John Carradine

Name: John Carradine
Date of Birth: February 05, 1906
Place of Birth: New York, New York, USA

Mini-bio: Son of a reporter/artist and a surgeon. Grew up in Poughkeepsie, New York. Attended Christ Church School, and Graphic Art School, studying sculpture. Roamed the South selling sketches. Made acting deb...( read more)

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John Carradine mini-bio: Son of a reporter/artist and a surgeon. Grew up in Poughkeepsie, New York. Attended Christ Church School, and Graphic Art School, studying sculpture. Roamed the South selling sketches. Made acting debut in Camille in a New Orleans theatre in 1925. Arrived in Los Angeles in 1927, worked in local theatre. Applied as scenic designer to Cecil B. DeMille, who rejected his designs but gave him voice work in several films. Debuted on film in Tol'able David (1930), billed as Peter Richmond. Protege and close friend of John Barrymore. Extremely prolific movie character actor, while simultaneously maintaining a stage career in classic leading roles such as Hamlet and Malvolio. Typed in later years as horror star. Member of the "John Ford Stock Company."

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joannawashere2

Also, there were "The Grapes of Wrath" and "Bluebeard", not to mention countless others. BTW, anyone else heard of this story? I thought it was pretty funny:

http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/barrymor.htm

posted 545 days ago
hncckbll

Great character actor. Star of stage, screen, and television. A distinguished, handsome, slender actor with a wonderful bass voice, John Carradine was the father of David and Robert Carradine. One great early movie role was as the gambler-gunfighter "Hatfield" (clearly based in the movie on John H. "Doc" Holliday) in John Ford's epic "Stagecoach" (1939) with John Wayne and Claire Trevor. Later, during the 1940s, he was a staple at Universal Pictures, playing in horror roles with Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Claude Rains and others, typically as Dracula in films like "House of Frankenstein" and "House of Dracula".

posted 677 days ago