Jun 4 2009UPDATE: David Carradine Found Dead
In case Geekologie is the only site on the interweb you visit (good for you), David Carradine, best known for his role as Shaolin priest Kwai Chang Caine in Kung Fu and Bill in the Kill Bill series, was found dead by alleged hanging in his hotel room in Bangkok. He was 72.
Carradine was in Bangkok to shoot a movie and had been staying at the hotel since Tuesday.
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."
Hi-ya, David, hi-ya. R.I.P.
UPDATE: Hanging was allegedly accidentally and the result of some eroticness gone wrong. Hey, it's how I want to go.
Actor David Carradine found dead in Bangkok [yahoonews]
Thanks to Gem, Rosswell, Steven, Freddy and Matthew, who have all taken the day off to partake in a Kung Fu marathon.
Reader Comments
1. Captain - June 4, 2009 12:59 PM
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2. Pew³ - June 4, 2009 1:06 PM
I heard it was natural causes.....now hanging?
3. t - June 4, 2009 1:07 PM
oh shit. that sucks
4. pepe al PEWPEW - June 4, 2009 1:07 PM
what a wimp... takes the easy way out. Cane has been disgraced...... RIP sorry Bill
5. 24-bit whore - June 4, 2009 1:10 PM
sadness, a kung fu icon & legend
6. naas - June 4, 2009 1:13 PM
Yes crappy, a sad day in the world of kung fu. Hanging himself though, that doesn't sound right
7. cong - June 4, 2009 1:13 PM
too awesome a guy
i suspect a bangkok hooker involved
to think at 72 he was still into freaky hookers
the guy was just awesome
8. naas - June 4, 2009 1:14 PM
RIP grasshopper
9. catch22 - June 4, 2009 1:16 PM
i have always said he was awesome everytime i saw him
i regret i will not see him in anything new
i will have settle watching 100 or so movies and the 2 kung fu series' hes been in
10. ahha - June 4, 2009 1:17 PM
@1 - Maybe you could follow suit.
RIP, David. Bill from Kill Bill seemed less like a character and more like he probably was in real life. Minus the psychotic behavior.
11. you know who - June 4, 2009 1:17 PM
he was like the first guy to escape the matrix.
and he was always sooooo high, that he was the only one in the world that could taste the rainbow with out eating skittles
mmmmm red flavor
12. Susan W. - June 4, 2009 1:29 PM
Sorry, always hated the dude since the studio execs took the Kung Fu role away from Bruce Lee. He would've been way awesomer.
13. Madgame - June 4, 2009 1:36 PM
RIP
14. Ollie Williams - June 4, 2009 1:36 PM
I heard about this from a co-worker earlier this morning. Very sad.
15. catch22 - June 4, 2009 1:37 PM
@12 but because bruce lee died before the last episode of kung fu its better the way it was
and we wouldnt have had the second series either
16. koopaparatroopa - June 4, 2009 1:38 PM
I call foul play. He would have left a note.
17. LSDiesel - June 4, 2009 1:52 PM
Maybe his awesomeness turned against him in the final days and hung him in the night?
although I'm still gonna say my final guess is Profeesor Plum; in the conservatory; with the lead pipe.
*sees conservatory card*
I HATE THIS GAME
18. JW - June 4, 2009 1:53 PM
are we sure Uma Therman has been ruled out as a suspect?
19. Richard McBeef - June 4, 2009 2:02 PM
OLD OLD OLD NEWS - I read this on the superficial like hours ago.
5 point palm exploding heart technique.
20. abert - June 4, 2009 2:02 PM
David Carradine, star of the 1970s television series "Kung Fu." has been found dead in a Bangkok hotel room.
Read more and see a movie about his life here:David Carradine-film
21. gizmoduck - June 4, 2009 2:04 PM
didn't die like a true ninja.
there can only be one
22. Volume2infinity - June 4, 2009 2:29 PM
R.I.P...first ever movie i seen David Carradine in was Death race...
23. Veskit - June 4, 2009 2:33 PM
First and foremost, RIP Mr Carradine, my thoughts are with the family.
@no1 You sick c**t. Peddling your shitty games on someones death. Come on GW, Freedom of speech is all very well, but this takes the biscuit.
Whatever the circumstances of DC's death, it's pretty irrelevant and if it was some kinky shit, fair play to the 72 year old and a shame its ended this way.
Time to watch Kill Bill again......
24. SiGee - June 4, 2009 2:35 PM
:(
25. BK - June 4, 2009 2:37 PM
It was probably Michael Hutchence disease.....
RIP, buddy.
26. Matty - June 4, 2009 2:58 PM
he's been a busy man... i'd give up too...
# Night of the Templar (2009) (post-production) .... Shopkeeper
# Money to Burn (2009) (post-production)
# Six Days in Paradise (2009) (post-production) .... Vernon Billings
# Su Qi-Er (2009) (post-production)
... aka True Legend (International: English title)
# The Rain Chronicles (2009) (post-production) .... Clive Jonis
# Detention (2009) (post-production) .... Principle Hoskins
# Autumn (2009) .... Philip
# "Mental" (2009) TV series .... Gideon (unknown episodes)
# Break (2009/I) .... The Bishop
# Crank: High Voltage (2009) .... Poon Dong
... aka Crank 2 (USA: alternative title)
# Bad Cop (2009) (V) .... Det. Humes
# Absolute Evil (2009) .... Raf McCane
# Road of No Return (2009) .... Mr. Hover
27. jeremy - June 4, 2009 3:03 PM
Wow this is so sad. RIP
28. Pat - June 4, 2009 3:03 PM
Now who will walk the earth alone. ::sigh:: RIP David.
29. yan - June 4, 2009 3:09 PM
@26
THIS WAS HIS LAST FILMED SCENE
http://www.meatspin.com
30. FIRSTTARD - June 4, 2009 3:11 PM
FIRST!
31. sokka - June 4, 2009 3:17 PM
@29
NOT COOL DUDE
DONT click his link...your retnas...they will burn
32. Sir Galahad - June 4, 2009 4:32 PM
This guy got to be a "kung fu icon" without having any kung fu training at all. It's the American Dream...
33. Samspa Pandino - June 4, 2009 4:54 PM
I really loved His films. And also any time I heard the word "monk" on the TV he was the first to come in my mind.
34. Rhialto - June 4, 2009 5:57 PM
Our sincere thoughts and prayers are with his family and loved ones. We offer our heartfelt condolences for your loss.
35. Pew³ - June 4, 2009 5:57 PM
Pai Mei taught you the five point palm-exploding heart technique?
36. Mike Hawk - June 4, 2009 6:44 PM
Hung-Fu
37. GLADIATOR - June 4, 2009 6:51 PM
They say that his death might have been caused by a sex-game gone awry.
Supposed;y the chord was around his kneck and genitalia.
What a waste.
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38. Watch-303 - June 4, 2009 6:52 PM
R.I.P. David, you gave us so many good characters and entertainment. You taught us patience when going for the stone in life.
I can't believe he he killed himself. The last show I watched him on was Wild West Tech. He was showing how gunslingers were able to draw and shoot fast and related info.
39. tallentless - June 4, 2009 7:18 PM
Hang in there man. Dont get all choked up.
I wonder what kind of kick he used to kick the chair out from under him.... I hope it was something kewl.
40. lokuzt - June 4, 2009 8:34 PM
ah this really sucks :( RIP David
41. jp2506 - June 4, 2009 9:05 PM
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42. Tom - June 4, 2009 9:12 PM
Great that David had acted in more than 100 films.
43. Ebb - June 5, 2009 5:36 AM
Latest news has it that he died in a sex act gone WRONG??
44. Jaded Icon - June 5, 2009 8:18 AM
I really hope he won't be remembered for how he died, rather than how kick*ss he was in Kill Bill.
45. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - June 5, 2009 1:39 PM
@44
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hutchence
46. RTM - June 5, 2009 10:25 PM
I'll never forget the man that made Kung-Fu a weekly event in my home
KFtLC forever.
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47. Captain - June 6, 2009 9:15 AM
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