David Carradine is dead

As a fighting monk in the TV series "Kung Fu", he came in the seventies to fame, with Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill", he celebrated a late comeback. Now is the actor David Carradine in Bangkok was found dead.

 

Bangkok - His name is not only with the art of acting, but always with the masterful art of shock linked to: David Carradine became famous in the television series "Kung Fu", his great comeback he experienced in Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill" -- He played in both Far Eastern-trained fighters.

Now, the American actor in Bangkok was found dead. The 72-year-old is either on Wednesday evening or Thursday morning has died, said a spokesman for the U.S. embassy in the Thai capital.

With regard to family Carradine would begin no further details known. The BBC reports, referring to Thai police sources, the actor was in his hotel room with a rope around his neck had been found.

Whether it is a suicide or an accident, it still seems unclear. According to a report in the Bangkok newspaper "The Nation", the local police, however, currently out of a suicide.

Actor Carradine came from a family. His father was a famous Western actor John Carradine. Even his brothers Bruce, Keith and Robert are actors.

David, however, was not immediately available for occupation - he was so famous he once, first, some youth penalties collected. He studied music in San Francisco, went to the army and eventually met on Broadway. By mid-twenties he made the jump into the television business. 1964 he played in his first feature film with the Western "Taggart".

David Carradine became famous in the seventies through the role of Kwai Chang Caine in the television series "Kung Fu". It is about the adventures of a Shaolin monk in the Wild-West. Later, he was, inter alia, in Ingmar Bergmann film "a '" to see and to "This land is my land", Hal Ashbys filming the life of Woody Guthrie. In the eighties Carradine appeared in the television series "torches in the storm" on. There, he played the unscrupulous plantation owner Justin LaMotte.

Then the actor fell into the shallows of the movie business and worked in productions with increasing, where no place of honor in the history of film response should be: So "The Gallows Birds", "On the hunt for the treasure of Dos Santos' or 'fear at midnight."

His big comeback as he celebrated a few years ago with a grand appearance in Quentin Tarantino's two-part "Kill Bill". It is about the Aussteigerin from a gang of killers (Uma Thurman), shortly before her wedding by her former comrades down in a brutal and criminal action will be seriously injured. After four years of coma, she awakens and begins a campaign of revenge. In the title role Carradine was the boss of the gang and especially brilliant in the finale of the second part.

Carradine was to last well in the business: On 25 June 2009, the prison comedy "Big Stan" in the German cinemas. It Carradine plays a martial arts expert. In February at the Berlinale ran the teen comedy "My Suicide" and the detective film "Absolute Evil", both with Carradine in a supporting role.

According to his manager remained Carradine to filming for the movie "stretch" in Bangkok on.