John Carradine

John Carradine

February 5, 1906 · 120 years old

John Carradine (born Richmond Reed Carradine; February 5, 1906 – November 27, 1988) 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, best known for his roles in horror films,…

Known For

68 titles
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The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath

1940 · 2h 9m · Movie

An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.

8.1
2
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

1962 · 2h 3m · Movie

A senator returns to a Western town for the funeral of an old friend and tells the story of his origins.

8.1
3
The Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments

1956 · 3h 40m · Movie

Moses, raised as a prince of Egypt in the Pharaoh's household, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people from slavery.

7.9
4
Stagecoach

Stagecoach

1939 · 1h 36m · Movie

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.

7.8
5
The Secret of NIMH

The Secret of NIMH

1982 · 1h 22m · Movie

To save her ill son, a field mouse must seek the aid of a colony of rats, with whom she has a deeper link than she suspected.

7.5
6
The Howling

The Howling

1981 · 1h 31m · Movie

After a bizarre and near deadly encounter with a serial killer, a television newswoman is sent to a remote mountain resort whose residents may not be what they seem.

6.5
7
Around the World in 80 Days

Around the World in 80 Days

1956 · 2h 55m · Movie

A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.

6.7
8
The Shootist

The Shootist

1976 · 1h 40m · Movie

A dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity.

7.6
9
Johnny Guitar

Johnny Guitar

1954 · 1h 50m · Movie

After helping a wounded gang member, a strong-willed female saloon owner is wrongly suspected of murder and bank robbery by a lynch mob.

7.6
10
The Court Jester

The Court Jester

1955 · 1h 41m · Movie

A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against an evil ruler who has overthrown the rightful King.

7.8
11
The Black Cat

The Black Cat

1934 · 1h 5m · Movie

Stranded honeymooners follow mad doctor to manor.

6.9
12
The Sentinel

The Sentinel

1977 · 1h 32m · Movie

A New York fashion model's old brownstone houses a sinister evil.

6.3
13
The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles

1939 · 1h 20m · Movie

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson investigate the legend of a supernatural hound, a beast that may be stalking a young heir on the fog-shrouded moorland that makes up his estate.

7.4
14
The Ice Pirates

The Ice Pirates

1984 · 1h 34m · Movie

In a distant future scarce of water, space pirates get caught after stealing ice from a spaceship. They are sold to a princess looking for her dad. He might have found a planet abundant with water.

5.6
15
Boxcar Bertha

Boxcar Bertha

1972 · 1h 28m · Movie

During the Great Depression, a union leader and a young woman become criminals to exact revenge on the management of a railroad.

6.0
16
Captains Courageous

Captains Courageous

1937 · 1h 57m · Movie

A spoiled brat who falls overboard from a steamship in the 1920s gets picked up by a New England fishing boat, where he's made to earn his keep by joining the crew in their work.

7.9
17
The Last Tycoon

The Last Tycoon

1976 · 2h 3m · Movie

F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.

6.2
18
House of Frankenstein

House of Frankenstein

1944 · 1h 11m · Movie

A deranged scientist escapes from prison and recruits Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster and the Wolf Man to get revenge on his behalf.

6.2
19
Drums Along the Mohawk

Drums Along the Mohawk

1939 · 1h 44m · Movie

Newlyweds Gil and Lana Martin try to establish a farm in the Mohawk Valley but are menaced by Indians and Tories as the Revolutionary War begins.

7.0
20
Cheyenne Autumn

Cheyenne Autumn

1964 · 2h 34m · Movie

The Cheyenne, tired of broken U.S. government promises, head for their ancestral lands but a sympathetic cavalry officer is tasked to bring them back to their reservation.

6.7
21
Man Hunt

Man Hunt

1941 · 1h 45m · Movie

In July 1939, British hunter Thorndike, vacationing in Bavaria, has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by German agents and aided by a young woman.

7.2
22
The White Buffalo

The White Buffalo

1977 · 1h 37m · Movie

At the closing of 1874 a haunted, dying Wild Bill Hickok teams up with a grieving Crazy Horse to hunt a murderous albino buffalo.

6.1
23
The Boogey Man

The Boogey Man

1980 · 1h 22m · Movie

Through the reflection in the mirror, a girl witnesses her mother's boyfriend's murder.

4.7
24
Deathouse

Deathouse

1972 · 1h 25m · Movie

A man inherits a mansion which once was a mental home. He visits the place and begins to investigate some crimes that happened in old times, scaring the people living in the region.

5.2
25
The Monster Club

The Monster Club

1981 · 1h 44m · Movie

A horror writer is summoned to a "monster club" by an enigmatic elder. There, three macabre tales unfold before him, interspersed with musical interludes. The convergence of storytelling and performance creates an eerie atmosphere.

5.9
26
The Egyptian

The Egyptian

1954 · 2h 19m · Movie

In ancient Egypt, a poor orphan becomes a genial physician and is eventually appointed at the Pharaoh's court where he witnesses palace intrigues and learns dangerous royal secrets.

6.5
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The Last Hurrah

The Last Hurrah

1958 · 2h 1m · Movie

Frank Skeffington is an old Irish-American political boss, running for re-election as mayor of a U.S. town for the last time.

7.3
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The Night Strangler

The Night Strangler

1973 · 1h 14m · Movie

A reporter hunts down a 144-year old alchemist who is killing women for their blood.

7.3
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The Return of Frank James

The Return of Frank James

1940 · 1h 32m · Movie

Frank James continues to avoid arrest in order to take revenge on the Ford brothers for their murder of his brother Jesse.

6.6
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The Mummy's Ghost

The Mummy's Ghost

1944 · 1h 1m · Movie

Kharis the mummy is given a sacred potion that grants him eternal life to search for his lost love, Princess Ananka, despite the unending curse that haunts them.

5.5
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Western Union

Western Union

1941 · 1h 35m · Movie

When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite east with west, he hires a reformed Western outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor.

6.7
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Munster, Go Home!

Munster, Go Home!

1966 · 1h 36m · Movie

The Munsters travel to England after Herman discovers he's the new Lord of the Munster Hall.

6.4
33
The Hurricane

The Hurricane

1937 · 1h 44m · Movie

A Polynesian sailor unjustly imprisoned after defending himself against a colonial bully is relentlessly persecuted by his island's martinet French governor.

7.1
34
Blood and Sand

Blood and Sand

1941 · 2h 5m · Movie

Illiterate peasant Juan Gallardo rises meteorically to fame and fortune in the bullfight arena only to sow the seeds of his own fall.

6.8
35
The Kentuckian

The Kentuckian

1955 · 1h 44m · Movie

A Kentucky widower bound for 1820's Texas with his young son is thwarted in his efforts by a corrupt constable, a long-standing family feud, and a beautiful indentured servant.

6.2
36
Monster in the Closet

Monster in the Closet

1986 · 1h 30m · Movie

Paul Dooley, Paul Walker, John Carradine and Henry Gibson head up an all-star cast in this horror-comedy about a murderous but misunderstood monster!

4.9