Keith Carradine

Keith Ian Carradine was born in San Mateo, a Californian town, on August 8, 1949. His father was the prestigious actor John Carradine , interpreter of titles such as The Grapes of Wrath , by John Ford , and his mother was his second wife. , the actress Sonia Sorel ( The fate of Sissi ).

His childhood was unhappy, especially because when he was eight years old his parents separated. They engaged in a tough custody battle for him and his brothers, Christopher and Walter, which was finally won by his father, but before that, the boys came to spend three months in a foster home for minors. “It was like being in jail. There were bars on the windows and we were only allowed to see our relatives through glass doors,” recalls the actor.

In his youth, he considered becoming a forest ranger, but finally discarded that option. He always deeply admired his older half-brother, David Carradine , and willing to follow in his footsteps as an actor, he enrolled in Drama at Colorado State University.

After debuting as an actor on the Broadway stage, with the musical “Hair”, Keith Carradine made his film debut in 1971 playing a cowboy in Robert Altman ‘s Los vividores , a director who was very impressed by his talent and would turn to the. He was also a young gunslinger in The Great Showdown , alongside Johnny Cash and Kirk Douglas . He later played the youthful version of David Carradine in the legendary series Kung Fu , in the pilot and some other episodes.

Again with Altman, he was one of three Robbers Like Us convicts , and a womanizing folksinger in the Nashville choir , for which he wrote a Golden Globe-winning country song, “I’m Easy.” and the Oscar for best original song.

He became a favorite actor for Altman’s protégé Alan Rudolph , who cast him as a candid and crazy individual in Pick Me , a bumbling criminal in Concerns , an American entertainer in Paris in The Moderns , and showbiz cowboy Will Rogers . in a cameo appearance in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle . In the first of his films with Rudolph he fell in love with Sandra Will, one of his co-stars. They married and had two sons, Cade and Sorel, who pursue acting, creating a third generation of actors in the family (Keith’s nieces Ever and Kansas also act).

Keith Carradine is especially remembered for playing D’Hubert, a Napoleonic officer who repeatedly clashes with another officer, Feraud ( Harvey Keitel ), without resolving their differences once and for all. It happened in The Duelists , the remarkable debut of the great Ridley Scott , which adapts the work of Joseph Conrad .

Keith joined his brothers David and Robert to play the Younger brothers in Walter Hill ‘s Outlaws of Legend , which also reunited for the occasion brothers James and Stacy Keach , and Randy and Dennis Quaid . His filmography also highlights Maria’s Lovers , by Andrey Konchalovskiy, where he was a guitarist.

Despite the immense prestige he had obtained, Carradine lacked a blockbuster blockbuster that would make him a popular actor for the ‘popcorn’ audience. Perhaps for this reason, in the 90s his star faded. He has never stopped interpreting at a good pace, but he fell into series B. Few titles are saved, such as The Ballad of the Sad Café . He was also two real western characters, Buffalo Bill, in Wild Bill , again directed by Walter Hill, and Wild Bill Hickock in the first chapters of the memorable Western series Deadwood , whose pilot is also the work of Hill. He has also been a sheriff in the failed Cowboys & Aliens . In recent years he is also remembered for his role as a special agent in the seriesDexter .

Their divorce gave a lot to talk about in the United States. During the trial, Sandra Will hired controversial Hollywood private detective Anthony Pellicano to record Keith Carradine’s conversations with her lawyer. Eventually she became the investigator’s partner, and for lying to defend him, she was charged with perjury.

Pellicano also recorded Carradine talking to Hayley DuMond, his co-star in The Hunter’s Moon , with whom he fell in love, and with whom he has remade his life.