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

• 2026Jack-O 2: Blood Moon Rising — Walter Machen (archive footage)
• 2024La Lucha Invade el Cine Mexicano — Nazi leader
• 2014Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films — Lord Elijah Grisbane (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2012The Complete Bob Wilkins Creature Features
• 2003Boogeyman II: Redux — Dr. Warren
• 1995Bikini Drive-In
• 1995Jack-O — Walter Machen
• 1992Dracula in the Movies — (archive footage)
• 1992Legends of the West — Jeff Blair in 'Cheyenne Autumn' (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1991Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook — Count Dracula (archive footage)
• 1991Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook — Count Dracula (archive footage)
• 1990The Alien Within — Dr. Emil Zeitman (archive footage)
• 1989Buried Alive — Jacob Julian
• 1987Evil Spawn — Dr. Emil Zeitman
• Haunted Hollywood — Host
• 1986Hollywood Ghost Stories — Narrator / Host
• 1986Monster in the Closet — Old Joe Shempter
• 1986Peggy Sue Got Married — Leo
• 1986Revenge — Sen. Martin Bradford
• 1986Star Slammer — The Justice
• 1986The Tomb — Andoheb
• 1985Evils of the Night — Dr. Kozmar
• 1985Frankenstein's Brain
• 1985Reel Horror — Alcoholic Reporter (archive footage)
• The Twilight Zone — (segment "Still Life")
• 1984Going Hollywood: The '30s — (archive footage)
• 1984The Ice Pirates — Supreme Commander
• 1983A Rose for Emily — Col. Sartoris
• 1983Antony and Cleopatra — Soothsayer
• 1983Boogeyman II — Dr. Warren (archive footage)
• 1983House of the Long Shadows — Elijah Grisbane
• 1983Imps* — Gentleman
• Fame — Danny Amatullo
• 1982Satan's Mistress — Father Stratten
• 1982The Scarecrow — Hubert Salter
• 1982The Secret of NIMH — Great Owl (voice)
• 1982The Vals — Mr. Stanton (Head of the Orphanage)
• 1981Frankenstein Island — Dr. Frankenstein
• Goliath Awaits — Ronald Bentley
• 1981The Howling — Erle Kenton
• 1981The Monster Club — R.Chetwynd-Hayes, Writer
• 1981The Nesting — Col. LeBrun
• 1981The Reluctant Dragon — Narrator
• 1980Monstroid — Priest
• 1980The Boogey Man — Dr. Warren
• 1979Americathon — Uncle Sam
• 1979Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident — Professor Nikolaeff
• 1979Nocturna — Count Dracula
• 1979The Horror Show — (archive footage)
• The Littlest Hobo — Chief Justice Hamilton
• The Seekers — Avery Mills
• 1978Doctor Dracula — Radcliff
• Flying High
• 1978Salem and the Scarlet Letter — Narrator
• 1978Sunset Cove — Judge Harley Winslow
• 1978The Bees — Dr. Sigmund Hummel
• 1978Vampire Hookers — Richmond Reed
• Vega$
• 1977Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A. — Grampa Sullivan
• 1977Golden Rendezvous — Fairweather
• 1977Satan's Cheerleaders — The Bum
• 1977Shock Waves — Captain
• 1977Tail Gunner Joe — Wisconsin Farmer
• 1977The Lady and the Lynchings
• 1977The Mouse and His Child — The Tramp (voice)
• 1977The Sentinel — Fr. Francis Matthew Halloran
• 1977The White Buffalo — Amos Briggs
• Captains and the Kings — Father Hale
• 1976Crash! — Dr. Welsey Edwards
• 1976Death at Love House — Conan Carroll
• 1976The Killer Inside Me — Dr. Smith
• 1976The Last Tycoon — Tour Guide
• 1976The Shootist — Beckum
• 1976Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood — Drunk
• 1975Journey Into the Beyond — Narrator (English Version)
• 1975Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary — The Man
• Starsky & Hutch — The Professor
• 1975Stowaway to the Moon — Jacob Avril
• Westwind
• Wonder Woman — Harlow Gault
• 1974Moonchild — Mr. Walker
• The Cowboys — Oscar Schmidt
• 1974The House of Seven Corpses — Edgar Price
• 1974The Lady's Not for Burning — Old Skips
• 19731,000,000 A.D. Promo Reel — The Sage
• 1973Bad Charleston Charlie — Alcoholic Reporter
• 1973Shadow House — Uncle
• 1973Superchick — Igor Smith
• 1973Terror in the Wax Museum — Claude Dupree
• 1973The Cat Creature — The Hotel Clerk
• 1973The Night Strangler — Llewellyn Crossbinder
• 1972Boxcar Bertha — H. Buckram Sartoris
• 1972Demented Death Farm Massacre — The Judge Of Hell
• Emergency!
• 1972Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask — Dr. Bernardo
• Kung Fu — Rev. Serenity Johnson
• 1972Night of the Dark Full Moon — Charlie Towman
• 1972Portnoy's Complaint — Judge (voice) (uncredited)
• 1972Richard — Plastic Surgeon
• 1972The Legend of Sleepy Hollow — Narrator (voice)
• The Rookies
• 1971Blood Legacy — Christopher Dean
• 1971Decisions! Decisions! — Railroad Ticket Clerk
• 1971The Gatling Gun — Rev. Harper
• 1971The Seven Minutes — Sean O'Flanagan
• 1971Threshold — Old-fashioned Undertaker
• 1970Bigfoot — Jasper B. Hawks
• 1970Blood of the Iron Maiden — Dr. Goolie
• 1970Cain's Cutthroats — Preacher Simms
• 1970Crowhaven Farm — Nate Cheever
• 1970Hell's Bloody Devils — Pet Shop Owner
• 1970Horror of the Blood Monsters — Dr. Rynning
• McCloud
• 1970Myra Breckinridge — Surgeon
• Night Gallery
• 1970Shinbone Alley — Tyrone T. Tattersall (voice)
• 1970The McMasters — Preacher
• 1969Blood of Dracula's Castle — George
• 1969Daughter of the Mind — Mr. Bosch
• 1969Five Bloody Graves — Boone Hawkins
• Love, American Style — Old George Pomerantz
• 1969Madame Death — Dr. Favel
• 1969Pact with the Devil — Dr. Halback
• 1969Secret of Death — Polito the Clown
• 1969The Good Guys and the Bad Guys — Ticker
• 1969The Mummy and the Curse of the Jackals — Professor Cummings
• 1969The Trouble with Girls — Mr. Drewcolt
• 1969The Vampire Girls — Count Branos Alucard
• 1968Autopsy of a Ghost — Satán
• 1968Chewing Gum — Roberto Sánchez
• Land of the Giants — Egor Crull
• 1968The Astro-Zombies — Dr. DeMarco
• 1968The Helicopter Spies — Third-Way Priest
• 1968The Mummy's Ghost — The Egyptian Priest
• 1968They Ran for Their Lives — Laslo
• 1967Blood of Ghastly Horror — Dr. Howard Vanard
• 1967Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors — Narrator / Tristram Halbin
• 1967Hillbillys in a Haunted House — Dr. Himmel
• Hondo
• Ironside
• 1967The Fiend with the Electronic Brain — Dr. Howard Vanard
• 1967The Hostage — Otis Lovelace
• 1966Billy the Kid Versus Dracula — Count Dracula
• 1966Munster, Go Home! — Cruikshank
• 1966Red Zone Cuba — Mr. Wilson
• 1966The Emperor's New Clothes — King Luvimself
• The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. — Prof. Boris Budge
• The Green Hornet — James Rancourt / The Scarf
• Branded — General Joshua McCord
• 1965Broken Sabre — General Josh McCord
• 1965Curse of the Stone Hand — The Old Drunk
• 1965House of the Black Death — Andre Desard
• Laredo — Prof. Paracelsus Smythe
• Lost in Space — Arcon
• 1965Something for Mrs. Gibbs
• The Big Valley — Elias Brown
• The Legend of Jesse James — Noah
• 1965The Wizard of Mars — The Wizard of Mars
• 1964Cheyenne Autumn — Jeff Blair
• Daniel Boone — Zack Pike
• 1964Genesis — Narrator
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E. — Old Man - Third-Way Priest
• The Munsters
• 1964The Patsy — Bruce Alden
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour — Gavin Revere
• The Beverly Hillbillies
• The Lucy Show — Guzman
• 1962The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance — Cassius Starbuckle
• Harrigan and Son
• 1960Sex Kittens Go to College — Prof. Watts
• 1960Tarzan the Magnificent — Abel Banton
• 1960The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Slave Catcher
• Thriller — Jed Carta, Jason Longfellow
• Bonanza — Jedediah Milbank
• Bourbon Street Beat
• 1959Invisible Invaders — Dr. Karol Noymann
• Johnny Ringo — The Rain Man
• Lock-Up
• 1959Terror in the Midnight Sun — Narrator (US Re-Edit)
• 1959The Cosmic Man — Cosmic Man
• 1959The Incredible Petrified World — Prof. Millard Wyman
• 1959The Oregon Trail — Zachariah Garrison
• The Rebel — Elmer Dodson
• The Twilight Zone — Brother Jerome
• 77 Sunset Strip
• Bat Masterson — Sheriff Vince Morgan
• Lawman — Geoffrey Hendon
• 1958Showdown at Boot Hill — Doc Weber
• 1958The Last Hurrah — Amos Force
• 1958The Proud Rebel — Traveling Salesman
• The Rifleman — James Barrow McBride
• Wanted: Dead or Alive — Amos McKenna
• DuPont Show of the Month — John Canty
• 1957Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman — Dr. John Rayburn
• Have Gun, Will Travel
• 1957Hell Ship Mutiny — Malone
• Maverick
• 1957Snowshoes: A Comedy of People and Horses — Felix the Great
• Sugarfoot — Mathew McDavitt
• Suspicion — Raphael
• 1957The Story of Mankind — Khufu
• 1957The True Story of Jesse James — Rev. Jethro Bailey
• 1957The Unearthly — Dr. Charles Conway
• Wagon Train — Park Cleatus
• 1956Around the World in 80 Days — Proctor Stamp
• 1956Dark Venture — Gideon
• Dr. Fu Manchu
• 1956Dracula — Dracula
• 1956Female Jungle — Claude Almstead
• 1956Hidden Guns — Snipe Harding
• Telephone Time
• 1956The Black Sleep — Bohemund
• 1956The Ten Commandments — Aaron
• Cheyenne
• 1955Desert Sands — Jala
• Gunsmoke — Ephraim Hunt, Kader
• Matinee Theater
• Navy Log
• 1955Stranger on Horseback — Col. Buck Streeter
• 1955The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — The Duke
• 1955The Court Jester — Giacomo
• 1955The Kentuckian — Ziby Fletcher
• The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp — Don Ignacio Vasquez
• The Millionaire — Karl Miller AKA Count Karl Millevich
• 1954Casanova's Big Night — Foressi
• Climax! — John Evan, The Duke, Colonel Archer
• 1954Johnny Guitar — Old Tom
• 1954The Egyptian — Grave Robber
• 1954Thunder Pass — Bergstrom
• 1953The Hound Of Heaven — Hyder Simpson
• Gang Busters
• Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
• The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
• 1949C-Man — Doc Spencer
• Lights Out
• Suspense
• Studio One — Mr. Wadleigh
• The Philco Television Playhouse — Malvolio
• 1947Fish Story — John Carradine
• 1947The Private Affairs of Bel Ami — Charles Forestier
• 1946Down Missouri Way — Thorndyke 'Thorny' P. Dunning
• 1946The Face of Marble — Dr. Charles Randolph
• 1945Captain Kidd — Orange Povey
• 1945Fallen Angel — Professor Madley
• 1945House of Dracula — Count Dracula
• 1945It's in the Bag! — Jefferson T. Pike
• 1944Alaska — John Reagan
• 1944Barbary Coast Gent — Duke Cleat
• 1944Bluebeard — Gaston Morrell
• 1944House of Frankenstein — Dracula (aka Baron Latos)
• 1944Jungle Woman — Dr. Sigmund Walters (archive footage / uncredited)
• 1944Return of the Ape Man — Prof. John Gilmore
• 1944The Adventures of Mark Twain — Bret Harte
• 1944The Black Parachute — General von Bodenbach
• 1944The Invisible Man's Revenge — Dr. Peter Drury
• 1944The Mummy's Ghost — Yousef Bey
• 1944Voodoo Man — Toby
• 1944Waterfront — Victor Marlow
• 1943Captive Wild Woman — Dr. Sigmund Walters
• 1943Gangway for Tomorrow — Mr. Wellington
• 1943Hitler's Madman — Reinhardt Heydrich
• 1943I Escaped from the Gestapo — Martin
• 1943Isle of Forgotten Sins — Mike Clancy
• 1943Revenge of the Zombies — Dr. Max Heinrich von Altermann
• 1943Silver Spurs — Lucky Miller
• 1942Northwest Rangers — Martin Caswell
• 1942Reunion in France — Ulrich Windler, Head of Paris Gestapo
• 1942Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake — Caleb Green
• 1942Whispering Ghosts — Norbert
• 1941Blood and Sand — Nacional
• 1941Man Hunt — Mr. Jones
• 1941Swamp Water — Jesse Wick
• 1941Western Union — Doc Murdoch
• 1940Brigham Young — Porter Rockwell
• 1940Chad Hanna — B. D. Bisbee
• 1940The Grapes of Wrath — Casy
• 1940The Return of Frank James — Bob Ford
• 1939Captain Fury — Coughy
• 1939Drums Along the Mohawk — Caldwell
• 1939Five Came Back — Mr. Crimp
• 1939Frontier Marshal — Ben Carter
• 1939Jesse James — Bob Ford
• 1939Land of Liberty — (archive footage)
• 1939Mr. Moto's Last Warning — Danforth / Richard Burke
• 1939Stagecoach — Hatfield
• 1939The Hound of the Baskervilles — Barryman
• 1939The Three Musketeers — Naveau
• 1938Alexander's Ragtime Band — Speakeasy Doorman
• 1938Four Men and a Prayer — General Sebastian
• 1938Gateway — Leader of Refugees
• 1938I'll Give a Million — Kopelpeck
• 1938International Settlement — Murdock
• 1938Kentucky Moonshine — Reef Hatfield
• 1938Kidnapped — Gordon
• 1938Of Human Hearts — President Lincoln
• 1938Submarine Patrol — McAllison
• 1937Ali Baba Goes to Town — Ishak
• 1937Captains Courageous — Long Jack
• 1937Danger – Love at Work — Herbert Pemberton
• 1937Love Under Fire — Capt. Delmar
• 1937Nancy Steele Is Missing! — Harry Wilkins
• 1937Thank You, Mr. Moto — Pereira
• 1937The Hurricane — Guard Captain
• 1937The Last Gangster — Casper
• 1937This Is My Affair — Ed
• 1936Daniel Boone — Simon Girty
• 1936Dimples — Richards
• 1936Half Angel — Sanatorium Inmate (voice) (uncredited)
• 1936Laughing at Trouble — Deputy Sheriff Alec Brady
• 1936Mary of Scotland — Rizzio
• 1936Ramona — Jim Farrar
• 1936The Garden of Allah — Sand Diviner
• 1936The Prisoner of Shark Island — Sergeant Rankin
• 1936Under Two Flags — Cafard
• 1936White Fang — Beauty Smith
• 1936Winterset — Bartolomio Romagna
• 1935Alias Mary Dow — Griffe - Nightclub Drunk (uncredited)
• 1935Bad Boy — Angry Saxophone Player - Tenant
• 1935Bride of Frankenstein — Lost Hunter at Hermit's Cottage (uncredited)
• 1935Cardinal Richelieu — Agitator
• 1935Clive of India — Drunken-Faced Clerk
• 1935Les Misérables — Enjolras
• 1935The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo — Despondent Casino Gambler (uncredited)
• 1934Cleopatra — Roman Citizen/Party Guest/Soldier (uncredited) (voice)
• 1934The Black Cat — Cult Organist
• 1934The Meanest Gal in Town — Stranded Actor (uncredited)
• 1933The Invisible Man — Informer Suggesting Ink (uncredited)
• 1933The Story of Temple Drake — Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
• 1933This Day and Age — Assistant Principal
• 1933To the Last Man — Pete Garon (uncredited)
• 1932The Sign of the Cross — Christian Martyr / Gladiator Leader / Voice in Coliseum Mob (uncredited)
• 1931Heaven on Earth — Chicken Sam
• 1930Bright Lights — Newspaper reporter / photographer
• 1930Tol'able David — Buzzard Hatburn

Appearances as themselves (20)

• 2021Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists! — Self (archive footage)
• 2016Lugosi: The Forgotten King of Horror — Self
• 2013Blood of 1000 Virgins — Self (archive footage)
• 2013The Trail of Dracula — Self (Archival Footage)
• 2005James Dean: Forever Young — Self (archive footage)
• 2005The Great Man: W.C. Fields — Self (archive footage)
• 1999Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man' — Self (archive footage)
• 1986Lugosi: The Forgotten King — Himself
• 1984Elvira's MTV Halloween Party — Self
• 1983The Horror of It All — Self
• 1982The Best of Sex and Violence — Self - Host
• 1980A Tribute to Dr. Shock — Self (archive footage)
• Old Friends... New Friends — Self
• 1974The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute — Self
• Film '72 — Self
• The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest
• 1968The Movie Orgy — Self (archive footage)
• The Merv Griffin Show — Self
• MGM Parade — Self, self
• The Ed Sullivan Show — Self