Terry Carter Biography

Fast Facts

• 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