# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-carradine
# Generated: 2026-09-01T05:52:21.975Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-carradine"
name: "John Carradine"
slug: "john-carradine"
description: "John Carradine was an American character actor, who was considered one of the greatest in American cinema. He was a member of Cecil B. DeMille's stock company and later John Ford's company, known for his roles in horror films, Westerns, and Shakespearean theater, most notably portraying Count Dracula in House of Frankenstein (1944), House of Dracula (1945), Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (1966), and Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula (1979). Among his other notable roles was \"Preacher Casy\" in John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath. In later decades of his career, he starred mostly in low-budget B-movies."
tagline: "American actor (1906-1988)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Carradine_-_The_Green_Hornet%2C_Episode_23_(Alias_The_Scarf)_-_1967.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1906-02-05"
deathDate: "1988-11-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             9.262301748678322
  historical:           24.96439733333334
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump