Terry Carter, the pioneering actor, documentarian, and broadcaster whose screen credits included the original Battlestar Galactica, McCloud, and Foxy Brown, died Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 95.
先鋒演員、紀(jì)錄片導(dǎo)演和廣播員特里·卡特周二在曼哈頓的家中去世,他的銀幕作品包括Battlestar Galactica、McCloud和Foxy Brown。他享年95歲。
Carter's manager Ken Leicht confirmed the news to Entertainment Weekly. Though a cause of death was not provided, Leicht noted that Carter "had been ill for some time." "Terry was a really nice guy," Leicht says. "He'll be missed."
卡特的經(jīng)紀(jì)人肯·雷赫特向《娛樂(lè)周刊》證實(shí)了這一消息。雖然沒(méi)有提供死因,但Leicht指出卡特“已經(jīng)病了一段時(shí)間”。“特里是個(gè)非常好的人,”雷赫特說(shuō)。“我們會(huì)想念他的。”
Born John Everett DeCoste in 1928, Carter grew up in Brooklyn and attended several colleges, including Hunter College, Boston University, UCLA, Northeastern University, and St. John's University School of Law. He studied acting with Howard Da Silva in the early 1950s and played a number of roles in Broadway and Off Broadway stage productions during his early career, including Mrs. Patterson, in which he appeared opposite Eartha Kitt.
卡特1928年出生,原名約翰·埃弗雷特·德科斯特,在布魯克林長(zhǎng)大,上過(guò)幾所大學(xué),包括亨特學(xué)院、波士頓大學(xué)、加州大學(xué)洛杉磯分校、東北大學(xué)和圣約翰大學(xué)法學(xué)院。20世紀(jì)50年代初,他跟隨霍華德·達(dá)·席爾瓦學(xué)習(xí)表演,在他早期的職業(yè)生涯中,他在百老匯和非百老匯舞臺(tái)作品中扮演了許多角色,包括帕特森夫人,他在其中與艾薩·凱特演對(duì)手戲。
Carter's breakthrough screen project was The Phil Silvers Show, on which he played Pvt. Sugie Sugarman from 1955 to 1959 and was the only regular Black cast member. In the 1960s, he appeared on a number of TV shows, including the World War II drama Combat, where he was the only Black GI character in the entire series. Carter also served as an anchorman for Boston's NBC affiliate network WBZ-TV from 1965 to 1968, making him New England's first Black news anchor.
卡特的突破性銀幕作品是The Phil silvershow,他在1955年至1959年期間扮演女兵蘇吉·舒格曼,是唯一的固定黑人演員。在20世紀(jì)60年代,他出現(xiàn)在許多電視節(jié)目中,包括第二次世界大戰(zhàn)的戲劇戰(zhàn)斗,他是整個(gè)系列中唯一的黑人GI角色。從1965年到1968年,卡特還擔(dān)任波士頓NBC附屬網(wǎng)絡(luò)WBZ-TV的主持人,使他成為新英格蘭地區(qū)第一位黑人新聞主播。
Carter appeared in many of his most prominent projects in the 1970s. After leading the 1973 Blaxploitation film Brother on the Run, Carter portrayed Pam Grier's boyfriend in the genre's seminal hit Foxy Brown in 1974. That same year, he played a police officer in the dog-centric family film Benji. Carter also portrayed second-in-command Colonel Tigh on the sci-fi series Battlestar Galactica in the late '70s and Sgt. Joe Broadhurst, the protagonist's partner on McCloud, for seven seasons.
20世紀(jì)70年代,卡特出現(xiàn)在他的許多最著名的項(xiàng)目中。在主演了1973年的Blaxploitation電影《逃亡的兄弟》之后,卡特在1974年的同名電影Foxy Brown中扮演了帕姆·格里爾的男友。同年,他在以狗為中心的家庭電影《班吉》中扮演一名警察??ㄌ剡€在上世紀(jì)70年代末的科幻電視劇Battlestar Galactica中飾演了副指揮官泰上校,在《麥克克勞德》中飾演了七季主人公的搭檔喬·布羅德赫斯特中士。
Carter launched his own production company, Meta/4 Productions, in Los Angeles in 1975. He and his company produced more than 100 educational documentaries, some of which were for the Library of Congress, PBS, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Among his most notable documentary projects were Katherine Dunham Technique, which captured the process of the titular choreographer, and A Duke Named Ellington, a two-part doc that explored the life and music of the renowned jazz pianist Duke Ellington. The latter project received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Informational Special.
1975年,卡特在洛杉磯創(chuàng)辦了自己的制作公司Meta/4 Productions。他和他的公司制作了100多部教育紀(jì)錄片,其中一些是為國(guó)會(huì)圖書(shū)館,PBS和國(guó)家藝術(shù)基金會(huì)制作的。他最著名的紀(jì)錄片項(xiàng)目是Katherine Dunham Technique和A Duke Named Ellington,這兩部紀(jì)錄片探索了著名爵士鋼琴家艾靈頓公爵的生活和音樂(lè)。后者獲得了艾美獎(jiǎng)最佳信息特別節(jié)目的提名。