Mr. T

**Mr. T**, whose real name is **Laurence Tureaud** (born May 21, 1952) is an American actor. He is famous for playing Sgt. Bosco "B. A." Baracus in _The A-Team_ and James "Clubber" Lang in _Rocky III_. _Mr. T_ has a popular catch phrase, "I Pity the Fool", which led to the name of a reality television series that he appeared. He also had a comic series called _Mr T and the T-force_. _Mr. T_ is known for having a mohawk hairstyle and wearing a lot of gold jewelry.

## Early life

Tureaud was born in Chicago. Before he became an actor, he was a bodyguard.

## Personal life

Mr. T is a born-again Christian.

Tureaud made his neighbors in the Chicago suburb Lake Forest angry by cutting down more than 100 oak trees on his estate. That is now called "The Lake Forest Chain Saw Massacre".

He gave up almost all his gold, one of his identifying marks, after helping with the cleanup after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. He said, "As a Christian, when I saw other people lose their lives and lose their land and property...I felt that it would be a sin before God for me to continue wearing my gold. I felt it would be insensitive and disrespectful to the people who lost everything, so I stopped wearing my gold."

## Filmography

|Year|Title|Role|class="unsortable"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1982|_Penitentiary II_|Himself|||
|1982|_Rocky III_|James "Clubber" Lang|||
|1982|_Twilight Theatre_||TV Series||
|1983|_D.C. Cab_|_Samson_|||
|1983|_Mister T_|Himself|TV Series||
|1983|_Diff'rent Strokes_|Himself|TV Series||
|1983|_Alvin and the Chipmunks_|Himself|Episode: "The C Team"||
|1983– 1987|__|Sergeant Bosco "B.A." Baracus|TV Series||
|1984|_The Toughest Man in the World_|_Bruise Brubaker_|TV||
|1984|_Be Somebody... or Be Somebody's Fool!_|Himself|Video||
|1984– 1986, 1988|_WWF Superstars of Wrestling_|Himself|TV Series||
|1985|_WrestleMania_|Himself|Video||
|1986|_WrestleMania 2_|Himself|Video||
|1987|_Alice Through the Looking Glass_|Jabberwock|TV movie||
|1988– 1990|_T. and T._|T. S. Turner|TV Series||
|1990|_Straight Line_|T. S. Turner|||
|1991|_Out of This World_|Himself|TV Series||
|1993|_Freaked_|The Bearded Lady|||
|1993|_The Terrible Thunderlizards_|Mr. T-Rex|||
|1994|_Blossom_|Himself|TV Series||
|1994|_Magic of the Golden Bear: Goldy III_|Freedom|||
|1995|_Kids Against Crime_|Himself|TBN||
|1996|_Spy Hard_|Helicopter Pilot|||
|1998|_Saturday Night Live: The Best of Eddie Murphy_|Mister Robinson's neighbour|Video||
|1999|_Inspector Gadget_|Himself|||
|1999|_Malcolm and Eddie_|Calvin|Episode: "The Wrongest Yard"||
|2001|_Not Another Teen Movie_|The Wise Janitor|||
|2001|_Judgment_|J. T. Quincy|Cloud Ten Pictures||
|2003|_House of Mouse_|Himself|Episode: "House Ghosts"||
|2004|_Johnny Bravo_|Himself|Episode: "T is for Trouble"||
|2004|__|Himself|Episode: "Today I Am a Clown"||
|2005|_Return of the Lads_|Lad No 3 with Mark Egan and Cian Duffy|||
|2006|_I Pity the Fool_|Himself|||
|2009|_Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs_|Earl Devereaux|Voice Only||
|2011|_World's Craziest Fools_|Himself|BBC Three||

## Infobox (person)

- **image**: Mr T WWE Hall of Fame 2014 (cropped).jpg
- **caption**: Mr. T in 2014
- **birth name**: Laurence Tureaud
- **birth place**: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
- **occupation**: Actor, motivational speaker, wrestler, bodyguard, television personality, comedian
- **years active**: 1980–present