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David Carradine dies
Posted: 04 Jun 2009 12:41
by GamePlayer
Not a huge fan, but given my last impression of him was praising his amazingly nuanced performance in Kill Bill Vol. 2 (a lousy movie, but worth admission for Carradine's performance alone), I thought his passing was worth mention.
Davide Carradine found dead in Bangkok Hotel Room
Oscar-nominated actor David Carradine, best known for his leading role of Kwai Chang Caine on TV's Kung Fu in the 1970s, died Wednesday in Bangkok, where he was shooting a film, his manager confirmed Thursday. The star was 72.
According to manager Chuck Binder, the movie's producer went to Carradine's hotel room and found that he had passed away. Binder told Fox News the death is "shocking and sad. He was full of life, always wanting to work ... a great person."
Married five times and divorced four - he is survived by his widow, Annie Bierman, whom he married in 2004 - Carradine was nominated as Best Actor for his role as folksinger Woody Guthrie in 1976's Bound for Glory. Among his later screen roles was in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, in which he played Bill.
Varied and Long Career
As profiled in People in 1992, Carradine was born in Hollywood to the actor John Carradine and his first wife, Ardanelle, and was just 7 when his parents divorced.
Shuttled between the two, he grew up in boarding schools on both coasts. Although he was orphaned emotionally, he did become close to the seven stepbrothers and half brothers he would accumulate during Dad's four marriages: Ardanelle's older son, Bruce; Chris, Keith and Bobby (whose mother was actress Sonia Sorel); Mike Bowen (Sonia's son from an earlier marriage); and Mike and Dale Grimshaw (John's stepsons by third wife Doris Rich).
By 1970, Carradine says, "I had a house in the Hollywood Hills that virtually every brother has lived in. It was like this safe harbor. We all took care of each other."
David's acting breakthrough - as an Inca king on Broadway in 1965's The Royal Hunt of the Sun when he was 29 - came only after lean years of studying music and ballet at San Francisco State, a brief Army hitch and a life-support gig as a prune picker.
Re: David Carradine dies
Posted: 04 Jun 2009 13:46
by cmsahe
I'm in shock, he is/was one of my heroes and inspirations, the circusmtances of his death are unclear so far.
Re: David Carradine dies
Posted: 04 Jun 2009 14:34
by 13athroom
self-inflicted noose use.
as long as i can remember, this guy struck me as a real self-loather... dont know why.
oh well. we still have Robert Carradine.
Re: David Carradine dies
Posted: 04 Jun 2009 16:14
by Freakzilla
I heard on the radio he hung himself. Such a shame.
Re: David Carradine dies
Posted: 04 Jun 2009 18:22
by SandRider
first I've heard of this.
agree with GP that his master moment on film was @the end of Kill Bill 2
the Kung Fu thing was huge back in the 70s
guess I never realized the fucker was that old.
(& the older you get, the less 72 seems old ..... )
Re: David Carradine dies
Posted: 04 Jun 2009 18:23
by Tleszer
Last I read it wasn't suicide... but a sex game on wrong. He had rope tied around his neck and "other body parts."
Hopefully he won't be remembered for how he died.
Re: David Carradine dies
Posted: 04 Jun 2009 18:39
by trang
"Everybody was Kung-Fu fight-ting.. those cats were fast as lightning...Ohh Ho ho hoooooo....."
Loved the show.. Liked him as actor.. sorry to see his passing.
Re: David Carradine dies
Posted: 04 Jun 2009 19:11
by Eyes High
He was a good actor. He will be missed. Hopefully however he died will not tarnish such a long outstanding career.
Re: David Carradine dies
Posted: 05 Jun 2009 06:51
by Freakzilla
Tleszer wrote:Last I read it wasn't suicide... but a sex game on wrong. He had rope tied around his neck and "other body parts."
Hopefully he won't be remembered for how he died.
Looks like the chicken choked him, huh?
Thank you, thank you...
Re: David Carradine dies
Posted: 05 Jun 2009 09:03
by GamePlayer
Well, for
cmsahe and
SandRider, and any other casual fan like myself, here's Carradine giving one helluva performance in QT's
Kill Bill Vol. 2.
Kill Bill Vol. 2, part 9/12
Kill Bill Vol. 2, part 10/12
Kill Bill Vol. 2, part 11/12
Re: David Carradine dies
Posted: 07 Jun 2009 14:46
by smugetsu
I don't know that I ever really watched an episode of Kung Fu, but I did enjoy his performances in Kill Bill 1 and 2.
The circumstances of his death are still a mystery, and probably will be for at least a few more weeks. Like other people have been saying, I hope that he is remembered for his work and not for the way he died. He had a pretty long-spanning career so hopefully people will choose to focus on that, since, in the end, that is what's more important.
Re: David Carradine dies
Posted: 07 Jun 2009 23:10
by cmsahe
Thanks,
I was an infant when I used to watch Kung Fu, then there was another Kung Fu series in the 90s I think (or late 80s) And of course Kill Bill. Here in my country, due to the popularity of the series in the 70s and a comic parody, everyone knows about the Kung Fu tv series and the little grasshopper.
Re: David Carradine dies
Posted: 08 Jun 2009 07:07
by chanilover
He was probably killed by a ladyboy.
Re: David Carradine dies
Posted: 08 Jun 2009 14:30
by cmsahe
His family says that he was murdered by a Kung Fu sect.
Re: David Carradine dies
Posted: 08 Jun 2009 18:39
by SandChigger
The Dong Thong Tong?
Re: David Carradine dies
Posted: 09 Jun 2009 01:02
by SandRider
Tleszer wrote:Last I read it wasn't suicide... but a sex game on wrong. He had rope tied around his neck and "other body parts."
Hopefully he won't be remembered for how he died.
not a chance in hell of that now ....
Re: David Carradine dies
Posted: 09 Jun 2009 07:54
by Freakzilla
SandChigger wrote:The Dong Thong Tong?
I am truely jealous of your creativity.
Re: David Carradine dies
Posted: 09 Jun 2009 10:53
by SandChigger
It just doesn't make much sense, though, does it?
"You have profane our tradition, Round Eye Dog! Now we strangle you slow with rope around you neck and genital. And while we do, Slow Pong here gonna fluff you to death!"
Knowharramean?
Re: David Carradine dies
Posted: 09 Jun 2009 12:08
by Omphalos
I dont know what you guys are talking about. That's totally the way I wanna go.
Re: David Carradine dies
Posted: 09 Jun 2009 12:21
by Freakzilla
SandChigger wrote:
It just doesn't make much sense, though, does it?
"You have profane our tradition, Round Eye Dog! Now we strangle you slow with rope around you neck and genital. And while we do, Slow Pong here gonna fluff you to death!"
Knowharramean?
Yeah, that was an impromptu cover-up story if I've ever heard one.
Grasshopper, when you can untie the curtain chord from around my penis, then you will be ready.
Re: David Carradine dies
Posted: 09 Jun 2009 15:11
by Omphalos
Snatch this cord from my genitals.
Re: David Carradine dies
Posted: 09 Jun 2009 22:16
by cmsahe
Picture of his dead body as he was found: (graphic picture)
This does not look, to me, like a masturbation gone awfully wrong, he is hung, he was murdered:
(Due to youtube I learnt the cultural diffences about the depiction of dead people, these pictures are common in mexican newspapers but it seems that inthe USA they are considered offensive, of bad taste)
the picture:
http://www.cryptomundo.com/wp-content/u ... 00x187.jpg
Re: David Carradine dies
Posted: 09 Jun 2009 22:23
by 13athroom
Re: David Carradine dies
Posted: 10 Jun 2009 13:47
by Nekhrun
Omphalos wrote:Snatch this cord from my genitals.
Re: David Carradine dies
Posted: 11 Jun 2009 05:52
by SadisticCynic
Nekhrun wrote:Omphalos wrote:Snatch this cord from my genitals.
I've a feeling this
wouldn't be possible for awhile after that...
