Gaunt, celebrated Hollywood supporting player who appeared in ten John Ford films, including the 1940 classic "The Grapes of Wrath". A specialist in eccentric roles who did much enjoyable and professional hamming in many routine horror films, Carradine was also a keen Shakespearean stage actor, and his habit of reciting soliloquies while walking in public earned him the nick-name "Bard of the Boulevard." Carradine was the son of a noted attorney father and a noted surgeon mother, but was not as inclined towards a conventional profession. Instead, he became an artist, working his way around the
