David Carradine found dead in Bangkok hotel room

[trekgeezer]

One story says he hung himself, the other says natural causes

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_thailand_david_carradine

http://movies.rediff.com/report/2009/jun/04/david-carradine-dead.htm

[The Burgomaster]

Yup.  Here's more:

http://www.comcast.net/articles/entertainment/20090604/AS.Thailand.David.Carradine/

[Doggett]

 

[akiratubo]

Suicide?  Why?   

[Jim H]

That's too bad.  He added a little something to just about every movie he was in, crappy or not.  He was kind of like Donald Pleasance in that sense.

As for why...  I suspect he's been troubled for a long time.  I know people who've seen him at conventions, apparently he's gone on a number of benders, both the legal kind and the illegal kind.

[Torgo]

This is some truly shocking and depressing news. He was always one of my favorite actors. I realize that he had some serious demons in the past but it seemed  that after the mainstream success of the Kill Bill films, I thought he had put those behind him finally.  Sadly that doesn't seem to have been the case. The last film that I saw him in was Crank: High Voltage........  R.I.P. Caine. You will be missed!

[Pilgermann]

Crap, that's surprising and sad news.

It's unclear but some other stuff I'm reading seems to be hinting not at suicide but auto-erotic asphyxiation.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/5444839/David-Carradine-found-dead-in-wardrobe-of-Bangkok-hotel.html

David Carradine, star of the television series Kung Fu and the Kill Bill movies, has been found hanged and half-naked in the wardrobe of a Bangkok hotel room, according to reports...Thai police told the BBC the 72-year-old was found by a hotel maid sitting in a wardrobe with a rope around his neck and other body parts...

Still, there's nothing definite in any of the reports.

[Raffine]

Terrible news.

My thoughts to the Carradine family, one of the true American acting dynasties.

[Jack]

Sad news, I always enjoyed his acting in just about everything he was in.

[Psycho Circus]

Shocking to say the least. R.I.P. 

[RCMerchant]

I just heard this from a freind about half an hour agoat work. A fine actor. My favorite film of his will always be DEATHRACE 2000-but sooo many other greats-BOXCAR BERTHA,BOUND FOR GLORY,SONNY BOY,KILL BILL...well over 200 films!!! And of course-KUNG FU.
Go in Peace.

[Javakoala]

Sleep well, David.  You have left us all a grand body of work to enjoy.

[Paquita]

 

Before I knew his name he was "that guy that's in all those movies" to me.

[princess dragonmom]

Death Race 2000 will always be one of my favorite movies.  Such a shame, RIP David.

[Ash]

To a lot of us, David Carradine was a legend.
I simply cannot fathom why he would want to go out the way he did.

R.I.P. dude.  Loved your movies!