Actor

Ted Ferguson

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Movies: 36Series: 4

TMDB ID: 1026877

IMDb ID: nm2467078

Known for: Acting

Born: August 12, 1948

Age: 77

Place of birth: Shreveport, Louisiana, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2007 - 2024

Years active: 18

Average TMDB rating: 5.81

Also known as

Walter 'Ted' Ferguson • Walter Ted Ferguson • China Jones • Teddy

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Biography

Grew up in Mooretown, one of Shreveport's toughest communities. (1 or 2 room shotgun houses with no indoor plumbing) 40 years of broadcasting experience before becoming a Film, TV and Commercial Actor. Ted, having grown up in an African American community in Shreveport, an Urban station in Motown (Detroit) had to have been his destiny...Within a 6 month period in 1975, China Jones (Ted's Air name) became the number one night DJ (6pm to 10pm) in Detroit Radio...after 6 years in "The Motor City", China headed west, to Hollywood to become Program Director of Century Broadcasting's KWST (KWEST). Which shortly afterward became Power 106. Again an urban giant in Los Angeles.