Terry Carter, a native of Brooklyn, New York, is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School in New York City. He attended Hunter College, Boston University - School of Communications, U.C.L.A. - School of Theater, Film, and Television, and St. John's University School of Law. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Communications from Northeastern University (1983). Carter studied acting with Howard DaSilva, Bret Warren, Uta Hagen, Herbert Berghof, and Stella Adler. He studied playwriting with Arnold Perl. He studied directing with Alan Schneider.

President of Council For Positive Images, a non-profit organization he formed in 1979.He is the TV producer-director of the award-winning, Emmy-nominated TV musical documentary "A Duke Named Ellington" and the Los Angeles Emmy-award winner (1985) "K*I*D*S". He lives most of the year in Scandinavia.He was the world's first black TV anchor newscaster (WBZ-TV Eyewitness News, Boston, Massachusetts, Group W, Westinghouse, 1965-68).Sometimes appears at science fiction conventions where he sells autographed pictures of himself.He was founder and president of Meta/4 Productions, Inc., a California company he formed in 1975, through which he produced and/or directed more than 100 documentary films and television shorts for industry and the federal government.