“Kill Bill” star David Carradine is found dead · 2009-06-05 13:52
David Carradine, best known as the wandering Shaolin monk in the 1970’s television series “Kung Fu” and the mysterious assassin in Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill” movies, was found dead in a Bangkok, Thailand, hotel room Thursday. The cause appeared to be suicide.
“I can confirm that we found his body, naked, hanging in the closet,” a Thai police officer investigating the death told The Associated Press.
Carradine, 72, was staying in Room 352 of the Park Nai Lert Hotel in the Thai capital while shooting a movie titled “Stretch,”_ according to The Nation, a Thai newspaper. Carradine failed to appear with the rest of the crew for a meal Wednesday and could not be contacted. A maid said she discovered his body around 10 a.m.
Carradine had a curtain rope around his neck, The Nation reported, adding that police found no evidence he had been assaulted. An autopsy is scheduled for Friday, Newsday reports.
Meanwhile the actor’s friends and coworkers find it hard – if not impossible – to believe that Carradine hung himself.
“More than anyone I have ever met, David Carradine was a generous man who loved life,” recalls “Look” writer director Adam Rifkin, who cast Carradine as his father in National Lampoon’s “Homoerectus.”
“He was a great adventurer and enjoyed every minute of every day. He was an inspiration to myself and to many others in that regard, Literally, everything was fun to him.”
According to Los Angeles Times, he adds, “I find it extremely hard to believe that David – who was such a hard-working, energetic and beloved Hollywood legend – was done in by his own hand.”
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