Later Years
Terry never completely abandoned acting. During the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s, he took on occasional movie roles. Some of his better B movies from this period include The Leech Woman (1960), with Grant Williams, and The Navy vs. the Night Monsters (1966), with Mamie Van Doren.
Sometimes he would accept television roles and was in episodes of The Name of the Game and Police Woman.
In 1973, he retired and moved to Santa Barbara, California.
He suffered the first of a series of strokes in 1978. Because of the strokes, he lost his mobility and communication and was an invalid for several years before his death at the age of 83.
Phillip Terry died at his home in Santa Barbara. He was cremated and his ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean.
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