Terry Carter

Birth Name:

John Everett DeCoste

Birth Place:

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States

Profession

Actor, Director, Producer, Music department

Founded the Council for Positive Images, Inc․, a non-profit organization with the goal of enhancing intercultural and interethnic understanding via audiovisual communication, in 1979
Started method acting classes at Howard Da Silva's acting school while studying law at St․ John's University Law School, thinking that dramatic training would help him in the courtroom
Joined the merchant marines, hoping to see the world, and when he returned to the United States, he worked as a mail clerk at New York's Museum of Modern Art, which exposed him to avant-garde independent and foreign films
Many of the scenes of "The Bold Ones: The New Doctors," in which he played the first black astronaut to reach the moon, were filmed in the actual Apollo Spacecraft
Some of his favorite foods were authentic Thai cuisine, Northern Italian cuisine, Unadon, home-made tiramisu, crunchy organic peanut butter and dark chocolate
Became the first black television news anchor in the world when he appeared on WBX-TV's "Eyewitness News" starting in 1965
Used William Ernest Henley's poem "Invictus" to get him through some of the difficult times in his life

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