Keith Carradine
Acting • Born 1949-08-08
Biography
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.
Filmography
181 credits
Nashville
Movie • 1975
Tom Frank
The Death and Life of Bobby Z
Movie • 2007
Johnson
All Hat
Movie • 2007
Pete Culpepper
Winter of Frozen Dreams
Movie • 2009
Detective Lulling
Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will?
Movie • 1990
Clarence
The Best of Sex and Violence
Movie • 1982
Self - Cameo Appearance
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Movie • 1994
Will Rogers
The Forgotten
Movie • 1989
Cap. Tom Watkins
Thieves Like Us
Movie • 1974
Bowie
Emperor of the North
Movie • 1973
Cigaret
Trouble in Mind
Movie • 1985
Coop
Wooly Boys
Movie • 2001
Sheriff Hank Dawson
Southern Comfort
Movie • 1981
Spencer
Afraid
Movie • 2024
Marcus
Pretty Baby
Movie • 1978
Bellocq
2 Days in the Valley
Movie • 1996
Detective Creighton
Half a Lifetime
Movie • 1986
J.J.
After the Fall
Movie • 2014
Charles
Lake City
Movie • 2008
Roy
Balto III: Wings of Change
Movie • 2004
Duke (voice)
Choose Me
Movie • 1984
Mickey
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Movie • 1971
Cowboy
The Moderns
Movie • 1988
Nick Hart
The Long Riders
Movie • 1980
Jim Younger
Monte Walsh
Movie • 2003
Chester 'Chet' Rollins
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Movie • 1978
Our Guests at Heartland
The Outsider
Movie • 2002
Noah Weaver
The Diamond of Jeru
Movie • 2001
John Lacklan
The Devil and the Daylong Brothers
Movie • 2025
Nehemiah Daylong
A Thousand Acres
Movie • 1997
Ty Smith
Wild Bill
Movie • 1995
Buffalo Bill Cody
Cowboys & Aliens
Movie • 2011
Sheriff John Taggart
Halves of a Dream: Making Trouble in Mind
Movie • 2010
Self
CrissCross
Movie • 1992
John Cross
The Duellists
Movie • 1977
Armand d'Hubert
Elvis & Anabelle
Movie • 2007
Jimmy
A Gunfight
Movie • 1971
The Young Gunfighter
Falcons
Movie • 2002
Simon
The Californians
Movie • 2005
Elton Tripp
Our Very Own
Movie • 2005
Billy Whitfield
The Family Tree
Movie • 2011
Reverend Diggs
Last Stand at Saber River
Movie • 1997
Vern Kidston
Coyote Waits
Movie • 2003
John McGinnis
Street of No Return
Movie • 1989
Michael
Idaho Transfer
Movie • 1973
Arthur
The Adventures of Ociee Nash
Movie • 2004
Papa Nash
Welcome to L.A.
Movie • 1976
Carroll Barber
Maria's Lovers
Movie • 1984
Clarence Butts
The Tie That Binds
Movie • 1995
John Netherwood
Cold Feet
Movie • 1989
Monte
Out of the Cold
Movie • 1999
Dan Scott
Ain't Them Bodies Saints
Movie • 2013
Skerritt
The Hunter's Moon
Movie • 1999
Turner
An Almost Perfect Affair
Movie • 1979
Hal
The Inquiry
Movie • 1986
Tito Valerio Tauro
Old Boyfriends
Movie • 1979
Wayne
Backfire
Movie • 1988
Reed
Hex
Movie • 1973
Whizzer
Lumière
Movie • 1976
David
Where There's a Will
Movie • 2006
Sherriff Clifford Laws
The Bachelor
Movie • 1990
Dr. Emil Gräsler
Standoff
Movie • 1998
Agent Zeke Clayton
Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble
Movie • 2000
Pierce Butler
A Winner Never Quits
Movie • 1986
Pete Grey
The Revenge of Al Capone
Movie • 1989
Michael Rourke
Blackout
Movie • 1985
Allen Devlin
The Godchild
Movie • 1974
Lt. Lewis
Night Ride Home
Movie • 1999
Neal Mahler
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Movie • 1991
Marvin Macy
Dakota's Summer
Movie • 2014
Austin Rose
Run, Run, Joe!
Movie • 1974
Joe
Sirens
Movie • 1999
Officer Dan Wexler
Cahoots
Movie • 2001
Matt
Kung Fu: The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon
Movie • 1972
Teen Caine (uncredited)
Altman
Movie • 2014
Self
Hair High
Movie • 2004
JoJo (voice)
Andre
Movie • 1994
Harry Whitney
Bereave
Movie • 2015
Victor
Lincoln
Movie • 1992
William Herndon (voice)
Is There Life Out There?
Movie • 1994
Brad
A Nashville Country Christmas
Movie • 2022
Keaton
Murder Ordained
Movie • 1987
Trooper John Rule
Hard Time: Hostage Hotel
Movie • 1999
Cpl. Arlin Flynn
A Quiet Passion
Movie • 2016
Edward Dickinson
Antoine and Sebastian
Movie • 1974
John
Judgment
Movie • 1990
Pete Guitry
Trial by Fire
Movie • 1995
Owen Turner
Payoff
Movie • 1991
Peter "Mac" McAllister
Keeping the Promise
Movie • 1997
William (Will) Hallowell
A Song from the Heart
Movie • 1999
Oliver Comstock
Laws of Man
Movie • 2025
Galen Armstrong
In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness
Movie • 1994
Tom Lynch
The Will Rogers Follies: A Life In Revue
Movie • 1993
Will Rogers
Ray Meets Helen
Movie • 2018
Ray
You and Me
Movie • 1975
Death Guy
Terroir
Movie • 2014
Jonathan Bragg
Man on a String
Movie • 1972
Danny Brown
The Old Man & the Gun
Movie • 2018
Captain Calder
My Father, My Son
Movie • 1988
Lt. Elmo Zumwalt III
The Angel Doll
Movie • 2002
Adult Jerry Barlow
Scorned and Swindled
Movie • 1984
John Boslett
Stones for Ibarra
Movie • 1988
Richard Everton
Special Report: Journey to Mars
Movie • 1996
Capt. Eugene T. Slader
Eye on the Sparrow
Movie • 1987
James Lee
Way Out on a Limb
Movie • 2016
Self
Deadwood: The Movie
Movie • 2019
Wild Bill Hickok (archive footage)
The Power of the Dog
Movie • 2021
The Governor
Sallywood
Movie • 2024
George Corrigan
Peacock
Movie • 2010
Ray Crill
Duelling Directors: Ridley Scott & Kevin Reynolds
Movie • 2002
Self (archive footage)
Madonna: The Immaculate Collection
Movie • 1990
Boyfriend (segment "Material Girl")
Rabbit Ears - Annie Oakley
Movie • 1992
Narrator - Will Rogers (voice)
The Making of 'Nashville'
Movie • 2013
Self
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
Movie • 2004
Self
Altman on His Own Terms
Movie • 2000
Self
Some Enchanted Evening: Celebrating Oscar Hammerstein II
Movie • 1995
Self
The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: More 1976
Movie • 1976
Self
Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
Movie • 2025
Dr. Wagner
Baby
Movie • 2000
John Malone
Way Out on a Limb
Movie • 2016
Kill Me Now
Movie
Arli$$
TV • 1996
Lamar Scott
Deadwood
TV • 2004
Wild Bill Hickock
Star Trek: Enterprise
TV • 2001
A.G. Robinson
Numb3rs
TV • 2005
Carl McGowan
Perversions of Science
TV • 1997
Arthur Bristol
Wild West Tech
TV • 2003
Self - Host
Complete Savages
TV • 2004
Nick Savage
The View
TV • 1997
Self
E! True Hollywood Story
TV • 1996
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Richard Everton
Into the West
TV • 2005
Captain Richard H. Pratt
Fear the Walking Dead
TV • 2015
John Dorie
Dollhouse
TV • 2009
Matthew Harding
Street Time
TV • 2002
Frank Dugan
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
The West
TV • 1996
Self
Fast Track
TV • 1997
Dr. Richard Beckett
Dexter
TV • 2006
Frank Lundy
Dexter
TV • 2006
Special Agent Frank Lundy
Chiefs
TV • 1983
Foxy Funderburke
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Martin Garvik
Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields
TV • 2023
Self (archive footage)
Confessional
TV • 1989
Liam Devlin
Rugrats
TV • 2021
Bob Brine (voice)
NCIS
TV • 2003
Mannheim Gold
Dead Man's Walk
TV • 1996
Bigfoot Wallace
The Following
TV • 2013
Barry
The Big Bang Theory
TV • 2007
Wyatt Teller
Frasier
TV • 1993
Carl (voice)
Raising Hope
TV • 2010
Coly Palomino
Fargo
TV • 2014
Lou Solverson
American Experience
TV • 1988
Narrator (voice)
A Rumor of War
TV • 1980
Lt. Murph McCoy
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Neal
Baseball
TV • 1994
Various (voice)
Spider-Man: The New Animated Series
TV • 2003
J. Jonah Jameson (voice)
Murder Ordained
TV • 1987
Trooper John Rule
Law & Order: Organized Crime
TV • 2021
Judge Clayton 'Clay' Bonner
The West
TV • 1996
Self (voice)
Gettysburg and Stories of Valor
TV • 2004
Narrator
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV • 1975
Self
Love, American Style
TV • 1969
George Pomerantz
Criminal Minds
TV • 2005
Frank Breitkopf
Madam Secretary
TV • 2014
Conrad Dalton
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Self
Accused
TV • 2023
Billy Carlson
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Ern
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self
Baseball
TV • 1994
(voice)
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee
Missing
TV • 2012
Martin Newman
Kung Fu
TV • 1972
Teenage Caine (uncredited)
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self - Co-Host
Kung Fu
TV • 1972
Middle Caine (archive footage) (uncredited)
Crash
TV • 2008
Owen
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
TV • 1948
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self (uncredited)
Damages
TV • 2007
Julian Decker
High Potential
TV • 2024
Douglas Newmeyer