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name: "Terry Kilburn"
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born: "25 November 1926"
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# Terry Kilburn

Actor. Born 25 November 1926 in West Ham, Essex, Greater London, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 25 November 1926, West Ham, Essex, Greater London, England, UK
- **Also known as:** Terence E. Kilburn, Terence Kilburn, Terrence Kilburn, Terrance Kilburn, Terence Kilbourne
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Kilburn, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q382198, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0452953/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/81933

## Biography

Terry Kilburn is an English-American actor. Born Terence Edward Kilburn on 25 November 1926 in West Ham, Essex, England, he moved to Hollywood with his family as a child and began appearing in films in the mid-1930s.

He is known for his roles as a child actor in *A Christmas Carol* (1938), in which he played Tiny Tim, and *Goodbye, Mr. Chips* (1939), in which he portrayed four generations of the Colley family. Other early credits include *Lord Jeff* (1938), *The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes* (1939) and *Swiss Family Robinson* (1940). He continued acting in films such as *National Velvet* (1944) and *Lolita* (1962), as well as television, until the late 1960s.

From 1970 to 1994 Kilburn served as artistic director of the Meadow Brook Theatre in Rochester, Michigan.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Goodbye, Mr. Chips* (1939), Fi1m 82, as John Colley / Peter Colley I / Peter Colley II / Peter Colley III — [page](https://film.one/film/goodbye-mr-chips.md)

## Complete filmography (27)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Get Smart* (1965), series, as Shirtsinger
- *Lolita* (1962), as Man
- *Fiend Without a Face* (1958), as Capt. Al Chester
- *Slaves of Babylon* (1953), as King Cyrus
- *Only the Valiant* (1951), as Trooper Saxton
- *Fortunes of Captain Blood* (1950), as Kenny Jensen
- *Tyrant of the Sea* (1950), as Dick Savage
- *The Red Danube* (1949), as Sloppily-dressed Airman
- *The Fan* (1949), as Messenger (uncredited)
- *13 Lead Soldiers* (1948), as Seymour
- *The Challenge* (1948), as Seymour
- *Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back* (1947), as Seymour
- *Bulldog Drummond at Bay* (1947), as Seymour - Cub Reporter
- *Song of Scheherazade* (1947), as Midshipman Lorin
- *Black Beauty* (1946), as Joe
- *National Velvet* (1945), as Theodore 'Ted'
- *Mercy Island* (1941), as Wiccy
- *Swiss Family Robinson* (1940), as Ernest Robinson
- *The Arsenal Stadium Mystery* (1939), as Errand Boy
- *The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes* (1939), as Billy
- *They Shall Have Music* (1939), as Limey
- *Goodbye, Mr. Chips* (1939), as John Colley / Peter Colley I / Peter Colley II / Peter Colley III — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/goodbye-mr-chips.md)
- *Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever* (1939), as Stickin Plaster
- *The Great Man Votes* (1939), as Student
- *Sweethearts* (1938), as Brother
- *A Christmas Carol* (1938), as 'Tiny Tim' Cratchit
- *Lord Jeff* (1938), as Albert Baker

## Gallery

- ![This is a publicity photo, circulated for publicity, of Terry Kilburn, published in the 1939 without copyright notice, qualifying it under public domain.](https://film.one/media/person/1231175/gallery-87813c62680b.jpg) This is a publicity photo, circulated for publicity, of Terry Kilburn, published in the 1939 without copyright notice, qualifying it under public domain. — Unknown photographer (MGM), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Terry_Kilburn_Publicity_Photo_1939.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Terry Kilburn](https://film.one/media/person/1231175/gallery-c7bf3921d8fa.jpg) Terry Kilburn — Trailer screenshot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Terry_Kilburn.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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