Biography
John Carradine was an American character actor, who was considered one of the greatest in American cinema. He was a member of Cecil B. DeMille's stock company and later John Ford's company, known for his roles in horror films, Westerns, and Shakespearean theater, most notably portraying Count Dracula in House of Frankenstein (1944), House of Dracula (1945), Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (1966), and Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula (1979). Among his other notable roles was "Preacher Casy" in John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath. In later decades of his career, he starred mostly in low-budget B-movies.
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Awards & recognition
- Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award · 1983
- Daytime Emmy Award
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Filmography50+ titles
The Trail of Dracula
The Twilight Zone
The Horror of It All
Down Missouri Way
Emergency!
The Munsters
Night Gallery
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Ten Commandments
The Grapes of Wrath
Kung Fu
Stagecoach
The Secret of NIMH
Bonanza
Bride of Frankenstein
The Invisible Man
The Green Hornet
Johnny Guitar
Captains Courageous
The Littlest Hobo
Starsky & Hutch
Have Gun, Will Travel
The Court Jester
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
McCloud
Lost in Space
The Last Hurrah
The Shootist
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Lucy Show
The Rifleman
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Les Misérables
Lugosi: The Forgotten King of Horror
Wonder Woman
Daniel Boone
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Alaska
The Rookies
Ironside
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
The Beverly Hillbillies
Maverick
The Adventures of Mark Twain
Man Hunt
The Prisoner of Shark Island
The Dick Cavett Show
Land of the Giants
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp