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Pioneering Actor-Producer Terry Carter Dies | Tributes

A tribute to the star of McCloud and Battlestar Galactica.

Also in 1965, after a brief Broadway career, which included co-starring with Eartha Kitt in Mrs. Patterson, he was hired at Boston's WBZ-TV as the city's first Black news anchor, in a weekend position. Two decades later, the versatile Carter portrayed a CIA official in the Swedish action film “ Hamilton,” and played an Ethiopian businessman on the Norwegian soap opera “Hotel Caesar”. His subjects ranged from biographical public TV presentations about choreographer Katherine Dunham and composer Duke Ellington, to the Emmy Award winning PBS series “K*I*D*S”.

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