- Calista Carradine: Born in 1962. Her mother is Donna Lee Becht. Calista is an actress.
- Kansas Anne Carradine: Born in 1978. Her mother is Linda Gilbert. Kansas is an actress.
- Tom Carradine aka Free Carradine: Born in 1972. His mother is Barbara Hershey. Tom is a special effects artist.
- Donna Lee Becht: Donna and David were married on 12/29/1960. Their marriage ended in divorce in 1968. Donna is an actress and singer.
- Linda Gilbert: David and Linda were married on 2/2/1977 and divorced in 1983.
- Gail Jensen: Gail was born in 1949. She is an actress, manager, songwriter, and producer. David and Gail were married on 12/4/1988. They separated in 1995 and divorced in 1997.
Source: "David's Art Bio." Darrid-Carradine.com. pg 9.
David: "I lost an enormous amount of stuff in every one of my divorces ... Every 10 years or so I just move out of the house and walk down the road. Just take my dog and what I can fit in my car."
Source: Josh Rottenberg. "Oh, No!!!!! Mr. Bill!" Entertainment Weekly. 4/30/2004. pg. 116.
David: "I still sculpt. My latest is a bronze bust of my fourth wife I call "The Farmer's Daughter." It's been sitting in a foundry for several years. I'm waiting 'till I can see it as just a sculpture and not my ex-wife. Every once in a while, I go down there and change it a little. It keeps looking better. But, I don't want it in my house, so I don't know what to do with it anyway."
Source: "David's Art Bio." Darrid-Carradine.com. pg 10.
"But scarcely a decade later, fueled by booze and drugs, his life had degenerated into one long career slide marked by a string of straight-to-video movies and a reputation for a temper that left him almost unemployable ... But spurred on by his fourth wife, Marina Benjamin, a 40ish actress and producer, he put down his shot glass for good in March 1996."
Source: "Bouncing Back." People Weekly. 1/11/1999. pg. 133.
Ty Burr: "For better and for worse, Carradine's dusty, garrulous autobiography, ENDLESS HIGHWAY (Journey Editions, $24.95), shows this larger cultural change refracted through a man who has been by turns film-industry brat, beatnik, soldier, acidhead, fake TV "Chinaman," woolly-headed mystic, taciturn actor, idealistic director, and much married chump."
Source: Ty Burr. Entertainment Weekly. 12/8/1995. pg. 59.
Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2009. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2009.
"Fast Facts: David Carradine Biography." FoxNews.com. 6/4/2009.
David Germain, AP. "Carradine's death follows Zen-like turnabout." Sacbee.com. 6/4/2009.
