John Carradine
264 movies · 68 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Feb 5, 1906
- Died
- Nov 27, 1988 (age 82)
- Place of birth
- New York, États-Unis
- Also known as
- John Peter Richmond · Peter Richmond · John Carradine Sr.
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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Profiles IMDb
Known for
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★ 7.8 The Ten Commandments
1956 · Film
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★ 7.8 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962 · Film
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★ 7.6 Stagecoach
1939 · Film
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★ 7.8 The Grapes of Wrath
1940 · Film
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★ 7.5 Bride of Frankenstein
1935 · Film
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★ 8.5 The Twilight Zone
1959 · TV
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★ 6.5 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask
1972 · Film
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★ 7.5 The Invisible Man
1933 · Film
John Carradine: movies and TV shows
Acting (332)
- 2026 Jack-O 2: Blood Moon Rising
as Walter Machen (archive footage)
- 2024 La Lucha Invade el Cine Mexicano
as Nazi leader
- 2014 Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
as Lord Elijah Grisbane (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2012
- 2003 Boogeyman II: Redux
as Dr. Warren
- 1995 Jack-O
as Walter Machen
- 1995
- 1992 Legends of the West
as Jeff Blair in 'Cheyenne Autumn' (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1992 Dracula in the Movies
as (archive footage)
- 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 Star Slammer
as The Justice
- 1986 Peggy Sue Got Married
as Leo
- 1986 Hollywood Ghost Stories
as Narrator / Host
- 1986 Monster in the Closet
as Old Joe Shempter
- 1986 The Tomb
as Andoheb
- 1986 Revenge
as Sen. Martin Bradford
- 1985 Evils of the Night
as Dr. Kozmar
- 1985 Reel Horror
as Alcoholic Reporter (archive footage)
- 1985
- 1985
- 1984 The Ice Pirates
as Supreme Commander
- 1984 Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
- 1983 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 Antony and Cleopatra
as Soothsayer
- 1982 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
- 1981 The Reluctant Dragon
as Narrator
- 1981 Frankenstein Island
as Dr. Frankenstein
- 1981
- 1981 The Nesting
as Col. LeBrun
- 1981 The Monster Club
as R.Chetwynd-Hayes, Writer
- 1981 The Howling
as Erle Kenton
- 1980 The Boogey Man
as Dr. Warren
- 1980 Monstroid
as Priest
- 1979
- 1979 Americathon
as Uncle Sam
- 1979
- 1979 Nocturna
as Count Dracula
- 1979 Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident
as Professor Nikolaeff
- 1979 The Horror Show
as (archive footage)
- 1978 The Bees
as Dr. Sigmund Hummel
- 1978
- 1978
- 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
- 1977 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
- 1976 Crash!
as Dr. Welsey Edwards
- 1976 The Last Tycoon
as Tour Guide
- 1976 The Killer Inside Me
as Dr. Smith
- 1976
- 1976 Death at Love House
as Conan Carroll
- 1976
- 1976 The Shootist
as Beckum
- 1975 Journey Into the Beyond
as Narrator (English Version)
- 1975
- 1975
- 1975
- 1975 Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary
as The Man
- 1975 Stowaway to the Moon
as Jacob Avril
- 1974 The Lady's Not for Burning
as Old Skips
- 1974 Moonchild
as Mr. Walker
- 1974
- 1974 The House of Seven Corpses
as Edgar Price
- 1973 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
- 1972 Night of the Dark Full Moon
as Charlie Towman
- 1972
- 1972
- 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 Demented Death Farm Massacre
as The Judge Of Hell
- 1972
- 1971 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
- 1970
- 1970 Crowhaven Farm
as Nate Cheever
- 1970 Bigfoot
as Jasper B. Hawks
- 1970 Shinbone Alley
as Tyrone T. Tattersall (voice)
- 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
- 1970 Horror of the Blood Monsters
as Dr. Rynning
- 1969 Madame Death
as Dr. Favel
- 1969 Daughter of the Mind
as Mr. Bosch
- 1969 Secret of Death
as Polito the Clown
- 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
- 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
- 1968 Autopsy of a Ghost
as Satán
- 1968
- 1968 The Mummy's Ghost
as The Egyptian Priest
- 1968 The Helicopter Spies
as Third-Way Priest
- 1968 The Astro-Zombies
as Dr. DeMarco
- 1968 They Ran for Their Lives
as Laslo
- 1968 Chewing Gum
as Roberto Sánchez
- 1967 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
- 1967 Hillbillys in a Haunted House
as Dr. Himmel
- 1967 Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors
as Narrator / Tristram Halbin
- 1967
- 1966 Red Zone Cuba
as Mr. Wilson
- 1966
- 1966
- 1966 Munster, Go Home!
as Cruikshank
- 1966 Billy the Kid Versus Dracula
as Count Dracula
- 1966 The Emperor's New Clothes
as King Luvimself
- 1965
- 1965
- 1965
- 1965
- 1965 Broken Sabre
as General Josh McCord
- 1965 Curse of the Stone Hand
as The Old Drunk
- 1965
- 1965 The Wizard of Mars
as The Wizard of Mars
- 1965 House of the Black Death
as Andre Desard
- 1965
- 1964 Cheyenne Autumn
as Jeff Blair
- 1964
- 1964
- 1964
- 1964 The Patsy
as Bruce Alden
- 1964 Genesis
as Narrator
- 1962
- 1962
- 1962
- 1962 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
as Cassius Starbuckle
- 1960
- 1960
- 1960 Sex Kittens Go to College
as Prof. Watts
- 1960 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Slave Catcher
- 1960 Tarzan the Magnificent
as Abel Banton
- 1959 The Incredible Petrified World
as Prof. Millard Wyman
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959 The Oregon Trail
as Zachariah Garrison
- 1959 Terror in the Midnight Sun
as Narrator (US Re-Edit)
- 1959 Invisible Invaders
as Dr. Karol Noymann
- 1959 The Cosmic Man
as Cosmic Man
- 1958 The Last Hurrah
as Amos Force
- 1958
- 1958
- 1958
- 1958
- 1958
- 1958 The Proud Rebel
as Traveling Salesman
- 1958 Showdown at Boot Hill
as Doc Weber
- 1957 Hell Ship Mutiny
as Malone
- 1957 The Story of Mankind
as Khufu
- 1957
- 1957
- 1957
- 1957
- 1957
- 1957
- 1957 The Unearthly
as Dr. Charles Conway
+ 132 more credits
Talk shows and appearances (21)
- 2021
- 2016
- 2013
- 2013
- 2005
- 2005
- 1999
- 1986
- 1986 Haunted Hollywood
1 episode
- 1983
- 1982
- 1980
- 1978 Old Friends... New Friends
1 episode
- 1974
- 1971 Film '72
1 episode
- 1968 The Dick Cavett Show
2 episodes
- 1968
- 1962 The Merv Griffin Show
1 episode
- 1955 MGM Parade
2 episodes
- 1949 Lights Out
3 episodes
- 1948 The Ed Sullivan Show
1 episode