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Thomas Kent ‘T.K.’ Carter, ‘Punky Brewster’ and ‘The Thing’ Actor, Dies at 69
Thomas Kent Carter, a film and TV actor who was known as T.K., died Friday in his home in Duarte, California, multiple outlets reported. He was 69. A cause of death was not immediately shared.
Carter was best known for his roles as Nauls in “The Thing” (1982) and as Mike Fulton in seasons one and two of “Punky Brewster.”
The actor made his television debut on “Police Woman” in 1976, and also appeared on “Family Matters,” “Good Morning,” “The Sinbad Show,” “Moesha,” and other series. He earned his first feature role in 2019 when he was cast as Gary McCullough on HBO’s “The Corner.”
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R.I.P. T.K. Carter, The Thing and The Corner actor
T.K. Carter has died. A stand-up comic and actor, Carter had a decades-spanning career that ran the gamut from the worlds of comedy—with appearances in TV shows like Punky Brewster and FXX’s Dave, and films like 1990s farce Ski Patrol—to far more serious fare. (Notably, the starring role in David Simon’s harrowing 2003 miniseries The Corner.) Per TMZ, Carter’s body was discovered in his California home on Friday, January 9. He was 69.
Raised in Los Angeles, Carter pursued stand-up from an early age, appearing at The Comedy Store and the Improv when he was still just a teenager, becoming a (very young) contemporary of folks like Paul Mooney and Richard Pryor. Simultaneously pursuing both comedy and acting, he picked up early roles in TV starting in the late ’70s, including brief stints on Good Times and The Jeffersons, before breaking into film. (A notable early role saw him play his part in one of the great tension-building scenes of horror movie history, playing roller-skating chef Nauls in John Carpenter’s The Thing.)
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