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John Carradine <span class="SFPTagline"> From SCIFIPEDIA </span>  John Carradine (Richmond Reed Carradine aka John Peter Richmond) (February 5, 1906 New York City, New York – November 27, 1988) Cadaverous American actor with a sonorous voice who had a life-long admiration for the works of William Shakespeare. He began his career as a painter and sculptor working on set designs for Cecil B. DeMille. After small roles in The Invisible Man (1933) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935), Carradine was reduced to playing a grade ‘B’ bogeyman in such 1940's fodder as Captive Wild Woman (1943), Revenge of the Zombies (1943), Voodoo Man (1944), The Mummy's Ghost (1944), Bluebeard (1944), and The Face of Marble (1946). Much of his best work was done for director John Ford (Stagecoach (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), etc) and he still managed to make a respectable Dracula in both House of Frankenstein (1944) and House of Dracula (1945) before ending up in such dross as House of the Black Death (1964), Billy the Kid vs. Dracula (1965), Hillbillys in a Haunted House (1967), Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors (1967), The Astro Zombies (1968), Blood of Dracula's Castle (1969), Horror of the Blood Monsters (1970), The Mummy and the Curse of the Jackal (1971), Doctor Dracula (1977), Vampire Hookers (1978), Nocturna (1979), Frankenstein Island (1981), and The Tomb (1985). The father of five sons (including actors David, Keith, and Robert) and with several failed marriages behind him, Carradine worked to pay the bills. He continued to turn up in films after his death via stock footage.
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