David Carradine RIP 1936-2009

This morning reports are coming out that ‘Kung Fu’ star David Carradine has been found dead in a Bangkok hotel room. Fox News, and BBC are both confirmed this with his Manager. Here is a snippit from Fox:

Chuck Binder said Carradine, 73, was staying in Bangkok while shooting a movie. The film crew became aware of his absence when they went to dine out at a restaurant yesterday. When a producer went to his room, he discovered that the actor had died.

Here is a brief career synopsis from Wiki:

Carradine was known for his roles as Kwai Chang Caine in the 1970s television series Kung Fu (as well as the sequels in the 1980s and 1990s), as well as ‘Big’ Bill Shelly in Martin Scorsese’s Boxcar Bertha (1972), folksinger Woody Guthrie in Bound for Glory (1976), Abel Rosenberg in Ingmar Bergman’s The Serpent’s Egg (1977), and as Bill in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill, Vols. 1 & 2 (2003, 2004, respectively).

RIP Mr Carradine, we will all miss you.

**UPDATE**

The Huffington Post is has found details that it was an apparent suicide, as he was found hanged in his hotel room. A Asian newspaper gives this:

“Kung Fu” and “Kill Bill” star David Carradine was found hung himself [sic] in a closet in a hotel room in Bangkok on Wednesday, Thai police said.

Police believed he committed suicide.

Carradine, 72, was in Bangkok to shoot a movie and stayed at a Suite Room 352 of the Park Nai Lert Hotel on Wireless Road since June 2.

Wow, that is not expected at all!