David Carradine, 72, the Tv and Movie from 1970s television series Kung Fu, the villain of the Kill Bill movies, and others, has died in Thailand.
The United States Embassy in Bangkok told The A.P. that Mr. Carradine
had been found dead in his hotel suite in Bangkok. He was working
on a movie on Thailand.
“I can confirm that David Carradine passed away in Bangkok. We extend our condolences to his family,” one official told Reuters.
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 and 2
Thailand police have to BBC NEWS that Mr. Carradine was found on Thursday morning by a hotel maid in a wardrobe with a rope around his neck.
