Keith Carradine
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Keith Ian Carradine is an American actor who has had success on stage, film and television. In addition, he is a Golden Globe and Oscar winning songwriter. As a member of the Carradine family
, he is part of an acting "dynasty
" that began with his father, John Carradine
.
, California. He is the son of actress and artist Sonia Sorel (née Henius) and actor John Carradine
. His paternal half-brothers are Bruce Carradine and David Carradine
. His maternal half-brother is Michael Bowen
, and his full brothers are Christopher
and Robert Carradine
. His maternal great-grandfather was biochemist Max Henius
, and his maternal great-grandmother was the sister of historian Johan Ludvig Heiberg
.
Carradine's childhood was difficult. He said that his father drank and his mother “was a manic depressive paranoid schizophrenic catatonic — she had it all.” His parents were divorced in 1957, when he was eight years old. A bitter custody battle led to his father gaining custody of him and his brothers, Christopher and Robert, after the children had spent three months in a home for abused children as wards of the court. Keith said of the experience, "It was like being in jail. There were bars on the windows, and we were only allowed to see our parents through glass doors. It was very sad. We would stand there on either side of the glass door crying." He was raised primarily by his maternal grandmother, and he rarely saw either of his parents. His mother was not permitted to see him for eight years following the custody settlement.
After high school, Carradine entertained the thought of becoming a forest ranger, but opted to study drama at Colorado State University. He dropped out after one semester and drifted back to California moving in with his older half-brother, David. David encouraged Keith to pursue an acting career, paid for his acting and vocal lessons, and helped him get an agent.
(1972), which launched his acting career. In that production he started out in the chorus and worked his way up to the lead roles playing Woof and Claude. He said of his involvement in Hair, "I really didn't plan to audition. I just went along with my brother, David, and his girlfriend at the time, Barbara Hershey
, and two of their friends. I was simply going to play the piano for them while they sang, but I'm the one the staff wound up getting interested in."
His stage career is further distinguished by his Tony
-nominated performance, for Best Actor (Musical) as the title character in the Tony Award
winning musical, the Will Rogers Follies
in 1991, for which he also received a Drama Desk nomination. He won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Foxfire
with Hume Cronyn
and Jessica Tandy
, and appeared as Lawrence in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
at the Imperial Theater. In 2008, he appeared as Dr. Farquhar Off-Broadway
in Mindgame, a thriller by Antony Horowitz, directed by Ken Russell
, who made his New York directorial debut with the production.
's McCabe & Mrs. Miller
, in 1971. He then starred in Altman's 1974 film Thieves Like Us, and went on to play one of the principal characters, a callow, womanizing folk singer, Tom Frank, in Altman's critically acclaimed 1975 film
, Nashville (See "Music and song writing"). He had difficulty shaking the image of Tom Frank following the popularity of the film. He felt the role gave him the reputation of being "a cad."
In 1977, Carradine starred opposite Harvey Keitel
in Ridley Scott
's The Duellists
. He has also acted in several offbeat films of Altman's protégé Alan Rudolph, playing a disarmingly candid madman in Choose Me
(1984), an incompetent petty criminal in Trouble in Mind
(1985), and an American artist in 1930s Paris in The Moderns
(1988).
Other works include Emperor of the North Pole
(1973) and Pretty Baby (1978). He also appeared with his brothers David and Robert as the Younger brothers
in Walter Hill's 1980 film, The Long Riders
. Keith played Jim Younger
in that film. In 1981, he appeared again under Hill's direction in Southern Comfort
. In 1994, he had a cameo role as Will Rogers
in Rudolph's 1994 film
about Dorothy Parker
, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
. He co-starred with Daryl Hannah
as homicidal sociopath
John Netherwood in the 1995 thriller The Tie That Binds.
, in the movie Nashville. It became a popular hit, and Carradine won a Golden Globe and an Oscar
for Best Original Song for the tune. This success led to a brief singing career, as he signed a contract with Asylum Records
and released two albums – I'm Easy (1975) and Lost & Found (1978). In 1984 he appeared in the video for Madonna
's single Material Girl
. In the early 1990s he played the lead role in the Tony Award
winning musical, The Will Rogers Follies.
, which starred his brother, David. He played a younger version of David's character, Kwai Chang Caine
. In 1987, he starred in the highly-rated CBS miniseries Murder Ordained
with JoBeth Williams
and Kathy Bates
. Other TV appearances include My Father My Son, a television film in 1988. In 1983, he appeared as Foxy Funderburke, a murderous pedophile, in the television miniseries Chiefs
, based on the Stuart Woods
novel of the same name
. His performance in Chiefs earned him a nomination for a Emmy Award
in the "Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Special" category.
Carradine starred in the ABC
sitcom Complete Savages
, and played Wild Bill Hickok
in the HBO series Deadwood
.
Carradine hosted the documentary Wild West Tech
series on the History Channel
during the 2003-2004 season, before handing the duties over to his brother, David. In the 2005 miniseries Into the West, produced by Steven Spielberg
and Dreamworks
, Carradine played Richard Henry Pratt
. During the second and fourth seasons of the Showtime series Dexter
, he appeared numerous times on as FBI Special Agent Frank Lundy. Carradine is also credited with guest starring twice on the suspense-drama Criminal Minds
, as the psychopathic serial killer Frank Breitkopf. A few other shows that he has guest starred in include The Big Bang Theory
and the Starz series Crash
.
. Though she was married (but separated at the time) to actor Steve Curry, she and Keith became romantically involved. After Keith left the show and had gone back to California he learned that Shelley was pregnant and had reunited with Steve. “I said, ‘You’re on your own,’ basically,” Carradine admitted. "I said, ‘I can’t deal with this.’ I was 19 and, as I said, it was probably my low point.” He had a change of heart and met his daughter, Martha Plimpton
, when she was four years old, after Shelley and Steve had divorced. He said of Shelley, "She did a hell of a job raising Martha. I was not there. I was a very young man, absolutely terrified. She just took that in, and then she welcomed me into Martha’s life when I was ready.”
Carradine married Sandra Will on February 6, 1982. They were separated in 1993 and subsequently divorced. They had two children: Cade Richmond Carradine, (born July 19, 1982) and Sorel Johannah Carradine (born June 18, 1985). In 2006, Sandra Will pled guilty to two counts of perjury for lying to a grand jury about her involvement in the Anthony Pellicano
wire tap scandal. Sandra Will hired, and then became romantically involved with, Pellicano after her divorce from Carradine. According to FBI documents, Pellicano tapped Keith Carradine's telephone and recorded calls between him and girlfriend Hayley DuMond at Sandra Will Carradine's request, as well as DuMond's parents. On November 18, 2006, Keith Carradine married actress Hayley DuMond, in Turin
, Italy. They met in 1997 when they co-starred in the Burt Reynolds
film The Hunter's Moon
.
Carradine family
The Carradine family are the family of American actor John Carradine, who had five sons, four of whom became actors.The family includes:John Carradine , married four times including: Ardanelle McCool...
, he is part of an acting "dynasty
Dynasty
A dynasty is a sequence of rulers considered members of the same family. Historians traditionally consider many sovereign states' history within a framework of successive dynasties, e.g., China, Ancient Egypt and the Persian Empire...
" that began with his father, John Carradine
John Carradine
John Carradine was an American actor, best known for his roles in horror films and Westerns as well as Shakespearean theater. A member of Cecil B DeMille's stock company and later John Ford's company, he was one of the most prolific character actors in Hollywood history...
.
Early life
Keith Carradine was born in San MateoSan Mateo, California
San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a population of approximately 100,000 , it is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the east, Belmont to the south,...
, California. He is the son of actress and artist Sonia Sorel (née Henius) and actor John Carradine
John Carradine
John Carradine was an American actor, best known for his roles in horror films and Westerns as well as Shakespearean theater. A member of Cecil B DeMille's stock company and later John Ford's company, he was one of the most prolific character actors in Hollywood history...
. His paternal half-brothers are Bruce Carradine and David Carradine
David Carradine
David Carradine was an American actor and martial artist, best known for his role as a warrior monk, Kwai Chang Caine, in the 1970s television series, Kung Fu, which later had a 1990s sequel series, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues...
. His maternal half-brother is Michael Bowen
Michael Bowen (actor)
Michael Bowen is an American actor. Films he has appeared in include Jackie Brown, Magnolia, and Less Than Zero. Bowen also had a recurring role as Danny Pickett on the ABC television series, Lost....
, and his full brothers are Christopher
Carradine family
The Carradine family are the family of American actor John Carradine, who had five sons, four of whom became actors.The family includes:John Carradine , married four times including: Ardanelle McCool...
and Robert Carradine
Robert Carradine
Robert Reed Carradine is an American actor. The youngest of the Carradine family of actors, he made his first appearances on television western series such as Bonanza and his older brother David's Kung Fu. Carradine's first film role was in the 1972 film The Cowboys opposite Roscoe Lee Browne and...
. His maternal great-grandfather was biochemist Max Henius
Max Henius
Max Henius was a Danish-American Biochemist who specialized in the fermentation processes. Max Henius co-founded the American Academy of Brewing in Chicago.-Background:...
, and his maternal great-grandmother was the sister of historian Johan Ludvig Heiberg
Johan Ludvig Heiberg (historian)
Johan Ludvig Heiberg was a Danish philologist and historian. He is best known for his discovery of previously unknown texts in the Archimedes Palimpsest, and for his edition of Euclid's Elements that T. L. Heath translated into English...
.
Carradine's childhood was difficult. He said that his father drank and his mother “was a manic depressive paranoid schizophrenic catatonic — she had it all.” His parents were divorced in 1957, when he was eight years old. A bitter custody battle led to his father gaining custody of him and his brothers, Christopher and Robert, after the children had spent three months in a home for abused children as wards of the court. Keith said of the experience, "It was like being in jail. There were bars on the windows, and we were only allowed to see our parents through glass doors. It was very sad. We would stand there on either side of the glass door crying." He was raised primarily by his maternal grandmother, and he rarely saw either of his parents. His mother was not permitted to see him for eight years following the custody settlement.
After high school, Carradine entertained the thought of becoming a forest ranger, but opted to study drama at Colorado State University. He dropped out after one semester and drifted back to California moving in with his older half-brother, David. David encouraged Keith to pursue an acting career, paid for his acting and vocal lessons, and helped him get an agent.
Stage
As a youth, Carradine had opportunities to appear on stage with his father, John Carradine, in the latter's productions of Shakespeare. Thus, he had some background in theater when he was cast in the original Broadway run of HairHair (musical)
Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot. A product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War peace movement...
(1972), which launched his acting career. In that production he started out in the chorus and worked his way up to the lead roles playing Woof and Claude. He said of his involvement in Hair, "I really didn't plan to audition. I just went along with my brother, David, and his girlfriend at the time, Barbara Hershey
Barbara Hershey
Barbara Hershey , also known as Barbara Seagull, is an American actress. In a career spanning nearly 50 years, she has played a variety of roles on television and in cinema, in several genres including westerns and comedies...
, and two of their friends. I was simply going to play the piano for them while they sang, but I'm the one the staff wound up getting interested in."
His stage career is further distinguished by his Tony
Tony Award
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
-nominated performance, for Best Actor (Musical) as the title character in the Tony Award
Tony Award
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
winning musical, the Will Rogers Follies
Will Rogers Follies
The Will Rogers Follies is a musical with a book by Peter Stone, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and music by Cy Coleman.It focuses on the life and career of famed humorist and performer Will Rogers, using as a backdrop the Ziegfeld Follies, which he often headlined, and describes every...
in 1991, for which he also received a Drama Desk nomination. He won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Foxfire
Foxfire (play)
Foxfire is a play by Susan Cooper and Hume Cronyn based on the Foxfire books, about Appalachian culture and traditions in north Georgia. The 1982 Broadway production starred Jessica Tandy, who won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play and the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play...
with Hume Cronyn
Hume Cronyn
Hume Blake Cronyn, OC was a Canadian actor of stage and screen, who enjoyed a long career, often appearing professionally alongside his second wife, Jessica Tandy.-Early life:...
and Jessica Tandy
Jessica Tandy
Jessie Alice "Jessica" Tandy was an English-American stage and film actress.She first appeared on the London stage in 1926 at the age of 16, playing, among others, Katherine opposite Laurence Olivier's Henry V, and Cordelia opposite John Gielgud's King Lear. She also worked in British films...
, and appeared as Lawrence in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (musical)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a Broadway musical, with music and lyrics by David Yazbek and a book by Jeffrey Lane; it is based on the film of the same name...
at the Imperial Theater. In 2008, he appeared as Dr. Farquhar Off-Broadway
Off-Broadway
Off-Broadway theater is a term for a professional venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, and for a specific production of a play, musical or revue that appears in such a venue, and which adheres to related trade union and other contracts...
in Mindgame, a thriller by Antony Horowitz, directed by Ken Russell
Ken Russell
Henry Kenneth Alfred "Ken" Russell was an English film director, known for his pioneering work in television and film and for his flamboyant and controversial style. He attracted criticism as being obsessed with sexuality and the church...
, who made his New York directorial debut with the production.
Film
Carradine's first notable film appearance was in director Robert AltmanRobert Altman
Robert Bernard Altman was an American film director and screenwriter known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized his body of work with an Academy Honorary Award.His films MASH , McCabe and...
's McCabe & Mrs. Miller
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
McCabe & Mrs. Miller is a 1971 American Western film starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie, and directed by Robert Altman. The screenplay is by Altman and Brian McKay from the novel McCabe by Edmund Naughton. The cinematography is by Vilmos Zsigmond and the soundtrack includes three songs by...
, in 1971. He then starred in Altman's 1974 film Thieves Like Us, and went on to play one of the principal characters, a callow, womanizing folk singer, Tom Frank, in Altman's critically acclaimed 1975 film
1975 in film
The year 1975 in film involved some significant events, with Steven Spielberg's thriller Jaws topping the box office.-Events:*March 26 - The film version of The Who's Tommy premieres in London....
, Nashville (See "Music and song writing"). He had difficulty shaking the image of Tom Frank following the popularity of the film. He felt the role gave him the reputation of being "a cad."
In 1977, Carradine starred opposite Harvey Keitel
Harvey Keitel
Harvey Keitel is an American actor. Some of his most notable starring roles were in Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets and Taxi Driver, Ridley Scott's The Duellists and Thelma and Louise, Ettore Scola's That Night in Varennes, Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, Jane Campion's The...
in Ridley Scott
Ridley Scott
Sir Ridley Scott is an English film director and producer. His most famous films include The Duellists , Alien , Blade Runner , Legend , Thelma & Louise , G. I...
's The Duellists
The Duellists
The Duellists is a 1977 historical drama film that was Ridley Scott's first feature film as a director. It won the Best Debut Film award at the 1977 Cannes Film Festival...
. He has also acted in several offbeat films of Altman's protégé Alan Rudolph, playing a disarmingly candid madman in Choose Me
Choose Me
Choose Me is a 1984 American comedy-drama film directed and written by Alan Rudolph. It was rated R by the MPAA. The film's tagline is In the middle of the night, when there's no one else...-Synopsis:...
(1984), an incompetent petty criminal in Trouble in Mind
Trouble in Mind (film)
Trouble in Mind is a 1985 neo-noir film which follows an ex-cop just released from jail after serving time for a murder sentence as he returns to the mean streets of the fictional "Rain City"....
(1985), and an American artist in 1930s Paris in The Moderns
The Moderns
The Moderns is a 1988 film by Alan Rudolph, which takes place in 1926 Paris during the period of the Lost Generation and at the height of modernist literature...
(1988).
Other works include Emperor of the North Pole
Emperor of the North Pole
Emperor of the North Pole is a 1973 American film starring Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, and Keith Carradine. It was re-released under the shorter title Emperor of the North, and is better known under the latter name....
(1973) and Pretty Baby (1978). He also appeared with his brothers David and Robert as the Younger brothers
James-Younger gang
The James-Younger Gang was a notable 19th-century gang of American outlaws that included Jesse James.The gang was centered in the state of Missouri. Membership fluctuated from robbery to robbery, as the outlaws' raids were usually separated by many months...
in Walter Hill's 1980 film, The Long Riders
The Long Riders
The Long Riders is a 1980 western film directed by Walter Hill. It was produced by James Keach, Stacy Keach and Tim Zinnemann and featured an original soundtrack by Ry Cooder. Cooder won the Best Music award in 1980 from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards for this soundtrack...
. Keith played Jim Younger
Jim Younger
James Hardin "Jim" Younger was a notable American outlaw and member of the James-Younger gang. He was the brother of Cole, John and Bob Younger-Life:...
in that film. In 1981, he appeared again under Hill's direction in Southern Comfort
Southern Comfort (film)
Southern Comfort is an American action/thriller film directed by Walter Hill, working from a script by Hill, longtime collaborator David Giler, and Michael Kane. It featured Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Alan Autry, Les Lannom, Peter Coyote, T. K...
. In 1994, he had a cameo role as Will Rogers
Will Rogers
William "Will" Penn Adair Rogers was an American cowboy, comedian, humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer, film actor, and one of the world's best-known celebrities in the 1920s and 1930s....
in Rudolph's 1994 film
1994 in film
1994 was a significant year in film.The top grosser worldwide was The Lion King, which to date stands as the highest-grossing traditionally-animated film of all time...
about Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker was an American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th century urban foibles....
, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle is a 1994 film scripted by writer/director Alan Rudolph and former Washington Star reporter Randy Sue Coburn...
. He co-starred with Daryl Hannah
Daryl Hannah
Daryl Christine Hannah is an American film actress. After making her screen debut in 1978, Hannah starred in a number of Hollywood films throughout the 1980s, notably Blade Runner, Splash, Wall Street and Roxanne and Kill Bill.-Early life:Hannah was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Susan...
as homicidal sociopath
Psychopathy
Psychopathy is a mental disorder characterized primarily by a lack of empathy and remorse, shallow emotions, egocentricity, and deceptiveness. Psychopaths are highly prone to antisocial behavior and abusive treatment of others, and are very disproportionately responsible for violent crime...
John Netherwood in the 1995 thriller The Tie That Binds.
Music and song writing
In addition to acting, the Carradine family is musically gifted. This is particularly true of Keith. His brother, David, said in an interview that Keith could play any instrument that he wanted to, including bagpipes and the French horn. Like David, Keith integrated his musical talents with his acting performances. In 1975, he performed a song he wrote, I'm EasyI'm Easy (song)
"I'm Easy" was a popular music hit in 1976 in the United States. The song was featured in the movie Nashville, written and performed by Keith Carradine....
, in the movie Nashville. It became a popular hit, and Carradine won a Golden Globe and an Oscar
Academy Awards
An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...
for Best Original Song for the tune. This success led to a brief singing career, as he signed a contract with Asylum Records
Asylum Records
Asylum Records is an American record label founded in 1971 by David Geffen, and partner Elliot Roberts, who had previously worked as agents at the William Morris Agency. Founded specifically to provide a record contract for Jackson Browne, the label signed Tom Waits, Linda Ronstadt, Joni Mitchell...
and released two albums – I'm Easy (1975) and Lost & Found (1978). In 1984 he appeared in the video for Madonna
Madonna (entertainer)
Madonna is an American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her debut album in 1983...
's single Material Girl
Material Girl
"Material Girl" is a song performed by American singer-songwriter Madonna. It was released on January 30, 1985, by Sire Records, as the second single from her second album Like a Virgin. It also appears slightly remixed on the 1990 greatest hits compilation, The Immaculate Collection, and in its...
. In the early 1990s he played the lead role in the Tony Award
Tony Award
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
winning musical, The Will Rogers Follies.
Television
In 1972, Keith Carradine appeared briefly in the first season of the hit television series, Kung FuKung Fu (TV series)
Kung Fu is an American television series that starred David Carradine. It was created by Ed Spielman, directed and produced by Jerry Thorpe, and developed by Herman Miller, who was also a writer for, and co-producer of, the series...
, which starred his brother, David. He played a younger version of David's character, Kwai Chang Caine
Kwai Chang Caine
Kwai Chang Caine [虔官昌 or 拐杖棍 Qián Guānchāng] is a fictional television character in the 1972–1975 western television series, Kung Fu. He has been portrayed by David Carradine as an adult, Keith Carradine as a younger Caine and Radames Pera the child Caine and Stephen Manley as the youngest...
. In 1987, he starred in the highly-rated CBS miniseries Murder Ordained
Murder Ordained
Murder Ordained is 1987 Emmy-nominated CBS miniseries starring JoBeth Williams, Kathy Bates, and Keith Carradine. The telefilm, directed and co-written by Mike Robe, was inspired by real events that occurred in Emporia, Kansas. Much of the principal photography and filming occurred on location in...
with JoBeth Williams
JoBeth Williams
JoBeth Williams is an American film and television actress and director, and current President of the Screen Actors Guild Foundation.-Early life:...
and Kathy Bates
Kathy Bates
Kathleen Doyle "Kathy" Bates is an American actress and director.After several small roles in film and television, Bates rose to prominence with her performance in Misery , for which she won both the Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe...
. Other TV appearances include My Father My Son, a television film in 1988. In 1983, he appeared as Foxy Funderburke, a murderous pedophile, in the television miniseries Chiefs
Chiefs (TV miniseries)
Chiefs is a miniseries based upon the novel of the same name by Stuart Woods. It was broadcast on CBS over three nights in November 1983. It was directed by Jerry London, and stars Charlton Heston, Keith Carradine, Stephen Collins, Danny Glover, Wayne Rogers and Billy Dee Williams...
, based on the Stuart Woods
Stuart Woods
-Early life:Stuart Woods was born in Manchester, Georgia and graduated in 1959 from the University of Georgia, with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology. After graduation he enrolled in the Air National Guard, spending two months in basic training before moving to New York, where he began a career in...
novel of the same name
Chiefs (Novel)
Chiefs is the first novel in the Will Lee series by Stuart Woods. It was first published in 1981 by W. W. Norton Co., Inc. The novel takes place in the fictional town of Delano, Georgia, over three generations, as three different police chiefs attempt to identify a serial killer operating in the...
. His performance in Chiefs earned him a nomination for a Emmy Award
Emmy Award
An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
in the "Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Special" category.
Carradine starred in the ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
sitcom Complete Savages
Complete Savages
Complete Savages is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from September 2004 to June 2005. It was part of ABC's final TGIF comedy line-up. The show was created by Mike Scully and Julie Thacker and executive produced by Mel Gibson...
, and played Wild Bill Hickok
Wild Bill Hickok
James Butler Hickok , better known as Wild Bill Hickok, was a folk hero of the American Old West. His skills as a gunfighter and scout, along with his reputation as a lawman, provided the basis for his fame, although some of his exploits are fictionalized.Hickok came to the West as a stagecoach...
in the HBO series Deadwood
Deadwood (TV series)
Deadwood is an American Western drama television series created, produced and largely written by David Milch. The series aired on the premium cable network HBO from March 21, 2004, to August 27, 2006, spanning three 12-episode seasons. The show is set in the 1870s in Deadwood, South Dakota, before...
.
Carradine hosted the documentary Wild West Tech
Wild West Tech
Wild West Tech was a program that aired on The History Channel in the United States. The show was originally hosted by Keith Carradine , but his brother, David Carradine took over hosting duties for season 2 and subsequent seasons...
series on the History Channel
The History Channel
History, formerly known as The History Channel, is an American-based international satellite and cable TV channel that broadcasts a variety of reality shows and documentary programs including those of fictional and non-fictional historical content, together with speculation about the future.-...
during the 2003-2004 season, before handing the duties over to his brother, David. In the 2005 miniseries Into the West, produced by Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg KBE is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an...
and Dreamworks
DreamWorks
DreamWorks Pictures, also known as DreamWorks, LLC, DreamWorks SKG, DreamWorks II Distribution Co., LLC, DreamWorks Studios or DW Studios, LLC, is an American film studio which develops, produces, and distributes films, video games and television programming...
, Carradine played Richard Henry Pratt
Richard Henry Pratt
Richard Henry Pratt is best known as the founder and longtime superintendent of the influential Carlisle Indian Industrial School at Carlisle, Pennsylvania.-Military career:...
. During the second and fourth seasons of the Showtime series Dexter
Dexter (TV series)
Dexter is an American television drama series, which debuted on Showtime on October 1, 2006. The sixth season premiered on October 2, 2011. The series centers on Dexter Morgan , a bloodstain pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police Department who moonlights as a serial killer...
, he appeared numerous times on as FBI Special Agent Frank Lundy. Carradine is also credited with guest starring twice on the suspense-drama Criminal Minds
Criminal Minds
Criminal Minds is an American police procedural drama that premiered September 22, 2005, on CBS. The series follows a team of profilers from the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit based in Quantico, Virginia. The BAU is part of the FBI National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime...
, as the psychopathic serial killer Frank Breitkopf. A few other shows that he has guest starred in include The Big Bang Theory
The Big Bang Theory
The Big Bang Theory is an American sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, both of whom serve as executive producers on the show, along with Steven Molaro. All three also serve as head writers...
and the Starz series Crash
Crash (2008 TV series)
Crash is an American television drama series set in Los Angeles, California. It is the first original series produced by the Starz network. The network ordered a 13 episode season which premiered on October 17, 2008. The series is based on the 2004 film of the same name. It was developed for...
.
Games
He will do a voice over for the character Blake Dexter in the upcoming video game Hitman: Absolution.Personal life
Keith Carradine met Shelley Plimpton when they both were in the Broadway musical HairHair (musical)
Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot. A product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War peace movement...
. Though she was married (but separated at the time) to actor Steve Curry, she and Keith became romantically involved. After Keith left the show and had gone back to California he learned that Shelley was pregnant and had reunited with Steve. “I said, ‘You’re on your own,’ basically,” Carradine admitted. "I said, ‘I can’t deal with this.’ I was 19 and, as I said, it was probably my low point.” He had a change of heart and met his daughter, Martha Plimpton
Martha Plimpton
Martha Campbell Plimpton is an American actress and singer and former model. Plimpton is a screen, stage and television actress. She first appeared as Jonsy in the feature film River Rats before rising to prominence in the Richard Donner film The Goonies portraying the character Stef...
, when she was four years old, after Shelley and Steve had divorced. He said of Shelley, "She did a hell of a job raising Martha. I was not there. I was a very young man, absolutely terrified. She just took that in, and then she welcomed me into Martha’s life when I was ready.”
Carradine married Sandra Will on February 6, 1982. They were separated in 1993 and subsequently divorced. They had two children: Cade Richmond Carradine, (born July 19, 1982) and Sorel Johannah Carradine (born June 18, 1985). In 2006, Sandra Will pled guilty to two counts of perjury for lying to a grand jury about her involvement in the Anthony Pellicano
Anthony Pellicano
Anthony Pellicano is a former high-profile Los Angeles private investigator who recently served a sentence of three and a half years in federal prison for illegal possession of explosives, firearms and homemade grenades, and who was arrested on February 4, 2006, on unlawful wiretapping and...
wire tap scandal. Sandra Will hired, and then became romantically involved with, Pellicano after her divorce from Carradine. According to FBI documents, Pellicano tapped Keith Carradine's telephone and recorded calls between him and girlfriend Hayley DuMond at Sandra Will Carradine's request, as well as DuMond's parents. On November 18, 2006, Keith Carradine married actress Hayley DuMond, in Turin
Turin
Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...
, Italy. They met in 1997 when they co-starred in the Burt Reynolds
Burt Reynolds
Burton Leon "Burt" Reynolds, Jr. is an American actor. Some of his memorable roles include Bo 'Bandit' Darville in Smokey and the Bandit, Lewis Medlock in Deliverance, Bobby "Gator" McCluskey in White Lightning and sequel Gator, Paul Crewe and Coach Nate Scarborough in The Longest Yard and its...
film The Hunter's Moon
The Hunter's Moon (film)
The Hunter's Moon is a 1999 action drama directed by Richard C. Weinman and starring Burt Reynolds. The supporting cast includes Keith Carradine and Hayley DuMond...
.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | McCabe & Mrs. Miller McCabe & Mrs. Miller McCabe & Mrs. Miller is a 1971 American Western film starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie, and directed by Robert Altman. The screenplay is by Altman and Brian McKay from the novel McCabe by Edmund Naughton. The cinematography is by Vilmos Zsigmond and the soundtrack includes three songs by... |
Cowboy | |
| 1973 | Emperor of the North Pole Emperor of the North Pole Emperor of the North Pole is a 1973 American film starring Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, and Keith Carradine. It was re-released under the shorter title Emperor of the North, and is better known under the latter name.... |
Cigaret | |
| 1973 | Idaho Transfer Idaho Transfer Idaho Transfer is a 1973 science fiction film directed by Peter Fonda. It stars Kelley Bohanon, Kevin Hearst, Dale Hopkins, and Keith Carradine.-Plot summary:... |
Arthur | |
| 1973 | Hex Hex (film) Hex is a 1973 US horror film starring Keith Carradine, Dan Haggerty, Gary Busey, Hillarie Thompson and Tina Herazo that, according to Phil Hardy's The Encyclopedia of Horror Movies "crosses elements of the bike film with those of the post-western and the supernatural tale." Hardy's book also... |
Whizzer | |
| 1974 | Antoine et Sébastien | John | |
| 1974 | Thieves Like Us Thieves Like Us (film) Thieves Like Us is a 1974 film directed by Robert Altman, starring Keith Carradine and Shelley Duvall. The film was based on the novel Thieves Like Us by Edward Anderson... |
Bowie | |
| 1974 | Run, Run, Joe! Run, Run, Joe! Run, Run, Joe! is an Italian action-comedy movie directed in 1974 by Giuseppe Colizzi. It is the penultimate movie of Colizzi, before the posthumously released Switch. The movie reprises the style of the movies of the popular duo Bud Spencer-Terence Hill, that the same Colizzi had launched in... |
Joe | |
| 1975 | Nashville | Tom Frank | Academy Award for Best Original Song Academy Award for Best Original Song The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . It is presented to the songwriters who have composed the best original song written specifically for a film... |
| 1975 | You and Me | ||
| 1976 | Lumiére | David | |
| 1976 | Welcome to L.A. Welcome to L.A. Welcome to L.A. is a 1976 film directed by Alan Rudolph and starring Keith Carradine.-Plot:The theme of romantic despair and shallowness is displayed utilizing a La Ronde-like circle of sexual adventures and failed affairs centered around songwriter Carroll Barber, played by Keith Carradine, which... |
Carroll Barber | |
| 1977 | The Duellists The Duellists The Duellists is a 1977 historical drama film that was Ridley Scott's first feature film as a director. It won the Best Debut Film award at the 1977 Cannes Film Festival... |
D'Hubert | |
| 1978 | Pretty Baby | Bellocq | |
| 1978 | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (film) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is a 1978 American musical film. Its soundtrack, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, features new versions of songs originally written and performed by The Beatles. The film draws primarily from two of their albums, 1967's Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club... |
Our Guests At Heartland | |
| 1979 | Old Boyfriends | Wayne Van Til | |
| 1979 | An Almost Perfect Affair An Almost Perfect Affair An Almost Perfect Affair is a 1979 romantic comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie about the Cannes Film Festival and an affair between a filmmaker and a film producer's wife, set during the film festival... |
Hal Raymond | |
| 1980 | The Long Riders The Long Riders The Long Riders is a 1980 western film directed by Walter Hill. It was produced by James Keach, Stacy Keach and Tim Zinnemann and featured an original soundtrack by Ry Cooder. Cooder won the Best Music award in 1980 from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards for this soundtrack... |
Jim Younger | |
| 1981 | Southern Comfort Southern Comfort (film) Southern Comfort is an American action/thriller film directed by Walter Hill, working from a script by Hill, longtime collaborator David Giler, and Michael Kane. It featured Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Alan Autry, Les Lannom, Peter Coyote, T. K... |
Pfc. Spencer | |
| 1984 | Choose Me Choose Me Choose Me is a 1984 American comedy-drama film directed and written by Alan Rudolph. It was rated R by the MPAA. The film's tagline is In the middle of the night, when there's no one else...-Synopsis:... |
Mickey | |
| 1984 | Maria's Lovers | Clarence Butts | |
| 1985 | Trouble in Mind Trouble in Mind (film) Trouble in Mind is a 1985 neo-noir film which follows an ex-cop just released from jail after serving time for a murder sentence as he returns to the mean streets of the fictional "Rain City".... |
Coop | |
| 1986 | L'Inchiesta | Tito Valerio Tauro | |
| 1988 | The Moderns The Moderns The Moderns is a 1988 film by Alan Rudolph, which takes place in 1926 Paris during the period of the Lost Generation and at the height of modernist literature... |
Nick Hart | |
| 1988 | Backfire Backfire The word backfire in general use usually refers to a plan where the opposite of the desired effect happens or the perpetrator is directly affected as opposed to their intended target.In economics, backfire is described in terms of:* the Jevons paradox... |
Reed | |
| 1989 | Street of No Return Street of No Return Street of No Return is a 1989 crime film directed by Samuel Fuller. It stars Keith Carradine and Valentina Vargas, based on the 1954 novel with the same title written by David Goodis.-Cast:*Keith Carradine as Michael*Valentina Vargas as Celia... |
Michael | |
| 1989 | Cold Feet | Monte Latham | |
| 1990 | Daddy's Dyin': Who's Got the Will? Daddy's Dyin': Who's Got the Will? "Daddy's Dyin'...Who's Got the Will?" is a US Southern-themed ensemble Comedy-drama. The independent film was released May 4, 1990.-Plot:Buford Turnover is suffering from advanced dementia, and it's only a matter of time before he dies... |
Clarence | |
| 1990 | The Bachelor The Bachelor (1990 film) The Bachelor is a 1990 drama film directed by Roberto Faenza and starring Keith Carradine, Miranda Richardson and Kristin Scott Thomas. It is set in the Austro-Hungarian Empire before the First World War. Doctor Emil Gräsler, a distinguished physician, is forced to choose between two women he... |
Dr. Emil Gräsler | |
| 1991 | The Ballad of the Sad Cafe The Ballad of the Sad Café (film) The Ballad of the Sad Café is a 1991 Merchant Ivory film, produced by Ismail Merchant and directed by Simon Callow, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Keith Carradine. Michael Hirst adapted the Edward Albee play, which in turn was based on a novella in a collection of short stories of the same title by... |
Marvin Macy | |
| 1992 | Rabbit Ears: Annie Oakley | Storyteller | Direct-to-Video |
| 1992 | CrissCross CrissCross CrissCross is a 1992 feature film directed by Chris Menges, based on the novel by Scott Sommer. It stars Goldie Hawn, Arliss Howard, Keith Carradine, Steve Buscemi, and David Arnott.- Plot :... |
John Cross | |
| 1994 | Andre Andre (film) Andre is a 1994 feature film starring Tina Majorino about a child's encounter with a seal. The film is an adaptation of the book A Seal Called Andre, which in turn was based on a true story.-Plot:... |
Harry Whitney | |
| 1994 | Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle is a 1994 film scripted by writer/director Alan Rudolph and former Washington Star reporter Randy Sue Coburn... |
Will Rogers | |
| 1995 | The Tie That Binds The Tie That Binds (1995 film) The Tie That Binds is a 1995 thriller film, and the directing debut of screenwriter Wesley Strick. The film stars Daryl Hannah, Keith Carradine, Vincent Spano, Moira Kelly and Julia Devin... |
John Netherwood | |
| 1996 | 2 Days in the Valley 2 Days in the Valley 2 Days in the Valley is a 1996 film, directed by John Herzfeld. The film revolves around the events over 48 hours in the lives of a group of people who are drawn together by a murder. Several parallel storylines overlap one another in the film.-Plot:... |
Detective Creighton | |
| 1997 | A Thousand Acres A Thousand Acres (film) A Thousand Acres is an American motion picture drama directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse, and starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jason Robards.... |
Ty Smith | |
| 1998 | Standoff | Zeke Clayton | |
| 1999 | The Hunter's Moon The Hunter's Moon (film) The Hunter's Moon is a 1999 action drama directed by Richard C. Weinman and starring Burt Reynolds. The supporting cast includes Keith Carradine and Hayley DuMond... |
Turner | |
| 1999 | Out of the Cold | Dan Scott | |
| 2001 | Cahoots | Matt | |
| 2001 | Wooly Boys Wooly Boys Wooly Boys is a 2001 comedy film about sheep farmers set in the Badlands of North Dakota.-Plot:Grizzled North Dakota rancher Stoney heads to the big city to see his daughter and winds up bonding with the grandson he never knew in this heartwarming tale. Stoney's city-bred grandson, Charles ,... |
Sheriff Hank Dawson | |
| 2002 | Falcons Falcons (film) Falcons , was the seventh film directed by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson. This film, released in 2002, is mostly in English language and therefore this drama is considered to be a film of both domestic and international appeal.... |
Simon | |
| 2002 | The Angel Doll | Adjult Jerry Barlow | |
| 2002 | The Outsider The Outsider (2002 film) The Outsider is a 2002 Western film starring Tim Daly and Naomi Watts. The film is based on Penelope Williamson's novel. Similar to Angel and the Badman where John Wayne plays a wounded outlaw who is sheltered by a Quaker family.-Plot summary:... |
Noah Weaver | |
| 2003 | The Adventures of Ociee Nash | Papa George Nash | Direct-to-Video |
| 2004 | Hair High Hair High Hair High is a 2004 animated comedy-horror-romance by American filmmaker Bill Plympton.-Plot:A gothic high-school comedy with a Carrie-like story. Cherri and Rod are the high-school king and queen and they justifiably rule their domain... |
JoJo | Voice Only |
| 2004 | Balto III: Wings of Change Balto III: Wings of Change Balto III: Wings of Change is a 2004 straight-to-video sequel to Universal Studios' 2002 animated film Balto II: Wolf Quest.-Plot:Balto's son Kodi works for the US Mail. Kodi loves his job and his new friends, - Dusty , Kirby and Ralph... |
Duke | Direct-to-Video, Voice Only |
| 2005 | Our Very Own | Billy Whitfield | |
| 2005 | The Californians The Californians The Californians is a 2005 independent drama film from Hart Sharp Films starring Noah Wyle.-Cast:*Noah Wyle as Gavin Ransom*Illeana Douglas as Olive Ransom*Kate Mara as Zoe Tripp*Cloris Leachman as Eileen Boatwright*Joanne Whalley as Luna... |
Elton Tripp | |
| 2007 | Elvis and Anabelle Elvis and Anabelle Elvis and Anabelle is an independent film directed by Will Geiger. It premiered on March 10, 2007 at the South by Southwest film and music festival in Austin, Texas... |
Jimmy | |
| 2007 | The Death and Life of Bobby Z The Death and Life of Bobby Z The Death and Life of Bobby Z, also known as Bobby Z and Let's kill Bobby Z, is a 2007 American action film, directed by John Herzfeld, and stars Paul Walker, Laurence Fishburne, Olivia Wilde and Joaquim de Almeida... |
Johnson | |
| 2007 | All Hat All Hat All Hat is a 2007 Canadian western comedy film directed by Leonard Farlinger, written by Brad Smith , and starring Luke Kirby, Keith Carradine, Noam Jenkins, and Lisa Ray.-Plot:... |
Pete Culpepper | |
| 2008 | Lake City Lake City (film) Lake City is a 2008 American drama film directed by Perry Moore and Hunter Hill and stars Sissy Spacek, Troy Garity and Dave Matthews.-Plot:... |
Roy | |
| 2009 | Winter of Frozen Dreams Winter of Frozen Dreams Winter of Frozen Dreams was filmed in 2006 crime drama directed by Eric Mandelbaum, and starring Thora Birch, Keith Carradine, and Brendan Sexton III.Filmed in Schenectady N.Y... |
Det. Lulling | |
| 2010 | Peacock Peacock (2009 film) Peacock is a 2010 American direct-to-video psychological thriller directed by Michael Lander, written by Lander and Ryan Roy, and starring Cillian Murphy, Ellen Page and Susan Sarandon... |
Mayor Ray Crill | Direct-to-Video |
| 2010 | The Family Tree | Reverend Diggs | |
| 2011 | Cowboys & Aliens Cowboys & Aliens (film) Cowboys & Aliens is a 2011 American science fiction Western film directed by Jon Favreau and starring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, and Olivia Wilde. The film is based on the 2006 graphic novel of the same name created by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg... |
Sheriff Taggart | |
| 2012 | The Absinthe Drinkers The Absinthe Drinkers (film) The Absinthe Drinkers is an upcoming John Charles Jopson movie set in 19th century Europe.-Synopsis:Peter Facinelli portrays Lucciola, an "opium-addicted has-been sculptor who is a member of a small clique of eccentric foreign artists who have settled in Montmartre, to create art, consume drugs... |
Baron Amedeo di Magenta | In Production |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Bonanza Bonanza Bonanza is an American western television series that both ran on and was a production of NBC from September 12, 1959 to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 430 episodes, it ranks as the second longest running western series and still continues to air in syndication. It centers on the... |
Ern | Episode: Bushwacked |
| 1972 | Man on a String | Danny Brown | |
| 1972 | Love, American Style Love, American Style Love, American Style is an hour-long TV anthology produced by Paramount Television and originally aired between September 1969 and January 1974... |
Episode: Love and the Anniversary | |
| 1972–1973 | Kung Fu Kung Fu (TV series) Kung Fu is an American television series that starred David Carradine. It was created by Ed Spielman, directed and produced by Jerry Thorpe, and developed by Herman Miller, who was also a writer for, and co-producer of, the series... |
Young Man Caine / Caine as teenager | Uncredited Episode: Pilot Episode: Chains |
| 1980 | A Rumor of War | Lt. Murph McCoy | |
| 1983 | Chiefs Chiefs (TV miniseries) Chiefs is a miniseries based upon the novel of the same name by Stuart Woods. It was broadcast on CBS over three nights in November 1983. It was directed by Jerry London, and stars Charlton Heston, Keith Carradine, Stephen Collins, Danny Glover, Wayne Rogers and Billy Dee Williams... |
Foxy Funderburke | Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie |
| 1984 | Scorned and Swindled | John Boslett | |
| 1984 | The Fall Guy The Fall Guy The Fall Guy is an American action/adventure television program produced for ABC and originally broadcast from November 4, 1981 to May 2, 1986. It starred Lee Majors, Douglas Barr, and Heather Thomas. Majors and Barr are the only two actors to appear in all 112 episodes of the series... |
Cook | Episode: October the 31st |
| 1985 | Blackout | Allen Devlin | |
| 1986 | Half a Lifetime | J.J. | |
| 1986 | A Winner Never Quits | Pete Gray | |
| 1987 | Murder Ordained Murder Ordained Murder Ordained is 1987 Emmy-nominated CBS miniseries starring JoBeth Williams, Kathy Bates, and Keith Carradine. The telefilm, directed and co-written by Mike Robe, was inspired by real events that occurred in Emporia, Kansas. Much of the principal photography and filming occurred on location in... |
Trooper John Rule | |
| 1987 | Eye on the Sparrow | James Lee | |
| 1988 | Stones for Ibarra | Richard Everton | |
| 1988 | My Father, My Son | Lt. Elmo Zumwalt III | |
| 1989 | The Revenge of Al Capone | Michael Rourke | |
| 1989 | Hallmark Hall of Fame Hallmark Hall of Fame Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The second longest-running television program in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2011... |
Richard Everton | Episode: Stones for Ibarra |
| 1989 | The Forgotten | Captain Tom Watkins | |
| 1989 | Confessional | Liam Devlin | |
| 1990 | Judgment | Pete Guitry | |
| 1991 | Payoff | Peter 'Mac' McAllister | |
| 1992 | Lincoln | William Herndon | Voice Only |
| 1994 | In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness | Tom Lynch | |
| 1994 | Is There Life Out There? Is There Life Out There (film) Is There Life Out There is a 1994 made-for-tv movie starring Reba McEntire, who also sings the title song.-Plot:Lily Marshall has a loving, supportive husband, two great kids and an unfulfilled dream: to return to college and get the degree she always wanted. "Is there life beyond her family and... |
Brad | |
| 1995 | Trial by Fire | Owen Turner | |
| 1996 | Special Report: Journey to Mars | Capt. Eugene T. Slader | |
| 1996 | Dead Man's Walk Dead Man's Walk Dead Man's Walk is a 1995 novel by Larry McMurtry. It is the third book published in the Lonesome Dove series, but the first installment in terms of chronology. McMurtry wrote a fourth segment to the Lonesome Dove chronicle, Comanche Moon, which describes the events of the central characters' lives... |
Bigfoot Wallace | Episode: Episode #1.1 Episode: Episode #1.2 Episode: Episode #1.3 |
| 1997 | Keeping the Promise Keeping the Promise Keeping the Promise is a 1997 historical drama television film based on the children's novel The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare... |
William (Will) Hallowell | |
| 1997 | Last Stand at Saber River Last Stand at Saber River Last Stand at Saber River is a 1997 television movie starring Tom Selleck, based on the 1959 novel of the same title by Elmore Leonard. Directed by Dick Lowry, the film also featured Suzy Amis, Haley Joel Osment, Tracey Needham, Keith Carradine, David Carradine, and Harry Carey Jr..In 1997, Osment... |
Vern Kidston | |
| 1997 | Perversions of Science Perversions of Science Perversions of Science is a science fiction/horror television series that ran on the cable channel HBO for one season in 1997.It is a spin-off of popular horror series Tales from the Crypt also shown on HBO, and its episodes are based on EC's Weird Science comic book series.The format of... |
Arthur Bristol | Episode: Dream of Doom |
| 1997–1998 | Fast Track | Dr. Richard Beckett | Series Regular |
| 1999 | Outreach | Dr. Vincent Shaw | |
| 1999 | Night Ride Home | Neal Mahler | |
| 1999 | Sirens Sirens (1999 film) Sirens is a 1999 crime-drama TV film starring Dana Delany. Premiered September 26, 1999 on Showtime Networks.-Plot:Sally Rawlings is a white woman who is making out with Vincent Morgan, her black husband in a parked car when a group of policemen surround the car and murder Edward... |
Officer Dan Wexler | |
| 1999 | A Song from the Heart | Oliver Comstock | |
| 1999 | Hard Time: Hostage Hotel | Cpl. Arlin Flynn | |
| 2000 | Metropolis | Quincy | |
| 2000 | Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble | Pierce Butler | |
| 2000 | Baby Baby (novel) Baby is a 1995 novel by Patricia MacLachlan. It explores the themes of family and abandonment while offering a touching novel about a family who discovers a baby and has to care for it... |
John Malone | |
| 2001 | The Diamond of Jeru | John Lacklan | |
| 2002 | American Experience American Experience American Experience is a television program airing on the Public Broadcasting Service Public television stations in the United States. The program airs documentaries, many of which have won awards, about important or interesting events and people in American history... |
Narrator | Episode: Public Enemy Number 1 |
| 2002 | Frasier Frasier Frasier is an American sitcom that was broadcast on NBC for eleven seasons, from September 16, 1993, to May 13, 2004. The program was created and produced by David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee in association with Grammnet and Paramount Network Television.A spin-off of Cheers, Frasier stars... |
Carl | Episode: Frasier Has Spokane, Voice Only |
| 2002 | Arliss Arliss -Criticism:This show, which ran for seven seasons, is a prime example of how HBO differs from traditional networks due to its nature as a network its viewers specifically pay to be able to watch. Arliss was cited by so many viewers as the sole reason that they paid for the network that its... |
Lamar Scott | Episode: What You See Is What You Get |
| 2002 | "Street Time" | Frank Dugan | Episode: Lesser Evils Episode: Respect Episode: Above Suspicion |
| 2003 | Monte Walsh | Chester 'Chet' Rollins | |
| 2003 | Enterprise | A.G. Robinson | Episode: First Flight |
| 2003 | Spider-Man: The New Animated Series Spider-Man: The New Animated Series Spider-Man: The New Animated Series is an animated series featuring the Marvel comic book superhero Spider-Man, which ran for one season, 13 episodes, starting on July 11, 2003... |
Jonah Jameson | Voice Only Episode: Law of the Jungle Episode: Tight Squeeze Episode: Mind Games: Part 1 Episode: Mind Games: Part 2 Episode: Flash Memory |
| 2003 | Coyote Waits Coyote Waits Coyote Waits is a novel by Tony Hillerman. It was adapted as a TV film, which aired in 2003.-Coyote Waits :The plot involves rock formation vandalism, a dead policeman, an elderly Navajo accused of his murder, a bottle of expensive scotch, and a book on Navajo witchcraft beliefs.This book... |
John McGinnis | |
| 2003–2004 | Wild West Tech Wild West Tech Wild West Tech was a program that aired on The History Channel in the United States. The show was originally hosted by Keith Carradine , but his brother, David Carradine took over hosting duties for season 2 and subsequent seasons... |
Host | |
| 2004 | Deadwood Deadwood (TV series) Deadwood is an American Western drama television series created, produced and largely written by David Milch. The series aired on the premium cable network HBO from March 21, 2004, to August 27, 2006, spanning three 12-episode seasons. The show is set in the 1870s in Deadwood, South Dakota, before... |
Wild Bill Hickock | Episode: The Trial of Jack McCall Episode: Here Was a Man Episode: Reconnoitering the Rim Episode: Deep Water Episode: Deadwood |
| 2004–2005 | Complete Savages Complete Savages Complete Savages is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from September 2004 to June 2005. It was part of ABC's final TGIF comedy line-up. The show was created by Mike Scully and Julie Thacker and executive produced by Mel Gibson... |
Nick Savage | Series Regular |
| 2005 | Into the West Into the West (TV miniseries) Into the West is a 2005 miniseries produced by Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks, with six two-hour episodes . The series was first broadcast in the U.S. on Turner Network Television on six Fridays starting on June 10, 2005... |
Capt. Richard H. Pratt | Episode: Casualties of War |
| 2006 | Where There's a Will | Sheriff Clifford Laws | |
| 2007 | American Masters American Masters American Masters is a PBS television show which produces biographies on the artists, actors and writers of the United States who have left a profound impact on the nation's popular culture. It is produced by WNET in New York City... |
Narrator | Episode: Novel Reflections: The American Dream |
| 2007 | Criminal Minds Criminal Minds Criminal Minds is an American police procedural drama that premiered September 22, 2005, on CBS. The series follows a team of profilers from the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit based in Quantico, Virginia. The BAU is part of the FBI National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime... |
Frank Breitkopf | Episode: No Way Out Episode: No Way Out II: The Evolution of Frank |
| 2007–2009 | Dexter Dexter (TV series) Dexter is an American television drama series, which debuted on Showtime on October 1, 2006. The sixth season premiered on October 2, 2011. The series centers on Dexter Morgan , a bloodstain pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police Department who moonlights as a serial killer... |
Special Agent Frank Lundy | Entire second season and four episodes from the fourth season. Corpse in first season, episode 9. |
| 2008 | NUMB3RS NUMB3RS Numb3rs is an American television drama which premiered on CBS on January 23, 2005, and concluded on March 12, 2010. The series was created by Nicolas Falacci and Cheryl Heuton, and follows FBI Special Agent Don Eppes and his mathematical genius brother, Charlie Eppes , who helps Don solve crimes... |
Carl McGowan | Episode: Jack of All Trades Episode: Blowback Episode: The Decoy Effect |
| 2008 | Crash Crash (2008 TV series) Crash is an American television drama series set in Los Angeles, California. It is the first original series produced by the Starz network. The network ordered a 13 episode season which premiered on October 17, 2008. The series is based on the 2004 film of the same name. It was developed for... |
Owen | Episode: Johnny Hit and Run Pauline Episode: No Matter What You Do |
| 2009 | Law & Order Law & Order Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series, created by Dick Wolf and part of the Law & Order franchise. It aired on NBC, and in syndication on various cable networks. Law & Order premiered on September 13, 1990, and completed its 20th and final season on May 24,... |
Martin Garvik | Episode: Take-Out |
| 2009 | Dollhouse Dollhouse (TV series) Dollhouse is an American science fiction television series created by writer and director Joss Whedon under Mutant Enemy Productions. It premiered on February 13, 2009, on the Fox network and was officially cancelled on November 11, 2009. The final episode aired on January 29, 2010... |
Matthew Harding | Episode: Meet Jane Doe Episode: The Public Eye Episode: Belonging |
| 2009 | Damages Damages (TV series) Damages is an American television drama series created by the writing and production trio of Daniel Zelman and brothers Glenn and Todd A. Kessler . It is broadcast in the United States on the DirecTV channel Audience Network after originally airing on FX and is produced by the creators' own... |
Julian Decker | Episode: You Were His Little Monkey Episode: Drive It Through Hardcore Episode: Don't Forget to Thank Mr. Zedeck Episode: Your Secrets Are Safe |
| 2010 | The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory is an American sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, both of whom serve as executive producers on the show, along with Steven Molaro. All three also serve as head writers... |
Wyatt (Penny's Dad) | Episode: The Boyfriend Complexity |
Awards
- 1998: Honoree — The 16th Annual Golden Boot AwardsGolden Boot AwardsThe Golden Boot Awards honor actors, actresses, and crew members who have made significant contributions to the genre of Western television and movies. The award is sponsored and presented by the Motion Picture & Television Fund...
(along with brothers DavidDavid CarradineDavid Carradine was an American actor and martial artist, best known for his role as a warrior monk, Kwai Chang Caine, in the 1970s television series, Kung Fu, which later had a 1990s sequel series, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues...
and RobertRobert CarradineRobert Reed Carradine is an American actor. The youngest of the Carradine family of actors, he made his first appearances on television western series such as Bonanza and his older brother David's Kung Fu. Carradine's first film role was in the 1972 film The Cowboys opposite Roscoe Lee Browne and...
)
Further reading
- Pilato, Herbie J. The Kung Fu Book of Caine: The Complete Guide to TV's First Mystical Eastern WesternThe Kung Fu Book of Caine: The Complete Guide to TV's First Mystical Eastern WesternThe Kung Fu Book of Caine: The Complete Guide to TV's First Mystical Eastern Western is a companion book to the television series and sequels, Kung Fu , Kung Fu: The Movie , Kung Fu: The Next Generation , Kung Fu: The Legend Continues , by Herbie J...
. Boston: Charles A. Tuttle, 1993. ISBN 0-8048-1826-6