Terry Carter

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Birthday:

16 December 1928, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Birth Name:

John Everett DeCoste

Height:

178 cm

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. Show less «

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 acto...Show more »

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. Show less «