71, Los Angeles, 23 februari, zelfdoding na bipolaire stoornis
Amerikaans acteur. Zoon van acteur John Carradine, jongere broer van acteurs David en Keith Carradine. Roepnaam: Bobby. Top-billed in Revenge of the Nerds (Jeff Kanew, 1984) en drie vervolgfilms (Joe Roth, 1987; Roland Mesa, tv, 1992; Steve Zacharias, tv, 1994). Ook in bij voorbeeld Coming Home (Hal Ashby, 1978), The Big Red One (Samuel Fuller, 1980) en tegenover zijn broers in de western The Long Riders (Walter Hill, 1980). Filmdebuut in The Cowboys (Mark Rydell, 1972). Ook in films als Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese, 1973), Aloha Bobby and Rose(Floyd Mutrux, 1975), Jackson County Jail (Michael Miller, 1976), The Pom Pom Girls (top-billed; Joseph Ruben, 1976), Massacre at Central High (Rene Daalder, 1976), Cannonball (Paul Bartel, 1976), Joyride (Ruben, 1977), Orca/Orca, the Killer Whale (Michael Anderson, 1977),
Blackout (Eddie Matalon, 1978), Heartaches (Donald Shebib, 1981), Tag: The Assassination Game (top-billed; Nick Castle, 1982), Wavelength (top-billed; Mike Gray, 1983), Just the Way You Are (Édouard Molinaro, 1984), Number One with a Bullet (top-billed; Jack Smight, 1987), Buy & Cell (top-billed; Robert Boris, 1988), Rude Awakening (David Greenwalt en Aaron Russo, 1989), The Player (als zichzelf; Robert Altman, 1992), The Killers Within (top-billed; Paul Leder, 1995), Escape from L.A. (John Carpenter, 1996), Humanoids from the Deep (tv; Jeff Yonis, 1996), Scorpio One (top-billed; Worth Keeter, 1998), Palmer’s Pick-Up (Christopher Coppola, 1999), Gunfighter (top-billed; C. Coppola, 1999), The Kid with X-Ray Eyes (top-billed; Fred Olen Ray, 1999), Lycanthrope (tevens productie, top-billed; Bob Cook, 1999), Dangerous Curves (top-billed; Jeremiah Culinane, 2000), Ghosts of Mars (Carpenter, 2001), Max Keeble’s Big Move (Tim Hill, 2001), The Lizzie McGuire Movie (Jim Fall, 2003), Supercross (Steve Boyum, 2005), Sex and Breakfast (Miles Brandman, 2005), Hoboken Hollow (Glen Stephens, 2006), 7-10 Split (Tommy Reid, 2007), Tooth and Nail (Mark Young, 2007), Cross (Patrick Durham, 2011), Bikini Spring Break (Jared Cohn, 2012), Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino, 2012), Justice (Richard Gabai, 2017), Bill Tilghman and the Outlaws (top-billed; Wayne Shipley, 2019), Human Zoo (top-billed; John E Seymore, 2020) en Skate to Hell (Shawn C. Phillips, 2026). Postuum worden nog enkele films verwacht, zoals Night of the Living Dead (top-billed; Cohn, 2026) en The Cowboy Killer (Jaymes Camery, 2026).