Kung Fu Star David Carradine found Dead

[Rainsberger]

Kung Fu and Kill Bill star David Carradine has been found hanged in a hotel room in Bangkok.

 

Actor David Carradine is found dead in a Bangkok hotel room

 

 

 

The American embassy in Thailand confirmed the 72-year-old had been found dead in the capital, where he was filming.

 

Reports said he was found hanging from a curtain cord in a closet by a chambermaid at the Park Nai Lert hotel.

 

Police said there were no signs of a struggle or other suspicious circumstances and are treating the death as suicide.

 

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

 

He was famous for his role as the fugitive half Chinese Shaolin monk Kwai Chang Caine in the 1970s western TV drama Kung Fu.

 

His career received a major boost when he starred in Quentin Tarantino's two part Kill Bill films in 2003 and 2004.

Edited June 4, 2009 by Rainsberger

[alexth]

Sad news indeed