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John Carradine
Actor
Died November 27, 1988 (82 years)
John Carradine (1906–1988) was an American actor, best known for his roles in horror films, Westerns, and Shakespearean theatre.
Carradine's first film credit was Tol'able David. By 1933, he was being credited as John Peter Richmond. He adopted the stage name "John Carradine" in 1935, and legally took the name as his own two years later.
By 1936, Carradine had become a member of John Ford's stock company and appeared in The Prisoner of Shark Island. In total, he made 11 pictures with Ford, including The Grapes of Wrath. Other Ford films in which Carradine appeared include The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and Stagecoach. Carradine claimed to have appeared in more than 450 movies, but only 225 movies can be documented. His count is closer to fact if theatrical movies, made-for-TV movies, and television programs are included. He often played eccentric, insane, or diabolical characters, especially in the horror genre with which he had become identified. He occasionally played a heroic role as in The Grapes of Wrath and he occasionally played a sympathetic role as in Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake.
He was married four times, had five children, and was the patriarch of the Carradine acting family, which includes his sons Bruce Carradine, David Carradine, Keith Carradine and Robert Carradine as well as his granddaughters Martha Plimpton, Sorel Carradine and Ever Carradine.
Filmography
| 2018 | Doses of Horror · as Richmond Reed ("A Dose of Bloodsucking Tramps" segment) (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2016 | I Am Not Your Negro · as Hatfield (clip from Stagecoach (1939)) |
| 2014 | Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films · as Lord Elijah Grisbane |
| 2004 | The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made · as actor |
| 1995 | Jack-O · as Walter Machen |
| 1992 | Legends of the West · as Actor in 'Cheyenne Autumn' |
| 1989 | Buried Alive · as Jacob Julian |
| 1987 | Monster in the Closet · as Old Joe Shempter |
| 1986 | The Tomb · as Andoheb |
| 1986 | Peggy Sue Got Married · as Leo |
| 1986 | Horrible Horror · as Dr. Karol Noymann, In clips from 'Invisible Invaders' |
| 1986 | Star Slammer · as The Justice |
| 1985 | Evils of the Night · as Dr. Kozmar |
| 1985 | Reel Horror · as Alcoholic Reporter (archive footage) |
| 1985 | The Twilight Zone (1985) (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1984 | The Ice Pirates · as Supreme Commander |
| 1983 | Imps* · as Gentleman ("Great Moments" Host) |
| 1983 | House of the Long Shadows · as Elijah Grisbane |
| 1983 | Boogeyman II · as Dr. Warren (archive footage) |
| 1983 | The Vals · as Mr. Stanton (Head of the Orphanage) |
| 1983 | A Rose for Emily · as Col. Sartoris |
| 1982 | Demon Rage · as Father Stratten |
| 1982 | Klynham Summer · as Hubert Salter |
| 1982 | Aladdin and the Magic Lamp · as The Wizard |
| 1982 | Fame (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1982 | The Secret of NIMH · as Great Owl (voice) |
| 1981 | Frankenstein Island · as Dr. Frankenstein |
| 1981 | The Howling · as Erle Kenton |
| 1981 | The Monster Club · as R.Chetwynd-Hayes, Writer |
| 1981 | The Fall Guy (TV Series) · as Preston Deauville |
| 1981 | The Nesting · as Col. LeBrun |
| 1980 | The Boogey Man · as Dr. Warren |
| 1980 | Monstroid · as Priest |
| 1979 | Americathon · as Uncle Sam |
| 1979 | Teheran Incident · as Unknown |
| 1979 | Nocturna · as Count Dracula |
| 1979 | The Horror Show · as actor |
| 1979 | The Littlest Hobo (TV Series) · as Chief Justice Hamilton |
| 1978 | The Bees · as Dr. Sigmund Hummel |
| 1978 | Vampire Hookers · as Richmond Reed |
| 1978 | Doctor Dracula · as Radcliff |
| 1978 | Sunset Cove · as Judge Harley Winslow |
| 1978 | Vega$ (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1978 | Greatest Heroes of the Bible (TV Series) · as King David |
| 1977 | Satan's Cheerleaders · as The Bum |
| 1977 | The Mouse and His Child · as The Tramp (voice) |
| 1977 | Golden Rendezvous · as Fairweather |
| 1977 | Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A. · as Grampa Sullivan |
| 1977 | Fantasy Island (TV Series) · as Mortician |
| 1977 | The Sentinel · as Fr. Francis Matthew Halloran |
| 1977 | Shock Waves · as Captain |
| 1977 | The White Buffalo · as Amos Briggs |
| 1976 | The Shootist · as Beckum |
| 1976 | Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood · as Drunk |
| 1976 | Crash! · as Dr. Welsey Edwards |
| 1976 | Death at Love House · as Conan Carroll |
| 1976 | The Killer Inside Me · as Dr. Smith |
| 1976 | The Last Tycoon · as Tour Guide |
| 1975 | Journey Into the Beyond · as Narrator (English Version) |
| 1975 | Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary · as The Man |
| 1975 | Wonder Woman (TV Series) · as Harlow Gault |
| 1975 | Starsky & Hutch (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1974 | The House of Seven Corpses · as Edgar Price |
| 1973 | The Night Strangler · as Llewellyn Crossbinder |
| 1973 | Superchick · as Igor Smith |
| 1973 | Bad Charleston Charlie · as Alcoholic Reporter |
| 1973 | Terror in the Wax Museum · as Claude Dupree |
| 1972 | Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask · as Dr. Bernardo |
| 1972 | Boxcar Bertha · as H. Buckram Sartoris |
| 1972 | Silent Night, Bloody Night · as Charlie Towman |
| 1972 | Portnoy's Complaint · as Judge (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1972 | Moonchild · as Mr. Walker |
| 1972 | Richard · as Plastic Surgeon |
| 1972 | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow · as Narrator |
| 1972 | The Rookies (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1972 | Kung Fu (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1972 | Emergency! (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1971 | The Seven Minutes · as Sean O'Flanagan |
| 1971 | The Gatling Gun · as Rev. Harper |
| 1971 | Will to Die · as Christopher Dean |
| 1971 | Honey Britches · as The Judge Of Hell |
| 1971 | House of the Black Death · as Andre Desard |
| 1971 | The American West of John Ford · as Actor 'Stagecoach' |
| 1970 | Crowhaven Farm · as Nate Cheever |
| 1970 | Horror of the Blood Monsters · as Dr. Rynning |
| 1970 | Myra Breckinridge · as Surgeon |
| 1970 | Shinbone Alley · as Tyrone T. Tattersall |
| 1970 | The McMasters · as Preacher |
| 1970 | Cain's Way · as Preacher Simms |
| 1970 | |
| 1970 | McCloud (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1969 | Blood of Dracula's Castle · as George |
| 1969 | The Trouble with Girls · as Mr. Drewcolt |
| 1969 | The Good Guys and the Bad Guys · as Ticker |
| 1969 | Five Bloody Graves · as Boone Hawkins |
| 1969 | Diabolical Pact · as Dr. Halback |
| 1969 | Night Gallery (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1969 | Love, American Style (TV Series) · as Old George Pomerantz (segment "Love and the Anniversary") |
| 1968 | Autopsia de un fantasma · as Satán |
| 1968 | The Astro-Zombies · as Dr. DeMarco |
| 1968 | The Helicopter Spies · as Third-Way Priest |
| 1968 | Land of the Giants (TV Series) · as Egor Crull |
| 1967 | Gallery of Horror · as Narrator / Tristram Halbin |
| 1967 | Hillbillys in a Haunted House · as Dr. Himmel |
| 1967 | The Hostage · as Otis Lovelace |
| 1967 | Blood of Ghastly Horror · as Dr. Howard Vanard |
| 1967 | Ironside (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1966 | Red Zone Cuba · as Mr. Wilson |
| 1966 | Munster, Go Home! · as Cruikshank |
| 1966 | Billy the Kid Versus Dracula · as Count Dracula |
| 1966 | The Green Hornet (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1966 | The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1965 | Curse of the Fly · as Mayor Kirillov |
| 1965 | The Wizard of Mars · as The Wizard of Mars |
| 1965 | Broken Sabre · as General Josh McCord |
| 1965 | Laredo (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1965 | The Big Valley (TV Series) · as Elias Brown |
| 1965 | Branded (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1965 | Lost in Space (TV Series) · as Arcon |
| 1964 | The Patsy · as Bruce Alden |
| 1964 | Cheyenne Autumn · as Jeff Blair |
| 1964 | Daniel Boone (TV Series) · as Zack Pike |
| 1964 | The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) · as Old Man - Third-Way Priest |
| 1964 | The Munsters (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1962 | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance · as Maj. Cassius Starbuckle |
| 1962 | The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV Series) · as Gavin Revere |
| 1962 | The Beverly Hillbillies (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1962 | The Lucy Show (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1960 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn · as Slave Catcher |
| 1960 | Tarzan the Magnificent · as Abel Banton |
| 1960 | Thriller (TV Series) · as Jed Carta |
| 1959 | The Incredible Petrified World · as Prof. Millard Wyman |
| 1959 | Invasion of the Animal People · as Narrator |
| 1959 | Invisible Invaders · as Dr. Karol Noymann |
| 1959 | The Cosmic Man · as Cosmic Man |
| 1959 | |
| 1959 | Lock-Up (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1959 | The Rebel (TV Series) · as Elmer Dodson |
| 1959 | The Twilight Zone (TV Series) · as Brother Jerome |
| 1958 | The Last Hurrah · as Amos Force |
| 1958 | The Proud Rebel · as Traveling Salesman |
| 1958 | Half Human · as Dr. John Rayburn |
| 1958 | Cimarron City (TV Series) · as Jared Tucker |
| 1958 | Rescue 8 (TV Series) · as Craig Wilde |
| 1958 | 77 Sunset Strip (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1958 | The Rifleman (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1958 | Wanted: Dead or Alive (TV Series) · as Amos McKenna |
| 1958 | Lawman (TV Series) · as Geoffrey Hendon |
| 1958 | Bat Masterson (TV Series) · as Sheriff Vince Morgan |
| 1957 | The Unearthly · as Dr. Charles Conway |
| 1957 | The Story of Mankind · as Khufu |
| 1957 | The True Story of Jesse James · as Rev. Jethro Bailey |
| 1957 | Hell Ship Mutiny · as Malone |
| 1957 | Have Gun, Will Travel (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1957 | The Restless Gun (TV Series) · as Archibald Plunkette |
| 1957 | Suspicion (TV Series) · as Raphael |
| 1957 | Maverick (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1957 | Tombstone Territory (TV Series) · as Sheriff Binns |
| 1957 | Sugarfoot (TV Series) · as Mathew McDavitt |
| 1957 | Wagon Train (TV Series) · as Park Cleatus |
| 1956 | The Ten Commandments · as Aaron |
| 1956 | The Black Sleep · as Bohemund |
| 1956 | The Adventures of Dr. Fu Manchu (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1956 | Around the World in 80 Days · as Proctor Stamp |
| 1955 | Female Jungle · as Claude Almstead |
| 1955 | The Kentuckian · as Ziby Fletcher |
| 1955 | Stranger on Horseback · as Col. Buck Streeter |
| 1955 | Desert Sands · as Jala |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke (TV Series) · as Ephraim Hunt |
| 1955 | The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1955 | My Friend Flicka (TV Series) · as Matt Barnes |
| 1955 | Cheyenne (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1955 | The Court Jester · as Giacomo |
| 1954 | Johnny Guitar · as Old Tom |
| 1954 | Casanova's Big Night · as Foressi |
| 1954 | Thunder Pass · as Bergstrom |
| 1954 | Climax! (TV Series) · as Colonel Archer |
| 1952 | Death Valley Days (TV Series) · as The Stranger |
| 1952 | The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet (TV Series) · as Cameron Whitfield |
| 1952 | Gang Busters (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1952 | Our Miss Brooks (TV Series) · as Mister Fargo |
| 1951 | The Red Skelton Show (TV Series) · as Abdul Kashmir |
| 1949 | 'C'-Man · as Doc Spencer |
| 1949 | Suspense (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1948 | Studio One (TV Series) · as Mr. Wadleigh |
| 1947 | The Private Affairs of Bel Ami · as Charles Forestier |
| 1946 | Down Missouri Way · as Thorndyke 'Thorny' P. Dunning |
| 1946 | Lights Out (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1945 | Captain Kidd · as Orange Povy |
| 1945 | House of Dracula · as Count Dracula |
| 1945 | Fallen Angel · as Professor Madley |
| 1944 | House of Frankenstein · as Dracula alias Baron Latos |
| 1944 | Voodoo Man · as Toby |
| 1944 | The Mummy's Ghost · as Yousef Bey |
| 1944 | |
| 1944 | The Adventures of Mark Twain · as Bret Harte |
| 1944 | Some of the Best · as Long Jack in Captains Courageous |
| 1943 | Gangway for Tomorrow · as Mr. Wellington |
| 1943 | Isle of Forgotten Sins · as Mike Clancy |
| 1943 | I Escaped from the Gestapo · as Martin |
| 1943 | Silver Spurs · as Lucky Miller |
| 1942 | Reunion in France · as Ulrich Windler |
| 1941 | Western Union · as Doc Murdoch |
| 1941 | Blood and Sand · as Nacional |
| 1941 | Swamp Water · as Jesse Wick |
| 1941 | Man Hunt · as Mr. Jones |
| 1940 | The Grapes of Wrath · as Casy |
| 1940 | The Return of Frank James · as Bob Ford |
| 1940 | Brigham Young · as Porter Rockwell |
| 1939 | Stagecoach · as Hatfield |
| 1939 | Mr. Moto's Last Warning · as Danforth / Richard Burke |
| 1939 | Jesse James · as Bob Ford |
| 1939 | Five Came Back · as Mr. Crimp |
| 1939 | The Three Musketeers · as Naveau |
| 1939 | The Hound of the Baskervilles · as Barryman |
| 1939 | Drums Along the Mohawk · as Caldwell |
| 1938 | Four Men and a Prayer · as General Sebastian |
| 1938 | Of Human Hearts · as President Lincoln |
| 1937 | Captains Courageous · as Long Jack |
| 1937 | The Hurricane · as Warden |
| 1937 | Danger - Love at Work · as Herbert Pemberton |
| 1936 | Dimples · as Richards |
| 1936 | Mary of Scotland · as Rizzio |
| 1936 | The Prisoner of Shark Island · as Sergeant Rankin |
| 1936 | Winterset · as Bartolomio Romagna |
| 1936 | Daniel Boone · as Simon Girty |
| 1936 | The Garden of Allah · as Sand Diviner |
| 1935 | The Bride of Frankenstein · as Hunter (uncredited) |
| 1935 | Les Misérables · as Enjolras |
| 1934 | The Black Cat · as Cult Organist (uncredited) |
| 1934 | Cleopatra · as Roman Citizen/Party Guest/Soldier (uncredited) (voice) |
| 1933 | The Invisible Man · as Informer Suggesting Ink (uncredited) |
| 1933 | Morning Glory · as Dream Apparition (uncredited) |
| 1933 | To the Last Man · as Pete Garon (uncredited) |
| 1932 | The Sign of the Cross · as Christian Martyr / Gladiator Leader / Voice in Coliseum Mob (uncredited) |