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David Carradine | |
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Oakland Junior College | |
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Years active | 1963–2009 |
Works | Filmography |
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Partner | Barbara Hershey (1968–1975) |
Children | 3, plus 4 stepchildren by his last wife |
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Family | Carradine |
Website | david-carradine |
David Carradine (
A member of the
Later in his career, he became known for his
Throughout his life, Carradine was
Early life
Carradine was born John Arthur Carradine Jr.,
Against this backdrop of marital discord, David almost succeeded in dying by suicide[13] by hanging at the age of five. He said the incident followed his discovery that he and his elder half-brother, Bruce, who had been adopted by John, had different biological fathers. Carradine added, "My father saved me, and then confiscated my comic book collection and burned it—which was scarcely the point."[11] After three years of marriage, Ardenelle filed for divorce from John, but they remained married for five more years.[14] Divorce finally came in 1944, when Carradine was seven. His father left California to avoid court action in the alimony settlement.[15][16][17] After the couple had a series of court battles over child custody and alimony, which at one point landed John in jail,[16] David joined his father in New York City; by this time, his father had remarried. On December 25, 1947, David appeared in a live telecast adaptation of A Christmas Carol, with his father in the role of Ebenezer Scrooge.[18][19][11]: 72 For the next few years, David spent time in boarding schools, foster homes, and reform school.[13] He also often accompanied his father to summer theater throughout the Northeast. Carradine spent time in Massachusetts, and a winter milking cows on a farm in Vermont.[11][20]
Oakland
Eventually, David Carradine returned to California, where he graduated from
Army service
Despite an attempt to dodge the draft,[11] in 1960 Carradine was inducted into the United States Army,[13] where he drew pictures for training aids. That Christmas he married his high school sweetheart, Donna Lee Becht. While stationed at Fort Eustis, Virginia, he helped establish a theater company that became known as the "entertainment unit".[22] He met fellow inductee Larry Cohen, who later cast him in Q, The Winged Serpent.[23] He also faced court-martial for shoplifting.[24] In 1962, Donna gave birth to their daughter, Calista. Carradine was honorably discharged[25] after two years of active duty.
Film and television career
Early TV and film appearances
Upon leaving the Army, Carradine became serious about acting. He was advised to change his name to avoid confusion with his famous father. In an interview from 2005 Carradine says his father encouraged him going into acting: "The first thing I ever did outside of school, which was a production of Romeo & Juliet, he came up from Hollywood to San Francisco to see it. And right after he just sort of opened up to me with all this advice. He became very proud of me."[26]
In 1963, he made his television debut on an episode of
In May 1964, Carradine joined the cast of the Broadway play The Deputy by Rolf Hochhuth, replacing Jeremy Brett.[28][29] When the play ended he was still under contract to Universal, and resumed TV work. He spent a lot of time playing, in his words, "greenhorns in Westerns and villains in thrillers".[27] Carradine guest-starred in The Trials of O'Brien in episodes that were cut together and released theatrically as Too Many Thieves (1967), and Coronet Blue.[30]
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
Carradine's first big break came with his second Broadway part in
Shane and supporting actor
Carradine left the production of Royal Hunt of the Sun in May 1966 to take up an offer to star in the TV series Shane, a 1966 western based upon a 1949 novel of the same name, previously filmed in 1953.[35] Carradine played the title role opposite Jill Ireland. "I know I have some kind of vision that most actors and directors don't have", he said, "so it becomes a duty to exercise that vision. It's a responsibility, a mission."[36] The show only lasted 17 episodes, despite good reviews.[35] Carradine said his career was "rescued" when he was cast in Johnny Belinda (1967).[27] He was in demand as a supporting actor, mostly in Westerns: The Violent Ones (1967), Heaven with a Gun (1969), Young Billy Young (1969) for Burt Kennedy, The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969) with Kennedy, The McMasters (1970), and Macho Callahan (1970).[citation needed]
In 1969, he performed off-Broadway in The Transgressor Rides Again, and the next year guest-starred in
Boxcar Bertha
In 1972, he co-starred as "Big" Bill Shelly in one of Martin Scorsese's earliest films, Boxcar Bertha, which starred Barbara Hershey, his partner at the time. This was one of several Roger Corman productions in which he appeared.[21] It was also one of a handful of acting collaborations he did with his father. He made his feature directorial debut with the film You and Me, starring alongside Hershey and his brothers Keith and Robert. It was shot in 1972, between making the Kung Fu pilot and the series, but released in 1975.[41][42]
Kung Fu
For three seasons, Carradine starred as the half-Chinese/half-White-American
Although the choice of a non-Asian to play the role of Kwai Chang Caine stirred controversy, the show provided steady employment for a number of Asian-American actors.
Kung Fu ended due to several factors. It has been said that Carradine left the show after sustaining injuries that made it impossible for him to continue.[48][49][50] While Carradine mentioned it when talking about his work in film,[51] other causes involved were Carradine's burnout, changes in the writing and shooting that altered the show's quality, and changes in the time slot, which led to the audience's decline;[52]: min.13:03 finally, the main reason was Carradine's decision to quit to pursue a career as a film actor[11]: 400–402 and filmmaker.[43]: 19 Also, the bad publicity that the 1974 peyote-related incident attracted on him affected the ratings in a way that Radames Pera described as sabotage,[53] and that Carradine himself acknowledged had been detrimental to them.[11]: 393
During Kung Fu's original run, Carradine made cameo appearances in Scorsese's Mean Streets (1973) (alongside his brother Robert Carradine) and Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye. He also directed several episodes of Kung Fu, a short musical called A Country Mile (1973), and a film, You and Me (also known as Around).[11] Carradine's annual salary on the show was reportedly $100,000.[54][55]
Film stardom
Immediately after Kung Fu, Carradine accepted the role of the racecar driver Frankenstein in
Carradine made a third car chase film for Corman, Thunder and Lightning, in 1977. Next came the role of the alcoholic, unemployed trapeze artist Abel Rosenberg in The Serpent's Egg (1977). Set in post-World War I Berlin and also starring Liv Ullmann, The Serpent's Egg is one of the only two English-language films by famed Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, the second being The Touch.[61] Carradine replaced Richard Harris, who was too ill to do it.[62] Bergman said of his leading man, "I don't believe in God, but Heaven must have sent him."[5] Carradine said that he and Bergman had plans to collaborate further, but Bergman's affection for him waned when he passionately protested a scene that included the butchering of a horse. The altercation caused Carradine to question the fate of Bergman's soul while the director declared, "Little Brother, I am an old whore. I have shot two other horses, burned one and strangled a dog."[5][11]
Back in Hollywood, Carradine co-starred with
In The Long Riders (1980), Carradine starred with his half-brothers Keith and Robert Carradine as the Younger Brothers. The ensemble cast included three other brother/actor groupings: Stacy and James Keach; Dennis and Randy Quaid,[13] and Christopher and Nicholas Guest. The movie, which was about the Jesse James gang, gave Carradine, who played Cole Younger, one of his most memorable roles. Walter Hill directed.[69] Carradine played a pilot in Cloud Dancer (1980) and was the villain in High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane (1980). He did a car chase film in Africa, Safari 3000 (1980).[citation needed]
Americana and decline as star
Carradine returned to the director's chair with
Carradine guest-starred on an episode of
North and South
Carradine attracted notice in 1985 when he appeared in a major supporting role in
Carradine reprised his role as Caine in
Straight-to-video action films
Carradine continued to be in demand for action films, either aimed at the video market or for TV:
Carradine starred in three films for Roger Corman: Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II (1989), directed by Charles B. Griffith; Nowhere to Run (1989), directed by Carl Franklin; and Crime Zone (1990) directed by Luis Llosa; Carradine co produced the latter. He was also in Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1989), directed by Anthony Hickox; Try This One for Size (1989), Open Fire (1989), and Future Force (1989), which he helped produce.[citation needed]
In 1989, he starred in the low-budget direct-to-video Swedish action movie The Mad Bunch directed by
Carradine appeared in his first studio film in a long time with
Carradine had supporting roles in
In a 2005 interview, Carradine talks about a period in his career in which he worked as much as he could. Psychotronic Magazine gave him an award for the "Most Working Actor in the Universe". Carradine commented that he received it "because I did nineteen movies in eighteen months. And they actually missed a couple!" He further stated, "That whole era of independent movies died. They clotted the market. I didn't know how to get out of that, so I did [the second series of Kung Fu]".[26]
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
Carradine played the part of the grandson and namesake of the original Kwai Chang Caine in Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (1992), which led to a new TV series that ran from 1993 to 1997, and consisted of 88 episodes. Carradine also worked as a producer and directed an episode. He starred in Kill Zone (1993), Dead Center (1993) for Steve Carver, Code... Death: Frontera Sur (1993), and Bitter End (1993). He was featured in a Lipton Tea commercial, which first aired during the broadcast of Super Bowl XXVIII. The advertisement paid tribute to The Three Stooges while satirizing his role in Kung Fu.[72] In 1997, Carradine was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The presenters played an April Fool's Day prank on him by first unveiling a star bearing the name of his brother, Robert.[73]
When Kung Fu: The Legend Continues ended, Carradine went into
In 2001, he appeared in the episode "The Serpent" of the syndicated TV series Queen of Swords as the sword-wielding bandit El Serpiente filmed at Texas Hollywood studios in Almeria, Spain, home of many Spaghetti Westerns. Carradine was increasingly becoming a support actor in films: Largo Winch: The Heir (2001), G.O.D. (2001), Warden of Red Rock (2001), The Donor (2001), Out of the Wilderness (2001), The Defectors (2001), Wheatfield with Crows (2002) and The Outsider (2002). He guest-starred in The Nightmare Room, Jackie Chan Adventures, Titus, and King of the Hill. David also made a guest appearance in episode 11 of Lizzie McGuire as himself, which gave him an opportunity to work with his brother Robert, who played Lizzie's father in the series.[citation needed]
Kill Bill
Carradine enjoyed a revival of his fame when he was cast in
By 2006, he had become the spokesperson for
Final years
Carradine's last performances included a role in the music video of the
Posthumous releases
The actor, who once received an award for being the hardest-working actor in Hollywood,
Carradine also appeared in a minor role in
He appeared in the music video of the song Devil by Ours (2013), with images originally shot four years before for the unreleased short film 8 For Infinity, directed by Michael Maxxis.[79] His final released movie was the cult independent film, Night of the Templar (2013), directed by his friend Paul Sampson, in which Carradine wielded a sword (katana) for the final time on screen. Almost like a foreshadowing, there are several peculiar and eerie references in the film that coincidentally relate to the circumstances of Carradine's untimely passing, which include auto-erotic asphyxiation. His last scene on screen ended in the following dialog: "Well, old friend, see you in the next lifetime." / "Yeah, old friends, old soul mates." / "Yes, we are."[citation needed]
Carradine co-produced a full-length documentary about
Martial artist
Carradine knew nothing of the practice of
Music career
In addition to his acting career, Carradine was a musician. He sang and played the
Personal life
Shortly after being
In 1968, Carradine met actress Barbara Hershey while the two of them were working on Heaven with a Gun.[11] The pair lived together until 1975.[90] They appeared in other films together, including Martin Scorsese's Boxcar Bertha. In 1972, they appeared together in a nude Playboy spread, recreating some sex scenes from Boxcar Bertha.[91] That year, Hershey gave birth to their son, Free (who, when aged nine, changed his name to Tom, much to his father's chagrin).[11] The couple's relationship fell apart around the time of Carradine's 1974 burglary arrest,[92] when Carradine began an affair with Season Hubley, who had guest-starred on Kung Fu. Carradine was engaged to Hubley for a time, but they never married.[11][13]
In February 1977, Carradine married his second wife Linda (
On December 26, 2004, Carradine married the widowed Annie Bierman[89] (née Anne Kirstie Fraser, December 21, 1960) at the seaside Malibu home of his friend Michael Madsen. Vicki Roberts, his attorney and a longtime friend of his wife's, performed the ceremony. With this marriage he acquired three stepdaughters, Amanda Eckelberry (born 1989), Madeleine Rose (born 1995), and Olivia Juliette (born 1998) as well as a stepson, actor Max Richard Carradine (born 1998).[90] In one of his final interviews, Carradine stated that at 71, he was still "in excellent shape", attributing it to a good diet and having a youthful circle of friends. "Everybody that I know is at least 10 or 20 years younger than I am. My wife Annie is 24 years younger than I am. My daughter asks why I don't hang with women my age and I say, 'Most of the women my age are a lot older than me!'"[95]
Arrests and prosecutions
In the late 1950s, while living in San Francisco, Carradine was arrested for assaulting a police officer. He pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of disturbing the peace. While in the Army, he faced court-martial on more than one occasion for shoplifting.[11][96] After he became an established actor and had changed his name to David, he was arrested in 1967 for possession of marijuana.[97]
In 1974, at the height of his popularity in Kung Fu, Carradine was arrested again, this time for attempted burglary and malicious mischief.
In 1980, while in South Africa filming Safari 3000 (also known as Rally), which co-starred Stockard Channing, Carradine was arrested for possession of marijuana.[103][104] He was convicted and given a suspended sentence.[105] He claimed that he had been framed by the apartheid government, as he had been seen dancing with Tina Turner.[11]
During the 1980s, Carradine was arrested at least twice for driving under the influence of alcohol, once in 1984[106] and again in 1989. In the second case, Carradine pleaded no contest.[107] Of this incident, the Los Angeles Times reported: "Legal experts say Carradine was handed a harsher-than-average sentence, even for a second-time offender: three years' summary probation, 48 hours in jail, 100 hours of community service, 30 days' work picking up trash for the California Department of Transportation, attendance at a drunk driving awareness meeting and completion of an alcohol rehabilitation program."[108]
In 1994, in Toronto, filming
Death
Carradine arrived in
Filmography
Awards and honors
- 1966: Winner – Theatre World Award, for The Royal Hunt of the Sun[33]
- 1973: Nominee – Primetime Emmy Award. Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (Drama Series - Continuing), for Kung Fu[117]
- 1974: Nominee – Golden Globe Awards. Best Television Actor - Drama Series, for Kung Fu[118]
- 1974: Winner – TP de Oro, Spain. Mejor actor extranjero (Best Foreign Actor), por Kung Fu
- 1974: Nominee – TP de Oro, Spain. Personaje más popular (Most Popular Character), por Kung Fu
- 1976: Winner – National Board of Review Award. Best Actor, for Bound for Glory[119]
- 1976: Nominee – New York Film Critics Circle Award. Best Actor, for Bound for Glory
- 1977: Nominee – Golden Globe Awards. Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama, for Bound for Glory[118]
- 1986: Nominee – Golden Globe Awards. Best Supporting Actor - Television, for North and South[118]
- 1997: Honoree – Gold Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Television[120]
- 1998: Honoree – Golden Boot Award (along with brothers Keith and Robert)[121]
- 2004: Winner – The Golden Schmoes award. Best Supporting Actor, for Kill Bill (V2)[122]
- 2004: Honoree – Capri, Hollywood International Film Festival, Capri Legend Award.[123][124]
- 2005: Winner – Saturn Award. Best Supporting Actor, for Kill Bill: Volume 2
- 2005: Nominee – Golden Globe Awards. Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture, for Kill Bill (Vol.2)[118]
- 2005: Winner – EW.com Award – Annual prize bestowed on deserving Golden Globe nominees, for Kill Bill - Vol.2[125]
- 2005: Nominee – 31º People's Choice Awards. Favorite Villain Movie Star, for Bill in Kill Bill - Vol. 2.[126]
- 2005: Nominee – Gold Derby award. Supporting Actor, for Bill in Kill Bill, Volume 2[127]
- 2005: Nominee – Satellite Award, Best Supporting Actor - Drama, for Kill Bill: Volume 2
- 2005: Nominee – Online Film & Television Association, OFTA Awards. Best Supporting Actor, for Kill Bill, Vol. 2[128]
- 2005: Nominee – Online Film Critics Society Awards 2004. Best Supporting Actor, for Kill Bill: Volume 2
- 2005: Winner – Action on Film International Film Festival, Lifetime Achievement Award - First annual recipient[129]
- 2005: Nominee – Albo d'oro, Italian Online Movie Awards (IOMA). Miglior attore non protagonista (Best Supporting Actor), per Kill Bill volume 2[130]
- 2008: Honoree – Bronze plaque on the Walk of Western Stars[131]
- 2010: Mención especial del jurado (Special Mention by the Jury) – Fancine - Festival de Cine Fantástico de la Universidad de Málaga (Málaga International Week of Fantastic Cinema), por Kandisha[132]
- 2013: Honoree – Hollywood Museum, Exhibition "The Barefoot Legend: David Carradine - a Contemporary Renaissance Man"[133]
- 2014: Inductee – Martial Arts History Museum, Hall of Fame[134]
Bibliography
- The Spirit of Shaolin. Boston: Shaolin Kung Fu)
- David Carradine's Tai Chi Workout. London: Boxtree. 1994. ISBN 1-85283-475-7. Co-authored with David Nakahara.
- Endless Highway. Boston: ISBN 1-885203-20-9. (Autobiography)
- David Carradine's Tai Chi Workout. New York: ISBN 0-8050-3767-5. Co-authored with David Nakahara.
- David Carradine's Introduction to Chi Kung. New York: )
- "The Barefoot Chronicles". David-Carradine.com. Archived from the original on July 13, 2016. Retrieved July 17, 2022. Compilation of 19 articles published as a regular section in the magazine Inside Kung Fu, from November 2003 onwards.
- The Kill Bill Diary: The Making of a Tarantino Classic as Seen Through the Eyes of a Screen Legend. New York: ISBN 0-06-082346-1.
Discography
- You And Me (Vinyl single). n.d.: Billy. c. 1973.
- Jim Helms, David Carradine, Keye Luke, Philip Ahn, Radames Pera (1973). Kung Fu - Music & Dialogue From The Warner Bros. T.V. Series (Vinyl album). United States: Warner Bros. Records.[135]
- Grasshopper (Vinyl album). United Kingdom: Jet Records. 1975.
- Around (Vinyl single). United Kingdom: Jet Records. 1975.
- Cosmic Joke (Vinyl single). United Kingdom: Jet Records. 1976.
- Woody Guthrie, Leonard Rosenman, David Carradine (1976). Bound For Glory - Original Motion Picture Score (Vinyl album). Canada: United Artists Records.
- Jesus Christ (Vinyl single). Germany: United Artists Record. 1976.
- David Carradine, Gail Jensen, Michael Shanklin (1983). Señor Problemas (Troublemaker) (Vinyl single). Argentina: MICSA.
- David Carradine, Michael Shanklin, Tamila Jensen, Gail Jensen (1985). Walk the Floor (Vinyl single). United States: Coop Records.
- David Carradine's Mata Hari Suite. Music for The Film (CD). United States: ZumaGold. c. 1990.
- David Carradine As Is (CD). United States: Panartist. 2001.
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Carradine is an actor ideal for the part. He looks like a young god, projects his specially stylized diction affectingly, and has superb control of his bodily movements. The moment of astonishment when he discovers the existence of writing is a sight to behold; and, when he lies dead for minutes on end, I'd swear he didn't take a single breath.
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You take a lot of chances in movies. Look in these Kung Fu movies, I have broken or dislocated virtually every finger and every toe that I have. I've crushed my ribs. I've smashed my shoulder. I've destroyed a ligament in the knee. I could go on.
Acting is a dangerous profession. And when you consider I've made 68 features plus all the television and everything, you just got to expect that I'm going to hurt myself now and then. It's sort of like being a football player or something. - ^ Assner, Matthew (producer, director); Gold, Danny (producer, director) (2003). The Tao of Caine: Production and Beyond. 20:28 min (DVD). mod3productions.
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Fox News: What caused "Kung Fu" to end?
Pera: We had Nielsen boxes on the backs of television sets throughout the Midwest, and they would determine who was watching what at any given time. This was before the internet. And back then, Nielsen ratings meant everything. David Carradine, who admitted this himself, said he always had a love/hate relationship with fame and success in general. He was a countercultural type of person but was also under contract with major corporations. That became a problem for him and he just got tired. He didn't want to do it anymore. So he sabotaged it. - ^ "David Carradine: The Antihero's Antihero". Haber, Joyce; Los Angeles Times, February 3, 1974: m17
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External links
- David Carradine
- David Carradine discography at Discogs
- David Carradine at IMDb
- David Carradine at the Internet Broadway Database
- David Carradine at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
- David Carradine at the TCM Movie Database
- David Carradine at AllMovie
- David Carradine at TV Guide
- 2003 Interview by Hikari Takano, recorded at Mr. Carradine's home
- 2004 Onion interview
- 2004 IGN interview with David Carradine
- 2004, "A Fresh Thing": David Carradine
- David Carradine – The Daily Telegraph obituary
- McLellan, Dennis. "David Carradine dies at 72; star of 'Kung Fu'," Los Angeles Times, Friday, June 5, 2009.