Comedian and actor Jack Carter dies at 93

He also appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show more than 50 times. In the early 1950s, he hosted The Jack Carter Show as part of NBC’s Saturday Night Revue.

Apart from television, Carter also had a noteworthy career in theater, making his Broadway debut in 1946 as a replacement in the musical show “Call Me Mister“.

Born Jack Charkin on June 24, 1922, to Jewish parents who had immigrated from Russian Federation, Carter began flexing his comic muscles while still in his teens, appearing as a mimic on The Major Bowes Amateur Hour radio show.

Jack Carter, a comedian whose almost seventy-year career encompassed fare as diverse as Cavalcade of Stars and iCarly, is dead at the age of 93. Carter took his comedic chops to the COLGATE COMEDY HOURS alongside Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis and more. The comic’s other stage credits include “Guys and Dolls,” “Top Banana,” “The Odd Couple,” “Oliver!” “Little Me,” and “A amusing Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum”, according to Entertainment Weekly.

A versatile star, Carter played more dramatic roles in the TV series THE LAST HURRAH, THE SEX SYMBO and DR. KILDARE, among others.

Behind the camera, Carter directed Lucille Ball’s CBS comedy, Here’s Lucy, and such plays as A Thousand Clowns, Silver Anniversary and Mouth-Trap. He guested on The Rockford Files, Touched By An Angel, Fame and Fantasy Island, as well as 3rd Rock From The Sun, Monk, Desperate Housewives and such contemporary series as Parks And Recreation, Family Guy, New Girl and, last year, in Shameless. During the 1970s and 1980s, he appeared as a celebrity panelist no such game shows as The Match Game and The $10,000 Pyramid.

Jack Chakrin was born in Brooklyn.

He served in the army in World War II, then found himself on Broadway in Call Me Mister.

The comedian’s death was a result of respiratory failure Jack, who died at his home in Beverly Hills on Sunday (June 28), is survived by his wife Roxanne, sons Michael and Chase Carter, daughter Wendy, and grandchildren Jake and Ava.