T.K. Carter, ‘The Thing’ & ‘Space Jam’ Actor has passed away at the age of 69
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The comedian and actor was found dead at home in Duarte, California, on Friday, January 9, after a call for service came in at 5:42 local time, according to TMZ. A cause of death has not been announced.
In 1982’s The Thing, Carter played cook Nauls, and in 1996’s Space Jam, he voiced the basketball-playing Monstar Nawt. He also offered performances in the films Seems Like Old Times, Southern Comfort, Runaway Train, and Domino.
On television, Carter starred in the series Just Our Luck, Punky Brewster, Good Morning, Miss Bliss, and The Sinbad Show across the 1980s and 1990s.
In Just Our Luck, a short-lived ABC sitcom, Carter played Shabu, a genie who comes into the life of TV weatherman Keith Burrows (Richard Gilliland). In the first two seasons of the NBC sitcom Punky Brewster, Carter portrayed teacher Mike Fulton. On Good Morning, Miss Bliss — a Disney Channel predecessor of Saved by the Bell — Carter played maintenance worker Mylo Williams. And on The Sinbad Show, a one-season Fox sitcom, the actor played Clarence Hull, a longtime friend of Sinbad’s David Bryan.
Carter also got major screen time in the 2000 HBO miniseries The Corner, in which he played Gary McCullough, a father struggling with substance abuse. The Boston Globe said Carter “perfectly captures the gentleness and passivity that can be addiction’s easiest conquest.”
