Add/Update Information: John Carradine - Actor

An American actor, born in New York City, New York, USA, on February 5, 1906, as Richmond Reed Carradine to an artist/reporter and a surgeon. He received several awards and honors, including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960. John Carradine married four women, had four children, and adopted one child. His most important films include Stagecoach (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), and The Ten Commandments (1956). He was of English, Irish, and Dutch descent. He attended the Christ Church School in Kingston and the Graphic Arts Institute in Philadelphia, studying sculpture. Following a family dispute, he left home to work as an assistant to famous Philadelphia sculptor Daniel Chester French. John Carradine began his acting career in a theater in New Orleans in 1925, then went to Los Angeles in 1927 and worked in a local theater. He excelled in performing in Shakespearean plays, especially Hamlet, and then applied for a job as a scenic designer to director and producer Cecil B. DeMille, but he rejected his designs, and because John Carradine had a deep baritone voice, DeMille used his voice in many of his films, and for this reason, he was nicknamed "The Voice". He made his film debut in Bright Lights (1930) and then participated in Tol'able David (1930). John Carradine died on November 27, 1988, in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.