Paul Terry
Born: 1887-02-19 in San Mateo, California, USA
Died: 1971-10-25
Known For: Directing
Biography
Paul Houlton Terry was an American pioneering animator and founder of Terrytoons, cartoonist, screenwriter, film director and producer. He produced over 1,300 cartoons between 1915 and 1955 including the many Terrytoons cartoons. His studio's most famous character is Mighty Mouse, and also created Heckle and Jeckle, Gandy Goose and Dinky Duck.
Filmography
2024
- The Life and Times of Farmer Al ... (Characters)
2021
- Cartoon Carnival as Self (archive footage)
1953
- The Timid Scarecrow ... (Producer)
1952
- The Happy Cobblers ... (Producer)
1951
- Movie Madness ... (Producer)
- Bulldozing the Bull ... (Producer)
- Beaver Trouble ... (Producer)
- The Rainmakers ... (Story)
- Flop Secret ... (Writer)
- Steeple Jacks ... (Producer)
1950
- King Tut's Tomb ... (Producer)
- The Fox Hunt ... (Writer)
- Mother Goose's Birthday Party ... (Producer)
- Better Late Than Never ... (Producer)
- Rival Romeos ... (Producer)
1949
- Happy Landing ... (Producer)
- Hula Hula Land ... (Producer)
- The Power of Thought ... (Producer)
1948
- Taming the Cat ... (Producer)
1947
- Cat Trouble ... (Producer)
- Flying South ... (Story)
- Fishing by the Sea ... (Producer)
- The Hitch Hikers ... (Producer)
- Mighty Mouse Meets Deadeye Dick ... (Producer)
- Crying Wolf ... (Producer)
- Aladdin's Lamp ... (Story)
1946
- The Uninvited Pests ... (Producer)
- Mighty Mouse in the Trojan Horse ... (Producer)
- Winning the West ... (Producer)
- Throwing the Bull ... (Producer)
- The Johnstown Flood ... (Producer)
- The Wicked Wolf ... (Producer)
- The Jail Break ... (Producer)
- My Old Kentucky Home ... (Producer)
- The Hep Cat ... (Producer)
- The Electronic Mouse Trap ... (Producer)
- Svengali's Cat ... (Producer)
- The Crackpot King ... (Producer)
1945
- Mighty Mouse and the Wolf ... (Producer)
- Raiding the Raiders ... (Producer)
- Mighty Mouse and the Pirates ... (Producer)
- Mighty Mouse in Krakatoa ... (Producer)
- Mighty Mouse and the Kilkenny Cats ... (Producer)
- The Silver Streak ... (Producer)
- Ants in Your Pantry ... (Producer)
- The Port of Missing Mice ... (Producer)
- Christmas Toyshop ... (Director)
- Bad Bill Bunion ... (Producer)
1944
- Mighty Mouse Meets Jekyll and Hyde Cat ... (Producer)
- The Sultan's Birthday ... (Producer)
- The Two Barbers ... (Producer)
- Eliza on the Ice ... (Producer)
- The Wreck of the Hesperus ... (Producer)
- Wolf! Wolf! ... (Producer)
- The Green Line ... (Producer)
1943
- Down with Cats ... (Producer)
- Super Mouse Rides Again ... (Producer)
- The Lion and the Mouse ... (Producer)
- Pandora's Box ... (Producer)
1942
- Frankenstein's Cat ... (Producer)
- School Daze ... (Producer)
- Ickle Meets Pickle ... (Producer)
- The Mouse of Tomorrow ... (Producer)
- The Big Build-Up ... (Producer)
- Somewhere in the Pacific ... (Writer)
1940
- The Snow Man ... (Producer)
- Rover's Rescue ... (Producer)
1939
- The Golden West ... (Producer)
- The Old Fire Horse ... (Story)
- Nick's Coffee Pot ... (Producer)
1938
- Bugs Beetle and His Orchestra ... (Director)
- Maid in China ... (Writer)
- Devil of the Deep ... (Producer)
1937
- The Big Game Haunt ... (Story)
- The Dancing Bear ... (Producer)
- The Saw Mill Mystery ... (Director)
- The Hay Ride ... (Story)
- Puddy's Coronation ... (Director)
- The Mechanical Cow ... (Producer)
1936
- The Feud ... (Director)
- Off to China ... (Director)
- The 19th Hole Club ... (Director)
- A Tough Egg ... (Director)
- The Western Trail ... (Director)
- The Sailor's Home ... (Director)
- Home Town Olympics ... (Director)
- Barnyard Amateurs ... (Director)
- Alpine Yodeler ... (Director)
1935
- Opera Night ... (Director)
- Southern Horse-pitality ... (Director)
- Modern Red Hood ... (Director)
- Ye Olde Toy Shop ... (Director)
- The Moth and the Spider ... (Director)
- Birdland ... (Director)
- Moans and Groans ... (Director)
- Amateur Night ... (Director)
- A June Bride ... (Director)
- What a Night ... (Director)
- Chain Letters ... (Director)
- Fireman, Save My Child ... (Director)
- The Mayflower ... (Director)
- Football ... (Director)
- The First Snow ... (Director)
- Old Dog Tray ... (Director)
- Five Puplets ... (Director)
- Aladdin's Lamp ... (Director)
- The Bull Fight ... (Director)
- Hey Diddle Diddle ... (Director)
- Flying Oil ... (Director)
- The Foxy-Fox ... (Director)
- Peg Leg Pete, the Pirate ... (Director)
- Circus Days ... (Director)
- King Looney XIV ... (Director)
1934
- A Mad House ... (Director)
- Slow But Sure ... (Director)
- Pandora ... (Director)
- Hot Sands ... (Director)
- The Owl and the Pussycat ... (Director)
- Mice in Council ... (Director)
- Why Mules Leave Home ... (Director)
- Rip Van Winkle ... (Director)
- Irish Sweepstakes ... (Director)
- The Lion's Friend ... (Director)
- Joe's Lunch Wagon ... (Director)
- The Last Straw ... (Writer)
- Jail Birds ... (Director)
- Holland Days ... (Director)
- South Pole or Bust ... (Director)
- The King's Daughter ... (Director)
- Tom, Tom the Piper's Son ... (Director)
- See the World ... (Director)
- The Magic Fish ... (Director)
- My Lady's Garden ... (Director)
- Jack's Shack ... (Director)
- The Dog Show ... (Director)
1933
- Who Killed Cock-Robin ... (Writer)
- Tropical Fish ... (Writer)
- The Banker's Daughter ... (Screenplay)
- Beanstalk Jack ... (Writer)
- The Sunny South ... (Director)
1932
- Farmer Al Falfa's Ape Girl ... (Writer)
- Southern Rhythm ... (Director)
- Bull-ero ... (Director)
- Play Ball ... (Director)
- Happy Polo ... (Director)
- The Spider Talks ... (Director)
- Hollywood Diet ... (Writer)
- Ireland or Bust ... (Writer)
1931
- Around the World ... (Director)
- China ... (Director)
- By the Sea ... (Writer)
- The Sultan's Cat ... (Story)
- The Black Spider
- Sing, Sing Prison ... (Writer)
- The Lorelei ... (Writer)
- The Champ ... (Producer)
- Blues ... (Director)
- Jingle Bells ... (Director)
- Summertime ... (Director)
- Quack Quack ... (Director)
- The Fireman's Bride ... (Director)
- A Day to Live ... (Director)
- 2000 B.C. ... (Writer)
- Clowning ... (Director)
1930
- Ship Ahoy ... (Producer)
- Pigskin Capers ... (Writer)
- Kangaroo Steak ... (Writer)
- Irish Stew ... (Writer)
- The Family Album ... (Animation)
- French Fried ... (Writer)
- Fried Chicken ... (Writer)
- Scotch Highball ... (Writer)
- Spanish Onions ... (Writer)
- Swiss Cheese ... (Writer)
- Caviar ... (Writer)
- Salt Water Taffy ... (Director)
- Hot Turkey ... (Writer)
1929
- Farmer's Goat ... (Director)
- Barnyard Melody ... (Producer)
- Cop's Bride ... (Director)
- Skating Hounds ... (Director)
- Land o' Cotton ... (Director)
- Cabaret ... (Director)
- A Lad and His Lamp ... (Director)
- Jail Breakers ... (Director)
- Polo Match ... (Director)
- Wood Choppers ... (Director)
- Custard Pies ... (Director)
- The Big Burg ... (Director)
- Wooden Money ... (Director)
- Sweet Adeline ... (Director)
- The Break of Day ... (Director)
- The Black Duck ... (Director)
- Snapping the Whip ... (Director)
- Homeless Cats ... (Director)
- A Midsummer's Day ... (Director)
- Presto-Chango ... (Director)
- The Big Shot ... (Director)
- Back to the Soil ... (Director)
- A Stone Age Romance ... (Director)
- Kidnapped ... (Director)
- Bug House College Days ... (Director)
- Ball Park ... (Animation)
- April Showers ... (Director)
- Concentrate ... (Director)
- Stage Struck ... (Director)
- Three Game Guys ... (Director)
- In His Cups ... (Director)
- The Big Scare ... (Director)
- The Queen Bee ... (Director)
- The Water Cure ... (Director)
- House Cleaning Time ... (Director)
- Faithful Pup ... (Director)
- Grandma's House ... (Director)
1928
- On the Ice ... (Director)
- Barnyard Artists ... (Director)
- Big Game ... (Director)
- Coast to Coast ... (Producer)
- Dinner Time ... (Director)
- White Elephant ... (Producer)
- A Blaze of Glory ... (Director)
- The Fishing Fool ... (Director)
- Monkey Love ... (Director)
- The Spider's Lair ... (Director)
- A Polar Flight ... (Director)
- Mail Man ... (Director)
- A Day Off ... (Director)
- Sunny Italy ... (Director)
- Barnyard Lodge Number One ... (Director)
- Laundry Man ... (Director)
- Sunday on the Farm ... (Producer)
- Ride 'Em Cowboy ... (Director)
- War Bride ... (Director)
- The Magnetic Bat ... (Director)
- City Slickers ... (Writer)
- Alaska or Bust ... (Director)
- Kill or Cure ... (Producer)
- A Short Circuit ... (Producer)
- The Huntsman ... (Producer)
- The County Fair ... (Director)
- A Jungle Triangle ... (Director)
- The Son Shower ... (Director)
- The Mouse's Bride ... (Producer)
- Barnyard Politics ... (Director)
- Puppy Love ... (Director)
- Gridiron Demons ... (Director)
- A Cross Country Run ... (Director)
- The Early Bird ... (Director)
- The Flying Age ... (Director)
- The Good Ship Nellie ... (Director)
- Outnumbered ... (Director)
- The Wandering Minstrel ... (Director)
1927
- When Snow Flies ... (Producer)
- The Home Agent ... (Director)
- Christmas Cheer ... (Director)
- The Boy Friend ... (Director)
- High Stakes ... (Director)
- The Medicine Man ... (Director)
- Hook, Line and Sinker ... (Director)
- The Honor Man ... (Director)
- The Big Tent ... (Director)
- Saved by a Keyhole ... (Director)
- All for a Bride ... (Director)
- Rats in His Garret ... (Producer)
- The Junk Man ... (Director)
- Carnival Week ... (Director)
- Horses, Horses, Horses ... (Director)
- Ant Life as It Isn't ... (Director)
- The Crawl Stroke Kid ... (Director)
- The Love Nest ... (Director)
- In the Rough ... (Director)
- Subway Sally ... (Director)
- The Big Reward ... (Director)
- A Dog's Day ... (Director)
- The Magician ... (Director)
- All Bull and a Yard Wide ... (Director)
- The Human Fly ... (Director)
- A Brave Heart ... (Director)
- A Hole In One ... (Director)
- River Of Doubt ... (Director)
- The Plow Boy's Revenge ... (Director)
- The Pie-Eyed Piper ... (Director)
- Bubbling Over ... (Director)
- The Bully ... (Director)
- Cracked Ice ... (Director)
- Cutting a Melon ... (Director)
- Flying Fishers ... (Director)
- A Horse's Tale ... (Director)
- Taking the Air ... (Director)
1926
- Where Friendship Ceases ... (Producer)
- The Land Boom ... (Producer)
- The Phoney Express ... (Director)
- Up in the Air ... (Director)
- The Wind Jammers ... (Director)
- Radio Controlled ... (Director)
- The June Bride ... (Director)
- Hunting in 1950 ... (Director)
- The Charleston Queen ... (Director)
- Buck Fever ... (Director)
- Why Argue ... (Producer)
- Gold Push ... (Director)
- The Mail Coach ... (Producer)
- Hitting the Rails ... (Director)
- The Merry Blacksmith ... (Director)
- The Musical Parrot ... (Director)
- Three Blind Mice ... (Director)
- Venus of Venice ... (Director)
- Hearts and Showers ... (Director)
- Home Sweet Home ... (Director)
- The Wicked City ... (Director)
- Pests ... (Producer)
- An Alpine Flapper ... (Director)
- Gun Shy ... (Director)
- Sink or Swim ... (Director)
- Dough Boys ... (Director)
- Rough and Ready Romeo ... (Director)
- A Buggy Ride ... (Director)
- Scrambled Eggs ... (Director)
- Farm Hands ... (Director)
- Knight Out ... (Producer)
- Bars and Stripes ... (Director)
- Chop Suey and Noodles ... (Director)
- Fly Time ... (Director)
- Jungle Sports ... (Director)
- Lighter Than Air ... (Director)
- A Plumber's Life ... (Director)
- The Road House ... (Director)
- Liquid Dynamite ... (Director)
- The Shootin' Fool ... (Director)
1925
- Closer Than a Brother ... (Director)
- The Bonehead Age ... (Director)
- A Fast Worker ... (Director)
- In Dutch ... (Animation)
- The Housing Shortage ... (Director)
- Window Washers ... (Director)
- The Runt ... (Director)
- The Pie Man ... (Director)
- The Hero Wins ... (Director)
- A Yarn About Yarn ... (Director)
- The Honor System ... (Director)
- Echoes from the Alps ... (Director)
- Transatlantic Flight ... (Director)
- More Mice Than Brains ... (Producer)
- Soap ... (Director)
- The Ugly Duckling ... (Director)
- Air-Cooled ... (Director)
- The Haunted House ... (Director)
- The Haunted House ... (Director)
- At the Zoo ... (Director)
- The Lion and the Monkey ... (Director)
- Barnyard Follies ... (Director)
- Clean-Up Week ... (Director)
- Darkest Africa ... (Director)
- For the Love of a Gal ... (Director)
- Noah Had His Troubles ... (Director)
- Nuts and Squirrels ... (Director)
- Fisherman's Luck ... (Director)
- Wild Cats of Paris ... (Director)
- Bigger and Better Jails ... (Director)
- The Great Open Spaces ... (Director)
- Permanent Waves ... (Director)
- Runaway Balloon ... (Director)
- Bubbles ... (Director)
- S.O.S. ... (Director)
1924
- On the Ice ... (Producer)
- The Organ Grinder ... (Director)
- The Rat's Revenge ... (Director)
- When Winter Comes ... (Producer)
- That Old Can of Mine ... (Director)
- Black Magic ... (Director)
- A Trip to the Pole ... (Director)
- Good Old College Days ... (Director)
- Jolly Jail Bird ... (Director)
- A Woman's Honor ... (Director)
- In the Good Old Summertime ... (Director)
- Homeless Pups ... (Director)
- The Prodigal Pup ... (Director)
- Why Mice Leave Home ... (Director)
- Running Wild ... (Director)
- Amelia Comes Back ... (Director)
- An Ideal Farm ... (Director)
- Down on the Farm ... (Director)
- Lumber Jacks ... (Director)
- Noah's Athletic Club ... (Director)
- Rural Romance ... (Director)
- Hawks of the Sea ... (Director)
- The Body in the Bag ... (Director)
- The Champion ... (Director)
- The Flying Carpet ... (Director)
- House Cleaning ... (Director)
- The Black Sheep ... (Director)
- Message from the Sea ... (Director)
- Flying Fever ... (Director)
- Desert Sheiks ... (Director)
- A Lighthouse by the Sea ... (Director)
- She Knew Her Man ... (Director)
1923
- The Beauty Parlor ... (Director)
- The Stork's Mistake ... (Director)
- Happy Go Luckies ... (Producer)
- The Fable of the Jolly Rounders ... (Director)
- The Fable of the Mysterious Hat ... (Director)
- Love in a Cottage ... (Director)
- Amateur Night on the Ark ... (Director)
- A Barnyard Rodeo ... (Director)
- The Fable of a Raisin and a Cake of Yeast ... (Director)
- Do Women Pay? ... (Director)
- The Fable of the Traveling Salesman ... (Producer)
- The Burglar Alarm ... (Producer)
- The Five Fifteen ... (Director)
- The Morning After ... (Director)
- Mysteries of the Sea ... (Director)
- The Gamblers ... (Director)
- Derby Day ... (Director)
- The Good Old Days ... (Director)
- The Covered Pushcart ... (Director)
- Springtime ... (Director)
- The Nine of Spades ... (Director)
- Pharaoh's Tomb ... (Director)
- The Thoroughbred ... (Director)
- The High Flyers ... (Director)
- Aged in the Wood ... (Director)
- Farmer Al Falfa's Pet Cat ... (Director)
- The Bad Bandit ... (Director)
- The Cat Came Back ... (Director)
- A Dark Horse ... (Director)
- Five Orphans of the Storm ... (Director)
- Great Explorers ... (Director)
- Farmer Al Falfa's Bride ... (Director)
- The Fable of the Gliders ... (Director)
- The Fable of the Spider and the Fly ... (Director)
- The Walrus Hunters ... (Director)
- Spooks ... (Director)
- A Fish Story ... (Director)
1922
- The Elephant's Trunk ... (Director)
- The Fable of Henpecked Henry ... (Producer)
- The Fable of the Man Who Laughs ... (Director)
- The Maid and the Millionaire ... (Director)
- The Fable of the Romantic Mouse ... (Director)
- The Fable of the Mischievous Cat ... (Producer)
- The Farmer And The Mice ... (Producer)
- The Dissatisfied Cobbler ... (Director)
- The Two Trappers ... (Director)
- The Hunter and His Dog ... (Director)
- The Model Dairy ... (Producer)
- Magic Boots ... (Director)
- The Cat and the Swordfish ... (Director)
- The Fable of the Mechanical Horse ... (Director)
- The Fable of Brewing Trouble ... (Director)
- The Rich Cat and the Poor Cat ... (Director)
- The Fable of Henry's Busted Romance ... (Director)
- The Lion and the Mouse ... (Animation)
- The Spendthrift ... (Director)
- The Boy and the Bear ... (Director)
- The Dog And The Mosquito ... (Director)
- The Fable of the Boastful Cat ... (Director)
- The Fable of Friday the 13th ... (Producer)
- The Cat and the Pig ... (Director)
- The Fox and the Grapes ... (Producer)
- Cheating the Cheaters ... (Director)
- The Fable of a Stone Age Romeo ... (Director)
- The Eternal Triangle ... (Director)
- The Farmer and his Cat ... (Director)
- The Bear and the Bees ... (Director)
- The Fable of the Dog's Paradise ... (Director)
- The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing ... (Director)
- Fable of the Two Explorers ... (Director)
- Two Slick Traders ... (Director)
- The Country Mouse and the City Cat ... (Director)
- Crime in a Big City ... (Director)
- The Fable of the Dog and the Fish ... (Director)
- The Farmer and the Cat ... (Director)
- The Fable of the Rolling Stone ... (Director)
- The Fable of the Worm That Turned ... (Director)
- The Dog and the Wolves ... (Director)
- Love at First Sight ... (Director)
- The Tiger and the Donkey ... (Director)
1921
- The Cat and the Canary ... (Director)
- The Owl and the Grasshopper ... (Director)
- Mice at War ... (Director)
- The Country Mouse and the City Mouse ... (Director)
- The Frogs That Wanted a King ... (Director)
- The Hermit and the Bear ... (Director)
- Mice In Council ... (Producer)
- Cats at Law ... (Director)
- The Rooster and the Eagle ... (Director)
- The Cat and the Monkey ... (Director)
- The Fly and the Ant ... (Director)
- Hare and Frogs ... (Director)
- Venus and the Cat ... (Producer)
- The Fashionable Fox ... (Director)
- The Dog and the Flea ... (Director)
- The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg ... (Director)
- The Wolf and the Kid ... (Director)
- The Frog and the Ox ... (Director)
- The Hare and the Tortoise ... (Director)
- The Fox and Crow ... (Writer)
- The Fable of the Cat and the Mice ... (Director)
- The Lioness and the Bugs ... (Director)
- The Wayward Dog ... (Director)
- The Dog and the Bone ... (Director)
- The Woman and the Hen ... (Director)
1920
- A Cat's Life ... (Director)
- The Bone of Contention ... (Director)
1917
- Ventriloquists ... (Animation)
- 20,000 Feats under the Sea ... (Director)
- Character as Revealed by the Nose ... (Director)
- His Trial ... (Director)
- Some Barrier ... (Director)
- Farmer Al Falfa's Wayward Pup ... (Director)
- Golden Spoon Mary ... (Director)
- Character as Revealed by the Ear ... (Director)
- Character as Revealed by the Eye ... (Director)
- Character as Revealed by the Mouth ... (Director)
1916
- Farmer Al Falfa and His Tentless Circus ... (Director)
- Farmer Al Falfa's Revenge ... (Director)
- Farmer Al Falfa's Wolfhound ... (Director)
- Farmer Al Falfa's Catastrophy ... (Director)
- Farmer Al Falfa Sees New York ... (Director)
- Farmer Al Falfa Invents a New Kite ... (Director)
- Farmer Al Falfa's Watermelon Patch ... (Director)
- Farmer Al Falfa's Egg-Citement ... (Director)
- Farmer Al Falfa's Scientific Dairy ... (Director)
- Farmer Al Falfa's Blind Pig ... (Director)
- Farmer Al Falfa's Prune Plantation ... (Director)
1915
- Down on the Phoney Farm ... (Director)
- Little Herman ... (Director)