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Jun

2009

'Kung Fu''s David Carradine, Found Dead

Written by Picturelux Celebrity Photos Admin

David Carradine, star of over 100 films, was found dead in the wardrobe of his Bangkok hotel room. Carradine, 72, was found by a maid at the Park Nai Lert Hotel in Bangkok on Thursday morning. He was in the city to shoot his latest film, called "Stretch". Thai police said the actor had a curtain cord around his neck.

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. One of his prominent early film roles was as singer Woody Guthrie in Ashby's 1976 biopic "Bound for Glory."

Carradine 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."

He is survived by his wife, Annie Bierman, and four children.