He was in Thailand to shoot a film. It would be hanged in the hotel with the rope of a tent. Famous for the TV series 70's "Kung Fu" was chosen by Tarantino for the two parts of "Kill Bill"
David Carradine
ROME - Actor David Carradine was found dead, hanged with the rope of a tent, in a hotel room in Bangkok. Carradine, 72, was in Thailand to shoot a new film. To find out what happened were the crew members who went to look for the actor in the Nai Lert Park Hotel on Wireless Road, after it had failed to appear at dinner.
The Thai newspaper The Nation speaks of the hypothesis of suicide. Yesterday Carradine went to dinner at a restaurant on Sathorn Road. Then it was not seen again until his body was found. The death dates back to less than 12 hours after the discovery of the body, without signs of a struggle. According to Thai newspaper, the actor was found in a closet and semisvestito.
agent David Carradine, Chuck Binder, said that investigations are underway to determine the cause of death. No official statement yet by the family. It 'was the same Binder to talk about "shock and sadness." Carradine was living in Los Angeles with his wife Annie, four children and two dogs. Born in Hollywood on December 8, 1936, Carradine was the son of legendary actor John Carradine ( Hurricane , Stagecoach , Furore , The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance ), and a member of a family of actors which includes the brothers Keith (one of Nashville ) and Robert Carradine and Michael Bowen, sisters, Calista, Kansas, and Ever Carradine and Martha Plimpton.
Carradine discovers talent for acting at San Francisco State College, where he studied music theory and composition. He wrote works for the department of drama college, says in a Shakespearean company. After school, after two years in the Army, located in New York working as an interpreter in commercials and later landed on Broadway, where she manages to make his way up to play alongside actor Christopher Plummer.
The return to Hollywood from the mid sixties. Carradine worked in the TV series Shane , then comes to the movies with Martin Scorsese, who wants him for his first Hollywood movie, America 1929: Bertha mercilessly (Boxcar Bertha) in 1972, and also in the next Mean Streets (1973). But to give him great popularity is still television, with the series Kung Fu , that for the next three years (but for decades to follow) turns him into a superstar in the role of Kwai Chang Caine. "Every day - he liked to say - at least six people who meet me say, 'Kung Fu has changed my life'."
But his familiarity with martial arts was not just the stuff of fiction. Carradine cultivated a lifelong passion for Oriental philosophies and disciplines. He had also written a book, Spirit of Shaolin dedicated to Kung Fu.
Carradine does not want his career to be reduced only to the TV series, although of worship. Let Kung Fu to devote himself to something else. It makes the curriculum more than a hundred feature films, twenty for television, several theatrical works on Broadway. Then he returns to first love, and twenty years of wearing the new keikogi in Kung Fu: The Legend Continues , 1992, a sequel, hailed by fans of the series that made him famous and caused him nominated for an Emmy Award (the Oscars of American TV) as best actor.
Carradine received the Best Actor Award from the National Film Board of Review and nominated for a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Woody Guthrie in Hal Ashby film, Bound my land (Bound for Glory, 1976) and scored a personal success for her role as Cole Younger in The Long Riders (The Long Riders, 1980) by Walter Hill. He also worked with Robert Altman in The Long Goodbye (The Long Goodbye, 1973), Year 2000, Death Race (Death Race 2000, 1975) by Paul Bartel, The Serpent's Egg (1977) Ingmar Bergman, Save the Gray Lady (Gray Lady Down, 1978), and Bird on a Wire (Bird on a Wire, 1990) by John Badham, opposite Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn
Recently he returned to the big screen with an extraordinary performance in the two Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, which was worth in 2005, the fourth Golden Globe nomination of his long career. But in recent years has participated in many titles, including films and television series, many of which are forthcoming.
The Thai newspaper The Nation speaks of the hypothesis of suicide. Yesterday Carradine went to dinner at a restaurant on Sathorn Road. Then it was not seen again until his body was found. The death dates back to less than 12 hours after the discovery of the body, without signs of a struggle. According to Thai newspaper, the actor was found in a closet and semisvestito.
agent David Carradine, Chuck Binder, said that investigations are underway to determine the cause of death. No official statement yet by the family. It 'was the same Binder to talk about "shock and sadness." Carradine was living in Los Angeles with his wife Annie, four children and two dogs. Born in Hollywood on December 8, 1936, Carradine was the son of legendary actor John Carradine ( Hurricane , Stagecoach , Furore , The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance ), and a member of a family of actors which includes the brothers Keith (one of Nashville ) and Robert Carradine and Michael Bowen, sisters, Calista, Kansas, and Ever Carradine and Martha Plimpton.
Carradine discovers talent for acting at San Francisco State College, where he studied music theory and composition. He wrote works for the department of drama college, says in a Shakespearean company. After school, after two years in the Army, located in New York working as an interpreter in commercials and later landed on Broadway, where she manages to make his way up to play alongside actor Christopher Plummer.
The return to Hollywood from the mid sixties. Carradine worked in the TV series Shane , then comes to the movies with Martin Scorsese, who wants him for his first Hollywood movie, America 1929: Bertha mercilessly (Boxcar Bertha) in 1972, and also in the next Mean Streets (1973). But to give him great popularity is still television, with the series Kung Fu , that for the next three years (but for decades to follow) turns him into a superstar in the role of Kwai Chang Caine. "Every day - he liked to say - at least six people who meet me say, 'Kung Fu has changed my life'."
But his familiarity with martial arts was not just the stuff of fiction. Carradine cultivated a lifelong passion for Oriental philosophies and disciplines. He had also written a book, Spirit of Shaolin dedicated to Kung Fu.
Carradine does not want his career to be reduced only to the TV series, although of worship. Let Kung Fu to devote himself to something else. It makes the curriculum more than a hundred feature films, twenty for television, several theatrical works on Broadway. Then he returns to first love, and twenty years of wearing the new keikogi in Kung Fu: The Legend Continues , 1992, a sequel, hailed by fans of the series that made him famous and caused him nominated for an Emmy Award (the Oscars of American TV) as best actor.
Carradine received the Best Actor Award from the National Film Board of Review and nominated for a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Woody Guthrie in Hal Ashby film, Bound my land (Bound for Glory, 1976) and scored a personal success for her role as Cole Younger in The Long Riders (The Long Riders, 1980) by Walter Hill. He also worked with Robert Altman in The Long Goodbye (The Long Goodbye, 1973), Year 2000, Death Race (Death Race 2000, 1975) by Paul Bartel, The Serpent's Egg (1977) Ingmar Bergman, Save the Gray Lady (Gray Lady Down, 1978), and Bird on a Wire (Bird on a Wire, 1990) by John Badham, opposite Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn
Recently he returned to the big screen with an extraordinary performance in the two Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, which was worth in 2005, the fourth Golden Globe nomination of his long career. But in recent years has participated in many titles, including films and television series, many of which are forthcoming.
( June 4, 2009)
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