Occupation Actor Name Jack Carter | Role Comedian | |
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Died June 28, 2015, Beverly Hills, California, United States Spouse Roxanne Carter (m. 1971–2015), Paula Stewart (m. 1961–1970), Joan Mann (m. 1949–1958) Children Michael Chakrin, Chase Chakrin, Vicki Chakrin, Wendy Chakrin Nominations Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actor In A Daytime Drama Special Movies and TV shows Alligator, Mercy, The Amazing Dobermans, Play It to the Bone, The Horizontal Lieutenant Similar People Paula Stewart, Peter Cornwell, Lewis Teague, Jerry Stiller, Jackie Gleason | ||
Jack Carter (c. 1902 – November 9, 1967) was an African American actor. He is known for creating the role of Crown in the original Broadway production of Porgy (1927), and for starring in Orson Welles's stage productions including Macbeth (1936) and Doctor Faustus (1937). He appeared in a few motion pictures in the 1930s and 1940s.
Biography
Jack Carter created the role of Crown in the original stage production of Porgy. He is perhaps best known for having starred in the Federal Theatre Project's 1936 New York production of William Shakespeare's Macbeth that came to be known as the Voodoo Macbeth. Orson Welles adapted and directed the play, moved its setting from Scotland to a fictional Caribbean island, recruited an entirely African American cast, and earned the nickname for his production from the Haitian vodou that fulfilled the rôle of Scottish witchcraft.
Welles later cast Carter as Mephistopheles in Doctor Faustus (1937), a Federal Theatre Project 891 production in which Welles played Faust.
