Changed his name to John Carradine in 1935.

Grandfather of Martha Plimpton.

The Carradine family traces its ancestry back to an actual saint--St. Pedro Carradegna, patron saint of Barcelona.

Father of Bruce Carradine, David Carradine, Keith Carradine and Robert Carradine.

Inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 2003.

Always ranked his performance in Bluebeard (1944) high among his career favorites.

Grandfather of Ever Carradine.

Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 165-167. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.

In later life he suffered from crippling arthritis, but continued to work.

Claimed near the end of his life to have appeared more movies than any other actor, surpassing the record set by Donald Crisp, the Oscar-winning actor and director who had started in silent films and had appeared in numerous one and two-reel films, many of them lost. The title for actor who appeared in most films likely is a contest between Carradine (more than 300 films) and Crisp (at least 170 known films). Of the contemporary generation, Christopher Lee, who has acted in more films than his peers (over 200 films), does not come close to matching Carradine's profligacy.