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