John Carradine
          Actor  
	
	Filmography (All Films)
				 
	  
	        
Mary of Scotland (1936) 
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March, John Carradine… 
- Katharine Hepburn stars as Mary, Queen of Scots who, after languishing in jail for 18 years at Elizabeth I's command, is offered a pardon if she will…
 
Stagecoach (1939) 
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. Claire Trevor, John Wayne, John Carradine 
- As the first fully realised Western, this blazed the trail for all subsequent efforts, as well as carrying John Wayne to stardom.  Panoramic…
 
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) 
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. Henry Fonda, Claudette Colbert, Edna May Oliver… 
- Minor Ford drama with Fonda and Colbert as newlyweds whose farming career gets stymied by the Revolutionary War and attacks from Native Americans.…
 
Grapes of Wrath (1940)
 
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. Henry Fonda, John Carradine 
- Henry Fonda stars in this masterful humanist film about a group of destitute Oklahoma farmers that trek to California in hope of a better life. One…
 
Swamp Water (1941) 
- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Walter Brennan, Walter Huston, Anne Baxter… 
- An interesting melodrama, dank with the regional atmosphere of the Florida Everglades, about the problems undergone by a youthful fur trapper…
 
Man Hunt (1941) 
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders… 
- A Fritz Lang–directed thriller set in Europe just prior to World War II – the first of the German exile's four anti–Nazi films, and…
 
House of Frankenstein (1944) 
- Dir. Erle C. Kenton
Feat. Boris Karloff, J. Carrol Naish, Lon Jr. Chaney… 
- Genuinely odd horror film in the Universal Studios stable, has scientist Karloff rolling out a monster freakshow of the 'classics', including…
 
House of Dracula (1945) 
- Dir. Erle C. Kenton
Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney, John Carradine, Onslow Stevens… 
- Actually a sequel to HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, with a scientist attempting to rectify the monstrous villains of the Universal Studios horror movies.
 
Captain Kidd (1945) 
- Dir. Rowland V Lee
Feat. Charles Laughton, Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton… 
- Charles Laughton has a great time playing the 17th century English pirate, who swindles King William III. Rollicking production is a nicely comic…
 
Johnny Guitar (1953)
 
- Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Joan Crawford, Mercedes McCambridge, Sterling Hayden… 
- Cowgirls Joan Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge come head to head over the men they love in this wild Western soap opera, brimming with quirky…
 
Female Jungle (1956)
 
- Dir. Bruno VeSota
Feat. Lawrence Tierney, Jayne Mansfield, John Carradine 
- Lawrence Tierney, in a rare leading role, plays a hard–drinking cop who puzzles over a nightclub murder encumbered with a 'hangover'. Careful…
 
Incredible Petrified World, The (1957) 
- Dir. Jerry Warren
Feat. John Carradine, Robert Clarke, Phyllis Coates 
- This slimly plotted adventure has four divers trapped in an undersea cavern with a grim–faced hermit. This dull fate is soon livened by…
 
Patsy, The (1964) 
- Dir. Jerry Lewis
Feat. Jerry Lewis, John Carradine, Nancy Kulp… 
- The retinue of a recently–deceased celebrity connive to groom his bellhop to impersonate him and thus continue the gravy train. Of course with…
 
Trouble With Girls, The (1969) 
- Dir. Peter Tewksbury
Feat. Elvis Presley, Marlyn Manson, Nicole Jaffe… 
- Behind the misleading title, this atypically quirky late Elvis movie sees him running a 1920s travelling circus sideshow, with an excellent…
 
McMasters, The (Blood Crowd, The) (1970) 
- Dir. Alf Kjellin
Feat. Burl Ives, Brock Peters, David Carradine… 
- A tough depiction of post–Civil War strife, with former slave Peters, who fought for the Union, trying to start over in the American southwest.…
 
Night Stalker, The / Night Strangler, The (1972-1973)
 
- Dir. John Llewellyn Moxey, Dan Curtis
Feat. Darren McGavin, Carol Lynley, Simon Oakland… 
- Two excellent and groundbreaking tele–movies from the early 70s starring Darren McGavin as wise–cracking 'regular guy' reporter Carl…
 
Shock Waves (Almost Human, Death Corps) (1977) 
- Dir. Ken Wiederhorn
Feat. Brooke Adams, Peter Cushing, John Carradine 
- Cushing plays a Nazi scientist wrecked in the Florida Keys since WWII, where he has remained hidden with his special squad of underwater zombie…
 
Golden Rendezvous (1977) 
- Dir. Ashley Lazarus
Feat. Richard Harris, John Vernon, Gordon Jackson… 
- Richard Harris dodges bullets in this daffy thriller about a luxury cruise liner held to ransom by terrorists. This early UNDER SIEGE provided plenty…
 
Boogeyman, The (1980) 
- Dir. Ulli Lommel
Feat. Suzanna Love, John Carradine, Ron James… 
- Supernatural slasher directed by Fassbinder regular Ulli Lommel, who was part of the New German Cinema movement.
An American production starring…
 
Scarecrow, The (1982)
 
- Dir. Sam Pillsbury
Feat. Jono Smith, Tracey Mann, Daniel McLaren… 
- A fine film adaptation of Ronald Hugh Morrieson's classic New Zealand novel about a crazed killer who instills fear and paranoia in a small rural…
 
Anthony and Cleopatra (1983) 
- Dir. Lawrence Carra
Feat. Timothy Dalton, Lynn Redgrave, John Carradine… 
- Above–par version of Shakespeare's Egyptian tragedy with the two leads giving particularly strong performances. Filmed in a…
 
Ice Pirates, The (1984) 
- Dir. Stewart Raffill
Feat. Robert Urich, Mary Crosby, Michael D. Roberts… 
- Goofy sci–fi comedy set in a distant future where water is scarce on the planet earth. After a band of space pirates get caught raiding ice,…