Terry Carter's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Battlestar Galactica (1978) Col. Tigh McCloud Sergeant Jo… Breaking Point Rosie Palmer The Big Story Bob Thomas The Cross-Wits Terry Carter The Most Deadly Game Purt

Main Movie Roles 1998 - Hamilton 1974 - Benji 1974 - Foxy Brown 1961 - Parrish

BIOGRAPHY:

Terry Carter, a native of Brooklyn, New York, is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School in New York City. He attended Hunter College, Boston University - School of Communications, U.C.L.A. - School of Theater, Film, and Television, and St. John's University School of Law. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Communications from Northeastern University (1983).

Carter studied acting with Howard DaSilva, Bret Warren, Uta Hagen, Herbert Berghof, and Stella Adler. He studied playwriting with Arnold Perl. He studied directing with Alan Schneider.


TRIVIA:

• President of Council For Positive Images, a non-profit organization he formed in 1979.
• He was the world's first black TV anchor newscaster (WBZ-TV Eyewitness News, Boston, Massachusetts, Group W, Westinghouse, 1965-68).
• He is the TV producer-director of the award-winning, Emmy-nominated TV musical documentary "A Duke Named Ellington" and the Los Angeles Emmy-award winner (1985) "K*I*D*S". He lives most of the year in Scandinavia.