Actor David Carradine (72) was found hanging in a hotel closet after a sex game went wrong

[radman]

http://mydeathspace.com/article/2009/06/04/Actor_David_Carradine_(72)_was_found_hanging_in_a_hotel_closet_after_a_sex_game_went_wrong

Sad day.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_thailand_david_carradine

BANGKOK – Actor David Carradine, star of the 1970s TV series "Kung Fu" who also had a wide-ranging career in the movies, has been found dead in the Thai capital, Bangkok. A news report said he was found hanged in his hotel room and was believed to have committed suicide.

A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy, Michael Turner, confirmed the death of the 72-year-old actor. He said the embassy was informed by Thai authorities that Carradine died either late Wednesday or early Thursday, but he could not provide further details out of consideration for his family.

The Web site of the Thai newspaper The Nation cited unidentified police sources as saying Carradine was found Thursday hanged in his luxury hotel room.

It said Carradine was in Bangkok to shoot a movie and had been staying at the hotel since Tuesday.

The newspaper said Carradine could not be contacted after he failed to appear for a meal with the rest of the film crew on Wednesday, and that his body was found by a hotel maid at 10 a.m. Thursday morning. The name of the movie was not immediately available.

It said a preliminary police investigation found that he had hanged himself with a cord used with the room's curtains. It cited police as saying he had been dead at least 12 hours and there was no sign that he had been assaulted.

A police officer at Bangkok's Lumpini precinct station would not confirm the identity of the dead man to The Associated Press, but said the luxury Swissotel Nai Lert Park hotel had reported that a male guest killed himself there.

Carradine was a leading member of a venerable Hollywood acting family that included his father, character actor John Carradine, and brother Keith.

In all, he appeared in more than 100 feature films with such directors as Martin Scorsese, Ingmar Bergman and Hal Ashby.

But he was best known for his role as Kwai Chang Caine, a Shaolin priest traveling the 1800s American frontier West in the TV series "Kung Fu," which aired in 1972-75.

He reprised the role in a mid-1980s TV movie and played Caine's grandson in the 1990s syndicated series "Kung Fu: The Legend Continues."

He returned to the top in recent years as the title character in Quentin Tarantino's two-part saga "Kill Bill."

[Cat Pajamas]

I always had a chick boner for him. 

[Nomad]

he always played a great villain.

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[Lozz*in*Wonderland]

I couldn't think of hardly anything i'd seen him in except kill bill and medium but he has one of the longest imdb list i have ever seen.


http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001016/

[Cap-n Meow]

I'm more sad to hear of how he went.  I heard something about auto erotic asphyxiation.  He always seemed like a kind and mellow person.  I'd rather he have gone of natural causes.

[ZoMyGoddess!]

damn man, that really sucks. 

I'm more sad to hear of how he went.  I heard something about auto erotic asphyxiation.  He always seemed like a kind and mellow person.  I'd rather he have gone of natural causes.

nahhhh really? auto erotic? i always thought that was a really embarassing way to go - i hope not,.. not that just killing yourself is any better.

[Cap-n Meow]

damn man, that really sucks. 

nahhhh really? auto erotic? i always thought that was a really embarassing way to go - i hope not,.. not that just killing yourself is any better.

It's only hearsay though.  I have no evidence to back that up.  I meant that either way, accident or intentional hanging is not how I'd like to remember someone like him going.

[Evolved1]

I heard it was from natural causes...

[niffer_marie]

Actor David Carradine found dead in Bangkok (AP)Source: AP 2 hours, 20 minutes ago           

BANGKOK - Actor David Carradine, star of the 1970s TV series "Kung Fu" who also had a wide-ranging career in the movies, has been found dead in the Thai capital, Bangkok. A news report said he was found hanged in his hotel room and was believed to have committed suicide.


A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy, Michael Turner, confirmed the death of the 72-year-old actor. He said the embassy was informed by Thai authorities that Carradine died either late Wednesday or early Thursday, but he could not provide further details out of consideration for his family.


The Web site of the Thai newspaper The Nation cited unidentified police sources as saying Carradine was found Thursday hanged in his luxury hotel room.


It said Carradine was in Bangkok to shoot a movie and had been staying at the hotel since Tuesday.


The newspaper said Carradine could not be contacted after he failed to appear for a meal with the rest of the film crew on Wednesday, and that his body was found by a hotel maid at 10 a.m. Thursday morning. The name of the movie was not immediately available.


It said a preliminary police investigation found that he had hanged himself with a cord used with the room's curtains. It cited police as saying he had been dead at least 12 hours and there was no sign that he had been assaulted.


A police officer at Bangkok's Lumpini precinct station would not confirm the identity of the dead man, but said the luxury Swissotel Nai Lert Park hotel had reported that a male guest killed himself there.


Carradine was a leading member of a venerable Hollywood acting family that included his father, character actor John Carradine, and brother Keith.


In all, he appeared in more than 100 feature films with such directors as Martin Scorsese, Ingmar Bergman and Hal Ashby. One of his prominent early film roles was as singer Woody Guthrie in Ashby's 1976 biopic "Bound for Glory."


But he was best known for his role as Kwai Chang Caine, a Shaolin priest traveling the 1800s American frontier West in the TV series "Kung Fu," which aired in 1972-75.


He reprised the role in a mid-1980s TV movie and played Caine's grandson in the 1990s syndicated series "Kung Fu: The Legend Continues."


He returned to the top in recent years as the title character in Quentin Tarantino's two-part saga "Kill Bill."


The character, the worldly father figure of a pack of crack assassins, was a shadowy presence in 2003's "Kill Bill - Vol. 1." In that film, one of Bill's former assassins (Uma Thurman) begins a vengeful rampage against her old associates.


In "Kill Bill - Vol. 2," released in 2004, Thurman's character comes face to face again with Bill himself. The role brought Carradine a Golden Globe nomination as best supporting actor.


Bill was a complete contrast to his TV character Kwai Chang Caine, the soft-spoken refugee from a Shaolin monastery, serenely spreading wisdom and battling bad guys in the Old West. He left after three seasons, saying the show had started to repeat itself.


After "Kung Fu," Carradine starred in the 1975 cult flick "Death Race 2000." He starred with Liv Ullmann in Bergman's "The Serpent's Egg" in 1977 and with his brothers in the 1980 Western "The Long Riders."


But after the early 1980s, he spent two decades doing mostly low-budget films. Tarantino's films changed that.


"All I've ever needed since I more or less retired from studio films a couple of decades ago ... is just to be in one," Carradine told The Associated Press in 2004.


"There isn't anything that Anthony Hopkins or Clint Eastwood or Sean Connery or any of those old guys are doing that I couldn't do," he said. "All that was ever required was somebody with Quentin's courage to take and put me in the spotlight."


One thing remained a constant after "Kung Fu": Carradine's interest in Oriental herbs, exercise and philosophy. He wrote a personal memoir called "Spirit of Shaolin" and continued to make instructional videos on tai chi and other martial arts.


In the 2004 interview, Carradine talked candidly about his past boozing and narcotics use, but said he had put all that behind him and stuck to coffee and cigarettes.


"I didn't like the way I looked, for one thing. You're kind of out of control emotionally when you drink that much. I was quicker to anger."


"You're probably witnessing the last time I will ever answer those questions," Carradine said. "Because this is a regeneration. It is a renaissance. It is the start of a new career for me.


"It's time to do nothing but look forward."

I loved watching the old episodes of Kung Fu!

[Nocturnity]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!! 

[wickedgirl]

http://mydeathspace.com/smf/index.php?topic=20180.0;topicseen

Sorry for your Kung Fu grief.

[Nomad]

I heard it was from natural causes...

Yeah, crushing the neck with a noose naturally causes death.

[aquatwins]

Yeah, crushing the neck with a noose naturally causes death.

you have learned well...young grasshopper

[HyperU2]

I heard it was from natural causes...

Naked with a rope around his neck and nads.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/5444839/David-Carradine-found-dead-in-wardrobe-of-Bangkok-hotel.html

Thai police told the BBC the 72-year-old was found by a hotel maid sitting in a wardrobe with a rope around his neck and other body parts.      "other body parts" said genitals before they edited.

[mydeathspace]

Naked with a rope around his neck and nads.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/5444839/David-Carradine-found-dead-in-wardrobe-of-Bangkok-hotel.html

Thai police told the BBC the 72-year-old was found by a hotel maid sitting in a wardrobe with a rope around his neck and other body parts.      "other body parts" said genitals before they edited.

I thought only 13 year olds played "The Choking Game"!

I bet you he had a LadyBoy hooker present when he died.

[HyperU2]

I thought only 13 year olds played "The Choking Game"!

They have to learn it somewhere.    Grasshopper.

[boogieman]

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Goodnight, Mr. Frankenstein.

[bowieluva]

I don't trust the Thai police for shit, though. They could have found him decapitated with his head missing and they'd be like oh obviously suicide move on.

[BorderlineRetarded]

I grew up watching his show. I don't know why, but for some reason I find it hard to believe that he committed suicide. I'll be really surprised if this doesn't turn into something else.

[Hellbettie]

Someone on my fb is going around saying it wasn't suicide, but an accident...oh jeez.  I'll delete this later cos that's sad