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