Category: Celebrity News Author : Kim LaCapria Posted: June 4, 2009
Tags : celebrity deaths, david carradine, david carradine suicide, suicide
The American embassy in Bangkok, Thailand has confirmed that kung-fu legend and Kill Bill titular star David Carradine has been found hanged in his hotel room by a maid at the Swissotel Nai Lert Park in an apparent suicide. He was 72.
Carradine was well-known for his role as Kwai Chang Caine in TV’s Kung Fu. After flying high in the seventies, he appeared in many low-budget flicks until being cast alongside Uma Thurman in Kill Bill Vol. I and Kill Bill Vol. II- a role he admits Quentin Tarantino based partly on Carradine’s autobiography Endless Highway.
David Carradine is survived by brothers Keith and Robert and niece Martha Plimpton.
Jun 4, 2009
David Carradine, star of the 1970s television series “Kung Fu.” has been found dead in a Bangkok hotel room.
Read more and see a movie about his life here:David Carradine-film
Jun 4, 2009
Wow. I am very surprised by this. I didn't want him to go, but I guess he didn't want to be here anymore.
I hope his family is ok.
Jun 4, 2009
What a gigantic bummer. I grew up watching Kung Fu. This really saddens me.
Jun 4, 2009
they are missing part of the story other sources say he had rope around other parts of his body and think it was a sex game gone wrong with autoeroticism