{"id":400030,"date":"2026-01-10T23:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T23:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/400030\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T23:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T23:13:08","slug":"veteran-actor-t-k-carter-known-for-the-thing-and-punky-brewster-dies-at-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/400030\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran actor T.K. Carter, known for &#8216;The Thing&#8217; and &#8216;Punky Brewster,&#8217; dies at 69"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"anchor-f15b95\" class=\"body-graf\">DUARTE, Calif. \u2014 Veteran actor T.K. Carter, who appeared in the horror film \u201cThe Thing\u201d and \u201cPunky Brewster\u201d on television, has died at the age of 69.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-c03668\" class=\"body-graf\">Carter was declared dead Friday evening after deputies responded to a call regarding an unresponsive male in Duarte, California, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-38a055\" class=\"body-graf\">Police did not disclose a cause of death or other details, but said no foul play was suspected.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-02a801\" class=\"body-graf\">Carter had been acting for years before a breakthrough role as Nauls the cook in John Carpenter\u2019s 1982 horror classic, \u201cThe Thing.\u201d He also had a recurring role in the 1980s sitcom \u201cPunky Brewster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-b0c4af\" class=\"endmark body-graf\">Other big-screen roles include \u201cRunaway Train\u201d in 1985, \u201cSki Patrol\u201d in 1990 and \u201cSpace Jam\u201d in 1996.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUARTE, Calif. \u2014 Veteran actor T.K. Carter, who appeared in the horror film \u201cThe Thing\u201d and \u201cPunky Brewster\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":{"0":"post-400030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}