Born John Everett DeCoste in 1928, Carter grew up in Brooklyn and attended several colleges, including Hunter College, Boston University, UCLA, Northeastern University, and St. John's University School of Law. He studied acting with Howard Da Silva in the early 1950s and played a number of roles in Broadway and Off Broadway stage productions during his early career, including, on which he played Pvt. Sugie Sugarman from 1955 to 1959 and was the only regular Black cast member.
, some of which were for the Library of Congress, PBS, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Among his most notable documentary projects were, a two-part doc that explored the life and music of the renowned jazz pianist Duke Ellington. The latter project received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Informational Special.. The United States Information Agency sent him on a tour of China to liaise with the country’s students and filmmakers during the same period.
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