John Carradine
Acting1906New York City, New York, USA
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
The Ten Commandments
Aaron
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Maj. Cassius Starbuckle
Stagecoach
Hatfield
Bride of Frankenstein
Lost Hunter at Hermit's Cottage (uncredited)
The Grapes of Wrath
Casy
The Twilight Zone
Brother Jerome
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask
Dr. Bernardo
The Invisible Man
Informer Suggesting Ink (uncredited)
Acting History
Future
2024
La Lucha Invade el Cine Mexicano
as Nazi leader
2021
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
as Self (archive footage)
2016
2014
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
as Lord Elijah Grisbane (archive footage) (uncredited)
2013
Blood of 1000 Virgins
as Self (archive footage)
The Trail of Dracula
as Self (Archival Footage)
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
Jack-O
as Walter Machen
1992
Legends of the West
as Jeff Blair in 'Cheyenne Autumn'
1991
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
as Count Dracula (archive footage)
Dracula: 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
The Tomb
as Andoheb
Peggy Sue Got Married
as Leo
Monster in the Closet
as Old Joe Shempter
Star Slammer
as The Justice
Revenge
as Sen. Martin Bradford
Hollywood Ghost Stories
as Narrator / Host
Lugosi: The Forgotten King
as Himself
The Twilight Zone
TVas (segment "Still Life")• 1 eps
Haunted Hollywood
TVas Host
1985
Evils of the Night
as Dr. Kozmar
Reel Horror
as Alcoholic Reporter (archive footage)
Fame
TVas Danny Amatullo• 1 eps
1984
The Ice Pirates
as Supreme Commander
Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
1983
The Horror of It All
as Self
House of the Long Shadows
as Elijah Grisbane
Imps*
as Gentleman
Boogeyman II
as Dr. Warren (archive footage)
Antony and Cleopatra
as Soothsayer
A Rose for Emily
as Col. Sartoris
1982
The Best of Sex and Violence
as Self - Host
The Secret of NIMH
as Great Owl (voice)
The Vals
as Mr. Stanton (Head of the Orphanage)
The Scarecrow
as Hubert Salter
Satan's Mistress
as Father Stratten
1981
Frankenstein Island
as Dr. Frankenstein
The Howling
as Erle Kenton
The Monster Club
as R.Chetwynd-Hayes, Writer
The Nesting
as Col. LeBrun
The Reluctant Dragon
as Narrator
Goliath Awaits
TVas Ronald Bentley
1980
1979
The Horror Show
as (archive footage)
The Seekers
as Avery Mills
Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident
as Professor Nikolaeff
Americathon
as Uncle Sam
Nocturna
as Count Dracula
The Littlest Hobo
TVas Chief Justice Hamilton
The Seekers
TVas Avery Mills
1978
The Bees
as Dr. Sigmund Hummel
Doctor Dracula
as Radcliff
Sunset Cove
as Judge Harley Winslow
Vampire Hookers
as Richmond Reed
Salem and the Scarlet Letter
as Narrator
Wonder Woman
TVas Harlow Gault• 1 eps
Starsky & Hutch
TVas The Professor• 1 eps
1977
The Sentinel
as Fr. Francis Matthew Halloran
Shock Waves
as Captain
The White Buffalo
as Amos Briggs
Satan's Cheerleaders
as The Bum
Golden Rendezvous
as Fairweather
The Mouse and His Child
as The Tramp (voice)
Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A.
as Grampa Sullivan
Tail Gunner Joe
as Wisconsin Farmer
1976
The Shootist
as Beckum
The Last Tycoon
as Tour Guide
Death at Love House
as Conan Carroll
The Killer Inside Me
as Dr. Smith
Crash!
as Dr. Welsey Edwards
Captains and the Kings
TVas Father Hale
1975
Stowaway to the Moon
as Jacob Avril
Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary
as The Man
Journey Into the Beyond
as Narrator (English Version)
1974
Moonchild
as Mr. Walker
The Lady's Not for Burning
as Old Skips
The House of Seven Corpses
as Edgar Price
The Cowboys
TVas Oscar Schmidt
1973
The Night Strangler
as Llewellyn Crossbinder
Superchick
as Igor Smith
The Cat Creature
as The Hotel Clerk
Bad Charleston Charlie
as Alcoholic Reporter
Terror in the Wax Museum
as Claude Dupree
Shadow House
as Uncle
1,000,000 A.D. Promo Reel
as The Sage
Love, American Style
TVas Old George Pomerantz• 1 eps
1972
Portnoy's Complaint
as Judge (voice) (uncredited)
Demented Death Farm Massacre
as The Judge Of Hell
Night of the Dark Full Moon
as Charlie Towman
Richard
as Plastic Surgeon
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
as Narrator (voice)
Boxcar Bertha
as H. Buckram Sartoris
Kung Fu
TVas Rev. Serenity Johnson• 3 eps
1971
The Seven Minutes
as Sean O'Flanagan
The Gatling Gun
as Rev. Harper
Blood Legacy
as Christopher Dean
Threshold
as Old-fashioned Undertaker
Decisions! Decisions!
as Railroad Ticket Clerk
The Dick Cavett Show
TVas Self - Guest• 2 eps
1970
Hell's Bloody Devils
as Pet Shop Owner
Myra Breckinridge
as Surgeon
The McMasters
as Preacher
Horror of the Blood Monsters
as Dr. Rynning
Shinbone Alley
as Tyrone T. Tattersall (voice)
Bigfoot
as Jasper B. Hawks
Crowhaven Farm
as Nate Cheever
Cain's Cutthroats
as Preacher Simms
Blood of the Iron Maiden
as Dr. Goolie
1969
Blood of Dracula's Castle
as George
The Mummy and the Curse of the Jackals
as Professor Cummings
The Trouble with Girls
as Mr. Drewcolt
Daughter of the Mind
as Mr. Bosch
The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
as Ticker
Five Bloody Graves
as Boone Hawkins
Pact with the Devil
as Dr. Halback
Madame Death
as Dr. Favel
Secret of Death
as Mad Doctor / Nazi Leader
The Vampire Girls
as Count Branos Alucard
The Big Valley
TVas Elias Brown• 1 eps
Land of the Giants
TVas Egor Crull• 1 eps
1968
The Astro-Zombies
as Dr. DeMarco
Chewing Gum
as Old Man
Autopsy of a Ghost
as Satán
The Helicopter Spies
as Third-Way Priest
The Movie Orgy
as Self (archive footage)
They Ran for Their Lives
as Laslo
The Mummy's Ghost
as The Egyptian Priest
Daniel Boone
TVas Zack Pike• 1 eps
1967
Blood of Ghastly Horror
as Dr. Howard Vanard
Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors
as Narrator / Tristram Halbin
Hillbillys in a Haunted House
as Dr. Himmel
The Hostage
as Otis Lovelace
The Fiend with the Electronic Brain
as Dr. Howard Vanard
Lost in Space
TVas Arcon• 1 eps
The Green Hornet
TVas James Rancourt / The Scarf• 1 eps
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TVas Old Man - Third-Way Priest• 1 eps
1966
Billy the Kid Versus Dracula
as Count Dracula
Munster, Go Home!
as Cruikshank
The Emperor's New Clothes
as King Luvimself
Doom of Dracula
as Count Dracula (archive footage)
Red Zone Cuba
as Mr. Wilson
Laredo
TVas Prof. Paracelsus Smythe• 1 eps
Branded
TVas General Joshua McCord• 1 eps
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
TVas Prof. Boris Budge• 1 eps
1965
Curse of the Stone Hand
as The Old Drunk
The Wizard of Mars
as The Wizard of Mars
House of the Black Death
as Andre Desard
Broken Sabre
as General Josh McCord
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TVas Gavin Revere• 1 eps
The Legend of Jesse James
TVas Noah
1964
Cheyenne Autumn
as Jeff Blair
Genesis
as Narrator
The Patsy
as Bruce Alden
The Lucy Show
TVas Guzman• 1 eps
1962
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
as Maj. Cassius Starbuckle
Lawman
TVas Geoffrey Hendon• 1 eps
The Merv Griffin Show
TVas Self
1960
Tarzan the Magnificent
as Abel Banton
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Slave Catcher
Sex Kittens Go to College
as Prof. Watts
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TVas Amos McKenna• 1 eps
Wagon Train
TVas Park Cleatus• 1 eps
The Twilight Zone
TVas Brother Jerome• 1 eps
1959
Terror in the Midnight Sun
as Narrator (US Re-Edit)
The Incredible Petrified World
as Prof. Millard Wyman
Invisible Invaders
as Dr. Karol Noymann
The Oregon Trail
as Zachariah Garrison
The Cosmic Man
as Cosmic Man
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
TVas Don Ignacio Vasquez• 1 eps
The Rebel
TVas Elmer Dodson• 2 eps
Bat Masterson
TVas Sheriff Vince Morgan• 1 eps
Johnny Ringo
TVas The Rain Man• 1 eps
Gunsmoke
TVas Kader• 1 eps
The Millionaire
TVas Karl Miller AKA Count Karl Millevich• 1 eps
1958
The Last Hurrah
as Amos Force
Showdown at Boot Hill
as Doc Weber
The Proud Rebel
as Traveling Salesman
Sugarfoot
TVas Mathew McDavitt• 1 eps
Suspicion
TVas Raphael• 1 eps
1957
Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
as Dr. John Rayburn
The Unearthly
as Dr. Charles Conway
The True Story of Jesse James
as Rev. Jethro Bailey
Hell Ship Mutiny
as Malone
The Story of Mankind
as Khufu
Snowshoes: A Comedy of People and Horses
as Felix the Great
Studio One
TVas Mr. Wadleigh• 1 eps
DuPont Show of the Month
TVas John Canty• 1 eps
1956
Female Jungle
as Claude Almstead
The Ten Commandments
as Aaron
The Black Sleep
as Bohemund
Dark Venture
as Gideon
Hidden Guns
as Snipe Harding
Dracula
as Dracula
Around the World in 80 Days
as Proctor Stamp
Climax!
TVas Colonel Archer• 1 eps
1955
The Court Jester
as Giacomo
The Kentuckian
as Ziby Fletcher
Stranger on Horseback
as Col. Buck Streeter
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as The Duke
Desert Sands
as Jala
MGM Parade
TVas Self / self
1954
Casanova's Big Night
as Foressi
The Egyptian
as Grave Robber
Johnny Guitar
as Old Tom
Thunder Pass
as Bergstrom
1953
The Hound Of Heaven
as Hyder Simpson
1952
1950
1949
C-Man
as Doc Spencer
The Philco Television Playhouse
TVas Malvolio• 1 eps
1948
The Ed Sullivan Show
TVas Self
1947
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
as Charles Forestier
Fish Story
as John Carradine
1946
The Face of Marble
as Dr. Charles Randolph
Down Missouri Way
as Thorndyke 'Thorny' P. Dunning
1945
House of Dracula
as Count Dracula
Captain Kidd
as Orange Povey
Fallen Angel
as Professor Madley
It's in the Bag!
as Jefferson T. Pike
1944
Bluebeard
as Gaston Morrell
Waterfront
as Victor Marlow
House of Frankenstein
as Dracula (aka Baron Latos)
Alaska
as John Reagan
Voodoo Man
as Toby
The Mummy's Ghost
as Yousef Bey
The Invisible Man's Revenge
as Dr. Peter Drury
Jungle Woman
as Dr. Sigmund Walters (archive footage / uncredited)
Return of the Ape Man
as Prof. John Gilmore
The Adventures of Mark Twain
as Bret Harte
The Black Parachute
as General von Bodenbach
Barbary Coast Gent
as Duke Cleat
1943
Revenge of the Zombies
as Dr. Max Heinrich von Altermann
Gangway for Tomorrow
as Mr. Wellington
Captive Wild Woman
as Dr. Sigmund Walters
Silver Spurs
as Lucky Miller
Hitler's Madman
as Reinhardt Heydrich
Isle of Forgotten Sins
as Mike Clancy
I Escaped from the Gestapo
as Martin
1942
Northwest Rangers
as Martin Caswell
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
as Caleb Green
Reunion in France
as Ulrich Windler, Head of Paris Gestapo
Whispering Ghosts
as Norbert
1941
1940
The Grapes of Wrath
as Casy
The Return of Frank James
as Bob Ford
Chad Hanna
as B. D. Bisbee
Brigham Young
as Porter Rockwell
1939
The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Barryman
Drums Along the Mohawk
as Caldwell
Stagecoach
as Hatfield
Mr. Moto's Last Warning
as Danforth / Richard Burke
Jesse James
as Bob Ford
Five Came Back
as Mr. Crimp
The Three Musketeers
as Naveau
Captain Fury
as Coughy
Frontier Marshal
as Ben Carter
Land of Liberty
as (archive footage)
1938
Alexander's Ragtime Band
as Speakeasy Doorman
Submarine Patrol
as McAllison
Kentucky Moonshine
as Reef Hatfield
Kidnapped
as Gordon
International Settlement
as Murdock
I'll Give a Million
as Kopelpeck
Four Men and a Prayer
as General Sebastian
Of Human Hearts
as President Lincoln
Gateway
as Leader of Refugees
1937
Nancy Steele Is Missing!
as Harry Wilkins
The Last Gangster
as Casper
Thank You, Mr. Moto
as Pereira
The Hurricane
as Guard Captain
Ali Baba Goes to Town
as Ishak
Love Under Fire
as Capt. Delmar
Danger – Love at Work
as Herbert Pemberton
This Is My Affair
as Ed
Captains Courageous
as Long Jack
1936
Laughing at Trouble
as Deputy Sheriff Alec Brady
Ramona
as Jim Farrar
Half Angel
as Sanatorium Inmate (voice) (uncredited)
Daniel Boone
as Simon Girty
Dimples
as Richards
Under Two Flags
as Cafard
The Prisoner of Shark Island
as Sergeant Rankin
The Garden of Allah
as Sand Diviner
Winterset
as Bartolomio Romagna
White Fang
as Beauty Smith
Mary of Scotland
as Rizzio
1935
Les Misérables
as Enjolras
Bad Boy
as Angry Saxophone Player - Tenant
Clive of India
as Drunken-Faced Clerk
Cardinal Richelieu
as Agitator
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
as Despondent Casino Gambler (uncredited)
Alias Mary Dow
as Griffe - Nightclub Drunk (uncredited)
Bride of Frankenstein
as Lost Hunter at Hermit's Cottage (uncredited)
1934
The Black Cat
as Cult Organist
The Meanest Gal in Town
as Stranded Actor (uncredited)
Cleopatra
as Roman Citizen/Party Guest/Soldier (uncredited) (voice)
1933
The Invisible Man
as Informer Suggesting Ink (uncredited)
The Story of Temple Drake
as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
This Day and Age
as Assistant Principal
To the Last Man
as Pete Garon (uncredited)
1932
The Sign of the Cross
as Christian Martyr / Gladiator Leader / Voice in Coliseum Mob (uncredited)
1931
Heaven on Earth
as Chicken Sam
1930
Bright Lights
as Newspaper reporter / photographer
Tol'able David
as Buzzard Hatburn