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