Steve Terrell
{{short description|American actor}}
{{About|the American actor|the American football player|Steven Terrell}}{{Needs more sources|date=December 2024}}{{Infobox person
| name = Steve Terrell
| image = Baseline Drive-in Ad - 1 May 1957, Highland, CA.jpg
| caption = Advertisement for Dragstrip Girl (1957) with Terrell
| birth_date = {{birth based on age as of date|27|1957|8|31}}
| birth_place = La Jolla, California, U.S.
| alma_mater = Pasadena Playhouse School of Theater
| occupation = Actor
| years_active = 1952–1965
}}
Steven Terrell (born 1929 or 1930) is an American actor who worked extensively on American films and television series in the 1950s and 1960s. He is best known for his association with American International Pictures for whom he made Invasion of the Saucer Men and Runaway Daughters.{{cite web |title=Steve Terrell |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/1488228%7C165667/Steven-Terrell/#overview |website=TCM |publisher=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=December 28, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120819111513/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/1488228%7C165667/Steven-Terrell/#overview |archive-date=August 19, 2012 |url-status=live}}
Biography
Born in La Jolla, California,[https://www.newspapers.com/article/honolulu-star-advertiser/161765947/ "Steven Terrell New Clarence Day, Jr."]. Honolulu Star-Advertiser. January 10, 1954. p. 71. Retrieved December 28, 2024. Terrell attended Burbank High School and the Pasadena Playhouse School of Theater.[https://www.newspapers.com/article/valley-times/161777278/ "TV Actor Likes Home Roles"]. Valley Times. August 31, 1957. p. 31. Retrieved December 29, 2024.
He also played as Grove Nichols in the Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Blushing Pearls" and as Nick Lacy in the Ripcord episode "Willie".{{Citation needed|date=July 2022}}
Terrell and his wife Else Terrell later started a theatre troupe that came out of Minnesota and moved to San Diego in 1971 called "Lamb's Players Theatre"[https://www.lambsplayers.org/our-history Lamb's Players] which still exists as of January 2022. This company has been in residence in Coronado, California as a regional theatre since 1994.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} Steve and Else left the company in 1981.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}}
Also appeared in the TV series The Restless Gun appearing as the title role in the episode "The Nowhere Kid".{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} In 1957 he portrayed “Billy Baxter” on the TV series Gunsmoke in “Who Lives By The Sword” (S2E34), and again in 1960 as “Jerry Everly” in “Jailbait Janet” (S5E25).{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}}
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External links
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Category:20th-century American male actors
Category:Actors from San Diego
Category:American male television actors
Category:American male film actors
Category:People from La Jolla, San Diego
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
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