John Carradine
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1906-02-05
Day of Death
1988-11-27 (82 years old)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
John Carradine
Biography
John Carradine (born Richmond Reed Carradine; February 5, 1906 – November 27, 1988) was an American actor, considered one of the greatest character actors in American cinema. He was a member of Cecil B. DeMille's stock company and later John Ford's company, best known for his roles in horror films, Westerns, and Shakespearean theatre. In the later decades of his career, he starred mostly in low-budget B-movies, but continued to also appear in higher-profile fare. In total, he holds 351 film and television credits, making him one of the most prolific English-speaking actors of all time.
Carradine was married four times, had five children, and was the patriarch of the Carradine family, including four sons and four grandchildren who are or were also actors.
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Known For
Acting
(2024)
La Lucha Invade el Cine Mexicano
as Nazi leader
(2021)
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
as Self (archive footage)
(2018)
Doses of Horror
as Richmond Reed ("A Dose of Bloodsucking Tramps" segment) (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2016)
(2013)
Blood of 1000 Virgins
as Self (archive footage)
(2013)
The Trail of Dracula
as Self
(2012)
(2003)
Boogeyman II: Redux
as Dr. Warren
(1999)
Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
as Self (archive footage)
(1998)
The Wolfman's Cure
as Count Dracula
(1995)
(1995)
Jack-O
as Walter Machen
(1992)
Legends of the West
as Jeff Blair in 'Cheyenne Autumn'
(1991)
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
as Count Dracula (archive footage)
(1991)
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
as Count Dracula (archive footage)
(1990)
The Alien Within
as Dr. Emil Zeitman (archive footage)
(1989)
Buried Alive
as Jacob Julian
(1987)
Evil Spawn
as Dr. Emil Zeitman
(1986)
Peggy Sue Got Married
as Leo
(1986)
Monster in the Closet
as Old Joe Shempter
(1986)
The Tomb
as Andoheb
(1986)
Star Slammer
as The Justice
(1986)
Hollywood Ghost Stories
as Narrator / Host
(1986)
Revenge
as Sen. Martin Bradford
(1986)
Lugosi: The Forgotten King
as Himself
(1985)
Evils of the Night
as Dr. Kozmar
(1985)
Reel Horror
as Alcoholic Reporter (archive footage)
(1984)
The Ice Pirates
as Supreme Commander
(1984)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
(1984)
(1983)
House of the Long Shadows
as Elijah Grisbane
(1983)
Imps*
as Gentleman
(1983)
The Horror of It All
as Self
(1983)
A Rose for Emily
as Col. Sartoris
(1983)
Antony and Cleopatra
as Soothsayer
(1983)
Boogeyman II
as Dr. Warren (archive footage)
(1982)
The Secret of NIMH
as Great Owl (voice)
(1982)
The Best of Sex and Violence
as Self - Host
(1982)
Satan's Mistress
as Father Stratten
(1982)
The Scarecrow
as Hubert Salter
(1982)
The Vals
as Mr. Stanton (Head of the Orphanage)
(1981)
The Howling
as Erle Kenton
(1981)
The Monster Club
as R.Chetwynd-Hayes, Writer
(1981)
The Nesting
as Col. LeBrun
(1981)
Frankenstein Island
as Dr. Frankenstein
(1981)
The Reluctant Dragon
as Narrator
(1980)
The Boogey Man
as Dr. Warren
(1980)
Monstroid
as Priest
(1980)
A Tribute to Dr. Shock
as Self (archive footage)
(1979)
Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident
as Professor Nikolaeff
(1979)
Americathon
as Uncle Sam
(1979)
The Seekers
as Avery Mills
(1979)
Nocturna
as Count Dracula
(1979)
The Horror Show
as (archive footage)
(1978)
The Bees
as Dr. Sigmund Hummel
(1978)
Doctor Dracula
as Radcliff
(1978)
Vampire Hookers
as Richmond Reed
(1978)
Sunset Cove
as Judge Harley Winslow
(1978)
Salem and the Scarlet Letter
as Narrator
(1977)
The Sentinel
as Fr. Francis Matthew Halloran
(1977)
The White Buffalo
as Amos Briggs
(1977)
Shock Waves
as Captain
(1977)
Tail Gunner Joe
as Wisconsin Farmer
(1977)
Golden Rendezvous
as Fairweather
(1977)
The Mouse and His Child
as The Tramp (voice)
(1977)
Satan's Cheerleaders
as The Bum
(1977)
Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A.
as Grampa Sullivan
(1977)
(1976)
The Last Tycoon
as Tour Guide
(1976)
The Shootist
as Beckum
(1976)
(1976)
Crash!
as Dr. Welsey Edwards
(1976)
The Killer Inside Me
as Dr. Smith
(1976)
Death at Love House
as Conan Carroll
(1975)
Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary
as The Man
(1975)
Stowaway to the Moon
as Jacob Avril
(1975)
Journey Into the Beyond
as Narrator (English Version)
(1974)
(1974)
The House of Seven Corpses
as Edgar Price
(1974)
Moonchild
as Mr. Walker
(1974)
The Lady's Not for Burning
as Old Skips
(1973)
The Night Strangler
as Llewellyn Crossbinder
(1973)
Superchick
as Igor Smith
(1973)
Terror in the Wax Museum
as Claude Dupree
(1973)
The Cat Creature
as The Hotel Clerk
(1973)
Bad Charleston Charlie
as Alcoholic Reporter
(1973)
1,000,000 A.D. Promo Reel
as The Sage
(1973)
Shadow House
as Uncle
(1972)
(1972)
Boxcar Bertha
as H. Buckram Sartoris
(1972)
Night of the Dark Full Moon
as Charlie Towman
(1972)
Portnoy's Complaint
as Judge (voice) (uncredited)
(1972)
Demented Death Farm Massacre
as The Judge Of Hell
(1972)
Richard
as Plastic Surgeon
(1972)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
as Narrator (voice)
(1971)
The Gatling Gun
as Rev. Harper
(1971)
The Seven Minutes
as Sean O'Flanagan
(1971)
Blood Legacy
as Christopher Dean
(1971)
Decisions! Decisions!
as Railroad Ticket Clerk
(1971)
Threshold
as Old-fashioned Undertaker
(1970)
The McMasters
as Preacher
(1970)
Bigfoot
as Jasper B. Hawks
(1970)
Myra Breckinridge
as Surgeon
(1970)
Shinbone Alley
as Tyrone T. Tattersall (voice)
(1970)
Crowhaven Farm
as Nate Cheever
(1970)
Horror of the Blood Monsters
as Dr. Rynning
(1970)
Cain's Cutthroats
as Preacher Simms
(1970)
Hell's Bloody Devils
as Pet Shop Owner
(1970)
Blood of the Iron Maiden
as Dr. Goolie
(1969)
The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
as Ticker
(1969)
The Trouble with Girls
as Mr. Drewcolt
(1969)
The Mummy and the Curse of the Jackals
as Professor Cummings
(1969)
Blood of Dracula's Castle
as George
(1969)
Madame Death
as Dr. Favel
(1969)
Five Bloody Graves
as Boone Hawkins
(1969)
Daughter of the Mind
as Mr. Bosch
(1969)
Secret of Death
as Mad Doctor / Nazi Leader
(1969)
The Vampire Girls
as Count Branos Alucard
(1969)
Pact with the Devil
as Dr. Halback
(1968)
The Helicopter Spies
as Third-Way Priest
(1968)
The Movie Orgy
as Self (archive footage)
(1968)
The Astro-Zombies
as Dr. DeMarco
(1968)
Autopsy of a Ghost
as Satán
(1968)
They Ran for Their Lives
as Laslo
(1968)
Chewing Gum
as Old Man
(1967)
Hillbillys in a Haunted House
as Dr. Himmel
(1967)
Blood Of Ghastly Horror
as Dr. Howard Vanard
(1967)
Gallery of Horror
as Narrator / Tristram Halbin
(1967)
The Hostage
as Otis Lovelace
(1967)
The Fiend with the Electronic Brain
as Dr. Howard Vanard
(1966)
Munster, Go Home!
as Cruikshank
(1966)
Billy the Kid Versus Dracula
as Count Dracula
(1966)
Red Zone Cuba
as Mr. Wilson
(1966)
The Emperor's New Clothes
as King Luvimself
(1966)
Doom of Dracula
as Count Dracula (archive footage)
(1965)
House of the Black Death
as Andre Desard
(1965)
The Wizard of Mars
as The Wizard of Mars
(1965)
Broken Sabre
as General Josh McCord
(1965)
Curse of the Stone Hand
as The Old Drunk
(1965)
(1964)
Cheyenne Autumn
as Jeff Blair
(1964)
The Patsy
as Bruce Alden
(1964)
Genesis
as Narrator
(1962)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
as Maj. Cassius Starbuckle
(1960)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Slave Catcher
(1960)
Sex Kittens Go to College
as Prof. Watts
(1960)
Tarzan the Magnificent
as Abel Banton
(1959)
Terror in the Midnight Sun
as Narrator (US Re-Edit)
(1959)
The Incredible Petrified World
as Prof. Millard Wyman
(1959)
The Cosmic Man
as Cosmic Man
(1959)
The Oregon Trail
as Zachariah Garrison
(1959)
Invisible Invaders
as Dr. Karol Noymann
(1958)
The Last Hurrah
as Amos Force
(1958)
The Proud Rebel
as Traveling Salesman
(1958)
Showdown at Boot Hill
as Doc Weber
(1958)
Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
as Dr. John Rayburn
(1957)
The True Story of Jesse James
as Rev. Jethro Bailey
(1957)
The Unearthly
as Dr. Charles Conway
(1957)
The Story of Mankind
as Khufu
(1957)
Hell Ship Mutiny
as Malone
(1956)
The Ten Commandments
as Aaron
(1956)
Around the World in Eighty Days
as Proctor Stamp
(1956)
The Black Sleep
as Bohemund
(1956)
Dark Venture
as Gideon
(1956)
Dracula
as Dracula
(1956)
Hidden Guns
as Snipe Harding
(1956)
Female Jungle
as Claude Almstead
(1955)
The Court Jester
as Giacomo
(1955)
The Kentuckian
as Ziby Fletcher
(1955)
Stranger on Horseback
as Col. Buck Streeter
(1955)
Desert Sands
as Jala
(1955)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as The Duke
(1954)
Johnny Guitar
as Old Tom
(1954)
The Egyptian
as Grave Robber
(1954)
Casanova's Big Night
as Foressi
(1954)
Thunder Pass
as Bergstrom
(1953)
The Hound Of Heaven
as Hyder Simpson
(1949)
C-Man
as Doc Spencer
(1947)
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
as Charles Forestier
(1947)
Fish Story
as John Carradine
(1946)
Down Missouri Way
as Thorndyke 'Thorny' P. Dunning
(1946)
The Face of Marble
as Dr. Charles Randolph
(1945)
Captain Kidd
as Orange Povey
(1945)
House of Dracula
as Count Dracula
(1945)
Fallen Angel
as Professor Madley
(1945)
It's in the Bag!
as Jefferson T. Pike
(1944)
House of Frankenstein
as Dracula (aka Baron Latos)
(1944)
Bluebeard
as Gaston Morrell
(1944)
The Mummy's Ghost
as Yousef Bey
(1944)
The Invisible Man's Revenge
as Dr. Peter Drury
(1944)
Return of the Ape Man
as Prof. John Gilmore
(1944)
Voodoo Man
as Toby
(1944)
The Adventures of Mark Twain
as Bret Harte
(1944)
Jungle Woman
as Dr. Sigmund Walters (archive footage / uncredited)
(1944)
Alaska
as John Reagan
(1944)
Waterfront
as Victor Marlow
(1944)
The Black Parachute
as General von Bodenbach
(1944)
Barbary Coast Gent
as Duke Cleat
(1943)
Isle of Forgotten Sins
as Mike Clancy
(1943)
Revenge of the Zombies
as Dr. Max Heinrich von Altermann
(1943)
Hitler's Madman
as Reinhardt Heydrich
(1943)
Captive Wild Woman
as Dr. Sigmund Walters
(1943)
Silver Spurs
as Lucky Miller
(1943)
Gangway for Tomorrow
as Mr. Wellington
(1943)
I Escaped from the Gestapo
as Martin
(1942)
Reunion in France
as Ulrich Windler
(1942)
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
as Caleb Green
(1942)
Northwest Rangers
as Martin Caswell
(1942)
Whispering Ghosts
as Norbert
(1941)
Blood and Sand
as Nacional
(1941)
Western Union
as Doc Murdoch
(1941)
Man Hunt
as Mr. Jones
(1941)
Swamp Water
as Jesse Wick
(1940)
The Grapes of Wrath
as Casy
(1940)
The Return of Frank James
as Bob Ford
(1940)
Brigham Young
as Porter Rockwell
(1940)
Chad Hanna
as B. D. Bisbee
(1939)
Stagecoach
as Hatfield
(1939)
The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Barryman
(1939)
Jesse James
as Bob Ford
(1939)
Drums Along the Mohawk
as Caldwell
(1939)
Five Came Back
as Mr. Crimp
(1939)
Captain Fury
as Coughy
(1939)
Frontier Marshal
as Ben Carter
(1939)
The Three Musketeers
as Naveau
(1939)
Mr. Moto's Last Warning
as Danforth / Richard Burke
(1939)
Land of Liberty
as (archive footage)
(1938)
Kentucky Moonshine
as Reef Hatfield
(1938)
Gateway
as Leader of Refugees
(1938)
Submarine Patrol
as McAllison
(1938)
Kidnapped
as Gordon
(1938)
Alexander's Ragtime Band
as Speakeasy Doorman
(1938)
Of Human Hearts
as President Lincoln
(1938)
International Settlement
as Murdock
(1938)
Four Men and a Prayer
as General Sebastian
(1938)
I'll Give a Million
as Kopelpeck
(1937)
Captains Courageous
as Long Jack
(1937)
The Hurricane
as Warden
(1937)
The Last Gangster
as Casper
(1937)
Ali Baba Goes to Town
as Ishak
(1937)
This Is My Affair
as Ed
(1937)
Love Under Fire
as Capt. Delmar
(1937)
Danger – Love at Work
as Herbert Pemberton
(1937)
Nancy Steele Is Missing!
as Harry Wilkins
(1937)
Thank You, Mr. Moto
as Pereira
(1936)
The Prisoner of Shark Island
as Sergeant Rankin
(1936)
Daniel Boone
as Simon Girty
(1936)
The Garden of Allah
as Sand Diviner
(1936)
Mary of Scotland
as Rizzio
(1936)
Winterset
as Bartolomio Romagna
(1936)
Under Two Flags
as Cafard
(1936)
Dimples
as Richards
(1936)
Ramona
as Jim Farrar
(1936)
White Fang
as Beauty Smith
(1936)
Laughing at Trouble
as Deputy Sheriff Alec Brady
(1935)
Bride of Frankenstein
as Lost Hunter at Hermit's Cottage (uncredited)
(1935)
Les Misérables
as Enjolras
(1935)
Cardinal Richelieu
as Agitator
(1935)
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
as Despondent Casino Gambler (uncredited)
(1935)
Bad Boy
as Angry Saxophone Player - Tenant
(1935)
Alias Mary Dow
as Griffe - Nightclub Drunk (uncredited)
(1935)
Clive of India
as Drunken-Faced Clerk
(1934)
The Black Cat
as Cult Organist
(1934)
Cleopatra
as Roman Citizen/Party Guest/Soldier (uncredited) (voice)
(1934)
The Meanest Gal in Town
as Stranded Actor (uncredited)
(1933)
The Invisible Man
as Informer Suggesting Ink (uncredited)
(1933)
To the Last Man
as Pete Garon (uncredited)
(1933)
The Story of Temple Drake
as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
(1933)
This Day and Age
as Assistant Principal
(1932)
The Sign of the Cross
as Christian Martyr / Gladiator Leader / Voice in Coliseum Mob (uncredited)
(1931)
Heaven on Earth
as Chicken Sam
(1930)
Tol'able David
as Buzzard Hatburn
(1930)
Bright Lights
as Newspaper reporter / photographer