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