Post by myheromrchapel on Jun 4, 2009 13:51:06 GMT -5
Michael's poem to David:
www.michaelmadsen.com/
David Carradine - Dec. 8, 1936 – June 3, 2009
David Carradine has been found hanged in a hotel room in Bangkok.
The American embassy in Thailand confirmed the 72-year-old had been found dead in the capital, where he was filming.
Reports said Caradine had failed to appear for a meal with the film crew on Wednesday and that his body was found by a hotel maid at the Park Nai Lert hotel the following morning.
Police said there were no signs of a struggle or other suspicious circumstances and are treating the death as suicide.
Carradine was a member of a Hollywood acting family that included his father, character actor John Carradine, and brother Keith.
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.
He was perhaps most famous for his role as the fugitive half Chinese Shaolin monk Kwai Chang Caine in the 1970s western TV drama Kung Fu.
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.
His career dwindled after the 1980s to appearing in low budget films but received a major boost when he starred in Quentin Tarantino's two-part Kill Bill films in 2003 and 2004.
news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Kung-Fu-And-Kill-Bill-Acting-Star-David-Carradine-Found-Hanged-In-A-Bangkok-Hotel-Room-Say-Reports/Article/200906115296063?lpos=Home_First_World_News_Article_Teaser_Region_3&lid=ARTICLE_15296063_Kung_Fu_And_Kill_Bill_Acting_Star_David_Carradine_Found_Hanged_In_A_Bangkok_Hotel_Room%2C_Say_Reports
www.michaelmadsen.com/
David Carradine - Dec. 8, 1936 – June 3, 2009
David Carradine has been found hanged in a hotel room in Bangkok.
The American embassy in Thailand confirmed the 72-year-old had been found dead in the capital, where he was filming.
Reports said Caradine had failed to appear for a meal with the film crew on Wednesday and that his body was found by a hotel maid at the Park Nai Lert hotel the following morning.
Police said there were no signs of a struggle or other suspicious circumstances and are treating the death as suicide.
Carradine was a member of a Hollywood acting family that included his father, character actor John Carradine, and brother Keith.
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.
He was perhaps most famous for his role as the fugitive half Chinese Shaolin monk Kwai Chang Caine in the 1970s western TV drama Kung Fu.
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.
His career dwindled after the 1980s to appearing in low budget films but received a major boost when he starred in Quentin Tarantino's two-part Kill Bill films in 2003 and 2004.
news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Kung-Fu-And-Kill-Bill-Acting-Star-David-Carradine-Found-Hanged-In-A-Bangkok-Hotel-Room-Say-Reports/Article/200906115296063?lpos=Home_First_World_News_Article_Teaser_Region_3&lid=ARTICLE_15296063_Kung_Fu_And_Kill_Bill_Acting_Star_David_Carradine_Found_Hanged_In_A_Bangkok_Hotel_Room%2C_Say_Reports
