‘Battlestar Galactica’ star Terry Carter has passed away at the age of 95.
Terry Carter, a trailblazer and actor best known for playing Colonel Tigh in the original Battlestar Galactica, has passed away. He was 95.
His son confirmed to The New York Times that Carter passed away Tuesday (April 23) at his home in New York City.
Carter’s decades-long career in television began in 1955 when he starred as Private “Sugie” Sugarman in The Phil Silvers Show until 1959.
The actor spoke on his experience starring on that show in 2018, telling the Times, “Well, I am the last living survivor of The Phil Silvers Show. But I’m reluctant to take too much credit for being the only Black man on the show. I was only a cog in the wheel. I slew the foe, but I was just a ham like everybody else. It was a wonderful bunch.”
He later continued working in the theater, producing an Off Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire.
His television career took him across genres, with memorable appearances in Foxy Brown, The Jeffersons, and Battlestar Galactica.
