Actor David Carradine Dead at 73

[neonphase]

“Kill Bill” star David Carradine was found dead in a Bangkok hotel room Wednesday, his manager told FOX News Thursday.

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.

A statement on behalf of his family has yet to be released, but Binder called the death "shocking and sad."

While Binder gave no indication of the cause of death, several internet reports

Carradine was best known for his role in the television series “Kung Fu.”

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,525069,00.html

 

[KingOfJericho]

Sucks. He was great in Kill Bill... I just watched that again on Sunday.

 

[joelmlmkv]

Why would he kill himself at such an old age?

It does not say that he killled himself, just that he was dead.

 

[joelmlmkv]

ah! did not see that!

 

[turboed]

R.I.P. to Mr. Carradine.

Somebody really did Kill Bill.

 

[neonphase]

Up Date

"Kung Fu" and "Kill Bill" actor David Carradine was found dead Thursday in a Bangkok hotel room, his manager told FOX News.

A Thailand newspaper, The Nation, reported the 72-year-old actor was found hanging.

Chuck Binder, Carradine's manager, said the actor was staying in the Thai capital while shooting a movie. When a producer went to his luxury hotel room, he discovered the actor's body, Binder said, adding that the cause of death is "under investigation." Click Here for Photos of him

The paper said Carradine had been staying at the hotel since Tuesday but could not be contacted after he failed to appear for a meal with the rest of the film crew on Wednesday. His body was later 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.
Fast Facts: David Carradine

A statement on behalf of his family has yet to be released, but Binder called the death "shocking and sad."

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 in1972-75.

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."

 

[Scharf]

C.o.D.

Beatrix Kiddo

aka Black Mamba

aka Mom.

 

[BOz]

RIP... Great Actor..

 

[TwentyonePSI]

Very odd. The guy made a nice comeback over the past couple years.

 

[Monkeykungfu]

Very odd. The guy made a nice comeback over the past couple years.

From Foxnews (I know, I know... foxnews sucks... :yikes: ), Carradine has said in the past:

"Look, there was a period in my life when I had a single action Colt 45, loaded, in my desk drawer. And every night I'd take it out and think about blowing my head off, and then decide not to and go on with my life. Put it back in the drawer and open the laptop and continue writing my autobiography or whatever. But it was just to see."

&

"I remember one time sitting at the window of the third or fourth floor of the Plaza Hotel for about an hour, thinking about just tipping off."

Guess he finally did it... what a way to go though...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,525069,00.html

 

[KingOfJericho]

Some reports have him with the rope also tied to more intimate areas...

 

[Raddicted]

Sad. But at least it sounds like he went out having some fun.

 

[utekineir]

man, it sucks when autoerotic asphyxiation goes wrong

 

[Bad hare]

Carradine's rep, however, said the death was accidental, telling celebrity new site TMZ, "We can confirm 100% that he never would have committed suicide. It was an accidental death. Everybody is in shock."

How do you "accidentally" hang yourself?

 

[utekineir]

How do you "accidentally" hang yourself?

You accidentally hang yourself when autoerotic asphyxiation goes wrong.

Various methods are used to achieve the level of oxygen depletion needed, such as a hanging, suffocation with a plastic bag over the head, self-strangulation such as with a ligature, gas or volatile solvents, chest compression, or some combination of these.[1] Sometimes, complicated devices are used to produce the desired effects.[2] The practice can be dangerous even if performed with care and has resulted in a significant number of accidental deaths. Uva (1995) writes “Estimates of the mortality rate range of autoerotic asphyxia between 250 to 1000 deaths per year in the United States.”[3] Cases have also been reported in Scandinavia[4] and in Germany.[5][6]

Famous cases

The composer Frantisek Kotzwara died from erotic asphyxiation in 1791, probably the first recorded case.
Sada Abe killed her lover, Kichizo Ishida, through erotic asphyxiation in 1936, proceeding to cut off his testicles and carry them in her handbag for a number of days. The case caused a sensation in 1930s Japan and has remained one of the most famous Japanese murder cases of all time.
Stage and screen actor Albert Dekker was found in 1968 with his body graffitized and a noose around his neck in his bathroom.
The artist Vaughn Bodé died from this cause in 1975.
The death in 1994 of Stephen Milligan, the British Conservative MP for Eastleigh, was a case of autoerotic asphyxiation combined with self-bondage.[22]
Kevin Gilbert, a songwriter, musician, composer, producer and collaborator died of apparent autoerotic asphyxiation in 1996.[23]
Michael Hutchence, lead singer of INXS is rumored to have died from auto-erotic asphyxiation in 1997, although suicide was the official cause of death.[24]
The death of the British National Front party member Kristian Etchells happened in 2005.[25]
On March 28, 2007, the New York Times had a front-page story on a teenager who had suffered a heart attack and spent three days in a coma after hanging himself for a "rush".[26], in what appeared to be an instance of a choking game.
Herceg v. Hustler. Diane Herceg sued Hustler Magazine for the death of her 14 year old son, Troy D., who had experimented with autoerotic asphyxia after reading about it in that publication. [27]
In 2009, a coroner ruled that English stand-up comedian Martin Cassidy died from asphyxia due to breathing laughing gas while watching pornography on his laptop computer.[28]
The death of David Carradine in 2009, in which he was found partially undressed with a cord around his neck and genitals[29]], is also suspected to be a case of autoerotic asphyxiation.[30]