Cade Carradine

Overview

Cade Carradine is an American actor billed as “Boxer Ray” opposite his father Keith Carradine as “Ray” in Alan Rudolph’s Ray Meets Helen (2017) — a son playing the younger version of his father’s character (Box Office Mojo). Born July 19, 1982 (Asian World Film Festival), he is the son of Keith Carradine, the grandson of John Carradine, and the half-brother of Martha Plimpton (FilmReference), with a supporting role in Turkey’s Oscar-nominated Ayla: The Daughter of War (Hürriyet Daily News).

The Carradines are one of American film’s most tangled family trees, and the tangle is exactly why this profile starts with disambiguation. Cade is Keith Carradine’s son — not David Carradine’s. Keith, born August 8, 1949, in San Mateo, California, married Sandra Will on February 6, 1982 (they later divorced); the children of that marriage are Cade Richmond and Sorel Johannah (FilmReference). Martha Plimpton is Cade’s half-sister, Keith’s daughter with actress Shelley Plimpton (FilmReference). Keith is himself the son of actor John Richmond Reed — born Richmond Reed Carradine, known professionally as John Carradine — and Sonia Sorel (FilmReference; FilmReference), and the brother of actors David and Robert Carradine (FilmReference), which makes David and Robert Cade’s uncles and John Carradine and Sonia Sorel his grandparents. Any biography that treats “Carradine” as one interchangeable brand is selling the wrong family member.

“Boxer Ray” — the father-son casting nobody talks about

Here is the gap in the record this profile exists to close. Ray Meets Helen, Alan Rudolph’s return to filmmaking after about fifteen years away from the cinema, centers on Ray — played by Keith Carradine — a washed-up former boxer who now does insurance legwork and mourns his ruined boxing career (Slant Magazine; Metacritic). Box Office Mojo’s full credits list Keith Carradine as “Ray” and, directly below him, Cade Carradine as “Boxer Ray” (Box Office Mojo). FilmReference’s Keith Carradine biography confirms Cade Richmond Carradine is Keith’s son (FilmReference). Put those two independently verified facts together and the casting becomes remarkable: father and son on the same call sheet, the son embodying the father’s character in his boxing prime. Yet the reviews surfaced in this pass — Slant’s full review, and the Metacritic pull-quotes from the New York Times (90), The Film Stage (83), the Hollywood Reporter, and the Los Angeles Times (40 each) (Metacritic) — do not mention it.

The film itself divided critics cleanly in half. Metacritic records a Metascore of 64 — “Generally Favorable” — built on just five reviews: three positive, two mixed, none negative (Metacritic). The stat, the source, and the implication: a 64 from five critics means the film’s entire critical afterlife rests on a handful of sympathetic write-ups, not on any broad consensus. It opened theatrically on May 4, 2018, through Moonstone Entertainment as a 113-minute R-rated drama (Slant Magazine; Metacritic), with Sondra Locke as Helen, Keith David as the insurance executive Harve, and Jennifer Tilly as Ray’s ex-wife Ginger (Slant Magazine).

Ayla — the American face in Turkey’s Oscar campaign

Cade Carradine’s other anchor credit sits inside Turkey’s state-backed Oscar campaign. Ayla: The Daughter of War, directed by Can Ülkay from a screenplay by Yiğit Güralp, dramatizes the true story of Turkish sergeant Süleyman Dilbirliği and the Korean War orphan he named Ayla — with İsmail Hacıoğlu and Çetin Tekindor as the young and elderly Dilbirliği, and Korean actresses Kim Seol and Lee Kyung-jin as the young and adult Ayla (Hürriyet Daily News). Hürriyet Daily News names “Cade Carradine and Eric Roberts” among the supporting roles (Hürriyet Daily News), in a Turkish–Korean war epic that became Turkey’s Oscar nominee for the foreign-language film category (Hürriyet Daily News). Turkish Airlines served as the main sponsor of the Oscar public-relations campaign, with the Culture and Tourism Ministry as a main supporter (Hürriyet Daily News). That campaign took the film to Los Angeles, where Ayla opened the 2017 Asian World Film Festival (Asian World Film Festival). And here is the detail the databases miss: Carradine did not just attend that festival — he sat on its 2017 jury, listed on the festival’s own site as “CADE CARRADINE, ACTOR,” while his bio closed with the line “Cade stars in the Festival’s Opening Night Film, Ayla: The Daughter of War” (Asian World Film Festival).

A Carradine by birth, a character actor by trade

The dynasty pattern breaks in an interesting way with Cade. His father played Wild Bill Hickok in four 2004 episodes of HBO’s Deadwood (FilmReference); his uncle is David Carradine, his grandfather John Carradine (FilmReference). Cade’s own résumé, as his festival bio lists it, runs through smaller rooms: Deadwood (2005), The Kid (2013), Seduced (2016), Prettyface (2016), and the series SuperHigh (2017) (Asian World Film Festival). Note the overlap: father and son both did HBO’s Deadwood, a year apart — Keith in the show’s 2004 run (FilmReference), Cade in 2005 (Asian World Film Festival). Film databases consistently credit his Deadwood appearance to a prospector named Jubal, but no editorial-tier source reviewed in this pass confirms the character name, so this profile records the appearance and holds the name (see openItems).

Roles on the record

Film / series	Year	What the sources confirm	Source tier
Ray Meets Helen	2017	Credited as “Boxer Ray” opposite his father Keith Carradine as “Ray”	tier2 (Box Office Mojo)
Ayla: The Daughter of War	2017	Supporting role alongside Eric Roberts, in Turkey’s Oscar-nominee	tier1 (Hürriyet Daily News)
Deadwood (HBO)	2005	Appeared; father played Wild Bill Hickok on the same series in 2004	first-party + tier2 (AWFF; FilmReference)
SuperHigh	2017	Series credit	first-party (AWFF)
Prettyface	2016	Short-film credit	first-party (AWFF)
Seduced	2016	Film credit	first-party (AWFF)
The Kid	2013	Film credit	first-party (AWFF)

FAQ

Is Cade Carradine related to David Carradine? Yes — David Carradine was his uncle. Cade is the son of Keith Carradine, making him the nephew of both David and Robert Carradine, and the grandson of John Carradine (FilmReference; FilmReference). He is not David Carradine’s son, despite the shared surname.

What role does Cade Carradine play in Ayla: The Daughter of War? Hürriyet Daily News names him among the film’s supporting roles alongside Eric Roberts, the two American actors in the Turkish–Korean war epic (Hürriyet Daily News). Film databases credit him as “Captain Lorenzo Cage,” but no editorial-tier source reviewed in this pass confirms the character name.

Did Cade Carradine appear in Deadwood? Yes. His 2017 festival biography lists Deadwood (2005) among his credits (Asian World Film Festival), one year after his father Keith Carradine’s 2004 run as Wild Bill Hickok on the same HBO series (FilmReference). Film databases consistently attach the appearance to a prospector named Jubal, but no editorial-tier source reviewed in this pass confirms the character name.

Who does Cade Carradine play in Ray Meets Helen? He is credited as “Boxer Ray,” appearing opposite his own father, Keith Carradine, who plays the older Ray — a washed-up former boxer mourning his ruined career (Box Office Mojo; Slant Magazine). The film, written and directed by Alan Rudolph, opened theatrically on May 4, 2018 (Metacritic).

What this profile does not claim

• It does not name Cade’s Ayla character: “Captain Lorenzo Cage” appears only in database listings at snippet level in this pass, and Hürriyet Daily News (tier1) confirms only a supporting role.
• It does not name his Deadwood character (“Jubal”) as verified fact: the name is consistent across film databases but unconfirmed at editorial tier.
• It does not claim he is a writer or producer: a Racing the Devil writing credit and a producer credit appear only on weak profile sites and a single aggregator snippet, respectively.
• It does not give plot or role details for Prettyface, SuperHigh, The Kid, or Seduced: those credits rest on the festival’s own bio, with no editorial-tier coverage found in this pass.
• It does not assert his birth details from a major newspaper: they come from the Asian World Film Festival’s jury bio (first-party, uncontested), corroborated only by user-contributed IMDb trivia.
• It does not link him to sibling profiles or other Carradine profiles: no Keith, David, Robert, Martha, or Sorel profile exists in this site’s people collection yet (checked October 10, 2026).