Keith Carradine

Keith Ian Carradine (born August 8, 1949) is an American songwriter and actor born into the Carradine family.

Early life

Carradine was born in San Mateo, California, the son of actress and artist Sonia Sorel (n?e Henius) and actor John Carradine. His paternal half-brothers are the late David Carradine and Bruce Carradine, his maternal half-brother is Michael Bowen, and his full brothers are Christopher Carradine and Robert Carradine.

Career

David, Robert and Keith Carradine appeared together as the Younger brothers in Walter Hill's 1980 film The Long Riders, with Keith playing Jim Younger. Carradine appeared again for Hill in 1981's Southern Comfort.

Carradine's first notable film appearance was in director Robert Altman's McCabe & Mrs. Miller in 1971. He also portrayed the character Kwai Chang Caine as a teenager in the 1972 television series Kung Fu (the adult Caine was portrayed by his half brother, David). He went on to play one of the principal characters, a callow, womanizing folk singer, in Altman's critically acclaimed 1975 movie Nashville and his song from that movie, "I'm Easy", was a popular music hit in 1976. Carradine won an Oscar for Best Original Song for writing the tune.

In 1977 Carradine starred opposite Harvey Keitel in Ridley Scott's The Duellists. He has worked several times in the offbeat films of Altman's prot?g? 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). He also had a cameo role as Will Rogers in Rudolph's 1994 film about Dorothy Parker, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle. Carradine co-starred with Daryl Hannah as homicidal sociopath John Netherwood in the 1995 thriller The Tie That Binds.

Other works include Emperor of the North Pole (1973), Pretty Baby (1978) and My Father My Son, a television movie 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 Specia" category.

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". He was nominated for Broadway's 1991 Tony Award as Best Actor (Musical) for this role.

Carradine starred in the ABC sitcom Complete Savages, and played Wild Bill Hickok in the HBO series Deadwood. He has also appeared as a host of the factual Wild West Tech show on the History Channel. In the 2005 miniseries Into the West, produced by Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks, Carradine played Richard Henry Pratt. He also has a recurring guest role on the hit Showtime series Dexter as FBI Special Agent Frank Lundy. Carradine made appearances on the show's second and fourth seasons.

Carradine's stage career is distinguished by Tony-nominated performance as the title character in 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. He was also in the cast of the original Broadway production of Hair in 1972, appearing in the roles of Woof and Claude. 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.

Personal life

Carradine's daughter by actress Shelley Plimpton is Martha Plimpton, who was conceived when her parents appeared together in the Broadway musical Hair.

He has two children by his ex-wife, Sandra Will Carradine, (married , separated 1993): Cade Richmond Carradine, (born July 19, 1982) and Sorel Johannah Carradine (born June 18, 1985).

In 2006, Sandra Will Carradine was convicted on two counts of perjury for lying to a grand jury about her involvement in the Anthony Pellicano wire tap scandal. Sandra hired and then became romantically involved with Pellicano after her divorce from Keith. According to reports, Pellicano tapped the phone of Keith and companion Hayley DuMond at the request of his girlfriend Sandra, who is now facing ten years in prison.

On November 18, 2006, in Torino, Italy, he married actress and long-time girlfriend Hayley DuMond. They met in 1997 when they co-starred in the Burt Reynolds film The Hunter's Moon.

Filmography

As actor

Year
Film
Role
Notes
1971
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Cowboy
A Gunfight
The Young Gunfighter
Bonanza
Ern
1972
Man on a String
Danny Brown
(TV)
Kung Fu
Middle Caine
(TV)
Love, American Style
TV series (Segment: Love and the Anniversary)
1972-1973
Kung Fu
Young Man Caine / Caine as teenager (uncredited)
TV series
1973
Emperor of the North Pole
Cigaret
Idaho Transfer
Arthur
Hex
Whizzer
1974
Antoine et S?bastien
John
Thieves Like Us
Bowie
Arrivano Joe e Margherito
Joe
The Godchild
Lt. Lewis
(TV)
1975
Nashville
Tom Frank
Academy Award for Best Original Song
You and Me
Independent film
1976
Lumi?re
David
Welcome to L.A.
Carroll Barber
1977
The Duellists
D'Hubert
1978
Pretty Baby
Bellocq
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Our Guests At Heartland
1979
Old Boyfriends
Wayne Van Til
An Almost Perfect Affair
Hal Raymond
1980
The Long Riders
Jim Younger
A Rumor of War
Lt. Murph McCoy
(TV)
1981
Southern Comfort
Pfc. Spencer
1983
Chiefs
Foxy Funderburke
Miniseries, nominated for an Emmy Award
1984
Choose Me
Mickey
Maria's Lovers
Clarence Butts
Scorned and Swindled
John Boslett
(TV)
The Fall Guy
Cook
TV series
1985
Blackout
Allen Devlin
(TV)
Trouble in Mind
Coop
1986
Half a Lifetime
J.J.
(TV)
A Winner Never Quits
Pete Gray
(TV)
L'Inchiesta
Tito Valerio Tauro
1987
Backfire
Reed
Murder Ordained
Trooper John Rule
(TV)
Eye of the Sparrow
James Lee
(TV)
1988
Stones for Ibarra
Richard Everton
(TV)
The Moderns
Nick Hart
My Father, My Son
Lt. Elmo Zumwalt III
(TV)
1989
The Revenge of Al Capone
Michael Rourke
(TV)
The Forgotten
Captain Tom Watkins
(TV)
Street of No Return
Michael
Cold Feet
Monte Latham
Confessional
Liam Devline
(TV)
Daddy's Dyin': Who's Got the Will? (1990)
Judgment (1990) (TV)
The Bachelor (1991)
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991)
Payoff (1991) (TV)
CrissCross (1992)
In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness (1994) (TV)
Andre (1994)
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
Is There Life Out There? (1994) (TV)
The Tie That Binds (1995)
Trial by Fire (1995) (TV)
Wild Bill (1995)
Special Report: Journey to Mars (1996) (TV)
Dead Man's Walk (1996) (miniseries)
2 Days in the Valley (1996)
Keeping the Promise (1997) (TV)
Last Stand at Saber River (1997) (TV)
Fast Track (1997?1998)
A Thousand Acres (1997)
Standoff (1998)
The Hunter's Moon (1999)
Night Ride Home (1999) (TV)
Out of the Cold (1999)
Sirens (1999) (TV)
A Song from the Heart (1999) (TV)
Hard Time: Hostage Hotel (1999) (TV)
Metropolis (2000) (TV)
Baby (2000) (TV)
Cahoots (2001)
Wooly Boys (2001)
The Diamond of Jeru (2001) (TV)
Falcons (2002)
The Angel Doll (2002)
The Outsider (2002) (TV)
Monte Walsh (2003) (TV)
Enterprise (2003) (TV series)
Coyote Waits (2003) (TV)
Hair High (2004) (voice)
Deadwood (2004) (TV series)
Balto III: Wings of Change (2004) (direct-to-DVD) (voice)
Wild West Tech (host from 2003?2004)
Complete Savages (2004?2005)
Into the West (2005) (TV miniseries)
Our Very Own (2005)
The Californians (2005)
Where There's a Will (2006) (TV)
Elvis and Anabelle (2007)
Criminal Minds (2007) (TV series)
The Death and Life of Bobby Z (2007)
All Hat (2007)
Dexter (2007, 2009) (TV series)
Lake City (2008)
NUMB3RS (2008) (TV series)
Law & Order (2009) (TV series)
Winter of Frozen Dreams (2009)
Happy Together (2009)
Peacock (2009)
Dollhouse (2009) (TV)

Awards

1998: Honoree ? The 16th Annual Golden Boot Awards (along with brothers David and Robert)

See also

Carradine family