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Posted By: Stilly River Sage
04-Jun-09 - 10:56 AM
Thread Name: Obit: David Carradine 3 or 4 June 2009
Subject: RE: Obit: David Carradine, actor - June 2009
Bound For Glory was the film.

New York Times arts page article.

David Carradine, the star of the 1970s television series "Kung Fu" and the title villain of the "Kill Bill" movies has died in Thailand, The Associated Press reported. The United States Embassy in Bangkok told The A.P. that Mr. Carradine had been found dead in his hotel suite in Bangkok, where he was working on a movie. He was 72.

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 "Vol. 2."