About
Keith Carradine
Overview
Keith Ian Carradine (born August 8, 1949) is an American actor and singer-songwriter. In film he is known for his roles as Tom Frank in Robert Altman's Nashville, E. J. Bellocq in Louis Malle's Pretty Baby, and Mickey in Alan Rudolph's Choose Me. On television he is known for his roles as Wild Bill Hickok on the HBO series Deadwood, FBI agent Frank Lundy on the Showtime series Dexter, Lou Solverson in the first season of FX's Fargo, Penny's father Wyatt on the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory, and U.S. President Conrad Dalton on the CBS political drama Madam Secretary. He is a member of the Carradine family of actors, including father John Carradine, brothers Robert and David Carradine, and daughter Martha Plimpton.
Known for
Acting |
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| 2025 | The Devil and the Daylong Brothers | Actor | Nehemiah Daylong | 58 Average |
| 2025 | Laws of Man | Actor | Galen Armstrong | 58 Average |
| 2024 | Afraid | Actor | Marcus | 59 Average |
| 2024 | Sallywood | Actor | George Corrigan | 58 Average |
| 2022 | A Nashville Country Christmas | Actor | Keaton | 59 Average |
| 2021 | The Power of the Dog | Actor | The Governor | 66 Fair |
| 2019 | Deadwood: The Movie | Actor | Wild Bill Hickok (archive footage) | 62 Fair |
| 2019 | Unraveling the Mystery: A Big Bang Farewell | Actor | Wyatt (archive footage) | 60 Fair |
| 2018 | The Old Man & the Gun | Actor | Captain Calder | 62 Fair |
| 2018 | Ray Meets Helen | Actor | Ray | 58 Average |
| 2016 | Way Out on a Limb | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2016 | A Quiet Passion | Actor | Edward Dickinson | 59 Average |
| 2015 | Bereave | Actor | Victor | 58 Average |
| 2014 | Terroir | Actor | Jonathan Bragg | 58 Average |
| 2014 | Altman | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2014 | Dakota's Summer | Actor | Austin Rose | 59 Average |
| 2014 | After the Fall | Actor | Charles | 58 Average |
| 2013 | The Making of 'Nashville' | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2013 | Ain't Them Bodies Saints | Actor | Skerritt | 59 Average |
| 2011 | The Family Tree | Actor | Reverend Diggs | 58 Average |
| 2011 | Cowboys & Aliens | Actor | Sheriff John Taggart | 56 Average |
| 2010 | Halves of a Dream: Making Trouble in Mind | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2010 | Peacock | Actor | Ray Crill | 59 Average |
| 2009 | Winter of Frozen Dreams | Actor | Detective Lulling | 58 Average |
| 2008 | Lake City | Actor | Roy | 58 Average |
| 2007 | All Hat | Actor | Pete Culpepper | 58 Average |
| 2007 | The Death and Life of Bobby Z | Actor | Johnson | 59 Average |
| 2007 | Elvis & Anabelle | Actor | Jimmy | 60 Fair |
| 2006 | Where There's a Will | Actor | Sherriff Clifford Laws | 58 Average |
| 2005 | The Californians | Actor | Elton Tripp | 58 Average |
| 2005 | Our Very Own | Actor | Billy Whitfield | 58 Average |
| 2005 | Into the West | Actor | Captain Richard H. Pratt | 74 Good |
| 2004 | Complete Savages | Actor | Nick Savage | 68 Fair |
| 2004 | AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
| 2004 | Hair High | Actor | JoJo (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2004 | Balto III: Wings of Change | Actor | Duke (voice) | 61 Fair |
| 2004 | The Adventures of Ociee Nash | Actor | Papa Nash | 58 Average |
| 2003 | Coyote Waits | Actor | John McGinnis | 58 Average |
| 2003 | Wild West Tech | Actor | Self - Host | N/A N/A |
| 2003 | Spider-Man | Actor | J. Jonah Jameson | 59 Average |
| 2003 | Monte Walsh | Actor | Chester 'Chet' Rollins | 58 Average |
| 2002 | Duelling Directors: Ridley Scott & Kevin Reynolds | Actor | Self (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
| 2002 | The Outsider | Actor | Noah Weaver | 58 Average |
| 2002 | Falcons | Actor | Simon | 58 Average |
| 2002 | The Angel Doll | Actor | Adult Jerry Barlow | 58 Average |
| 2001 | The Diamond of Jeru | Actor | John Lacklan | 58 Average |
| 2001 | Cahoots | Actor | Matt | 58 Average |
| 2001 | Wooly Boys | Actor | Sheriff Hank Dawson | 58 Average |
| 2000 | Baby | Actor | John Malone | 58 Average |
| 2000 | Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble | Actor | Pierce Butler | 59 Average |
| 2000 | Altman on His Own Terms | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 1999 | Hard Time: Hostage Hotel | Actor | Cpl. Arlin Flynn | 58 Average |
| 1999 | The Hunter's Moon | Actor | Turner | 58 Average |
| 1999 | A Song from the Heart | Actor | Oliver Comstock | 59 Average |
| 1999 | Sirens | Actor | Officer Dan Wexler | 59 Average |
| 1999 | Out of the Cold | Actor | Dan Scott | 58 Average |
| 1999 | Night Ride Home | Actor | Neal Mahler | 58 Average |
| 1998 | Standoff | Actor | Agent Zeke Clayton | 58 Average |
| 1997 | A Thousand Acres | Actor | Ty Smith | 58 Average |
| 1997 | Fast Track | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 1997 | Last Stand at Saber River | Actor | Vern Kidston | 58 Average |
| 1997 | Keeping the Promise | Actor | William (Will) Hallowell | 58 Average |
| 1996 | The West | Actor | Self | 72 Good |
| 1996 | 2 Days in the Valley | Actor | Detective Creighton | 59 Average |
| 1996 | Dead Man's Walk | Actor | Bigfoot Wallace | 67 Fair |
| 1996 | Special Report: Journey to Mars | Actor | Capt. Eugene T. Slader | 58 Average |
| 1995 | Wild Bill | Actor | Buffalo Bill Cody | 58 Average |
| 1995 | Trial by Fire | Actor | Owen Turner | 58 Average |
| 1995 | The Tie That Binds | Actor | John Netherwood | 58 Average |
| 1995 | Some Enchanted Evening: Celebrating Oscar Hammerstein II | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 1994 | Is There Life Out There? | Actor | Brad | 58 Average |
| 1994 | Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle | Actor | Will Rogers | 58 Average |
| 1994 | Andre | Actor | Harry Whitney | 57 Average |
| 1994 | In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness | Actor | Tom Lynch | 58 Average |
| 1993 | The Will Rogers Follies: A Life In Revue | Actor | Will Rogers | N/A N/A |
| 1992 | Lincoln | Actor | William Herndon (voice) | 59 Average |
| 1992 | Rabbit Ears - Annie Oakley | Actor | Narrator - Will Rogers (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 1992 | CrissCross | Actor | John Cross | 58 Average |
| 1991 | The Ballad of the Sad Cafe | Actor | Marvin Macy | 58 Average |
| 1991 | Payoff | Actor | Peter "Mac" McAllister | 58 Average |
| 1990 | Madonna: The Immaculate Collection | Actor | Boyfriend (segment "Material Girl") | 61 Fair |
| 1990 | Judgment | Actor | Pete Guitry | 58 Average |
| 1990 | Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will? | Actor | Clarence | 58 Average |
| 1990 | The Bachelor | Actor | Dr. Emil Gräsler | N/A N/A |
| 1989 | Confessional | Actor | Liam Devlin | N/A N/A |
| 1989 | Cold Feet | Actor | Monte | 58 Average |
| 1989 | Street of No Return | Actor | Michael | 58 Average |
| 1989 | The Forgotten | Actor | Cap. Tom Watkins | 58 Average |
| 1989 | The Revenge of Al Capone | Actor | Michael Rourke | 58 Average |
| 1988 | Backfire | Actor | Reed | 58 Average |
| 1988 | The Moderns | Actor | Nick Hart | 58 Average |
| 1988 | My Father, My Son | Actor | Lt. Elmo Zumwalt III | 59 Average |
| 1988 | Stones for Ibarra | Actor | Richard Everton | N/A N/A |
| 1987 | Eye on the Sparrow | Actor | James Lee | 58 Average |
| 1987 | Murder Ordained | Actor | Trooper John Rule | 58 Average |
| 1987 | Murder Ordained | Actor | Trooper John Rule | 68 Fair |
| 1986 | The Inquiry | Actor | Tito Valerio Tauro | 58 Average |
| 1986 | Half a Lifetime | Actor | J.J. | N/A N/A |
| 1986 | A Winner Never Quits | Actor | Pete Grey | 58 Average |
| 1985 | Trouble in Mind | Actor | Coop | 58 Average |
| 1985 | Blackout | Actor | Allen Devlin | 58 Average |
| 1984 | Scorned and Swindled | Actor | John Boslett | 58 Average |
| 1984 | Maria's Lovers | Actor | Clarence Butts | 58 Average |
| 1984 | Choose Me | Actor | Mickey | 58 Average |
| 1983 | Chiefs | Actor | Foxy Funderburke | 71 Good |
| 1982 | The Best of Sex and Violence | Actor | Self - Cameo Appearance | 58 Average |
| 1981 | Southern Comfort | Actor | Spencer | 62 Fair |
| 1980 | A Rumor of War | Actor | Lt. Murph McCoy | 69 Fair |
| 1980 | The Long Riders | Actor | Jim Younger | 61 Fair |
| 1979 | An Almost Perfect Affair | Actor | Hal | 58 Average |
| 1979 | Old Boyfriends | Actor | Wayne | 58 Average |
| 1978 | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | Actor | Our Guests at Heartland | 57 Average |
| 1978 | Pretty Baby | Actor | Bellocq | 63 Fair |
| 1977 | The Duellists | Actor | Armand d'Hubert | 66 Fair |
| 1976 | Welcome to L.A. | Actor | Carroll Barber | 58 Average |
| 1976 | Lumière | Actor | David | 58 Average |
| 1975 | Nashville | Actor | Tom Frank | 65 Fair |
| 1975 | You and Me | Actor | Death Guy | 58 Average |
| 1974 | The Godchild | Actor | Lt. Lewis | 58 Average |
| 1974 | Run, Run, Joe! | Actor | Joe | 58 Average |
| 1974 | Thieves Like Us | Actor | Bowie | 59 Average |
| 1974 | Antoine and Sebastian | Actor | John | N/A N/A |
| 1973 | Hex | Actor | Whizzer | 58 Average |
| 1973 | Idaho Transfer | Actor | Arthur | 58 Average |
| 1973 | Emperor of the North | Actor | Cigaret | 60 Fair |
| 1972 | Kung Fu: The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon | Actor | Teen Caine (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 1972 | Man On A String | Actor | Danny Brown | 58 Average |
| 1971 | A Gunfight | Actor | The Young Gunfighter | 58 Average |
| 1971 | McCabe & Mrs. Miller | Actor | Cowboy | 64 Fair |
| Dexter | Actor | Frank Lundy | N/A N/A |
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| Imperfect Women | Actor | RL Hennessy | N/A N/A |
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Production |
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| 2018 | Ray Meets Helen | Production | Executive Producer | 58 Average |
| 2014 | Terroir | Production | Executive Producer | 58 Average |
| 1989 | The Forgotten | Production | Executive Producer | 58 Average |
Sound |
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| 1979 | Willa | Sound | Songs | 58 Average |
| 1975 | You and Me | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |