Terry Carter

Overview

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.
- IMDb mini biography by: Terry Carter

He was the world's first black TV anchor newscaster (WBZ-TV Eyewitness News, Boston, Massachusetts, Group W, Westinghouse, 1965-1968).
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.
He was founder and president of Meta/4 Productions, Inc., a California company he formed in 1975, through which he produced and/or directed more than 100 documentary films and television shorts for industry and the federal government.
President of Council For Positive Images, a non-profit organization he formed in 1979.
His father was of Argentinian and African-American descent, and his mother was a Dominican Republic native.

One of the problems of being an actor is you've got to choose from among the choices offered to you if you want to work. In essence, an actor spends his or her life waiting for the telephone to ring, waiting for other people to decide, "Maybe we should get this person." And if you're lucky, you can convince them that you're right for the role. You might be in a room with about 20 other people who are up for the same part, which is very sobering. That part of it is not a great experience; you're in a passive position, you're not in a position of creating things and making them happen. You are waiting for other people to create things and trying to fit you into it. That's one of the reasons I decided to become a producer and do documentary films.

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