Mr. T
Mr. T (born May 21, 1952 in Chicago , Illinois ; actually Laurence Tureaud ) is an American actor .
Life
Tureaud was born in the Robert Taylor Homes, a poor neighborhood in Chicago, as the second youngest of twelve children. As a young man, he was encouraged by his brothers to start weight training . He successfully played college football and was three times city champion in wrestling . He then joined the army, but was soon dismissed because of an argument with a superior.
After that he worked as a bodyguard and from then on he called himself Mr. T (as a tribute to his father, who was often called "boy" by whites, and so that he had to be addressed as Mister). He has worked for celebrities such as Diana Ross , Muhammad Ali and Michael Jackson . He gained a certain degree of notoriety, which helped him to a film career. His motto on his business cards is also known : “Next to God, there is no greater protector than I” (next to God, there is no greater protector than me).
Mr. T was discovered by Sylvester Stallone in 1982 and was given the role of clubber Lang in the third part of the Rocky saga . He owes further fame to the role of Bosco Albert "BA" (Bad Attitude) Baracus in the American television series Das A-Team . In the animated series Mister T (1983, broadcast in Germany on RTL + from 1987), Mr. T himself was the main character and traveled with a group of gymnasts through the USA. The real Mr. T appeared at the end of each episode and informed the young viewers about the abuse of drugs, behavior in problematic situations, correct environmental behavior, etc. In 1984, Mr. T tried his hand at the music business and recorded the rap song Treat Your Mother Right , which was only moderately successful.
The contact to the WWF (now WWE ) was made by Hulk Hogan , who had a guest role in Rocky III and Das A-Team . The resulting collaboration culminated in Wrestlemania I in March 1985 when Mr. T and Hogan stood together in the ring. On April 5, 2014, Mr. T was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by his son, T Junior . The ceremony took place the night before WrestleMania XXX (30) in New Orleans.
In the 1990s, Mr. T developed lymph node cancer . His healing strengthened his belief in God. Today he is active as a preacher , among other things . In 2001, Mr. T appeared in a short sequence of Not Another Teenage Movie . Mr. T also appears in various computer games, including World of Warcraft , for which he also campaigned on television and in animated series like in The Penguins of Madagascar as Officer X . From 2011 to 2013 he had his own TV show on BBC Three called World's Craziest Fools . In Germany she was broadcast as Mr. Ts crazy world on kabel eins .
Mr. T has three children.
Filmography
- 1982: Silver Spoons
- 1982: Bloody laurels alternatively Black City Tiger (Penitentiary II)
- 1982: Rocky 3 - The Eye of the Tiger (Rocky III)
- 1983: The Chaotenclique (DC Cab)
- 1983-1987: The A-Team (The A-Team)
- 1983–1984: Mister T (cartoon series)
- 1984: The Toughest Man in the World
- 1985: Wrestlemania I , tag team match with Hulk Hogan against Paul Orndorff and Roddy Piper
- 1986: Wrestlemania II , boxing match against rowdy Roddy Piper
- 1988: T. and T.
- 1990: My father is an alien ( Out of This World , season 4 episode 1)
- 1993: Freaks (Freaked)
- 1994: Blossom (guest appearance)
- 1994: Goldy III (The Magic of the Golden Bear: Goldy III)
- 1994: WCW Starrcade 1994, wrestling match against Kevin Sullivan
- 1995: Mother 2 Earthbound (video game)
- 1996: Agent 00 - With the License to Smile (Spy Hard)
- 1996: Susan ( Suddenly Susan , TV series)
- 1996: Martin (TV series)
- 1999: Inspector Gadget (Inspector Gadget)
- 1999: Simsalabim Sabrina ( Sabrina: The Animated Series , speaking role)
- 1999: Malcolm & Eddie (TV series)
- 2000: Family Guy
- 2001: Pecola (speaking role)
- 2001: Judgment
- 2001: Apocalypse IV: Judgment
- 2001: Not Another Teen Movie ( Not Another Teen Movie , cameo)
- 2002: Teamo Supremo (speaking role)
- 2003: The Simpsons , cameo in the episode Krusty's Bar Mizvah (Today, I Am a Clown)
- 2007: South Park , cameo subsequently Cartoon Wars (Cartoon Wars)
- 2009: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs ( Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs , voice)
Web links
- Mr. T in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hall of Fame profile of Mr. T on wwe.com
- ↑ World's Craziest Fools on BBC Three
- ↑ a b Mr. Ts crazy world on fernsehserien.de
- ↑ Mr. Ts crazy world , kabeleins.de
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Mr. T |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tureaud, Laurence (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-American actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1952 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago , Illinois |