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Post by petrolino on Sept 8, 2019 3:44:31 GMT
Please share thoughts, pictures, memories of this great actor. His career was notable, his personality said to be remarkable, and he established one of Hollywood's great acting dynasties through ethic, deliberation and consternation.
Thanks.
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Post by mattgarth on Sept 8, 2019 3:54:47 GMT
Most memorable as the Preacher in THE GRAPES OF WRATH.
FUNNIEST as the windbag Politician in LIBERTY VALANCE.
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Post by bravomailer on Sept 8, 2019 3:59:07 GMT
FUNNIEST as the windbag Politician in LIBERTY VALANCE. That would be Major Cassius Starbuckle, who presumably served in the War of Northern Aggression. I think of that scene when I watch our pols bluster. "The Mark of Cain is upon him." 
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Post by petrolino on Sept 8, 2019 3:59:38 GMT
Most memorable as the Preacher in THE GRAPES OF WRATH. FUNNIEST as the windbag Politician in LIBERTY VALANCE. Fred Olen Ray once said of his collaborator, with the greatest affection, there wasn't a box he woudn't mount or a speech he wouldn't deliver - he was the b-movie champ of the sudden soliloquy.
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Post by bravomailer on Sept 8, 2019 4:12:52 GMT
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Post by mattgarth on Sept 8, 2019 4:15:38 GMT
He was a John Ford clansman --
The Jailer in SHARK ISLAND
The renegade in DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK
The Gentleman Gambler in STAGECOACH
The Boston Politician in LAST HURRAH
And he even reunited with the Duke as the town Undertaker in Wayne"s own last hurrah -- THE SHOOTIST.
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Post by politicidal on Sept 8, 2019 15:36:38 GMT
Leaving an impression even as an animated owl.
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Post by koskiewicz on Sept 8, 2019 15:59:07 GMT
He played Dracula. Also did a stint as a tintype photographer on an episode of "The Rifleman"...never could verify this, but I read somewhere that he played the organ to a Bach Toccata and Fugue during the "black mass" scene in the film the Black Cat w/Lugosi and Karloff.
Very distinctive voice.
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Post by Sulla on Sept 8, 2019 16:09:30 GMT
He's got a filmography a mile long. It seems as if he appeared in every tv show in the 1960s, although I don't remember those episodes.
These are three I like.
Captains Courageous (1937) - Long Jack 
The Egyptian (1954) - Grave Robber "With or without mark is all the same. a pyramid ... or the 10 minutes to dig a hole in the ground. Dead is dead, not matter where we put them. In the end, the sand conquers all. Every grain of sand ... will survive every man alive ... and every man who will still be born. Immortality? I hold it in my hand. Only the small grains of sand will never die." 
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972) - Dr. Bernardo
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Post by mattgarth on Sept 8, 2019 18:45:23 GMT
And noble, Paul -- saving his final bullet as a mercy killing of the new mother.
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Post by Prime etc. on Sept 8, 2019 19:20:20 GMT
Good role in BLUEBEARD and SHOWDOWN AT BOOT HILL
Funny anecdote-when making GALLERY OF HORRORS the budget was so cheap that they needed a sandwich prop for Carradine to be served in a scene so someone grabbed garbage out of a can and assembled something that kind of resembled a sandwich.
After shooting the prop man goes to retrieve it and sees Carradine devouring the last remnants of it.
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Post by mattgarth on Sept 8, 2019 19:41:00 GMT
Geez, Prime -- how did he manage to stay so skinny!
He played nasty Nazis as well --
-- opposite Walter Pidgeon in Fritz Lang's MAN HUNT
-- and as Reinhard Heydrich in HITLER'S MADMAN
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Post by bravomailer on Sept 8, 2019 19:49:22 GMT
Geez, Prime -- how did he manage to stay so skinny! -- and as Reinhard Heydrich in HITLER'S MADMAN Didn't know he played "The Hangman". Christoph Waltz (Hans Landa) refers to him in Inglourious Basterds and he is the target in Hangmen Also Die.
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Post by mattgarth on Sept 8, 2019 19:55:57 GMT
Kenneth Branagh gives a different -- almost urbane -- interpretation of Heydrich in the 2001 TV-Movie CONSPIRACY.
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Post by bravomailer on Sept 8, 2019 20:05:18 GMT
Kenneth Branagh gives a different -- almost urbane -- interpretation of Heydrich in the 2001 TV-Movie CONSPIRACY. The alternate history miniseries The Man in the High Castle has Heydrich surviving the war but being done in by an SS rival.
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Post by jervistetch on Sept 9, 2019 0:38:20 GMT
A wonderful actor and always the perfect choice for whatever the role demanded. He was also a man of refined taste.  |
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Post by Prime etc. on Sept 9, 2019 0:57:12 GMT
I read he was a sculptor apprentice on the Lincoln memorial. The interview with Vincent Price eludes to his knowledge of sculpting where he discusses the Frankenstein role.
I wonder if he did sculpting as a hobby? He had unbelievably bad arthritis in his later years. His hands were totally deformed.
I remember he complained how actors of his classical background (Price etc) were being exploited by the low budget horror filmmakers--but he didn't mind going underwater in SHOCK WAVES for one scene which couldnt have been comfortable.
Oh yeah! Another anecdote--Joe Dante said that when they were filming the Howling, Carradine showed up with a blanket and Oreo cookies and Dante asked him why he brought them-and he said: because the production might not be able to afford it and Dante said: we can afford to get you a blanket and cookies.
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Post by mattgarth on Sept 9, 2019 0:57:30 GMT
Refined indeed, Jervis
Certainly a head above the rest.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 9, 2019 2:38:08 GMT
He was a John Ford clansman -- The Jailer in THE PRISONER OF SHARK ISLAND  The renegade in DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK 
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 9, 2019 2:47:08 GMT
He was The Gentleman Gambler in STAGECOACH  The Boston Politician in LAST HURRAH  And he even reunited with the Duke as the town Undertaker in Wayne's own last hurrah -- THE SHOOTIST. 
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