Tierre Turner
Turner started as a child actor in the 1970s, and the shape of what followed is unusual enough to be worth spelling out. His feature debut was the horror film People Toys in 1974, followed by the television drama The Runaways in 1975, and he took supporting roles in blaxploitation pictures the same year, including Bucktown and Friday Foster, both of which starred Pam Grier. From 1975 to 1976 he had the lead role of Lucas Adams on the series The Cop and the Kid, opposite Charles Durning. Of that early run, only Friday Foster is among the credits listed here.
The rest of this page is a working performer's second life. He was Tick on the children's science-fiction series Ark II, Zero on Earth 2, and Jugger in The Crow in 1994. After that the credits thin out and change character: a pit crew member in Redline, a Detroit cop in Need for Speed, a voice part in Dear Santa in 2024.
He is also a stuntperson, and the later half of this list reads like the on-camera edge of stunt work rather than an acting career winding down. Two very different jobs, one name on the call sheet.
Movies (5)
TV (2)
Where to start with Tierre Turner
Friday Foster is the credit with real history behind it, a 1975 Pam Grier vehicle with Turner as Cleve, and the best surviving evidence of the child actor he was.
Ark II is the curio: Saturday-morning science fiction, him as Tick, and the strange long afterlife that cheap 1970s children's television always seems to earn.
For the adult work, The Crow is the title most people will recognise, though Jugger is a gang part rather than a showcase, and Earth 2 gave him a recurring role in a one-season series with a devoted following.
After that the credits go where stunt performers go. Redline and Need for Speed are car films with him in small on-camera parts, and Dear Santa in 2024 is a voice role. Watch Friday Foster; take the rest only if you are completing a set.