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As for why he turned to writing, he cited advice from his TV dad on creating opportunities for both himself and other artists of color. Over the years, Carter has appeared on stage in other NYC-based productions including the New Federal Theater show Great Men of Gospel and a 2004 revival of the Melvin Van Peebles musical Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death for the Classical Theater of Harlem Company.Ĭarter has also been active as a writer and playwright, penning works including the play Grandma's Hands, inspired by the women in his family, which was performed at the National Black Theatre Festival. (The cast later took the show into schools before taping an Emmy-nominated production for CBS.) Citing a desire to work again with his onscreen and "spiritual" father John Amos, Carter reached out to the veteran actor, who appeared with him in a revival of the Richard Wesley father-son drama The Past is the Past at the same playhouse in 1989.
In the mid-'80s, Carter joined Restoration's Billie Holiday Theatre to play the lead role in Donny's House, a rock operetta tackling the drug epidemic by late Good Times writer and playwright Judi Ann Mason. "Why should I seek energy elsewhere when I have diamonds in my own backyard?" "Hollywood has its own energy I have energy where I am," he said. As an adult, he has foregone Hollywood to spend decades as a resident of the borough's Clinton Hill neighborhood while working within the local performing arts community and Black playhouses of New York City. He traveled to Africa after Good Times.Ĭarter was deeply influenced by his childhood spent in Brooklyn's Brownsville and Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhoods, discussing the vibrant culture that nurtured him in an entry in the oral history of the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation (Restoration). READ THIS NEXT: Jimmie Walker Said He Never Spoke to These Good Times Co-Stars. Read on to find out where life has taken him since Good Times ended and where he is now at age 61. ("Innuendos that I've died over the decades-I maintain that when people don't have access to one's personal life, they create things," he told Jet in 2008.) In reality, Carter is very much alive and active in the industry. Rumors of what became of Carter after Good Times went off the air in 1979 have circulated for years, including stories that he died in the 1990s and that he became a minister.
Baby-faced younger brother Michael dropped truth bombs that might have otherwise threatened certain audiences-telling his mother that "boy" is a "white racist term," declaring that Jesus may have been Black, and getting suspended for telling his teacher George Washington was racist for being an enslaver, to name a few. on Good Times, Ralph Carter broke the mold for cute sitcom kids. As the youngest child of Florida and James Evans, Sr.
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