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Terry Carter is a Actor American born on 16 december 1928 at Brooklyn (USA)

Terry Carter

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Birth name John Everett DeCoste
Nationality USA
Birth 16 december 1928 (95 years) at Brooklyn (USA)

Terry Carter (born December 16, 1928) is an American actor and filmmaker, known for his roles as Sgt. Joe Broadhurst on the seven-year TV series McCloud and as Colonel Tigh on the original Battlestar Galactica.

Biography

Early life
Carter was born in Brooklyn, New York as John E. DeCoste. His mother, Mercedes, was a native of the Dominican Republic, and his father, William DeCoste, was of Argentinian and African-American descent who operated a radio repair business. Carter graduated from Stuyvesant High School in New York City in 1946. He attended Hunter College, St. John's University Law School, Boston University, and U.C.L.A. and earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Northeastern University in 1983.


Acting career
Carter gained theatre experience in several productions on the Broadway and off-Broadway stage. His Broadway credits include playing the male lead opposite Eartha Kitt in the play Mrs. Patterson and performing the title role in the musical extravaganza Kwamina.

From 1965 to 1968, Carter worked as a newscaster for WBZ-TV in Boston becoming a TV news anchor-reporter. During his three-year stint, he also served as New England television's first opening-night movie and theatre critic.

Carter also acted in numerous TV series, specials, and theatrical films. He was featured as the only black actor to have a leading role opposite Vic Morrow in "Combat" (Season 3 Episode 25: "The Long Wait"-1965. His role was a truck driver named Private Archie Masters. In the role, Carter never fired a shot, he just threw three smoke grenades under fire in a rescue of Morrow in his role as Sgt Saunders) He was a regular cast member in The Phil Silvers Show (also known as The Sergeant Bilko Show). He played the part of Police Officer Tuttle in the 1974 children's film Benji. He is best known internationally for his co-starring role as "Colonel Tigh" in the popular science-fiction TV series Battlestar Galactica. He was originally cast as "Lieutenant Boomer", but was cut following a roller skating accident that fractured his ankle. After replacing Carter with Herb Jefferson, Jr., producer Glen A. Larson instead offered Terry Carter the role of "Colonel Tigh", second in command of the ragtag fleet of starships. Carter also starred as Dennis Weaver's partner, "Sergeant Joe Broadhurst" in the popular detective series McCloud for seven years. He played opposite Pam Grier in the motion picture Foxy Brown. He played the role of CIA chief "Texas Slim" in Hamilton, a multinational action-adventure Swedish film (1999). More recently, Carter had a recurring role in Hotel Caesar, Norway's most popular soap opera, as "Solomon Tefari", an Ethiopian businessman and father of one of the main characters.


Production career
In 1975, Carter started a small Los Angeles corporation for which he produced and directed more than 100 industrial and educational presentations on film and videotape for the federal government.

Carter is president of Council for Positive Images, Inc., a non-profit organization he formed in 1979, dedicated to enhancing intercultural and interethnic understanding through audiovisual communication. Under the Council’s auspices, Carter has produced and directed award-winning dramatic and documentary programs for presentation on PBS and distribution worldwide.

He currently resides in both Oslo, Norway and New York City.


Selected past projects
Katherine Dunham Technique – Library of Congress
A 2-½ hour presentation of the dance technique of anthropologist-choreographer Katherine Dunham. Funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, this video documentary is designed to serve as a study guide for dance teachers, scholars and dancers, as part of the Katherine Dunham Legacy Project of the Library of Congress.

A Duke Named Ellington - WNET-TV (PBS), American Masters Series (1988)
This two-hour musical documentary features "the Duke" himself, reminiscing and performing, as soloist and with his illustrious orchestra. A Duke Named Ellington offers a retrospective of Ellington's half-century career, focusing primarily on his music and method, his artistic accomplishments and his role as a trailblazer in the development of modern music. A Duke Named Ellington had its world premiere on the PBS American Masters series, to critical acclaim.

A Duke Named Ellington was selected as the official US entry in international television festivals in countries such as the People's Republic of China, France, Spain, Italy, Canada, Brazil, Poland, and Bulgaria. A Duke Named Ellington has been telecast in most countries of Europe, as well as in Japan, Australia, and South Africa. The program has been awarded the CINE Golden Eagle and the Golden Antenna. A Duke Named Ellington was nominated for an Emmy Award as "Outstanding Informational Special".

In 2007, Terry Carter released A Duke Named Ellington, the documentary he produced for PBS American Masters in 1988, as a DVD: A Duke Named Ellington DVD.

Once Upon A Vision - KET-TV (PBS) (1991)
This one-hour television documentary reveals the little-known history of Berea, Kentucky, a unique 19th Century inter-racial colony founded in the midst of the slave-holding South. Before the Civil War, a group of zealous abolitionists and former slaves began building a community based on unconditional racial and gender equality and participatory democracy. For more than half a century, withstanding intense persecution from slavers, pro-slavery politicians, and the Ku Klux Klan, these poor white and black settlers lived, and died for, their vision of multi-racial democracy. This program has become part of the secondary-school American History curriculum in Kentucky. Hosted and narrated by historian and author Alex Haley.

JazzMasters - TV2/Denmark (1988)
This series of 13 television portraits features some of the most outstanding musical artists in the world of jazz. An international co-production, JazzMasters was the first program series ever commissioned by TV2/Denmark. The JazzMasters series has been telecast in Scandinavia, France, Poland, Bulgaria and Japan. The series features programs about Chet Baker, Kenny Drew, Dexter Gordon, Johnny Griffin, Bobby Hutcherson, Carmen McRae, Palle Mikkelborg, James Moody, Clark Terry, Randy Weston, Niels Henning Ørsted-Pedersen, Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter.

K*I*D*S - KCET-TV (PBS), US Department of Education (1984)
This dramatic television miniseries was designed for public broadcasting to promote interracial and interethnic understanding among adolescents. K*I*D*S is the story of a multi-racial group of teenagers struggling to cope with some of the adult-sized conflicts confronting youth in America today. Endorsed by the National Education Association, K*I*D*S, accompanied by a teachers' guide, was also distributed on videocassette to secondary schools throughout the nation. K*I*D*S received an Emmy award in Los Angeles as "Best Series for Children and Youth".

Works In Progress:

Katherine Dunham: Dancing With Life - National Endowment for the Arts
This 90-minute documentary program designed for PBS is about the extraordinary life and work of the African-American anthropologist-choreographer-dancer, a pioneer internationally heralded as one of the most influential creative forces in American dance theatre.


Awards
Emmy Award, Los Angeles, Best Series for Children and Youth, 1985, for K*I*D*S
Emmy Nomination, Best Informational Special, 1989, for A Duke Named Ellington
CINE Golden Eagle, 1989, for A Duke Named Ellington
Golden Antenna, 1989, for A Duke Named Ellington
Award for Excellence, L.

Usually with

Richard Hatch
Richard Hatch
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Tinto Brass
Tinto Brass
(1 films)
Joe Camp
Joe Camp
(1 films)
Jack Hill
Jack Hill
(1 films)
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Filmography of Terry Carter (7 films)

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Hamilton: In the Interest of the Nation, 1h49
Origin Suede
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Spy
Themes Spy films
Actors Mikael Persbrandt, Pernilla August, Jason Flemyng, David Dencik, Gustaf Hammarsten, Ray Fearon
Roles Josef Bekele
Rating62% 3.148543.148543.148543.148543.14854
Carl Hamilton must leave his girlfriend because he gets assigned to infiltrate an international gang of smugglers who are about to sell Swedish missiles to terrorists. Hamilton's life depends on making the criminals at all times believe he was a Russian. When the weapon dealers and the terrorists meet, the whole transaction haywires and Hamilton has to kill and run. Being on his own, he cannot retrieve the missiles. Back in Sweden he is berated by a new superior. He returns to his girlfriend and admits he wants to quit his job. They have a reunion but she is a doctor and has to leave him in the middle of the night because of an emergency. He falls into sleep, recalling in his dream how he had to kill at close range during his recent mission. When she touches him while his nightmare peaks, he reacts as if he still was among cutthroats. Before he can even open his eyes he carries out a trained reflex and kills her. Obviously shocked and dismayed he leaves he flat. He blames his mentor DG for having him turned into a killing machine. DG persuades him not to give himself up and sends him abroad to rescue a Swedish technician who seems to be involved in the matter of the smuggled Swedish missiles. But a Western agency for mercenaries named Sectragon plans to kindle a new war as a profitable new business opportunity. They even attempt to assassinate a foreign head of state in Sweden. Hamilton can confound their scheme. Finally he visits the inspector who investigates the death of his late girlfriend. He comes clear but also tells her to drop the case. Hamilton must keep on doing his job because it is just... In the interest of the nation.
Hamilton
Hamilton (1998)
, 2h8
Directed by Harald Zwart
Genres Thriller, Action
Actors Peter Stormare, Lena Olin, Mark Hamill, Terry Carter, Yevgeni Lazarev, Andrey Smolyakov
Roles Texas Slim
Rating59% 2.9500252.9500252.9500252.9500252.950025
Swedish military intelligence officers Carl Hamilton (Peter Stormare) and Åke Stålhandske (Mats Långbacka) are ordered to eliminate a band of Russian smugglers on the Russian tundra. The smugglers possess a nuclear missile, a 1.5 megaton SS-20, "enough to turn Paris, Washington or New York to ashes". What they do not know is that the smugglers they have intercepted were only a decoy, while the real missile was shipped to Libya. Mark Hamill plays Mike Hawkins, the film's antagonist, an American former CIA officer working in Murmansk.
Benji
Benji (1974)
, 1h25
Directed by Joe Camp
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Adventure, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Frances Bavier, Patsy Garrett, Edgar Buchanan, Peter Breck, Christopher Connelly, Tom Lester
Roles Officer Tuttle
Rating61% 3.050593.050593.050593.050593.05059
Benji is a lovable stray dog who lives in a small Texas town where he has befriended many local people, each of whom calls him by a different name, but the people he likes best are two school-age children (Paul and Cindy) and their housekeeper, Mary. Paul and Cindy's father, however, doesn't want a dog around the place. One day Benji befriends a stray dog (presumably a Maltese) that Mary calls Tiffany, and the kids beg their father to allow them to keep her and Benji, but he refuses. Benji escorts Tiffany to his hide-out, an apparently abandoned house. Two people later break in and bring a kidnapped Paul and Cindy into the house. Benji rushes to "tell" George and Mary of the kids' whereabouts but is shooed out. He then grabs the ransom note, but it gets taken from him and poor Benji is a loss at what to do next. He follows two policemen into the station and gets locked in and seems doomed until he accidentally turns on the drive-through intercom and the policeman lets him out. He goes back to the old house and spots a failed try at writing the ransom note and an idea strikes him. He grabs the crumpled note but is grabbed by one of the kidnappers and Tiffany rushes out and bites him and gets a vicious kick in return (she is not killed but apparently injured). Benji races back to Mary the kids' Dad, but Linda beats him there. The rest is for you to see. Camp never revealed the plot to the press but rather spoke of the essence of the movie: "It's a love story about a dog struggling against the odds to accomplish something that most people would consider to be impossible; and it's the first film ever in which a dog actually acted and expressed emotion on the screen. He was more or less the three-dimensional character in the film and the people were more or less the props. The dialog is in the eyes of the dog." Many film critics stated that Benji deserved a Best Actor Oscar for his acting.
Foxy Brown
Foxy Brown (1974)
, 1h34
Directed by Jack Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Feminist films
Actors Pam Grier, Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown, Terry Carter, Sid Haig, Robert Lee Minor
Roles Michael Anderson
Rating64% 3.2473453.2473453.2473453.2473453.247345
When her government-agent boyfriend is shot down by members of a drug syndicate, Foxy Brown (Pam Grier) seeks revenge. She links her boyfriend's murderers to a "modeling agency" run by Steve Elias (Peter Brown) and Miss Katherine (Kathryn Loder). Foxy decides to pose as a prostitute to infiltrate the company, and helps save a fellow black woman from a life of drugs and sexual exploitation. This leads Foxy to a variety of revenge-themed setpieces — often violent and sexual — that range from cremating sex slave dealers to castrating a foe and presenting his severed genitals to his girlfriend.
Abby
Abby (1974)
, 1h29
Directed by William Girdler
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Actors William Horace Marshall, Juanita Moore, Terry Carter, Austin Stoker, Carol Speed, Don Henderson
Roles Rev. Emmett Williams
Rating55% 2.754832.754832.754832.754832.75483
Attraction
Attraction (1969)
, 1h25
Directed by Tinto Brass
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Anita Sanders, Terry Carter, Tinto Brass
Roles American
Rating52% 2.614752.614752.614752.614752.61475
Barbara (Anita Sanders) has accompanied her husband Paolo (Nino Segurini) to London. He leaves her at Hyde Park for his business transactions and Barbara starts sightseeing, soon to realise that an African American man (Terry Carter) is luring her. She sees it as an opportunity for an adventurous outreach to a new world and as her observations intermingle with her fantasies, she begins to question her own life.