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| - John Carradine played Arcon in The Galaxy Gift.
- John Carradine (born Richmond Reed Carradine; February 5, 1906 – November 27, 1988) was an American actor, best known for his roles in horror films and Westerns as well as Shakespearean theater. A member of Cecil B DeMille's stock company and later John Ford's company, he was one of the most prolific character actors in Hollywood history. He was married several times, had several children and was the patriarch of the Carradine family acting dynasty. It includes four of his sons and four of his grandchildren.
- John Carradine (born Richmond Reed Carradine; February 5, 1906 – November 27, 1988) was an American actor.
- Though best known to modern filmgoers as a horror star, cadaverous John Carradine (February 5, 1906 - November 27, 1988) was, in his prime, one of the most versatile character actors on the silver screen. He came to Hollywood in 1930, where his extensive talents and eccentric behavior almost immediately brought him to the attention of casting directors. He played a dizzying variety of distinctive bit parts -- a huntsman in Bride of Frankenstein (1935), a crowd agitator in Les Miserables (1935) -- before he was signed to a 20th Century Fox contract in 1936.
- John Carradine was an American actor known for playing various roles in horror films of the 1940s. His earliest known horror film was the 1933 James Whale adaptation of H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man. He made a cameo appearance in an uncredited role as one of the villagers of Iping. He also made an uncredited appearance in another James Whale film, The Bride of Frankenstein. He later began getting starring roles playing the part of Dracula in films such as House of Frankenstein and House of Dracula. He was the first Hollywood actor to succeed Bela Lugosi playing the infamous vampire count.
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| - John Carradine was an American actor known for playing various roles in horror films of the 1940s. His earliest known horror film was the 1933 James Whale adaptation of H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man. He made a cameo appearance in an uncredited role as one of the villagers of Iping. He also made an uncredited appearance in another James Whale film, The Bride of Frankenstein. He later began getting starring roles playing the part of Dracula in films such as House of Frankenstein and House of Dracula. He was the first Hollywood actor to succeed Bela Lugosi playing the infamous vampire count. Carradine passed away in Milan, Italy on November 27th, 1988. His final film, Buried Alive was filmed in 1988 but released in 1990, two years after his death. His legacy lived on however, and stock footage of Carradine was used in the 1995 direct-to-DVD low-budget film, Jack-O.
- John Carradine played Arcon in The Galaxy Gift.
- John Carradine (born Richmond Reed Carradine; February 5, 1906 – November 27, 1988) was an American actor, best known for his roles in horror films and Westerns as well as Shakespearean theater. A member of Cecil B DeMille's stock company and later John Ford's company, he was one of the most prolific character actors in Hollywood history. He was married several times, had several children and was the patriarch of the Carradine family acting dynasty. It includes four of his sons and four of his grandchildren.
- John Carradine (born Richmond Reed Carradine; February 5, 1906 – November 27, 1988) was an American actor.
- Though best known to modern filmgoers as a horror star, cadaverous John Carradine (February 5, 1906 - November 27, 1988) 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 graduating from the Graphic Arts School, he intended to make his living as a painter and sculptor, but in 1923 he was sidetracked into acting. Working for a series of low-paying stock companies throughout the 1920s, he made ends meet as a quick-sketch portrait painter and scenic designer. He came to Hollywood in 1930, where his extensive talents and eccentric behavior almost immediately brought him to the attention of casting directors. He played a dizzying variety of distinctive bit parts -- a huntsman in Bride of Frankenstein (1935), a crowd agitator in Les Miserables (1935) -- before he was signed to a 20th Century Fox contract in 1936. His first major role was the sadistic prison guard in John Ford's Prisoner of Shark Island (1936), which launched a long and fruitful association with Ford, culminating in such memorable screen characterizations as the gentleman gambler in Stagecoach (1939) and Preacher Casy ("I lost the callin'!") in The Grapes of Wrath (1940). Usually typecast as a villain, Carradine occasionally surprised his followers with non-villainous roles like the philosophical cab driver in Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938) and Abraham Lincoln in Of Human Hearts (1938). In the 1940s, Carradine appeared as Count Dracula (taking over for Bela Lugosi) in two films for Universal Pictures. In 1945's House of Dracula he appeared alongside Lon Chaney Jr. (as the Wolf Man) and Glenn Strange (as Frankenstein's Monster). Throughout his Hollywood years, Carradine's first love remained the theater; to fund his various stage projects (which included his own Shakespearean troupe), he had no qualms about accepting film work in the lowest of low-budget productions. Ironically, it was in one of these Poverty Row cheapies, PRC's Bluebeard (1944), that the actor delivered what many consider his finest performance. Though he occasionally appeared in an A-picture in the 1950s and 1960s (The Ten Commandments, Cheyenne Autumn), Carradine was pretty much consigned to cheapies during those decades, including such horror epics as The Black Sleep (1956), The Unearthly (1957), and the notorious Billy the Kid Meets Dracula (1966). He also appeared in innumerable television programs, among them Twilight Zone, The Munsters, Thriller, and The Red Skelton Show, and from 1962 to 1964 enjoyed a long Broadway run as courtesan-procurer Lycus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Though painfully crippled by arthritis in his last years, Carradine never stopped working, showing up in films ranging from Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask (1972) to Peggy Sue Got Married (1984). Married four times, John Carradine was the father of actors David (who appeared in the films Future Force and Future Zone, which later became Rifftrax presentations), Keith, Robert, and Bruce Carradine.
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