Carradine was born John Arthur Carradine in Hollywood, California, the son of Ardanelle Abigail (née McCool) and noted American actor John Carradine. He is the brother of Bruce Carradine and half-brother of Keith and Robert Carradine, as well as the uncle of Ever Carradine. Carradine has Irish, English, Scottish, Welsh, German, Spanish, Italian, Ukrainian and Cherokee ancestry. Carradine studied Read more...

Carradine is known for his roles as Kwai Chang Caine in the 1970s television series Kung Fu (as well as the sequels in the 1980s and 1990s), as well as 'Big' Bill Shelly in Martin Scorsese's Boxcar Bertha (1972), folksinger Woody Guthrie in Bound for Glory (1976), Abel Rosenberg in Ingmar Bergman's The Serpent's Egg (1977), and as Bill in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill (2003,2004).

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Some minority film critics have referred to Carradine's role in Kung Fu as an example of a modern Yellowface actor, as despite many long standing rumors to the contrary, Carradine is not Asian decended from any known relatives.