David Carradine, best known to you as the title character from Kill Bill and to your dad as the lead in the ’70s TV show Kung Fu, died late last night or early this morning at age 72.
Carradine was found in a Bangkok hotel room; he was in Thailand shooting the movie. Early reports claim the actor hanged himself.
Carradine appeared in well over 100 movies and at least 50 TV shows; in fact, his IMDb profile lists a whopping 222 acting credits. Try finding an actor with more.
After reaching fame with Kung Fu, Carradine also starred in the cult hit Death Race 2000, but spent much of the ’80s and ’90s in TV roles and B movies. That put him on Quentin Tarantino’s radar for Kill Bill, which temporarily returned him to the mainstream in 2003 and 2004. Since then, if possible, he’d been even more prolific, alternating between B movies, supporting roles in theatrical releases (Crank: High Voltage), and TV show guest spots (Medium, Alias).
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