The Carradine family is an American family of several notable actors. The family patriarch was the minister Beverly Carradine and his grandson, the actor John Carradine, who had five sons, four of whom became actors.
The family includes: Beverly Carradine, married twice: John Carradine, married four times including: John Carradine appeared with his son David in The Good Guys and the Bad Guys and co-starred with him in Boxcar Bertha which was produced by Roger Corman and directed by Martin Scorsese. He also appeared in three episodes of the 1970s television seriesKung Fu, in which David starred. David's brothers Bruce, Keith and Robert also appeared in the series, with Keith playing David's character as a teenager for a brief period. Bruce Carradine also appeared with David in Q, The Winged Serpent and in David's directorial "labor of love", Americana. David and his half-brothers Keith and Robert appeared together as the Younger brothers in Walter Hill's 1980 filmThe Long Riders and the three of them appeared in a humorous cameo on The Fall Guy, on an episode on which their father co-starred. Robert also "shot David to death" in a cameo in Scorsese's Mean Streets. Keith was in another of David's directorial attempts, You and Me, while Robert co-starred with David in the unreleased musical which David directed, A Country Mile. David appeared alongside his half-brother Robert on the eleventh episode of the Disney Channel's Lizzie McGuire, of which Robert was a main character. In this episode, David was cast as a character reminiscent of his Kung Fu character, Kwai Chang Caine. David and Keith each hosted the History Channel's Wild WestTech and appeared in at least two additional films together, Last Stand at Saber River and The Outsider. David's daughter, Calista, appeared in a recurring role on . She also had a role in Project Eliminator, with her father. She was the star of the unreleased epic, Mata Hari, which David directed. In addition, she sang the theme to Americana, a song that David wrote called "Around". David appeared with his niece, Ever, in Dead & Breakfast.
