Kill Bill Actor David Carradine Found Dead

[LolaSvelt]

Kill Bill and Kung Fu star David Carradine has been found dead in a Bangkok hotel room, BBC correspondent Jonathan Head has reported.

The 72-year-old was in Thailand filming his latest film Stretch, according to his personal manager Chuck Binder. Mr Binder said the news was "shocking", adding: "He was full of life, always wanting to work... a great person."

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Oh my.

 

[Scott]

shocking!

 

[vmob84]

Rip

 

[designerleather]

I will always remember him more as Qoijan Kane of Kung Fu... But that is before a lot of folks here time. From what i know a really nice, friendly person who would give fans a lot of his time. God Speed and peace.

 

[Flashbang]

So sad

BANGKOK – Actor David Carradine, star of the 1970s TV series "Kung Fu" who also had a wide-ranging career in the movies, has been found dead in the Thai capital, Bangkok. A news report said he was found hanged in his hotel room and was believed to have committed suicide.

A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy, Michael Turner, confirmed the death of the 72-year-old actor. He said the embassy was informed by Thai authorities that Carradine died either late Wednesday or early Thursday, but he could not provide further details out of consideration for his family.

The Web site of the Thai newspaper The Nation cited unidentified police sources as saying Carradine was found Thursday hanged in his luxury hotel room.

It said Carradine was in Bangkok to shoot a movie and had been staying at the hotel since Tuesday.
The newspaper said Carradine could not be contacted after he failed to appear for a meal with the rest of the film crew on Wednesday, and that his body was found by a hotel maid at 10 a.m. Thursday morning. The name of the movie was not immediately available.

It said a preliminary police investigation found that he had hanged himself with a cord used with the room's curtains. It cited police as saying he had been dead at least 12 hours and there was no sign that he had been assaulted.

A police officer at Bangkok's Lumpini precinct station would not confirm the identity of the dead man to The Associated Press, but said the luxury Swissotel Nai Lert Park hotel had reported that a male guest killed himself there.

Carradine was a leading member of a venerable Hollywood acting family that included his father, character actor John Carradine, and brother Keith.

In all, he appeared in more than 100 feature films with such directors as Martin Scorsese, Ingmar Bergman and Hal Ashby.

But he was best known for his role as Kwai Chang Caine, a Shaolin priest traveling the 1800s American frontier West in the TV series "Kung Fu," which aired in 1972-75.

He reprised the role in a mid-1980s TV movie and played Caine's grandson in the 1990s syndicated series "Kung Fu: The Legend Continues."

He returned to the top in recent years as the title character in Quentin Tarantino's two-part saga "Kill Bill."

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[capt.charly]

Wowww sad........RIP David Carradine

 

[dr4732]

I loved him in Kill bill. Rest in peace .

 

[hollaatdomi]

suicide? wow. Rest in Peace

 

[clocked]

i can't believe he killed himself this is so sad, my dad will be crushed, he grew up LOVING Kung Fu.

RIP David

 

[Lamia]

Such a shocking newsI can't belive it....

RIP

 

[Voltaire 6]

Suicide is always such a shock ... i'm rather upset

 

[designerleather]

Makes me sad if it was a suicide. I am really hoping there is something else... a gang of a Thai triad, money, extortion... something else... anything else.

As sad as I am for the loss of his friends and family, I am more deeply saddened by the pain and anguish that he felt that left this as the only acceptable or tolerable option... as well as in this time of anguish... he died alone.

 

[Miss Dalloway]

Very sad, RIP.

 

[LolaSvelt]

It has been revealed that he tried to battle his suicidal tendencies for quite a while:

“Look, there was a period in my life when I had a single action Colt 45, loaded, in my desk drawer. And every night I’d take it out and think about blowing my head off, and then decide not to and go on with my life. Put it back in the drawer and open up the laptop and continue writing my autobiography or whatever. But it was just to see.”

An excerpt the The Telegraph newspaper in 2004.

 

[Label Basher]

No. I was hoping it wasn't suicide. He was a great actor and amazing in Kill Bill. So sad.

 

[Urban Stylin]

RIP Bill!

 

[SusanSuperstar]

omg that´s so sad. rip

 

[tigerrouge]

Makes me sad if it was a suicide. I am really hoping there is something else... a gang of a Thai triad, money, extortion... something else... anything else.

I have heard it could be accidental, but unless it is confirmed, it's not worth speculating; the only sure thing is that we have lost a much-loved actor.

 

[LUXXX]

I don't see how it could be accidental like his rep is saying but...it sounds freaky nonetheless.

 

[retailqueen]

Apparently it isn't suicide but rather a bizarre sexual practice that killed him