The Carradine family is an American family of several notable actors. The family patriarch was the minister Beverly Carradine and his grandson, the actor John Carradine, who had five sons, four of whom became actors.
John Carradine
David Carradine
Keith Carradine
Robert Carradine
John Carradine was an American actor, considered one of the greatest character actors 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. In total, he holds 351 film and television credits, making him one of the most prolific English-speaking film and television actors of all time.
Carradine in a 1967 publicity photo
From left: Harlan E. Knight, John Carradine (billed as Peter Richmond), Henry B. Walthall, Joan Peers, and Noah Beery Sr. (1930)
As Abraham Lincoln in Of Human Hearts with James Stewart (1938)
Chester Morris, Carradine, Lucille Ball and Joseph Calleia in Five Came Back (1939)