irving Wallace, Amy Wallace, David Wallechinsky, and Sylvia Wallace wrote in their book, The Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People:

Despite her status as a single parent, in 1939 she [Crawford] began adoption proceedings for a baby girl, whom she named Joan Crawford, Jr. Months later Joan changed the child's name to Christina. ... During [her marriage to Phillip Terry] she adopted a second child — a boy — and named him Phillip Terry, Jr. Following her 1946 divorce from Terry, she renamed the boy Christopher Crawford.[4]

Terry later married Rosalind Lee, who was not an actress; they remained married until his death.[citation needed]

Later years
Terry never completely abandoned acting. During the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s, he took on occasional movie roles. Some of his better B movies from this period include The Leech Woman (1960), with Grant Williams, and The Navy vs. the Night Monsters (1966), with Mamie Van Doren.

Sometimes 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, including the role of murder victim Robert Doniger in the 1960 episode, "The Case of the Gallant Grafter", and he played murderer Lawrence Kent in the 1961 episode, "The Case of the Resolute Reformer".[citation needed]

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.[citation needed]

Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
1937 The Last Gangster Reporter Uncredited
1937 Navy Blue and Gold Kelly
1937 You're Only Young Once Pilot Uncredited
1937 Mannequin Man Outside Stage Door Uncredited
1937 Rosalie West Point Cadet Uncredited
1938 Love Is a Headache Club 44 Radio Man Uncredited
1938 Of Human Hearts Army Intern Uncredited
1938 Test Pilot Photographer Uncredited
1938 Hold That Kiss Ted Evans
1938 Yellow Jack Ferguson
1938 Three Comrades Young Soldier Uncredited
1938 Marie Antoinette Man in Gaming House Uncredited
1938 Boys Town Newspaper Reporter Uncredited
1938 Too Hot to Handle San Francisco Airport Official Uncredited
1938 Vacation from Love Band Leader Uncredited
1938 Young Dr. Kildare Dr. Vickery Uncredited
1938 The Great Waltz Student Uncredited
1938 Spring Madness Dartmouth College Student Uncredited
1938 Four Girls in White Dr. Sidney
1939 Honolulu Nightclub Bandleader Uncredited
1939 Calling Dr. Kildare Bates
1939 Tell No Tales Man on Stage Uncredited
1939 It's a Wonderful World Chauffeur Uncredited
1939 On Borrowed Time Bill Lowry
1939 Miracles for Sale Magic Show Master of Ceremonies Uncredited
1939 Fast and Furious Master of Ceremonies Uncredited
1939 Balalaika Lt. Smirnoff
1940 Those Were the Days! Ransom
1940 Junior G-Men Jim Bradford Serial
1940 Fugitive from a Prison Camp Bill Harding
1940 North West Mounted Police Constable Judson Uncredited
1940 Dancing on a Dime Brent Martin
1941 The Monster and the Girl Scot Webster
1941 I Wanted Wings Radio Operator Uncredited
1941 The Parson of Panamint Reverend Philip Pharo
1941 Public Enemies Bill Raymond
1942 Torpedo Boat Tommy Whelan
1942 Are Husbands Necessary? Cory Cortwright
1942 Sweater Girl Prof. Martin Lawrence
1942 Wake Island Pvt. 'Cookie' Warren Uncredited
1943 Bataan Matthew Hardy
1944 Ladies Courageous Tommy Harper
1944 Music in Manhattan Johnny Pearson
1944 Double Exposure Ben Scribner
1945 Pan-Americana Dan Jordan
1945 The Lost Weekend Wick Birnam
1945 George White's Scandals Tom McGrath
1946 To Each His Own Alex Piersen
1946 The Dark Horse George Kelly
1947 Beat the Band Damon Dillingham
1947 Born to Kill Fred
1947 Seven Keys to Baldpate Kenneth Magee
1952 Deadline – U.S.A. Lewis Schaefer Uncredited
1958 Man from God's Country Sheriff
1958 Money, Women and Guns Damian Bard
1960 The Leech Woman Dr. Paul Talbot
1961 The Explosive Generation Mr. Carlyle
1966 The Navy vs. the Night Monsters Base Doctor
1972 Class of '74 Dave

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