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06-04-2009, 09:35 AM
June 4, 2009, 10:29 am David Carradine Dies
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David Carradine in the 2008 Spike TV movie “Kung Fu Killer.”
David Carradine (http://movies.nytimes.com/person/84255/David-Carradine), the star of the 1970s television series “Kung Fu” (http://tv.nytimes.com/show/157175/Kung-Fu/overview) and the title villain of the “Kill Bill” (http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/280648/Kill-Bill-Vol-1/overview) movies, has died in Thailand, The Associated Press reported (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/david-carradine-found-dead-in-bangkok-1696867.html). The United States Embassy in Bangkok told The A.P. that Mr. Carradine had been found dead in his hotel suite in Bangkok, where he was working on a movie. He was 72.
Mr. Carradine was part of an acting family that included his father, John; his brother, Bruce, and half-brothers Keith and Robert; and his nieces Ever Carradine and Martha Plimpton.
After a short run as the title character in the 1966 television adaptation of the Western “Shane,” he found fame in the 1972 series “Kung Fu” as Kwai Chang Caine, a wanderer raised by Shaolin monks to be a martial arts master. He enjoyed a career resurgence in recent years when he was cast by Quentin Tarantino in the action movies “Kill Bill: Vol. 1″ (http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/280648/Kill-Bill-Vol-1/overview) and “Vol. 2.” (http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/289932/Kill-Bill-Vol-2/overview)
Updated | 10:58 a.m. Thai police have told BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8083479.stm) that Mr. Carradine was found on Thursday morning by a hotel maid in a wardrobe with a rope around his neck.
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/david-carradine-dies/
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/06/04/arts/davidAB.jpg
David Carradine in the 2008 Spike TV movie “Kung Fu Killer.”
David Carradine (http://movies.nytimes.com/person/84255/David-Carradine), the star of the 1970s television series “Kung Fu” (http://tv.nytimes.com/show/157175/Kung-Fu/overview) and the title villain of the “Kill Bill” (http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/280648/Kill-Bill-Vol-1/overview) movies, has died in Thailand, The Associated Press reported (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/david-carradine-found-dead-in-bangkok-1696867.html). The United States Embassy in Bangkok told The A.P. that Mr. Carradine had been found dead in his hotel suite in Bangkok, where he was working on a movie. He was 72.
Mr. Carradine was part of an acting family that included his father, John; his brother, Bruce, and half-brothers Keith and Robert; and his nieces Ever Carradine and Martha Plimpton.
After a short run as the title character in the 1966 television adaptation of the Western “Shane,” he found fame in the 1972 series “Kung Fu” as Kwai Chang Caine, a wanderer raised by Shaolin monks to be a martial arts master. He enjoyed a career resurgence in recent years when he was cast by Quentin Tarantino in the action movies “Kill Bill: Vol. 1″ (http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/280648/Kill-Bill-Vol-1/overview) and “Vol. 2.” (http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/289932/Kill-Bill-Vol-2/overview)
Updated | 10:58 a.m. Thai police have told BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8083479.stm) that Mr. Carradine was found on Thursday morning by a hotel maid in a wardrobe with a rope around his neck.
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/david-carradine-dies/