David Carradine (1936 - 2009)

Actor David Carradine was found dead in a Bangkok hotel room. He was 72. Carradine, most famous for his role on the TV series Kung Fu , had a career revival in the past five years as the title character in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill films. He was nominated for four Golden Globe awards, two for film roles in Kill Bill and Bound for Glory, and two for his work in Kung Fu and North and South on the small screen. Though he most recently appeared in Crank: High Voltage, Carradine was still working tirelessly; he has a handful of films in post-production and was in Thailand working on another new movie. Preliminary investigations lead Bangkok police to believe the actor hanged himself. He was discovered by hotel staff in a wardrobe nude with a cord around his neck and other parts of his body. Here is Carradine delivering some of the best movie dialogue you'll ever hear, in Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol. 2:

Comments

[Lillian James]

This is ridiculously depressing.

[Sean]

RIP

I unfortunatly havent seen too much of his work but what I have seen his was th Kung Fu master and a dedicated hard working actor....

He will be missed

[hcb]

Carradine was really prolific, and he was never bad, in my recollection. I can't claim to have seen even half his films, but of the movies not generally given any mention, I can recommend without hesitation, Deathrace 2000 (the original), Boxcar Bertha, Circle Of Iron, and Larry Cohen's Q. That's a serious night's entertainment. I interviewed Carradine for Kill Bill and he was just terrific, and more than happy to talk about his dad, who I really admired.

[Lengthy Johnson]

We all die but that is a sad way to go.

With regard to the Superman monologue, I beg to differ. It's not big, clever or funny. In fact if one of your mates started a pompous and pointless rave like that, you'd tell him to shut up after five seconds. But I blame Tarantino, who wrote it, for that.