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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…
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Born 5 February 1906 · Died 27 November 1988 · Q312878
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s third wife, Doris (Rich) Grimshaw, and believed her to be his mother until he was introduced to Sonia Sorel at a Christmas party when he was 14 years old. He told a journalist,
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“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.”
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“s third wife, Doris (Rich) Grimshaw, and believed her to be his mother until he was introduced to Sonia Sorel at a Christmas party when he was 14 years old. He told a journalist,”
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“My dad told me that he saw a production of Shakespeare”
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“the great Cecil B. DeMille saw an apparition – me – pass him by, reciting the gravedigger”
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Was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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Died 1988-11-27.
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As Professor Alex Stottel on a revival of the classic series The Twilight Zone, in an episode segment titled "Still Life
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Carradine won a Daytime Emmy Award for his performance as an eccentric man who lives by the railroad tracks in the Young People's Special Umbrella Jack
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Awarded Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award for House of the Long Shadows (1983).
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Supplied the voice of the Great Owl in the animated feature The Secret of NIMH
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Was in an episode of Sid and Marty Croft's, "Far Out Space Nuts" with Chuck McCann and Bob Denver
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In a fire in her apartment in Oxnard, California
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With a motion pictures star located at 6240 Hollywood Boulevard
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As the mind reader in The Rifleman episode of the same name
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Was followed by an acrimonious custody battle, which resulted in their sons being placed in a home for abused children as wards of the court
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Already had a son, Dale, from a previous marriage, and a son, Michael, from a later relationship
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When he played Ebenezer Scrooge in a broadcast presentation of A Christmas Carol
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Immediately following his divorce from Ardanelle, Carradine married Sonia Sorel (May 18, 1921 – September 24, 2004), who had appeared with him in the 1944 film Bluebeard
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And legally took the name as his own two years later
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Wilfred Talbot Smith and Regina Kahl of Ordo Templi Orientis held a "Crowley Night on Winona Blvd
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Took a job escorting a shipment of bananas from Dallas, Texas to Los Angeles, where he eventually picked up some theater work under the name of Peter Richmond, in homage to his uncle
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In New Orleans in a production of Camille and worked for a time in a New Orleans Shakespeare company
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Born 1906-02-05.
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