{"id":405175,"date":"2026-01-13T20:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/405175\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T20:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:11:09","slug":"the-thing-actor-t-k-carter-had-recent-health-issues-before-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/405175\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Thing’ Actor T.K. Carter Had Recent Health Issues Before Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘The Thing’ Actor T.K. Carter
\n Battled Health Problems Before Death<\/p>\n

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\n January 13, 2026
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T.K. Carter<\/a> died at his home after battling serious health issues … according to his family and authorities.<\/p>\n

The actor\u2019s older brother, Harold, tells TMZ … the 69-year-old had been dealing with multiple medical problems in the months leading up to his death — including diabetes and ongoing heart issues.<\/p>\n

Law enforcement sources tell TMZ … T.K.\u2019s family requested a welfare check last Friday after not hearing from him for a couple of days, and informed authorities T.K. had high blood pressure. Officers responded to his residence in Duarte, California — about 20 miles east of L.A. — where family members met them on scene.<\/p>\n

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We\u2019re told authorities entered the home and found T.K. deceased<\/a>. He was alone at the time, and it\u2019s unclear how long he’d been there. His personal doctor agreed to sign the death certificate.<\/p>\n

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As of now, Harold says the family does not know T.K.’s official cause of death. He also mentions that when T.K. was found, he apparently suffered a head injury and was beside a marble table.<\/p>\n

Harold tells us … \u201cMy brother was a very uplifting person, always funny. He was a good person. We miss him, he had a lot of friends and family. We will always cherish him. He had a relationship with God and his faith was very important to him.”<\/p>\n

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Carter\u2019s career stretches back to the mid-1970s, with “The Thing” marking his big break. He went on to appear in films like “Runaway Train,” “Space Jam,” and “Domino.”<\/p>\n

More recently, he appeared in 3 episodes of “The Company You Keep” and 5 episodes of Lil Dicky<\/a>‘s show “Dave” in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘The Thing’ Actor T.K. Carter Battled Health Problems Before Death Published January 13, 2026 9:33 AM PST T.K.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-405175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405175","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=405175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}