Keith Carradine - Narrator

Keith Carradine has starred in over fifty feature films and more than thirty cable and network television movies. He is an Academy Award-winning singer and songwriter with two albums and a hit single to his credit. He is a star of the first magnitude on Broadway.

Born in San Mateo, California, the son of the late John Carradine (veteran actor and father of acting brothers David and Robert), Keith grew up in California. He began to develop his musical skills at 14 playing guitar in a band made up of high school friends. He went on to Colorado State University in Fort Collins where he appeared in the University Production of Jean Anouilh's Becket before leaving school to pursue his career. After a brief period in San Francisco, he moved into an apartment in Venice Beach, California.

In March, 1969, Keith auditioned in Los Angeles and was cast in the Broadway Musical Hair and spent a year in New York playing the principal role of Claude.

Soon after returning to Los Angeles in 1970, Keith landed the part of a young gunslinger in A Gunfight with Kirk Douglas and Johnny Cash. He followed this with an important role in Robert Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller with Warren Beatty and Julie Christie, and then went on to star in the Altman classics Thieves Like Us (1973) and Nashville (1975). During the filming of Thieves Like Us Altman became aware of Carradine's singing and songwriting talents and incorporated several of his compositions into the Nashville film and soundtrack, including It Don’t Worry Me and Honey Won’t You Let Me Be Your Friend. His song I'm Easy, which he performed in the memorable Exit Inn sequence, won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Song in a Motion Picture in 1975. His single recording of the song on David Geffen’s Asylum records made the Top Ten on the Billboard national charts. He also released two LP albums on Asylum – I'm Easy and Lost and Found.

Carradine has starred in a number of notable films including a quartet directed by close friend and Altman protégé Alan Rudolph. These were Welcome to L.A., Choose Me, Trouble in Mind and The Moderns. Another of Keith's talents was unveiled when he painted several canvases for The Moderns including one that became the film's poster.

Other memorable films include Ridley Scott's The Duellists, Louis Malle's Pretty Baby, and Walter Hill's The Longriders and Southern Comfort, as well as the more recent A Thousand Acres with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jessica Lange and Two Days in the Valley. Major television roles were in the mini-series Dead Man's Walk, In The Best of Families, A Rumor of War, Chiefs, (for which he received an Emmy nomination) and Murder Ordained, and the television movies A Winner Never Quits; My Father, My Son; Stones for Ibarra; Sirens and Baby.

In 1982 Keith appeared on Broadway with Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn in Foxfire. For his performance as the couple's prodigal son -- a country music star -- Carradine received an Outer Critics Circle Award. Earlier stage work included a production of Tobacco Road with his father, John Carradine, and Detective Story at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles with Charlton Heston.

Keith Carradine created the role of Will Rogers on Broadway in The Will Rogers Follies, the smash hit musical that opened at the Palace Theatre on May 1, 1991. He was nominated for a Tony Award as Best Lead Actor in a Musical. The show won six Tonys--including Best Musical--and a Grammy Award for Best Musical Show album. After a year of performances on Broadway, Keith led the national touring company of The Will Rogers Follies across America, performing in 28 cities over the next twelve months.

In 2004 Keith Carradine played legendary gunfighter Wild Bill Hickock in the HBO Original Series Deadwood, written and produced by David Milch with the premier episode directed by Walter Hill.

Keith also appeared in Monte Walsh on TNT and in Coyote Waits on PBS. He starred in Falcons, an independent Icelandic film for which he composed and recorded the end title song Northern Light. Among other recent work are The Californians, an independent film from the creative team that also produced the cult success Bartleby, and Into The West, the mini-series from Steven Spielberg on TNT, as well as Our Very Own, another independent film in which he starred opposite Allison Janney.

In 2005 he performed the role of George W. Bush in the American debut of David Hare's play Stuff Happens at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum. He recently completed principal photography on The Death And Life Of Bobby Z with Laurence Fishburn and Paul Walker, as well as Elvis And Anabelle with Mary Steenburgen, Max Minghella, Blake Lively and Joe Mantegna.

In the summer and fall of 2006 he played charming rogue Laurence Jameson in the smash Broadway musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels at the Imperial Theater in New York. This was followed by three independent features, Lake City with Sissy Spacek , All Hat with Luke Kirby and Rachael Leigh Cook, and Winter of Frozen Dreams with Thora Birch. In December he played a set of his original music at Joe’s Pub at New York’s Public Theater. He then appeared in two episodes of Criminal Minds on CBS, including the season finale, as legendary serial killer Frank Breitkopf. He has just begun work as a new character, FBI Special Agent Frank Lundy, in Season Two of Dexter on Showtime.

Keith Carradine has three children; daughter actress Martha Plimpton, son Cade Carradine, and daughter Sorel Carradine . He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, actress Hayley DuMond.