John Carradine
Born: 1906-02-05 in New York City, New York, USA
Died: 1988-11-27
Known For: Acting
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Carradine, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
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
- Bikini Drive-In
- Jack-O as Walter Machen
1992
- Dracula in the Movies
- Legends of the West as Jeff Blair in 'Cheyenne Autumn' (archive footage) (uncredited)
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
- Peggy Sue Got Married as Leo
- The Tomb as Andoheb
- Monster in the Closet as Old Joe Shempter
- Star Slammer as The Justice
- Revenge as Sen. Martin Bradford
- Lugosi: The Forgotten King as Himself
- Hollywood Ghost Stories as Narrator / Host
- Haunted Hollywood as Host
1985
- The Twilight Zone as (segment "Still Life")
- Evils of the Night as Dr. Kozmar
- Reel Horror as Alcoholic Reporter (archive footage)
- Frankenstein's Brain
1984
- The Ice Pirates as Supreme Commander
- Going Hollywood: The '30s as (archive footage)
1983
- House of the Long Shadows as Elijah Grisbane
- Imps* as Gentleman
- The Horror of It All as Self
- A Rose for Emily as Col. Sartoris
- Boogeyman II as Dr. Warren (archive footage)
- Antony and Cleopatra as Soothsayer
1982
- Fame as Danny Amatullo
- The Secret of NIMH as Great Owl (voice)
- Satan's Mistress as Father Stratten
- The Best of Sex and Violence as Self - Host
- The Vals as Mr. Stanton (Head of the Orphanage)
- The Scarecrow as Hubert Salter
1981
- The Howling as Erle Kenton
- Goliath Awaits as Ronald Bentley
- The Monster Club as R.Chetwynd-Hayes, Writer
- The Nesting as Col. LeBrun
- Frankenstein Island as Dr. Frankenstein
- The Reluctant Dragon as Narrator
1980
- The Boogey Man as Dr. Warren
- Monstroid as Priest
- A Tribute to Dr. Shock as Self (archive footage)
1979
- The Littlest Hobo as Chief Justice Hamilton
- The Seekers as Avery Mills
- Americathon as Uncle Sam
- The Horror Show as (archive footage)
- Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident as Professor Nikolaeff
- Nocturna as Count Dracula
1978
- Vega$
- Flying High
- The Bees as Dr. Sigmund Hummel
- Sunset Cove as Judge Harley Winslow
- Vampire Hookers as Richmond Reed
- Old Friends... New Friends as Self
- Doctor Dracula as Radcliff
- Salem and the Scarlet Letter as Narrator
1977
- The Sentinel as Fr. Francis Matthew Halloran
- The White Buffalo as Amos Briggs
- Satan's Cheerleaders as The Bum
- Shock Waves as Captain
- Tail Gunner Joe as Wisconsin Farmer
- Golden Rendezvous as Fairweather
- The Mouse and His Child as The Tramp (voice)
- Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A. as Grampa Sullivan
- The Lady and the Lynchings
1976
- Captains and the Kings as Father Hale
- The Shootist as Beckum
- The Last Tycoon as Tour Guide
- Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood as Drunk
- Crash! as Dr. Welsey Edwards
- The Killer Inside Me as Dr. Smith
- Death at Love House as Conan Carroll
1975
- Starsky & Hutch as The Professor
- Wonder Woman as Harlow Gault
- Westwind
- Stowaway to the Moon as Jacob Avril
- Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary as The Man
- Journey Into the Beyond as Narrator (English Version)
1974
- The Cowboys as Oscar Schmidt
- The House of Seven Corpses as Edgar Price
- The Lady's Not for Burning as Old Skips
- The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute as Self
- Moonchild as Mr. Walker
1973
- The Night Strangler as Llewellyn Crossbinder
- Superchick as Igor Smith
- The Cat Creature as The Hotel Clerk
- Terror in the Wax Museum as Claude Dupree
- Bad Charleston Charlie as Alcoholic Reporter
- 1,000,000 A.D. Promo Reel as The Sage
- Shadow House as Uncle
1972
- Emergency!
- The Rookies
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask as Dr. Bernardo
- Boxcar Bertha as H. Buckram Sartoris
- Kung Fu as Rev. Serenity Johnson
- Night of the Dark Full Moon as Charlie Towman
- Portnoy's Complaint as Judge (voice) (uncredited)
- Richard as Plastic Surgeon
- Demented Death Farm Massacre as The Judge Of Hell
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow as Narrator (voice)
1971
- Decisions! Decisions! as Railroad Ticket Clerk
- The Seven Minutes as Sean O'Flanagan
- The Gatling Gun as Rev. Harper
- Blood Legacy as Christopher Dean
- Threshold as Old-fashioned Undertaker
1970
- McCloud
- Night Gallery
- Myra Breckinridge as Surgeon
- Horror of the Blood Monsters as Dr. Rynning
- Crowhaven Farm as Nate Cheever
- The McMasters as Preacher
- Shinbone Alley as Tyrone T. Tattersall (voice)
- Bigfoot as Jasper B. Hawks
- Hell's Bloody Devils as Pet Shop Owner
- Cain's Cutthroats as Preacher Simms
- Blood of the Iron Maiden as Dr. Goolie
1969
- Love, American Style as Old George Pomerantz
- The Good Guys and the Bad Guys as Ticker
- The Trouble with Girls as Mr. Drewcolt
- Blood of Dracula's Castle as George
- Secret of Death as Mad Doctor / Nazi Leader
- Five Bloody Graves as Boone Hawkins
- Madame Death as Dr. Favel
- The Vampire Girls as Count Branos Alucard
- Daughter of the Mind as Mr. Bosch
- Pact with the Devil as Dr. Halback
- The Mummy and the Curse of the Jackals as Professor Cummings
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- Land of the Giants as Egor Crull
- The Movie Orgy as Self (archive footage)
- The Astro-Zombies as Dr. DeMarco
- The Helicopter Spies as Third-Way Priest
- Chewing Gum as Roberto Sánchez
- Autopsy of a Ghost as Satán
- They Ran for Their Lives as Laslo
- The Mummy's Ghost as The Egyptian Priest
1967
- Ironside
- Hondo
- Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors as Narrator / Tristram Halbin
- Blood of Ghastly Horror as Dr. Howard Vanard
- Hillbillys in a Haunted House as Dr. Himmel
- The Fiend with the Electronic Brain as Dr. Howard Vanard
- The Hostage as Otis Lovelace
1966
- The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. as Prof. Boris Budge
- The Green Hornet as James Rancourt / The Scarf
- Munster, Go Home! as Cruikshank
- Billy the Kid Versus Dracula as Count Dracula
- Doom of Dracula as Count Dracula (archive footage)
- Red Zone Cuba as Mr. Wilson
- The Emperor's New Clothes as King Luvimself
1965
- The Big Valley as Elias Brown
- Lost in Space as Arcon
- Laredo as Prof. Paracelsus Smythe
- Branded
- The Legend of Jesse James as Noah
- The Wizard of Mars as The Wizard of Mars
- House of the Black Death as Andre Desard
- Broken Sabre as General Josh McCord
- Curse of the Stone Hand as The Old Drunk
- Something for Mrs. Gibbs
1964
- Daniel Boone as Zack Pike
- The Munsters
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Old Man - Third-Way Priest
- Cheyenne Autumn as Jeff Blair
- The Patsy as Bruce Alden
- Genesis as Narrator
1962
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Gavin Revere
- The Beverly Hillbillies
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- The Lucy Show as Guzman
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance as Cassius Starbuckle
1960
- Thriller as Jed Carta
- Harrigan and Son
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as Slave Catcher
- Tarzan the Magnificent as Abel Banton
- Sex Kittens Go to College as Prof. Watts
1959
- The Twilight Zone as Brother Jerome
- The Rebel as Elmer Dodson
- Lock-Up
- Johnny Ringo as The Rain Man
- Bourbon Street Beat
- The Cosmic Man as Cosmic Man
- Invisible Invaders as Dr. Karol Noymann
- Terror in the Midnight Sun as Narrator (US Re-Edit)
- The Oregon Trail as Zachariah Garrison
- The Incredible Petrified World as Prof. Millard Wyman
1958
- The Rifleman
- Lawman as Geoffrey Hendon
- Wanted: Dead or Alive as Amos McKenna
- Bat Masterson as Sheriff Vince Morgan
- 77 Sunset Strip
- The Last Hurrah as Amos Force
- The Proud Rebel as Traveling Salesman
- Showdown at Boot Hill as Doc Weber
1957
- Maverick
- Wagon Train as Park Cleatus
- Have Gun, Will Travel
- Sugarfoot as Mathew McDavitt
- Suspicion as Raphael
- DuPont Show of the Month as John Canty
- The True Story of Jesse James as Rev. Jethro Bailey
- Hell Ship Mutiny as Malone
- The Story of Mankind as Khufu
- The Unearthly as Dr. Charles Conway
- Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman as Dr. John Rayburn
- Snowshoes: A Comedy of People and Horses as Felix the Great
1956
- The Ten Commandments as Aaron
- Telephone Time
- Around the World in 80 Days as Proctor Stamp
- Dr. Fu Manchu
- The Black Sleep as Bohemund
- Hidden Guns as Snipe Harding
- Female Jungle as Claude Almstead
- Dracula as Dracula
- Dark Venture as Gideon
1955
- Cheyenne
- The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp as Don Ignacio Vasquez
- Gunsmoke as Ephraim Hunt
- Matinee Theater
- Navy Log
- The Millionaire as Karl Miller AKA Count Karl Millevich
- MGM Parade as Self
- The Court Jester as Giacomo
- The Kentuckian as Ziby Fletcher
- Stranger on Horseback as Col. Buck Streeter
- Desert Sands as Jala
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as The Duke
1954
- Climax! as John Evan
- Johnny Guitar as Old Tom
- The Egyptian as Grave Robber
- Casanova's Big Night as Foressi
- Thunder Pass as Bergstrom
1953
- The Hound Of Heaven as Hyder Simpson
1952
1949
- Lights Out
- Suspense
- C-Man as Doc Spencer
1948
- The Philco Television Playhouse as Malvolio
- Studio One as Mr. Wadleigh
- The Ed Sullivan Show as 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
- Fallen Angel as Professor Madley
- Captain Kidd as Orange Povey
- It's in the Bag! as Jefferson T. Pike
1944
- House of Frankenstein as Dracula (aka Baron Latos)
- The Invisible Man's Revenge as Dr. Peter Drury
- The Mummy's Ghost as Yousef Bey
- Waterfront as Victor Marlow
- The Adventures of Mark Twain as Bret Harte
- Return of the Ape Man as Prof. John Gilmore
- Jungle Woman as Dr. Sigmund Walters (archive footage / uncredited)
- Bluebeard as Gaston Morrell
- Alaska as John Reagan
- Barbary Coast Gent as Duke Cleat
- Voodoo Man as Toby
- The Black Parachute as General von Bodenbach
1943
- Captive Wild Woman as Dr. Sigmund Walters
- Gangway for Tomorrow as Mr. Wellington
- Hitler's Madman as Reinhardt Heydrich
- Revenge of the Zombies as Dr. Max Heinrich von Altermann
- Silver Spurs as Lucky Miller
- Isle of Forgotten Sins as Mike Clancy
- I Escaped from the Gestapo as Martin
1942
- Reunion in France as Ulrich Windler, Head of Paris Gestapo
- Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake as Caleb Green
- Northwest Rangers as Martin Caswell
- Whispering Ghosts as Norbert
1941
- Blood and Sand as Nacional
- Man Hunt as Mr. Jones
- Western Union as Doc Murdoch
- Swamp Water as Jesse Wick
1940
- The Grapes of Wrath as Casy
- The Return of Frank James as Bob Ford
- Brigham Young as Porter Rockwell
- Chad Hanna as B. D. Bisbee
1939
- Stagecoach as Hatfield
- Jesse James as Bob Ford
- The Hound of the Baskervilles as Barryman
- Drums Along the Mohawk as Caldwell
- Mr. Moto's Last Warning as Danforth / Richard Burke
- Frontier Marshal as Ben Carter
- Five Came Back as Mr. Crimp
- Land of Liberty as (archive footage)
- The Three Musketeers as Naveau
- Captain Fury as Coughy
1938
- I'll Give a Million as Kopelpeck
- Of Human Hearts as President Lincoln
- Submarine Patrol as McAllison
- Kidnapped as Gordon
- Gateway as Leader of Refugees
- International Settlement as Murdock
- Alexander's Ragtime Band as Speakeasy Doorman
- Four Men and a Prayer as General Sebastian
- Kentucky Moonshine as Reef Hatfield
1937
- Captains Courageous as Long Jack
- The Hurricane as Guard Captain
- The Last Gangster as Casper
- Ali Baba Goes to Town as Ishak
- Thank You, Mr. Moto as Pereira
- Danger – Love at Work as Herbert Pemberton
- This Is My Affair as Ed
- Love Under Fire as Capt. Delmar
- Nancy Steele Is Missing! as Harry Wilkins
1936
- The Prisoner of Shark Island as Sergeant Rankin
- Mary of Scotland as Rizzio
- Under Two Flags as Cafard
- Winterset as Bartolomio Romagna
- Dimples as Richards
- White Fang as Beauty Smith
- Ramona as Jim Farrar
- Laughing at Trouble as Deputy Sheriff Alec Brady
- The Garden of Allah as Sand Diviner
- Daniel Boone as Simon Girty
- Half Angel as Sanatorium Inmate (voice) (uncredited)
1935
- Bride of Frankenstein as Lost Hunter at Hermit's Cottage (uncredited)
- Les Misérables as Enjolras
- Bad Boy as Angry Saxophone Player - Tenant
- Clive of India as Drunken-Faced Clerk
- Alias Mary Dow as Griffe - Nightclub Drunk (uncredited)
- The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo as Despondent Casino Gambler (uncredited)
- Cardinal Richelieu as Agitator
1934
- Cleopatra as Roman Citizen/Party Guest/Soldier (uncredited) (voice)
- The Black Cat as Cult Organist
- The Meanest Gal in Town as Stranded Actor (uncredited)
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