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    Actor David Carradine found dead in Bangkok - Boston.com

    "Grasshopper" is no more...................

    I loved "Kill Bill" vols. 1 & 2.



    Actor David Carradine found dead in Bangkok
    June 4, 2009

    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."

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    OMG I just said his famous line from Kung Fu line just last night to my son as we were coming home from the airport. Fetch the pebble from my hand. He had no idea what I was talking about.
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    • #3
      Since he hung himself, I wonder how at peace he was? Maybe in more peace now. Was he sick? Family problems? Financial problems? I looked at IMBD earlier and saw he had several projects in the post production stages and one in preproduction.
      Don

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      • #4
        We will miss you grasshopper.
        Mike H
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        • #5
          Something just doesn't feel right, "A news report said he was found hanged in his hotel room and was believed to have committed suicide". I think there will be more come out in the future.

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          • #6
            I'm afraid we can all guess what happened....

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            • #7
              Yes, details now are beginning to support that; however, they seem to think the third possibility is murder.
              "You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity." Adrian Rogers

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              • #8
                I'm a little lost after reading the two posts just prior to this one/mine.

                What's the latest ?

                Thanks.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by wackymother
                  I'm afraid we can all guess what happened....
                  Originally posted by Pstreet1 View Post
                  Yes, details now are beginning to support that; however, they seem to think the third possibility is murder.
                  Originally posted by Beaglemom3 View Post
                  I'm a little lost after reading the two posts just prior to this one/mine.

                  What's the latest ?

                  Thanks.
                  Should be interesting. He was found with one end of a rope tied around his neck and the other end tied to his genitals.
                  “Maybe you shouldn't dress like that.”

                  “This is a blouse and skirt. I don't know what you're talking about.”

                  “You shouldn't wear that body.”

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by T. R. Oglodyte
                    Should be interesting. He was found with one end of a rope tied around his neck and the other end tied to his genitals.
                    That doesn't sound like suicide to me. What a shame!
                    Angela

                    If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

                    BTW, I'm still keeping track of how many times you annoy me.

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                    • #11
                      Hanging is a way to enhance the sexual experience--though, of course, one doesn't plan on actually getting hanged.

                      One report also states that his hands were tied behind him, which would indicate murder, not sex or suicide.
                      "You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity." Adrian Rogers

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Pstreet1 View Post
                        Hanging is a way to enhance the sexual experience--though, of course, one doesn't plan on actually getting hanged.

                        One report also states that his hands were tied behind him, which would indicate murder, not sex or suicide.
                        Uh...it could have been "risky" consensual sex. In which case it would presumably be accidental death? Or murder? I don't know what it's called legally if another person is involved and inadvertently kills the partner.

                        Here's a useful guide so we're all on the same page.

                        Erotic asphyxiation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by wackymother
                          Uh...it could have been "risky" consensual sex. In which case it would presumably be accidental death? Or murder? I don't know what it's called legally if another person is involved and inadvertently kills the partner.

                          Here's a useful guide so we're all on the same page.

                          Erotic asphyxiation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
                          I note that David Carradine has already been edited into that Wiki entry.
                          “Maybe you shouldn't dress like that.”

                          “This is a blouse and skirt. I don't know what you're talking about.”

                          “You shouldn't wear that body.”

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                          • #14
                            If his hands were tied behind his back, consensual sex or not, someone else was there. I wonder if the Bangkok PD will fully investigate and report.
                            In Vino Veritas

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