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name: "Herbert Terrace"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/herbert-terrace"
fi1m_id: "herbert-terrace"
tmdb_id: 5553044
roles: []
born: "29 November 1936"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-01T21:43:11.111013+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Herbert Terrace

## Identity

Herbert Terrace

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/herbert-terrace
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** herbert-terrace
- **TMDB ID:** 5553044
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5553044

Actor. Born 29 November 1936 in Brooklyn, New York.

## Details

- **Born:** 29 November 1936, Brooklyn, New York
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5553044

## Biography

Herbert S. Terrace is a professor of psychology and psychiatry at Columbia University. His research has focused on behaviourism, animal cognition and the evolution of language. In the 1970s he directed Project Nim, an experiment that attempted to teach American Sign Language to a chimpanzee named Nim Chimpsky.

Terrace appears as himself in the 2011 documentary film *Project Nim*. He is the author of *Nim: A Chimpanzee Who Learned Sign Language* (1979) and *Why Chimpanzees Can't Learn Language and Only Humans Can* (2019). Terrace was born on 29 November 1936 in Brooklyn, New York.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Project Nim* (2011), Fi1m 81, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/project-nim.md)

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