Carradine, John

Carradine, John

▪ American actor
original name  Richmond Reed Carradine  
born Feb. 5, 1906, New York, N.Y., U.S.
died Nov. 27, 1988, Milan, Italy

      American actor with gaunt features and a stentorian voice who appeared in more than 200 films, often portraying villains.

      As a member of director John Ford's stock company of character actors, Carradine appeared in such Ford films as Mary of Scotland (1936), Stagecoach (1939), Drums Along the Mohawk (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962). He played a Nazi general in Hitler's Madman (1943), the writer Bret Harte in The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944), and Aaron in The Ten Commandments (1956). Wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a red cape, he recited the works of English playwright William Shakespeare on the streets of New York and Los Angeles; in Hollywood he was known as the “Bard of the Boulevard” and he often played Shakespearean roles on stage. He portrayed Count Dracula several times and also appeared in such films as The Invisible Man (1933), Bride of Frankenstein (1935), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939), and Blood and Sand (1941). His later film credits include The Shootist (1976) and The Sentinel (1977). He was also the patriarch of an acting family; four of his five sons—David, Robert, Keith, and Bruce—acted in films and on television.

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