Jack Carter Biography

Fast Facts

• Served in the entertainment division of the Army Air Forces during World War II
• Attended Brooklyn College and the Feagin School of Dramatic Art
• His career in television took off when he became the host of "American Minstrels" in 1949, followed by "Cavalcade of Stars" and appearances in Sid Caesar's "Your Show of Shows․"
• Launched his career as a comic when he won the Major Bowes radio talent contest with his impressions
• Got his start in theater, first appearing in a summer stock role in "The Trojan Horse" at the Millpond Playhouse in New York
• Did impersonations of people like Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, Winston Churchill and Ed Sullivan
• Best known as a comic and actor who became one of television's first stars during the late 1940s
• A stand-up headliner for most of his career, he performed at venues like the Copacabana in New York and the Desert Inn in Las Vegas