T.K. Carter

Acting

T.K. Carter

Born — Died

1956-12-18 — 2026-01-09

Place of birth

New York City, New York, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

58 titles

Thomas Kent Carter (December 18, 1956 – January 9, 2026) was an American actor, comedian and writer best known for his roles in Seems Like Old Times (1980) Space Jam (1996) and The Thing (1982).

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 5 titles

1990s · 10 titles

Space Jam poster
6.8

With their freedom on the line, the Looney Tunes seek the help of NBA superstar Michael Jordan to win a basketball game against a team of moronic aliens.

Space Jam

1996

My Favorite Martian poster
5.7

Ambitious television reporter Tim O'Hara stumbles upon a martian whose spaceship has accidentally crashed on Earth. Thinking this is his ticket to a Pulitzer Prize, Tim makes plans to expose the martian, who, posing as Tim's Uncle Martin, takes human form and has plans of his own. In fact, all of Tim's efforts to divulge the truth are systematically thwarted by the resourceful alien, who ultimately recruits Tim to help him repair his ship for a return to Mars.

My Favorite Martian

1999

Ski Patrol poster
4.7

Pops isn't worried about the renewal of the lease for his ski lodge - the safety record is unblemished in spite of the crew of misfits who make up his ski patrol. But a scheming land developer has other plans and the ski patrol is thrust into a skiing showdown in order to save Pops' mountain.

Ski Patrol

1990

A Rage in Harlem poster
5.5

A beautiful black gangster's moll flees to Harlem with a trunkload of gold after a shootout, unaware that the rest of the gang, and a few other unsavoury characters, are on her trail. A pudgy momma's boy becomes the object of her affections and the unlikely hero of the tale.

A Rage in Harlem

1991

A Cool Like That Christmas poster
8.0

A funky hip-hop holiday special featuring a teenage boy named Orlando who lives in an underprivileged neighborhood.

A Cool Like That Christmas

1993

Yesterday's Target poster
4.0

Memory loss, separation and assassins threaten three time-travelers with special powers who are stuck in the past.

Yesterday's Target

1996

George and Junior's Christmas Spectacular poster
NR

George and Junior are forced to deliver one of Santa's presents after they fail to mail in one of his letters.

George and Junior's Christmas Spectacular

1995

Polly: Comin' Home! poster
8.5

Broadway style songs are used to tell this interesting story of an ingenious orphan who gets involved in matchmaking and striving for inter-racial understanding in 1956 Alabama.

Polly: Comin' Home!

1990

Sledgehammer O'Possum - What's Going on Back There? poster
NR

Seeking refuse from the cold, Sledgehammer O'Possum takes up living in a post box, but doesn't sit well with an angry letter carrier.

Sledgehammer O'Possum - What's Going on Back There?

1997

Yuckie Duck: I'm On My Way poster
NR

Yuckie Duck works as a paramedic but does more harm than good to his patients.

Yuckie Duck: I'm On My Way

1995

1980s · 12 titles

The Thing poster
8.1

A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.

The Thing

1982

Runaway Train poster
7.0

A hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal prison in the middle of winter only to find themselves on an out-of-control train with a female railway worker while being pursued by the vengeful head of security.

Runaway Train

1985

Southern Comfort poster
6.8

A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.

Southern Comfort

1981

Amazon Women on the Moon poster
5.9

Centered on a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with a series of wild commercials, wacky shorts and weird specials, this lampoon of contemporary life and pop culture skewers some of the silliest spectacles ever created in the name of entertainment.

Amazon Women on the Moon

1987

Doctor Detroit poster
5.1

A shy but gentle man named Clifford Skridlow is a professor of comparative literature at the financially-strapped fictional Monroe College in Chicago. A chance encounter with four beautiful women at a restaurant changes his life forever.

Doctor Detroit

1983

Seems Like Old Times poster
6.3

After being falsely accused of robbing a bank, a writer seeks the help of his lawyer ex-wife to clear his name. However, hilarity ensues when he must hide from her husband, who’s throwing a party for law enforcement officials.

Seems Like Old Times

1980

The Hollywood Knights poster
5.8

Led by their comedic and pranking leader, Newbomb Turk, the Hollywood Knights car gang raise hell throughout Beverly Hills on Halloween Night, 1965. Everything from drag racing to Vietnam to high school love.

The Hollywood Knights

1980

He's My Girl poster
3.9

Bryan and Reggie are best friends who are in the music business in Missouri. When Reggie enters Brian for a chance to go to L.A., Bryan wins the contest and wants to bring Reggie with him. However, Bryan must bring a girl. In an effort to make sure Bryan gets his shot, Reggie decides to pose as a girl. When the duo arrive in L.A., both fall in love with two women and they must stop the promoter of the contest when he steals Bryan's song for his star, Simon Sledge.

He's My Girl

1987

Polly poster
8.2

An musical adaptation of the book "Pollyanna" set in the 1950's in which an orphan tries to use gladness to unite the people in a small southern town.

Polly

1989

Underground Aces poster
4.7

The escapades of a crew of zany parking lot attendants.

Underground Aces

1981

Carpool poster
4.0

Four strangers are thrown together in a carpool when a bag of money, almost a million dollars, falls from a Brinks truck into their path. Because of circumstances, they are unable to turn in the money, and they struggle over what to do. They are pursued by thieves, the mob, and the police.

Carpool

1983

Seed of Innocence poster
7.0

A love story about two teenagers who fall in love, have a child, and escape from their families in an attempt to make life for themselves in New York City.

Seed of Innocence

1980

Series credits

The Nanny poster
8.1

That flashy girl from Flushing with the heart of an angel (and the voice of a slighty more nasal angel). The comic misadventures of the sweet and sassy Fran Fine, her sophisticated employer, Broadway producer Mr. Sheffield, his boisterous brood and his wisecracking staff.

The Nanny

1993

How to Get Away with Murder poster
7.8

A sexy, suspense-driven legal thriller about a group of ambitious law students and their brilliant, mysterious criminal defense professor. They become entangled in a murder plot and will shake the entire university and change the course of their lives.

How to Get Away with Murder

2014

The Waltons poster
7.1

The Waltons live their life in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II.

The Waltons

1972

Quincy, M.E. poster
7.5

Los Angeles County medical examiner Quincy routinely engages in police investigations.

Quincy, M.E.

1976

Family Matters poster
6.8

A long-running dramedy centering on the Winslow family, a middle-class African American family living in Chicago, and their pesky next-door neighbor, ultra-nerd Steve Urkel. A spin-off of Perfect Strangers.

Family Matters

1989

Everybody Hates Chris poster
8.1

Chris is a teenager growing up as the eldest of three children in Brooklyn, New York during the early 1980s. Uprooted to a new neighborhood and bused to a predominantly white middle school two-hours away by his strict, hard-working parents, Chris struggles to find his place while keeping his siblings in line at home and surmounting the challenges of junior high.

Everybody Hates Chris

2005

A Different World poster
7.2

A Different World is a spin-off series from The Cosby Show and originally centered on Denise Huxtable and the life of students at Hillman College, a fictional mixed but historically black college in the state of Virginia. After Bonet's departure in the first season, the remainder of the series primarily focused more on Southern belle Whitley Gilbert and mathematics whiz Dwayne Wayne. The series frequently depicted members of the major historically black fraternities and sororities.

A Different World

1987

The Transformers poster
7.9

The Transformers is the first animated television series in the Transformers franchise. The series depicts a war among giant robots that can transform into vehicles and other objects.

The Transformers

1984

The Jeffersons poster
7.3

Sitcom following a successful African-American couple, George and Louise “Weezyö Jefferson as they “move on up” from working-class Queens to a ritzy Manhattan apartment. A spin-off of All in the Family.

The Jeffersons

1975

Moesha poster
6.9

The everyday life of Moesha Mitchell, a vivacious young woman juggling romance, school, ever-changing family dynamics, and friendships.

Moesha

1996

The Steve Harvey Show poster
7.0

Down on his luck and out of money, former R&B star Steve Hightower lands a music teacher gig at an inner-city Chicago school. Showing who's in charge with his unorthodox approach, Steve discovers a new groove at Washington High School.

The Steve Harvey Show

1996

What a Cartoon! poster
7.5

Various original cartoons by some of today's top animators.

What a Cartoon!

1995

What a Cartoon! poster
7.5

Various original cartoons by some of today's top animators.

What a Cartoon!

1995

What a Cartoon! poster
7.5

Various original cartoons by some of today's top animators.

What a Cartoon!

1995

DAVE poster
7.3

A suburban neurotic man in his late 20s has convinced himself that he’s destined to be one of the best rappers of all time. Now he must convince his closest friends, because with their help, he might actually convince the world.

DAVE

2020

Good Times poster
8.0

Good Times is an American sitcom that originally aired from February 8, 1974, until August 1, 1979, on the CBS television network. It was created by Eric Monte and Mike Evans, and developed by Norman Lear, the series' primary executive producer. Good Times is a spin-off of Maude, which is itself a spin-off of All in the Family along with The Jeffersons. The series is set in Chicago. The first two seasons were taped at CBS Television City in Hollywood. In the fall of 1975, the show moved to Metromedia Square, where Norman Lear's own production company was housed.

Good Times

1974

Stumptown poster
7.2

Dex Parios is a strong, assertive, and unapologetically sharp-witted Army veteran working as a P.I. in Portland, Oregon. With a complicated personal history and only herself to rely on, she solves other people’s messes with a blind eye toward her own.

Stumptown

2019

Punky Brewster poster
7.2

An abandoned waif and her dog are taken in by a cranky apartment manager who becomes her guardian in this family-friendly sitcom.

Punky Brewster

1984

227 poster
6.9

A housewife sits on the stoop of her apartment building in a black neighborhood of Washington, D.C., and discusses all manner of things with her neighbors.

227

1985

Jem poster
7.4

Using a holographic computer she inherited from her father, Jerrica Benton turns herself and her pals into pop-music group Jem and the Holograms.

Jem

1985

The Corner poster
7.8

The Corner presents the world of Fayette Street using real names and real events. The miniseries tells the true story of men, women and children living amid the open-air drug markets of West Baltimore. It chronicles a year in the lives of 15-year-old DeAndre McCullough, his mother Fran Boyd, and his father Gary McCullough, as well as other addicts and low-level drug dealers caught up in the twin-engine economy of heroin and cocaine.

The Corner

2000

Soul Train poster
8.0

Soul Train is an American musical variety show that aired in syndication from 1971 to 2006. In its 35-year history, the show primarily featured performances by R&B, soul, and hip hop artists, although funk, jazz, disco, and gospel artists have also appeared. The series was created by Don Cornelius, who also served as its first host and executive producer. Production was suspended following the 2005–06 season, with a rerun package airing for two years after that. As a nod to Soul Train's longevity, the show's opening sequence contained a claim that it was the "longest-running first-run, nationally syndicated program in television history," with over 1,100 episodes produced from the show's debut through the 2005-06 season. Despite the production hiatus, Soul Train will continue to hold this honor until at least 2016, if and when its nearest competitor, Entertainment Tonight, completes its 35th season.

Soul Train

1971

Good Morning, Miss Bliss poster
7.1

A middle school teacher keeps her personal and professional lives in balance as she helps her students.

Good Morning, Miss Bliss

1988

No artwork available
6.5

The Sinbad Show is an American sitcom starring comedian Sinbad that premiered on September 16, 1993 on Fox. The show's main plot is about a bachelor taking in two orphaned children. Chuck Brown performed this sitcom's theme music. It was canceled after one season on April 21, 1994, with two episodes left unaired.

The Sinbad Show

1993

Just Our Luck poster
6.7

Just Our Luck is a short-lived American sitcom which aired on the American Broadcasting Company in the fall of 1983. Created by brothers Lawrence and Charles Gordon, it was considered a modernized version of the classic 1960s sitcom I Dream of Jeannie. The series stars Richard Gilliland as a mild-mannered TV weatherman for KPOX-TV, and T. K. Carter as a hip, fun-loving 3,000-year-old genie who is freed by Gilliland after being imprisoned in his bottle for nearly two centuries. The series was produced by Lorimar Productions, and initially promoted by ABC as one of its new ambitious comedies along with Webster. Just Our Luck was created to compete against The A-Team on NBC but earned low ratings for much of its run. It was poorly received by critics, however, and was the subject of controversy when the NAACP charged the show with promoting negative stereotypes of African-Americans. The NAACP originally campaigned to have the show removed but later settled for a degree of creative control in the show's development. This included changes to Carter's dialogue, the hiring of black staff writers and the addition of Leonard Simon to the cast. The show was cancelled after three months.

Just Our Luck

1983

Turbo Teen poster
6.3

An animated series about a teenager with the ability to literally transform into a sports car.

Turbo Teen

1984

The Bobby Brown Story poster
6.9

The life and career of R&B singer Bobby Brown, who left the pop group New Edition to score eight consecutive top-10 pop singles as a solo artist before his life began to unravel after his marriage to pop icon Whitney Houston.

The Bobby Brown Story

2018