Birthday
1906/02/05
Day of death
1988/11/27 (82 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also know as
John Peter Richmond, Peter Richmond, John Carradine Sr.
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 ...Read more
(1935) Bride of Frankenstein
as Lost Hunter at Hermit's Cottage (uncredited)
(1939) Stagecoach
as Hatfield
(1940) The Grapes of Wrath
as Casy
(1984) The Ice Pirates
as Supreme Commander
(1944) House of Frankenstein
as Dracula (aka Baron Latos)
(1981) Frankenstein Island
as Dr. Frankenstein
(1968) The Movie Orgy
as Self (archive footage)
(1956) Around the World in Eighty Days
as Proctor Stamp
(1972) Boxcar Bertha
as H. Buckram Sartoris
(1986) The Tomb
as Andoheb
(1989) Buried Alive
as Jacob Julian
(1981) The Howling
as Erle Kenton
(1982) The Best of Sex and Violence
as Self - Host
(1957) The Unearthly
as Dr. Charles Conway
(1962) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
as Maj. Cassius Starbuckle
(1945) House of Dracula
as Count Dracula
(1941) Man Hunt
as Mr. Jones
(1964) The Patsy
as Bruce Alden
(1934) The Black Cat
as Cult Organist
(1956) The Ten Commandments
as Aaron
(1972) Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask
as Dr. Bernardo
(1955) The Court Jester
as Giacomo
(1973) The Night Strangler
as Llewellyn Crossbinder
(1945) Fallen Angel
as Professor Madley
(1936) Dimples
as Richards
(1976) The Shootist
as Beckum
(1954) Johnny Guitar
as Old Tom
(1939) The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Barryman
(1968) Autopsy of a Ghost
as Satán
(1995) Jack-O
as Walter Machen
(1943) Revenge of the Zombies
as Dr. Max Heinrich von Altermann
(1977) Shock Waves
as Captain
(1968) The Astro-Zombies
as Dr. DeMarco
(1979) The Horror Show
as (archive footage)
(1977) Tail Gunner Joe
as Wisconsin Farmer
(1942) Reunion in France
as Ulrich Windler
(1980) The Boogey Man
as Dr. Warren
(1987) Evil Spawn
as Dr. Emil Zeitman
(1944) Voodoo Man
as Toby
(1983) Imps*
as Gentleman
(1937) The Last Gangster
as Casper
(1944) The Invisible Man's Revenge
as Dr. Peter Drury
(1959) The Incredible Petrified World
as Prof. Millard Wyman
(1956) The Black Sleep
as Bohemund
(1970) Crowhaven Farm
as Nate Cheever
(1964) Cheyenne Autumn
as Jeff Blair
(1977) Satan's Cheerleaders
as The Bum
(1969) Blood of Dracula's Castle
as George
(1969) The Mummy and the Curse of the Jackals
as Professor Cummings
(1944) The Mummy's Ghost
as Yousef Bey
(1944) Bluebeard
as Gaston Morrell
(1966) Munster, Go Home!
as Cruikshank
(1978) The Bees
as Dr. Sigmund Hummel
(1983) The Horror of It All
as Self
(1970) Hell's Bloody Devils
as Pet Shop Owner
(1970) Horror of the Blood Monsters
as Dr. Rynning
(1972) Night of the Dark Full Moon
as Charlie Towman
(1944) Return of the Ape Man
as Prof. John Gilmore
(1974) The House of Seven Corpses
as Edgar Price
(1957) The Story of Mankind
as Khufu
(1960) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Slave Catcher
(1976) The Killer Inside Me
as Dr. Smith
(1944) Waterfront
as Victor Marlow
(1941) Western Union
as Doc Murdoch
(1940) The Return of Frank James
as Bob Ford
(1941) Blood and Sand
as Nacional
(1939) Jesse James
as Bob Ford
(1938) Alexander's Ragtime Band
as Speakeasy Doorman
(1945) Captain Kidd
as Orange Povey
(1976) The Last Tycoon
as Tour Guide
(1941) Swamp Water
as Jesse Wick
(1969) The Trouble with Girls
as Mr. Drewcolt
(1937) Captains Courageous
as Long Jack
(1949) C-Man
as Doc Spencer
(1959) Terror in the Midnight Sun
as Narrator (US Re-Edit)
(1956) Female Jungle
as Claude Almstead
(1955) The Kentuckian
as Ziby Fletcher
(1981) The Monster Club
as R.Chetwynd-Hayes, Writer
(1983) House of the Long Shadows
as Elijah Grisbane
(1977) The White Buffalo
as Amos Briggs
(1977) Golden Rendezvous
as Fairweather
(1986) Star Slammer
as The Justice
(1939) Five Came Back
as Mr. Crimp
(1977) The Sentinel
as Fr. Francis Matthew Halloran
(1939) Mr. Moto's Last Warning
as Danforth / Richard Burke
(1985) Evils of the Night
as Dr. Kozmar
(1932) The Sign of the Cross
as Christian Martyr / Gladiator Leader / Voice in Coliseum Mob (uncredited)
(1986) Monster in the Closet
as Old Joe Shempter
(1969) The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
as Ticker
(1965) The Wizard of Mars
as The Wizard of Mars
(1969) Five Bloody Graves
as Boone Hawkins
(1939) Drums Along the Mohawk
as Caldwell
(1957) The True Story of Jesse James
as Rev. Jethro Bailey
(1960) Tarzan the Magnificent
as Abel Banton
(1975) Journey Into the Beyond
as Narrator (English Version)
(1983) Boogeyman II
as Dr. Warren (archive footage)
(1958) The Last Hurrah
as Amos Force
(1940) Brigham Young
as Porter Rockwell
(1966) Billy the Kid Versus Dracula
as Count Dracula
(1959) The Cosmic Man
as Cosmic Man
(1943) Captive Wild Woman
as Dr. Sigmund Walters
(1971) Blood Legacy
as Christopher Dean
(1970) Bigfoot
as Jasper B. Hawks
(1986) Revenge
as Sen. Martin Bradford
(1954) Casanova's Big Night
as Foressi
(1972) Demented Death Farm Massacre
as The Judge Of Hell
(1937) The Hurricane
as Warden
(1936) The Prisoner of Shark Island
as Sergeant Rankin
(1937) Thank You, Mr. Moto
as Pereira
(1967) Gallery of Horror
as Narrator / Tristram Halbin
(1946) The Face of Marble
as Dr. Charles Randolph
(1959) Invisible Invaders
as Dr. Karol Noymann
(1970) The McMasters
as Preacher
(1967) The Hostage
as Otis Lovelace
(1973) Superchick
as Igor Smith
(1968) The Helicopter Spies
as Third-Way Priest
(1942) Whispering Ghosts
as Norbert
(1958) The Proud Rebel
as Traveling Salesman
(1943) Hitler's Madman
as Reinhardt Heydrich
(1936) Daniel Boone
as Simon Girty
(1943) Gangway for Tomorrow
as Mr. Wellington
(1944) The Adventures of Mark Twain
as Bret Harte
(1967) Hillbillys in a Haunted House
as Dr. Himmel
(1935) Alias Mary Dow
as Griffe - Nightclub Drunk (uncredited)
(1937) Ali Baba Goes to Town
as Ishak
(1965) House of the Black Death
as Andre Desard
(1938) Kidnapped
as Gordon
(1967) Blood Of Ghastly Horror
as Dr. Howard Vanard
(1938) Of Human Hearts
as President Lincoln
(1978) Doctor Dracula
as Radcliff
(1939) The Three Musketeers
as Naveau
(1955) Stranger on Horseback
as Col. Buck Streeter
(1933) This Day and Age
as Assistant Principal
(1940) Chad Hanna
as B. D. Bisbee
(1976) Crash!
as Dr. Welsey Edwards
(1936) The Garden of Allah
as Sand Diviner
(1973) The Cat Creature
as The Hotel Clerk
(1939) Captain Fury
as Coughy
(1992) Legends of the West
as Jeff Blair in 'Cheyenne Autumn'
(1939) Frontier Marshal
as Ben Carter
(1968) They Ran for Their Lives
as Laslo
(1958) Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
as Dr. John Rayburn
(1960) Sex Kittens Go to College
as Prof. Watts
(1975) Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary
as The Man
(1936) Ramona
as Jim Farrar
(1937) Danger – Love at Work
as Herbert Pemberton
(1969) Pact with the Devil
as Dr. Halback
(1991) Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
as Count Dracula (archive footage)
(1937) This Is My Affair
as Ed
(1947) The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
as Charles Forestier
(1991) Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
as Count Dracula (archive footage)
(1978) Vampire Hookers
as Richmond Reed
(1943) Isle of Forgotten Sins
as Mike Clancy
(1979) Nocturna
as Count Dracula
(2024) La Lucha Invade el Cine Mexicano
as Nazi leader
(1982) The Vals
as Mr. Stanton (Head of the Orphanage)
(1973) Bad Charleston Charlie
as Alcoholic Reporter
(1976) Death at Love House
as Conan Carroll
(1973) Terror in the Wax Museum
as Claude Dupree
(1985) Reel Horror
as Alcoholic Reporter (archive footage)
(1944) Alaska
as John Reagan
(1955) Desert Sands
as Jala
(1938) International Settlement
as Murdock
(1957) Hell Ship Mutiny
as Malone
(1938) Kentucky Moonshine
as Reef Hatfield
(1938) Submarine Patrol
as McAllison
(1975) Stowaway to the Moon
as Jacob Avril
(1970) Cain's Cutthroats
as Preacher Simms
(1944) The Black Parachute
as General von Bodenbach
(1972) Portnoy's Complaint
as Judge (voice) (uncredited)
(1983) Antony and Cleopatra
as Soothsayer
(1933) To the Last Man
as Pete Garon (uncredited)
(1984) Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
(1943) Silver Spurs
as Lucky Miller
(1986) Lugosi: The Forgotten King
as Himself
(1986) Hollywood Ghost Stories
as Narrator / Host
(1965) Curse of the Stone Hand
as The Old Drunk
(1969) Madame Death
as Dr. Favel
(1974) Moonchild
as Mr. Walker
(1959) The Oregon Trail
as Zachariah Garrison
(1978) Salem and the Scarlet Letter
as Narrator
(1938) I'll Give a Million
as Kopelpeck
(1944) Barbary Coast Gent
as Duke Cleat
(1939) Land of Liberty
as (archive footage)
(1935) Les Misérables
as Enjolras
(1935) The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
as Despondent Casino Gambler (uncredited)
(1936) Under Two Flags
as Cafard
(1936) White Fang
as Beauty Smith
(1938) Four Men and a Prayer
as General Sebastian
(1937) Nancy Steele Is Missing!
as Harry Wilkins
(1954) The Egyptian
as Grave Robber
(1938) Gateway
as Leader of Refugees
(1936) Mary of Scotland
as Rizzio
(1942) Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
as Caleb Green
(1955) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as The Duke
(1944) Jungle Woman
as Dr. Sigmund Walters (archive footage / uncredited)
(1933) The Story of Temple Drake
as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
(1942) Northwest Rangers
as Martin Caswell
(1930) Bright Lights
as Newspaper reporter / photographer
(1935) Cardinal Richelieu
as Agitator
(1930) Tol'able David
as Buzzard Hatburn
(1931) Heaven on Earth
as Chicken Sam
(1936) Laughing at Trouble
as Deputy Sheriff Alec Brady
(1954) Thunder Pass
as Bergstrom
(1956) Hidden Guns
as Snipe Harding
(1956) Dark Venture
as Gideon
(1970) Myra Breckinridge
as Surgeon
(1983) A Rose for Emily
as Col. Sartoris
(1981) The Reluctant Dragon
as Narrator
(1969) Secret of Death
as Mad Doctor / Nazi Leader
(1978) Sunset Cove
as Judge Harley Winslow
(1970) Shinbone Alley
as Tyrone T. Tattersall (voice)
(1977) The Lady and the Lynchings
as ---
(1973) 1,000,000 A.D. Promo Reel
as The Sage
(1968) Chewing Gum
as Old Man
(1966) The Emperor's New Clothes
as King Luvimself
(1972) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
as Narrator (voice)
(1974) The Lady's Not for Burning
as Old Skips
(1973) Shadow House
as Uncle
(1972) Richard
as Plastic Surgeon
(1970) Blood of the Iron Maiden
as Dr. Goolie
(1971) Decisions! Decisions!
as Railroad Ticket Clerk
(1977) Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A.
as Grampa Sullivan
(1971) Threshold
as Old-fashioned Undertaker
(1965) Something for Mrs. Gibbs
as ---
(1964) Genesis
as Narrator
(1969) The Vampire Girls
as Count Branos Alucard
(1965) Broken Sabre
as General Josh McCord
(1946) Down Missouri Way
as Thorndyke 'Thorny' P. Dunning
(1966) Red Zone Cuba
as Mr. Wilson
(1982) Satan's Mistress
as Father Stratten
(1958) Showdown at Boot Hill
as Doc Weber
(1945) It's in the Bag!
as Jefferson T. Pike
(1995) Bikini Drive-In
as ---
(1980) Monstroid
as Priest
(1936) Winterset
as Bartolomio Romagna
(2021) Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
as Self (archive footage)
(1982) The Secret of NIMH
as Great Owl (voice)
(1943) I Escaped from the Gestapo
as Martin
(1937) Love Under Fire
as Capt. Delmar
(1990) The Alien Within
as Dr. Emil Zeitman (archive footage)
(2013) Blood of 1000 Virgins
as Self (archive footage)
(1984) Elvira's MTV Halloween Party
as ---
(1933) The Invisible Man
as Informer Suggesting Ink (uncredited)
(1974) The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
as Self
The Wolfman's Cure
as ---
(1934) The Meanest Gal in Town
as Stranded Actor (uncredited)
(1969) Daughter of the Mind
as Mr. Bosch
(1971) The Seven Minutes
as Sean O'Flanagan
(1971) The Gatling Gun
as Rev. Harper
(1935) Bad Boy
as Angry Saxophone Player - Tenant
(2013) The Trail of Dracula
as Self
(2003) Boogeyman II: Redux
as Dr. Warren
(2018) Doses of Horror
as Richmond Reed ("A Dose of Bloodsucking Tramps" segment) (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1966) Doom of Dracula
as Count Dracula (archive footage)
(1979) The Seekers
as Avery Mills
(1981) The Nesting
as Col. LeBrun
(1979) Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident
as Professor Nikolaeff
(1947) Fish Story
as John Carradine
(1967) The Fiend with the Electronic Brain
as Dr. Howard Vanard
(1986) Peggy Sue Got Married
as Leo
(1977) The Mouse and His Child
as The Tramp (voice)
(1982) The Scarecrow
as Hubert Salter
(2012) The Complete Bob Wilkins Creature Features
as ---
(1999) Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
as Self (archive footage)
(1976) Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
as Drunk
(1934) Cleopatra
as Roman Citizen/Party Guest/Soldier (uncredited) (voice)
(1980) A Tribute to Dr. Shock
as Self (archive footage)
(1953) The Hound Of Heaven
as Hyder Simpson
(1935) Clive of India
as Drunken-Faced Clerk
(1956) Dracula
as Dracula
Frankenstein's Brain
as ---
(1958) 77 Sunset Strip
as ---
(1955) Cheyenne
as ---
(1972) The Rookies
as ---
(1959) Bourbon Street Beat
as ---
(1972) Kung Fu
as ---
(1966) The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
as ---
(1975) Starsky & Hutch
as The Professor
(1982) Fame
as ---
(1964) The Munsters
as ---
(1985) The Twilight Zone
as (segment "Still Life")
(1962) The Lucy Show
as Guzman
(1962) The Beverly Hillbillies
as ---
(1968) Land of the Giants
as Egor Crull
(1965) Lost in Space
as Arcon
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Ephraim Hunt
(1948) Studio One
as Mr. Wadleigh
(1970) Night Gallery
as ---
(1948) The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
(1975) Wonder Woman
as Harlow Gault
(1972) Emergency!
as ---
(1959) The Twilight Zone
as Brother Jerome
(1967) Ironside
as ---
(1965) Laredo
as ---
(1978) Vega$
as ---
(1957) Have Gun, Will Travel
as ---
(1964) Daniel Boone
as Zack Pike
(1955) The Millionaire
as Karl Miller AKA Count Karl Millevich
(1960) Thriller
as Jed Carta
(1970) McCloud
as ---
(1951) Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as ---
(1955) The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
as ---
(1954) Climax!
as John Evan
(1965) The Big Valley
as Elias Brown
(1975) Westwind
as ---
(1955) Matinee Theater
as ---
(1948) The Philco Television Playhouse
as Malvolio
(1967) Hondo
as ---
(1951) The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
as ---
(1955) Navy Log
as ---
(1965) Branded
as ---
(1958) Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Amos McKenna
(1959) Lock-Up
as ---
(1959) The Rebel
as Elmer Dodson
(1958) The Rifleman
as ---
(1957) Sugarfoot
as Mathew McDavitt
(1958) Bat Masterson
as Sheriff Vince Morgan
(1960) Harrigan and Son
as ---
(1949) Suspense
as ---
(1974) The Cowboys
as Oscar Schmidt
(1959) Johnny Ringo
as The Rain Man
(1956) Dr. Fu Manchu
as ---
(1965) The Legend of Jesse James
as Noah
(1949) Lights Out
as ---
(1978) Flying High
as ---
(1956) Telephone Time
as ---
(1952) Gang Busters
as ---
(1966) The Green Hornet
as James Rancourt / The Scarf
(1954) Studio 57
as ---
(1957) Maverick
as ---
(1957) Wagon Train
as Park Cleatus
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Kader
(1986) Haunted Hollywood
as Host
(1981) Goliath Awaits
as Ronald Bentley
(1976) Captains and the Kings
as Father Hale
(1960) Thriller
as Jason Longfellow
(1954) Climax!
as The Duke
(1954) Climax!
as Colonel Archer
(1957) DuPont Show of the Month
as John Canty
(1969) Love, American Style
as Old George Pomerantz
(1968) The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
(1995) Svengoolie
as Dracula
(1957) Suspicion
as Raphael
(1962) The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Gavin Revere