Thomas Carter

Biography

Thomas Carter (born July 17, 1953) is an American film and television director known for Swing Kids, Save the Last Dance with Julia Stiles, and Coach Carter with Samuel L. Jackson. As an actor, Carter is probably best known for his work on the television series The White Shadow, playing James "Hollywood" Hayward, a high school basketball star with a high IQ for justice.

Personal Facts

Known For

Directing

Gender

male

Known Credits

42

Birth Date

1953-07-17 00:00:00

Birth Place

Austin, Texas, USA

Known For

• 

  Coach Carter
• 

  Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
• 

  Save the Last Dance
• 

  Metro
• 

  Swing Kids
• 

  When the Game Stands Tall

Credits

• visual effects (1 credits)

  • The Color of You

    animation

    visual effects
    2021

• directing (28 credits)

  • The Morning Show

    - White Noise (2023) ... director directing
    2019
  • Project Blue Book

    - War Games (2019) ... director directing

    - The Scoutmaster (2019) ... director directing
    2019
  • New Amsterdam

    - Preventable (2019) ... director directing
    2018
  • The Resident

    - Family Affair (2018) ... director directing
    2018
  • SEAL Team

    - Prisoner's Dilemma (2018) ... director directing
    2017
  • Colony

    - Fallout (2017) ... director directing
    2016
  • Animal Kingdom

    - Karma (2017) ... director directing
    2016
  • Shades of Blue

    - Unforgiven (2017) ... director directing
    2016
  • Bosch

    - Chapter Ten: Us and Them (2015) ... director directing
    2015
  • When the Game Stands Tall

    director

    directing
    2014
  • The Strain

    - Ouroboros (2017) ... director directing
    2014
  • Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

    director

    directing
    2009
  • Damages

    - Do You Regret What We Did? (2007) ... director directing
    2007
  • Hitched

    director

    directing
    2005
  • Coach Carter The Man Behind the Movie

    director

    directing
    2005
  • Coach Carter

    director

    directing
    2005
  • Save the Last Dance

    director

    directing
    2001
  • Metro

    director

    directing
    1997
  • Divas

    director

    directing
    1995
  • Swing Kids

    director

    directing
    1993
  • Under the Influence

    director

    directing
    1986
  • Amazing Stories

    - Dorothy and Ben (1986) ... director directing

    - One For the Road (1986) ... director directing
    1985
  • The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    - Gigolo (1985) ... director directing

    - Final Escape (1985) ... director directing
    1985
  • Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper

    director

    directing
    1984
  • Call to Glory

    director

    directing
    1984
  • Miami Vice

    - Brother's Keeper (1984) ... director directing
    1984
  • Remington Steele

    - Your Steele the One For Me (1982) ... director directing
    1982
  • Hill Street Blues

    - The Rise and Fall of Paul the Wall (1984) ... director directing

    - Buddy, Can You Spare a Heart? (1983) ... director directing

    - Stan the Man (1982) ... director directing

    - Rain of Terror (1982) ... director directing

    - The Shooter (1982) ... director directing
    1981

• production (5 credits)

  • Coach Carter

    executive producer

    production
    2005
  • Don King: Only in America

    executive producer

    production
    1997
  • Five Desperate Hours

    executive producer

    production
    1997
  • The Uninvited

    executive producer

    production
    1996
  • Divas

    executive producer

    production
    1995

• camera (1 credits)

  • UC: Undercover

    director of photography

    camera
    2001

• writing (1 credits)

  • Divas

    writer

    writing
    1995

• actors (6 credits)

  • Whose Life Is It Anyway?

    Orderly John

    actor

    actors
    1981
  • Full Moon High

    High School Student

    actor

    actors
    1981
  • Hill Street Blues

    - Invasion of the Third World Body Snatchers (1982) ... actor actors
    1981
  • Almost Summer

    Dean Hampton

    actor

    actors
    1978
  • The Monkey Hustle

    Player

    actor

    actors
    1976
  • M*A*S*H

    - The Winchester Tapes (1977) ... actor actors
    1972