John Carradine

Highest Rated:
100% Stagecoach (1939)
Lowest Rated:
11% The Ice Pirates (1984)
Birthday:
Feb 5, 1906
Birthplace:
New York, New York, USA
Bio:
Though best known to modern filmgoers as a horror star, cadaverous John Carradine was, in his prime, one of the most versatile character actors on the silver screen. The son of a journalist father and physician mother, Carradine was given an expensive education in Philadelphia and New York. Upon…

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 11% - 100%
Number of Movies: 211
Box Office Since 2001: --
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2012 Danger: Love At Work
  • Actor
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2012 Richard
  • Actor
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2009 imps*
  • Actor
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2006 Watch the Skies!
  • Actor
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2004 Jack O
  • Actor
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2004 67% Edgar G. Ulmer - The Man Off-screen
  • Actor
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1995 Jack-O
  • Walter Machen
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1992 Gallery of Horrors
  • Actor
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1992 Bees
  • Actor
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1989 Buried Alive (Edgar Allan Poe's Buried Alive)
  • Jacob
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1989 Big Foot
  • Actor
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1987 Evil Spawn (Alien Within) (Alive by Night) (Deadly Sting) (Metamorphosis)
  • Dr. Zeitman
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1987 Star Slammer: The Escape
  • The Justice
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1986 Monster in the Closet
  • Old Joe
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1986 Tomb
  • Mr. Androheb
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1986 Hollywood Ghost Stories
  • Actor
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1986 Ghost Stories: Walking with the Dead
  • Actor
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1986 84% Peggy Sue Got Married
  • Leo
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1986 Revenge
  • Sen. Bradford
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1985 Evils of the Night
  • Dr. Kozmar
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1985 Vals
  • Mr. Stanton
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1984 11% The Ice Pirates
  • Supreme Commander
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1983 Boogeyman II (Revenge of the Boogeyman)
  • Actor
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1983 Rose For Emily
  • Actor
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1983 Aladdin and His Magic Lamp
  • Actor
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1982 House of the Long Shadows
  • Lord Grisbane
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1982 95% The Secret of NIMH
  • Great Owl
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1982 Demon Rage
  • Father Stratten
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1982 Satan's Mistress
  • Actor
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1981 Antony & Cleopatra
  • Actor
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1981 Nocturna
  • Actor
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1981 Frankenstein Island
  • Dr. Frankenstein
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1981 The Best of Sex and Violence (Screams of Flesh and Blood)
  • Host
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1981 Goliath Awaits
  • Ronald Bentley
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1981 Space Vampires
  • Actor
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1981 71% The Monster Club
  • Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes
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1981 64% The Howling
  • Erle Kenton
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1980 Doctor Dracula
  • Actor
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1980 The Boogeyman
  • Dr. Warren
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1980 The Nesting (Massacre Mansion)(Phobia)
  • Col. LeBrun
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1980 Monster
  • Actor
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1979 Monstroid: It Came from the Lake
  • Actor
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1979 Judgment of Solomon
  • Actor
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1979 The Seekers
  • First mate
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1979 Nocturna (Granddaughter of Dracula)
  • Count Dracula
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1978 The Bees
  • Dr. Sigmund Hummel
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1978 Cruise Missile
  • Actor
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1978 Vampire Hookers
  • Actor
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1977 20% The White Buffalo (Hunt to Kill)
  • Briggs
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1977 Shock Waves
  • Capt. Ben
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1977 Golden Rendezvous
  • Fairweather
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1977 Crash!
  • Dr. Edwards
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1977 Satan's Cheerleaders
  • Bum
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1977 The Christmas Coal Mine Miracle
  • Grampa
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1977 Doctor Dracula
  • Actor
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1976 93% The Shootist
  • Beckum
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1976 50% The Sentinel
  • Halliran
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1976 The Killer Inside Me
  • Dr. Smith
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1976 Journey Into the Beyond
  • Actor
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1976 41% The Last Tycoon
  • Guide
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1976 Captains and the Kings
  • Father Hale
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1976 Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
  • Drunk
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1975 Death at Love House
  • Conan Carroll
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1975 Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary
  • Mary's Father
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1974 Stowaway to the Moon
  • Jacob Avril
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1973 Antony and Cleopatra
  • Actor
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1973 Bad Charleston Charlie
  • Alcoholic Reporter
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1973 House of the Seven Corpses
  • Actor
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1973 Shrieking
  • Old gunfighter
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1973 Silent Night, Bloody Night
  • Tawman
  • Director
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1973 86% The Night Strangler
  • Publisher
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1973 Superchick
  • Igor Smith
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1973 Terror in the Wax Museum
  • Dupree
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1972 89% Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, But Were Afraid to Ask
  • Dr. Bernardo
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1972 Gatling Gun
  • Rev. Harper
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1972 Portnoy's Complaint
  • Judge
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1972 Psycho a Go-Go
  • Actor
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1972 45% Boxcar Bertha
  • H. Buckram Sartoris
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1972 Moonchild
  • Walker
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1972 Blood of Ghastly Horror
  • Dr. Van Ard
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1971 The Seven Minutes
  • Sean O'Flanagan
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1971 Demented Death Farm Massacre (Honey Britches)
  • Actor
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1971 Cain's Cutthroats
  • Preacher Sims
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1971 Superchick
  • Actor
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1971 Blood Legacy
  • Christopher Dean
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1970 Hell's Bloody Devils
  • Merchant
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1970 Shinbone Alley
  • Tyrone T. Tattersall
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1970 Crowhaven Farm
  • Caretaker
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1970 McMasters
  • Preacher
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1970 Horror of the Blood Monsters (Creatures of the Red Planet)
  • Scientist
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1970 29% Myra Breckinridge
  • Surgeon
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1969 Five Bloody Graves
  • Minister
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1969 The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
  • Ticker
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1969 Night Train to Mundo Fine (Red Zone Cuba)
  • Train Engineer
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1969 The Trouble with Girls (and How to Get Into It)
  • Mr. Drewcolt
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1968 The Helicopter Spies
  • Greek mystic
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1967 Hillbillys in a Haunted House
  • Dr. Himmil
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1967 Gallery of Horrors
  • Tristam Halbin [The Witch's Clock]
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1967 The Hostage
  • Otis Lovelace
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1967 Blood of Dracula's Castle, (Castle of Dracula)
  • George
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1967 The Astro-Zombies (Space Zombies) (The Space Vampires)
  • Dr. DeMarco
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1967 Autopsy of a Ghost
  • Satan
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1966 Billy the Kid versus Dracula
  • Vampire/Uncle
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1966 Munster, go Home!
  • Cruikshank
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1965 House of the Black Death
  • Andre De Sade
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1965 Psycho a Go-Go
  • Dr. Vanard
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1964 Curse of the Stone Hand
  • Hypnotist
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1964 70% Cheyenne Autumn
  • Maj. Jeff Blair
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1964 80% The Patsy
  • Bruce Alden
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1964 The Wizard of Mars (Alien Massacre)(Horrors of the Red Planet)(Journey Into the Unknown)
  • Wizard of Mars
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1962 93% The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
  • Maj. Cassius Starbuckle
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1962 Invasion of the Animal People (Rymdinvasion i Lappland)
  • The Narrator
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1960 Tarzan The Magnificient
  • Abel Banton
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1960 Sex Kittens Go to College
  • Prof. Watts
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1960 The Incredible Petrified World
  • Dr. Wyman
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1960 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • Slave catcher
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1959 The Cosmic Man
  • Cosmic Man
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1959 Invisible Invaders
  • Dr. Karol Noymann
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1958 Half Human
  • Dr. John Raybourn
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1958 88% The Last Hurrah
  • Amos Force
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1958 Showdown at Boot Hill
  • Doc Weber
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1958 The Proud Rebel
  • Travelling salesman
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1957 Hell Ship Mutiny
  • Malone
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1957 86% The True Story of Jesse James
  • Rev. Jethro Bailey
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1957 The Unearthly
  • Prof. Charles Conway
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1957 The Story of Mankind
  • Khufu
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1956 73% Around the World in 80 Days
  • Col. Proctor Stamp
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1956 Female Jungle (The Hangover)
  • Claude Almstead
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1956 Hidden Guns
  • Snipe Harding
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1956 The Black Sleep
  • Borg
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1956 96% The Court Jester
  • Giacomo
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1956 91% The Ten Commandments
  • Aaron
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1955 The Kentuckian
  • Fletcher
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1955 Stranger On Horseback
  • Lawyer
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1955 Desert Sands
  • Jala
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1954 Thunder Pass
  • Bergstrom
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1954 96% Johnny Guitar
  • Old Tom
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1954 Casanova's Big Night
  • Minister Foressi
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1954 The Egyptian
  • Grave robber
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1949 C-Man
  • Doc Spencer
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1949 89% The Inspector General
  • Actor
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1949 C Man
  • Actor
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1947 Private Affairs of Bel Ami
  • Charles Forestier
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1946 Down Missouri Way
  • Thorndyke P. Dunning
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1945 Pirates: Dead Men Tell Their Tales
  • Actor
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1945 100% Captain Kidd
  • Orange Povey
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1945 It's in the Bag!
  • Pike
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1945 78% Fallen Angel
  • Prof. Madley
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1945 57% House of Dracula
  • Count Dracula
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1944 Return of the Ape Man
  • Prof. Gilmore
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1944 Jungle Woman
  • Dr. Walters - in Flashback
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1944 60% House of Frankenstein
  • Count Dracula
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1944 The Invisible Man's Revenge
  • Dr. Peter Drury
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1944 Waterfront
  • Nazi agent
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1944 Voodoo Man
  • Toby
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1944 100% Bluebeard
  • Gaston
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1944 The Mummy's Ghost
  • Egyptian Priest
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1944 The Adventures of Mark Twain
  • Bret Harte
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1943 Revenge of the Zombies
  • Max Heinrich von Altermann
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1943 Silver Spurs
  • Lucky Miller
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1943 40% Captive Wild Woman
  • Dr. Sigmund Walters
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1943 Monsoon
  • Clancy
  • Director
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1943 Hitler's Madman
  • Heydrich
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1942 Reunion in France (Mademoiselle France) (Reunion)
  • Ulrich Windler
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1942 Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
  • Caleb Greene
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1941 80% Western Union
  • Doc Murdoch
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1941 Swamp Water
  • Jesse Wick
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1941 100% Blood and Sand
  • Nacional
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1941 90% Man Hunt
  • Mr. Jones
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1940 100% The Grapes of Wrath
  • Jim Casey
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1940 Brigham Young
  • Port Rockwell
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1940 80% The Return of Frank James
  • Bob Ford
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1940 Chad Hanna
  • Bisbee
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1939 Five Came Back
  • Crimp
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1939 The Three Musketeers
  • Naveau
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1939 80% Drums Along the Mohawk
  • Caldwell
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1939 Mr. Moto's Last Warning
  • Danforth/Richard Burke
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1939 Land of Liberty
  • Actor
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1939 Jesse James
  • Bob Ford
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1939 100% Stagecoach
  • Hatfield
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1939 Frontier Marshal
  • Ben Carter
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1939 100% The Hound of the Baskervilles
  • Barryman
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1938 80% Alexander's Ragtime Band
  • Cabdriver
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1938 Of Human Hearts
  • Abraham Lincoln
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1938 Kidnapped
  • Gordon
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1938 Four Men and a Prayer
  • Gen. Adolfo Arturo Sebastian
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1937 This Is My Affair (His Affair)
  • Ed
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1937 Ali Baba Goes to Town
  • Ishak
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1937 92% Captains Courageous
  • "Long Jack"
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1937 Thank You, Mr. Moto
  • Periera
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1937 The Hurricane
  • Warden
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1937 The Last Gangster
  • Caspar
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1936 Dimples
  • Mr. Richards
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1936 86% Captain January
  • Local yokel
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1936 Winterset
  • Romagna
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1936 Mary of Scotland
  • David Rizzio
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1936 The Cowboy Creed
  • Actor
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1936 The Prisoner of Shark Island
  • Sgt. Rankin
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1936 33% The Garden of Allah
  • Sand diviner
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1936 A Message to Garcia
  • Pres. McKinley
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1935 100% The Bride of Frankenstein
  • Huntsman
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1935 100% Les Miserables
  • Enjoiras
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1934 86% The Black Cat
  • Cult organist (uncredited)
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1934 88% Cleopatra
  • Roman
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1934 The Meanest Gal in Town
  • Circus Performer
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1933 The Story of Temple Drake
  • Courtroom extra
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1933 100% The Invisible Man
  • Cockney informer
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1933 This Day and Age
  • High school speaker
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1933 To the Last Man
  • Pete Garon
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1932 The Sign of the Cross
  • Leader of Gladiators/Christian Martyr/Crowd Voice
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1930 Tol'able David
  • Buzzard
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Quotes from John Carradine's Characters

    1. Erle Kenton: We should have stuck with the old ways; raising cattle for our feed. Where's the life in that?
    2. Charlie Barton: Humans ARE our cattle.
    3. Erle Kenton: Humans are our PREY. We should feed on them, like we've always done. Screw all this 'channel your energies' crap.
    From The Howling. Submitted by Creep F (2 years ago)
    1. Erle Kenton: You can't tame what's meant to be wild, doc. It just ain't natural.
    From The Howling. Submitted by Creep F (2 years ago)
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