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Jack Carter is a Actor American born on 1 january 1902
Jack Carter (c. 1902 – November 9, 1967) was an African American actor. He created the role of Crown in the original stage production of Porgy.
Carter is perhaps best known for having starred in the Federal Theatre Project's 1936 New York production of William Shakespeare's Macbeth that came to be known as the Voodoo Macbeth. Orson Welles adapted and directed the play, moved its setting from Scotland to a fictional Caribbean island, recruited an entirely African American cast, and earned the nickname for his production from the Haitian vodou that fulfilled the rôle of Scottish witchcraft.
Welles later cast Carter as Mephistopheles in Doctor Faustus (1937), a Federal Theatre Project 891 production in which Welles played Faust.
Jack Carter débute au théâtre et joue notamment à Broadway (New York) dès 1927, où sa première pièce notable est Porgy de Dorothy et DuBose Heyward (1927-1928, puis reprise en 1929, avec Frank Wilson dans le rôle-titre et Evelyn Ellis).
En 1936, il tient le rôle-titre dans Macbeth de William Shakespeare, adaptée et mise en scène par Orson Welles qui transpose l'action aux Caraïbes, la pièce étant également connue sous le titre de Voodoo Macbeth (Canada Lee y personnifie Banco). Sa pièce suivante également mise en scène par Orson Welles (qui interprète le rôle-titre, lui-même incarnant Méphistophélès) est La Tragique Histoire du docteur Faust de Christopher Marlowe (1937).
Toujours à Broadway, il contribue à la comédie musicale Singin' the Blues, sur une musique de Jimmy McHugh et Burton Lane (1931, avec Mantan Moreland et Frank Wilson). Après la pièce précitée en 1937, il revient une dernière fois sur les planches new-yorkaises dans la revue Ziegfeld Follies of 1943, représentée en 1943-1944 (avec Milton Berle et Ilona Massey).
Au cinéma, Jack Carter apparaît dans sept films américains (dont cinq Race films), le premier étant Charlie Chan's Courage d'Eugene Forde et George Hadden (1934, avec Warner Oland et Donald Woods). Ultérieurement, citons The Devil's Daughter d'Arthur H. Leonard (1939, avec Nina Mae McKinney) et Agent secret d'Herman Shumlin (1945, avec Charles Boyer et Lauren Bacall).
Son dernier film sort en 1948, après quoi il se retire définitivement de l'écran.
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Carter is perhaps best known for having starred in the Federal Theatre Project's 1936 New York production of William Shakespeare's Macbeth that came to be known as the Voodoo Macbeth. Orson Welles adapted and directed the play, moved its setting from Scotland to a fictional Caribbean island, recruited an entirely African American cast, and earned the nickname for his production from the Haitian vodou that fulfilled the rôle of Scottish witchcraft.
Welles later cast Carter as Mephistopheles in Doctor Faustus (1937), a Federal Theatre Project 891 production in which Welles played Faust.
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Jack Carter débute au théâtre et joue notamment à Broadway (New York) dès 1927, où sa première pièce notable est Porgy de Dorothy et DuBose Heyward (1927-1928, puis reprise en 1929, avec Frank Wilson dans le rôle-titre et Evelyn Ellis).
En 1936, il tient le rôle-titre dans Macbeth de William Shakespeare, adaptée et mise en scène par Orson Welles qui transpose l'action aux Caraïbes, la pièce étant également connue sous le titre de Voodoo Macbeth (Canada Lee y personnifie Banco). Sa pièce suivante également mise en scène par Orson Welles (qui interprète le rôle-titre, lui-même incarnant Méphistophélès) est La Tragique Histoire du docteur Faust de Christopher Marlowe (1937).
Toujours à Broadway, il contribue à la comédie musicale Singin' the Blues, sur une musique de Jimmy McHugh et Burton Lane (1931, avec Mantan Moreland et Frank Wilson). Après la pièce précitée en 1937, il revient une dernière fois sur les planches new-yorkaises dans la revue Ziegfeld Follies of 1943, représentée en 1943-1944 (avec Milton Berle et Ilona Massey).
Au cinéma, Jack Carter apparaît dans sept films américains (dont cinq Race films), le premier étant Charlie Chan's Courage d'Eugene Forde et George Hadden (1934, avec Warner Oland et Donald Woods). Ultérieurement, citons The Devil's Daughter d'Arthur H. Leonard (1939, avec Nina Mae McKinney) et Agent secret d'Herman Shumlin (1945, avec Charles Boyer et Lauren Bacall).
Son dernier film sort en 1948, après quoi il se retire définitivement de l'écran.
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Rainbow (1978)
, 1h37Directed by Jackie Cooper, Melville Shavelson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about television
Actors Andrea Mcardle, Don Murray, Michael Parks, Piper Laurie, Rue McClanahan, Nicholas Pryor
Roles George Jessel
Rating64%
The early life and struggles of Judy Garland (Andrea McArdle), and of the film star's trials as a youngster in dealing with the movie studio system that held her back while her mother (Piper Laurie) was forever pushing her to excel.
The Extraordinary Seaman (1969)
, 1h20Directed by John Frankenheimer
Origin USA
Genres War, Fantastic, Comedy, Adventure
Themes Military humor in film, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors David Niven, Faye Dunaway, Alan Alda, Juano Hernández, Mickey Rooney, Jack Carter
Rating34%
A ghostly British naval officer(Niven) persuades four members of the American navy to launch an attack on Japanese positions, hoping to redeem the family honor and his own tattered record from the First World War. He had been condemned to sail the seas forever after falling down drunk before his first battle in the Great War. With his typical luck he actually succeeds in sinking a Japanese naval vessel -- *after* it had officially surrendered to the US Navy. As a result, he is seen again consigned to sailing his ship forever, this time in a children's amusement park lake, to await another chance at redemption.
It Happened to Jane (1959)
, 1h37Directed by Richard Quiney
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Jack Carter, Steve Forrest, Gina Gillespie
Roles Stenographer
Rating64%
In May 1959, in the town of Cape Anne, Maine, a foul-up by the Eastern & Portland Railroad (E&P) results in the death of 300 lobsters shipped by Jane Osgood (Day), an attractive, widowed businesswoman with two children. She gets her lawyer and friend, George Denham (Lemmon), to go after the E&P to pay damages after her customer, the Marshalltown Country Club, refuses all future orders.
Miracle in Harlem (1948)
, 1h9Origin USA
Genres Romance
Actors Sheila Guyse, Jack Carter, Juanita Hall, Stepin Fetchit
Roles Philip Manley
Rating60%
In Harlem an old Lady "Aunt Hattie" has her own candy manufacture shop. Her niece Julie Weston helps her, as the Aunt is quite old. The young woman has ideas about the candy shop, to modernize it, because they are "candy making family".
Sepia Cinderella (1947)
, 1h10Origin USA
Genres Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Sheila Guyse, Jack Carter, Freddie Bartholomew
Roles Ralph
Rating54%
The musical follows a young woman, Barbara (played by Guyse), in love with a good and kind bandleader, Bob (portrayed by Daniels), who seems oblivious to her love. Barbara helps Bob write a new song, "Cinderella", and it becomes an unexpected hit. Success and sudden fame lead Bob to abandon his former performing venue and lose touch with his friends. He becomes caught in the talons of a devious female club-owner who milks his success and tries to also seduce him, even though she is engaged, unbeknownst to Bob. As his career crumbles and the scales fall from his eyes, Bob's press agent finally finds a way for things to end happily: Bob will make a comeback and in doing so will choose a woman's shoe out of dozens entered, and the winner will sing with him and have her prince. Bob rightly picks Barbara's shoe, and the show goes out on yet another great musical number.
Confidential Agent (1945)
, 1h58Directed by Herman Shumlin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall, Peter Lorre, Victor Francen, Wanda Hendrix, George Coulouris
Roles un chanteur
Rating64%
In the midst of the Spanish Civil War, Luis Denard (Charles Boyer), a former concert pianist, travels to England as a confidential agent of the Republican government. His mission is to buy coal in order to deny it to the Fascist rebels. On the ship he meets rich girl Rose Cullen (Lauren Bacall), whose father, Lord Benditch (Holmes Herbert), heads the firm with which Denard will negotiate.
The Devil's Daughter (1939)
, 52minutesOrigin USA
Genres Drama, Horror
Actors Nina Mae McKinney, Jack Carter, Jack Carter, Francine Larrimore
Roles Philip Ramsay
Rating34%
Sylvia Walton (Ida James) of Harlem inherits a Jamaican banana plantation and returns to manage it. Since her arrival, there's been no sign of her disinherited half-sister Isabelle (Nina Mae McKinney), who ran the plantation until their father's death. But Sylvia, her two rival suitors, and her comic-relief servant Percy are disturbed by the constant, growing sound of drums.
We Work Again (1937)
, 15minutesOrigin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about historical events
Actors Juanita Hall, Jack Carter, Lawrence Chenault, Eric Burroughs, Canada Lee
Rating60%
Charlie Chan's Courage (1934)
, 1h10Directed by Eugene Forde
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Warner Oland, Donald Woods, Paul Harvey, Murray Kinnell, Harvey Clark, DeWitt Jennings
Roles Victor Jordan
Rating70%
Chan is hired to transport a pearl necklace. When his employer is murdered, he sets out to unmask the killer.