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  • David Carradine 1936-2009 - 5 June 2009
    ry looks and hooded eyes, Carradine was most often cast as a tough guy – although not the out and out villain his father, John Carradine, was typecast as in several hundred films in Hollywood’s Golden Age.- - -There was never much doubt that David woul

John Carradine - what members say


  • House Of Dracula
  • House Of Dracula review by MikeS1961 from Harrogate
    Rated - 4.0 stars Delightfully Nostalgic 27 June 2008
    ...r blood have disastrous consequences. The monsters are played by, respectively, John Carradine - elegant but somewhat oddly garbed as a Wild West gambler - Glenn Strange - br...   Read customer review
  • The Monster Club
  • The Monster Club review by A customer from UK
    Rated - 3.0 stars Customer Review 23 June 2008
    ...Horror author R Chetwynd Hayes (played by John Carradine) is walking home late one night when he is accosted by a starving Vincent Price. When the author says he would do any...   Read customer review

John Carradine - filmography


  • Anthony And Cleopatra on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Timothy Dalton,  Lynn Redgrave,  Nichelle Nichols
    Director: Bryan Foy
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    The great historical lovers come to life in this unusually lucid adaptation of Shakespeare's play. The English accents so prevalent in most Shakespearean productions are absent and the costumes and sets are based on the original designs from the Globe Theater productions of Shakespeare's day.
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 175 members
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  • Buried Alive on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Donald Pleasence,  John Carradine,  Robert Vaughn
    Director: Gerard Kikoine
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Janet Pendleton arrives at Ravens-croft Reform School to teach Science, but discovers macabre goings-on, especially to wayward girls. Suffering hallucinations of someone being bricked-up behind a wall, she seeks the help of the School Doctor, only to discover he was once a patient at the School ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 39% from 179 members
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  • Boogeyman 2 on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Suzanna Love,  John Carradine
    Director: Ulli Lommel
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The survivor of the first encounter with the Bogeyman finds herself in Hollywood with a movie producer and a party. But before long the guests finds themselves fighting for survival when a piece of the original 'haunted' mirror unleashes evil.
    1.5 stars out of 5 34% from 268 members
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  • House Of The Long Shadows (1982)
    Starring: Desi Arnaz Jr.,  Christopher Lee,  Richard Todd
    Director: Pete Walker
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Desi Arnaz Jr. plays Kenneth Magee, the young writer who bets that he can bat out a mystery play in one evening. Magee squirrels himself away in a forbidding old mansion where, unbeknownst to him, a bizarre family reunion is scheduled to commence. As the participants begin dropping like flies, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
    Due for release on 17th September 2012
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  • The Boogeyman (1980)
    Starring: Suzanna Love,  Ron James,  John Carradine
    Director: Ulli Lommel
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A young girl witnesses her brother murder a man through a reflection in a mirror. Twenty years later the mirror is shattered, freeing his evil spirit, which seeks revenge for his death...
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 97 members
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  • The Howling on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Elisabeth Brooks,  Dee Wallace,  Patrick Macnee
    Director: Joe Dante
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Severely shaken after a near-fatal encounter with a serial killer, TV newscaster Karen White (Dee Wallace-Stone) takes some much-needed time off. Hoping to conquer her inner demons, she heads for the 'Colony', a secluded retreat where her new neighbors are just a tad too eager to make her feel at ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 2,382 members
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  • The Bogey Man - Uncut (1980)
    Starring: John Carradine,  Suzanna Love,  Nicholas Love
    Director: Ulli Lommel
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A young girl called Lucy witnesses the murder of her mother's lover by her older brother. Years later she attempts to come to terms with her nightmare by returning to the house - but something lies in wait...
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 50 members
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  • White Buffalo on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Charles Bronson,  Clint Walker,  Slim Pickens
    Director: J. Lee Thompson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Wild Bill Hickok (Charles Bronson) and Crazy Horse (Will Sampson), two of the Wild West's most legendary figures, search for the fabled white beast--and their own salvation--in this J. Lee Thompson film. WHITE BUFFALO also features Jack Warden, Kim Novak, and Slim Pickens.
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 264 members
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  • Death at Love House (1976)
    Starring: Robert Wagner,  Kate Jackson,  Sylvia Sidney
    Director: E.W. Swackhamer
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Donna and Joel Gregory are busy researching a book about highly-revered and long-dead Hollywood film goddess Lorna Love. They decide to visit Lorna's estate, where they stay while interviewing old "friends" of Lorna. Things get sticky when Joel, whose father had had a passionate affair with Lorna, ..read more »
    1 star out of 5 16% from 5 members
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  • The Shootist on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Harry Morgan,  John Wayne,  Lauren Bacall
    Director: Don Siegel
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    John Wayne, in his last film appearance, stars as famed gunfighter J.J. Brooks. After learning from Dr. Hostetler (James Stewart) that he's dying of stomach cancer and has no more than two months to live, he moves into a boarding house in Carson City run by Bond Rogers (Lauren Bacall) and her son, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 1,968 member
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  • Silent Night, Bloody Night on DVD (1973)
    Starring: Donelda Dunne,  Jay Garner,  Patrick O'Neal
    Director: Thomas Gershuny
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    A new mansion owner discovers that his home was once a mental institution. He sets about investigating the crimes that took place in the mansion, whilst scaring the surrounding populace.
    2 stars out of 5 38% from 128 members
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  • Boxcar Bertha on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Barbara Hershey,  David Carradine,  John Carradine
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Produced by Roger Corman and directed by Martin Scorsese, Boxcar Bertha is a Bonnie and Clyde-like yarn set during the Depression. The title character, played by Barbara Hershey, links up with union organizer David Carradine (Hershey's real-life lover at the time) after the death of her father. ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 675 members
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  • Horror Of The Blood Monsters on DVD (1970)
    Starring: John Carradine,  Robert Dix,  Vicky Volante
    Director: Al Adamson
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The people of planet Earth are in danger of being completely drained of their blood when a terrifying wave of inexplicable vampire killings sweep the world. Includes paste-up footage from a black and white Philipino movie with phony color added and new scenes shot in the United States. Also ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 36% from 96 members
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  • The McMasters on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Burl Ives,  Jack Palance,  David Carradine
    Director: Alf Kjellin
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Set in the immediate post-Civil War era, THE MCMASTERS stars Brock Peters as a black Union soldier who finds he must figuratively fight the war all over again. Returning to his southern hometown, Peters quickly learns that nothing has really changed: he is a 'free' man in name only. Peters' ex-..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 16 members
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  • The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969)
    Starring: Robert Mitchum,  George Kennedy,  David Carradine
    Director: Burt Kennedy
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Marshal Flagg, an ageing lawman about to be retired, hears that his old nemesis, the outlaw McKaye, is back in the area and planning a robbery. Riding out to hunt down McKaye, Flagg is captured by McKaye's gang and finds out that McKaye is no longer the leader of the gang, but is considered just an ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 2 members
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  • The Trouble with Girls on DVD (1969)
    Starring: Elvis Presley,  Marlyn Mason,  Nicole Jaffe
    Director: Peter Tewksbury
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    This comic drama is a change of pace for Elvis as he plays Walter Hale, the manager of a 1920s traveling show that starts to develop some trouble when it hits town in Iowa. The film is packed with colourful co-stars including Vincent Price, Marlyn Mason and John Carradine. 'Almost', 'Clean Up Your ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 277 members
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  • The Ten Commandments on DVD (1956)
    Starring: Anne Baxter,  Edward G. Robinson,  Yul Brynner
    Director: Cecil B. DeMille
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Based on the Holy Scriptures, with additional dialogue by several other hands, The Ten Commandments was the last film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. The story relates the life of Moses, from the time he was discovered in the bullrushes as an infant by the pharoah's daughter, to his long, hard ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 2,383 members
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  • The Kentuckian on DVD (1955)
    Starring: Burt Lancaster,  Diana Lynn,  Walter Matthau
    Director: Burt Lancaster
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A rugged frontiersman and his son travel to Texas in search of a place to begin a new life. They face numerous rough characters in their struggle to survive on the Texas prairie. Burt Lancaster directs and stars, with Walter Matthau making his film debut as a whip-wielding brute in this solid, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 322 members
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  • Bluebeard (1944)
    Starring: John Carradine,  Jean Parker,  Nils Asther
    Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Catherine takes great pleasure in terrifying her elder sister Marie-Anne by reading her the infamous tale of "Bluebeard" until the poor girl is so frightened she bursts into tears. She also enjoys performing re-enactments of the fairy-tale in the role of Marie-Catherine, Bluebeard's last wife. ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 37% from 64 members
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  • Voodoo Man (1944)
    Starring: Bela Lugosi,  Bela Lugosi,  John Carradine
    Director: William Beaudine
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Though no more expensive or ambitious than any of his earlier Sam Katzman-produced vehicles, Bela Lugosi's Voodoo Man is perhaps the best of the batch, if only because of its quirky supporting cast and casually offbeat dialogue. Lugosi plays Dr. Marlowe, a practitioner of voodoo who kidnaps nubile ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 3 members
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  • House of Frankenstein on DVD (1944)
    Starring: Boris Karloff,  Lon Chaney Jr.,  John Carradine
    Director: Erle C. Kenton
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann (Boris Karloff), escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a travelling chamber of horrors. Pulling the stake out of a skeleton, he revives the infamous Count Dracula (John Carradine) and commands him to kill the man responsible for his imprisonment. He ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 147 members
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  • Waterfront (1944)
    Starring: John Carradine,  J. Carrol Naish,  Maris Wrixon
    Director: Steve Sekely
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The residents of San Francisco are in for something of a shock ... their friendly optometrist is actually a Nazi spy. When he realises that his code book has been stolen, he sets off on a mission to save it, and himself, from the clutches of the authorities...
    1 star out of 5 17% from 9 members
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  • Man Hunt on DVD (1941)
    Starring: Walter Pidgeon,  Joan Bennett,  George Sanders
    Director: Fritz Lang
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Director Fritz Lang's political thriller follows a British hunter's attempts to outrun Nazi agents after he targets Adolf Hitler. While on holiday in Bavaria, willdlife hunter Alan Thorndike (Walter Pidgeon) stumbles upon the Fuhrer's country retreat, eventually spotting Hitler in the gardens. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 79 members
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  • The Return Of Frank James on DVD (1940)
    Starring: Henry Fonda,  Gene Tierney,  Jackie Cooper
    Director: Fritz Lang
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    This Technicolor sequel to 1939's JESSE JAMES does without the services of the earlier film's star Tyrone Power, who after all was shot dead by 'that dirty little coward' Bob Ford (John Carradine). Repeating his portrayal of western outlaw Frank James, Henry Fonda is promoted to top billing here. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 39 members
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  • Drums Along The Mohawk on DVD (1939)
    Starring: Claudette Colbert,  Henry Fonda,  Edna May Oliver
    Director: John Ford
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK is John Ford's first film in Technicolor (which recently perfected far richer shadings of colour than had previously been possible), and the director uses it to stunning effect. The film stars Henry Fonda as Revolutionary War-era farmer Gilbert Martin, who, in 1776, has ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 249 members
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  • Mr Moto's Last Warning on DVD (1939)
    Starring: Peter Lorre,  Ricardo Cortez,  John Carradine
    Director: Norman Foster
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    A Japanese man claiming to be Mr Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon after disembarking from a ship at Port Said in Egypt. The real Mr Moto is already in Port Said, investigating a conspiracy against the British and French governments. The dead man was his colleague, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 84 members
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  • House of the Long Shadows (1938)
    Starring: Vincent Price,  Christopher Lee,  Peter Cushing
    Director: Pete Walker
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet: can he write a classic novel like "Wuthering Heights" in twenty-four hours? Upon his arrival, however, the writer discovers that the manor, thought empty, actually has several, rather odd, inhabitants.
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 12 members
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  • Thank You Mr Moto (1937)
    Starring: Peter Lorre,  Thomas Beck,  John Carradine
    Director: Norman Foster
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    the Japanese amateur archeologist is in competition with a ruthless gang of jewel thieves to find the tomb of Genghis Khan and its alleged hoard of fabulous treasure. Mr Moto has one of seven scrolls which together locate the tomb. In China, an ancient family protects the remaining scrolls. Soon Mr ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 3 members
    Due for release on 11th June 2012
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  • Danger - Love At Work on DVD (1937)
    Starring: Jack Haley,  John Carradine,  Ann Sothern
    Director: Otto Preminger
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Lawyer Henry MacMorrow is struggling to get the scatty Pemberton family to agree on a large property deal. Noticing that the eldest daughter is rather more tuned on than the rest of the family, he turns to her for help.
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 44 members
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  • Mary of Scotland on DVD (1936)
    Starring: Katharine Hepburn,  Fredric March,  Florence Eldridge
    Director: John Ford
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    This tragic story deals with the short lived reign of Mary Stuart (Katharine Hepburn), her relationship with the queen of England, Elizabeth Tudor, and her marriage.
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 59 members
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  • Prisoner Of Shark Island on DVD (1936)
    Starring: Warner Baxter,  Gloria Stuart,  John Carradine
    Director: John Ford
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Written by Nunnally Johnson (The Grapes of Wrath, Tobacco Road), The Prisoner of Shark Island dramatizes the fatal shooting of Abraham Lincoln (Frank McGlynn Sr.) and the subsequent visit by the assassin John Wilkes Booth (Francis McDonald) to Dr. Samuel Mudd's house to fix his broken leg. Unaware ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 126 members
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  • Daniel Boone (1935)
    Starring: George O'Brien,  Heather Angel,  John Carradine
    Director: David Howard
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The great wilderness explorer Daniel Boone has many exciting adventures in this family-oriented outdoor actioner that primarily centers on the big man's attempts to quell an Indian uprising and capture the ornery villain who has been stirring up all the trouble.
    1.5 stars out of 5 25% from 2 members
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John Carradine facts

5 most recent films

Anthony And Cleopatra - 2.0 stars
Buried Alive - 2.0 stars
Monster In The Closet - 2.0 stars
The Twilight Zone - Season 1 - 3.0 stars
Boogeyman 2 - 1.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Twilight Zone - Season 2 - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Shootist - 3.5 stars
The Ten Commandments - 3.5 stars
The Hound of the Baskervilles - 3.5 stars
Prisoner Of Shark Island - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

House Of The Long Shadows - 3 stars
Death at Love House - 1.0 stars
Waterfront - 1.0 stars
Daniel Boone - 1.5 stars
Darn Good Westerns Box Set Vol.1 - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Robert Klein - 7 times - show films
Martin Landau - 7 times - show films
Bruce Willis - 7 times - show films
Peter Coyote - 7 times - show films
Frances McDormand - 7 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Joe Dante - 10 times - show films
Paul L - 7 times - show films
William Friedkin - 7 times - show films
Wes Craven - 7 times - show films
none - 5 times - show films