Conlan Carter
{{short description|American film, stage and television actor}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2024}}
{{Infobox person
|name = Conlan Carter
|image = James Whitmore Law and Mr. Jones 1962.JPG
|caption = Carter (left) with Janet De Gore and James Whitmore in The Law and Mr. Jones, 1962
|birth_name = Chester Conlan Carter{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iSLXDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT145|title=Twilight Zone Encyclopedia|pages=145–146|first=Steve|last=Rubin|publisher=Chicago Review Press|date=November 1, 2017|isbn=9781613738917|via=Google Books}}
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1934|10|03}}
|birth_place = Center Ridge, Arkansas, U.S.
|occupation = Film, stage and television actor
|relatives = John Carter (brother)
|spouse = {{marriage|Patricia Musser|1956}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87181938/carolyn-jones-ex-deejay/|title=Carolyn Jones: Ex-Deejay|work=Democrat and Chronicle|location=Rochester, New York|date=May 29, 1966|access-date=October 16, 2021|page=114|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}
|alma mater = Southeast Missouri State University
}}
Chester Conlan Carter (born October 3, 1934) is an American film, stage and television actor. He is perhaps best known for playing the medic "Doc" in the American drama television series Combat!, for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.{{Cite web|url=https://www.emmys.com/bios/conlan-carter|title=Conlan Carter|work=Television Academy|access-date=October 16, 2021}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57517773/ccarter3/|title=A Former Matthews Farm Youth Turns To Acting In Hollywood|work=The Daily Standard|location=Sikeston, Missouri|date=May 1, 1965|access-date=October 16, 2021|page=1|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}
Life and career
Carter was born in Center Ridge, Arkansas, and grew up on a farm.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87181916/conlan-carter-has-struggle-to-win-roles/|title=Conlan Carter Has Struggle To Win Roles|work=Longview Daily News|location=Longview, Washington|date=May 19, 1962|access-date=October 16, 2021|page=29|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}} He attended Matthews High School in Missouri, where he was a state champion pole vaulter. After graduating from Matthews High School in 1952,{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57517626/ccarter2/|title=Conlan Carter, Former Resident of Matthews, Starring in "Pal Joey," in San Francisco|work=The Sikeston Herald|location=Sikeston, Missouri|date=November 28, 1957|access-date=October 16, 2021|page=2|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}} he attended Southeast Missouri State University, on a two-year athletic scholarship.
After serving in the United States Air Force for two years, Carter went to the Bay City Actors Lab in San Francisco, California, for three years, specialising in musical theatre. He supported himself by working as a field auditor for an insurance company, He then appeared in various dramatic and musical productions in California. He took over the title role in an Off-Broadway production of the musical Pal Joey when the original lead actor had to leave the production because of illness. He moved on to work in film and television, first appearing in the western television series Johnny Ringo in 1960.
Carter later starred in the legal drama television series The Law and Mr. Jones, playing the law student{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27635235/the-indianapolis-star/|title=TV 'Law Student' Conlan Carter Learned Hard Way About Money|first=Harold|last=Heffernan|work=The Indianapolis Star|location=Indianapolis, Indiana|date=March 25, 1962|access-date=October 16, 2021|page=198|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}} C.E. Carruthers, After the series ended in 1962, Carter guest-starred in other television programs including Gunsmoke, The Twilight Zone, Rawhide, Death Valley Days, Outlaws, The Westerner and Follow the Sun. He also appeared in films such as Quick, Before It Melts, White Lightning and Dixie Dynamite. He played "Dub Crick" (lazy, "good-fer-nuthin" son of Lafe Crick) in one episode of the Beverly Hillbillies. Beginning in 1963, Carter played the medic "Doc" in the television series Combat! for four seasons. He retired in 1986.{{citation needed|date=November 2022}} His brother John Carter was also an actor.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5k7Z31qKsZ0C&pg=PA158|title=Quinn Martin, Producer: A Behind-the-Scenes History of QM Productions and Its Founder|page=158|first=Jonathan|last=Etter|publisher=McFarland|date=August 27, 2008|isbn=9780786438679|via=Google Books}}
Television
- 1969: The Virginian (TV series), season 7 episode 15 "(Death wait)" : Jory Kincaid
- 1970: Death Valley Days, season 18 episode 14 "(The Wizard of Aberdeen)" : L. Frank Baum
- 1969: The Big Valley The Battle of Mineral Springs Season 4; Episode 21 (1969)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0141543}}
- {{TCMDb name|29923%7C33752}}
- [https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/conlan-carter/ Rotten Tomatoes profile]
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Category:Actors from Conway County, Arkansas
Category:Male actors from Arkansas
Category:American male film actors
Category:American male television actors
Category:American male stage actors
Category:American male pole vaulters
Category:20th-century American male actors
Category:Southeast Missouri State University alumni