RIP Grasshopper
 

One of my childhood heroes gone...


BANGKOK – Actor David Carradine, star of the 1970s TV series "Kung Fu" who also had a wide-ranging career in the movies, has been found dead in the Thai capital, Bangkok.

A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy, Michael Turner, confirmed the death of the 72-year-old actor. He says Carradine died either late Wednesday or early Thursday, but he could not provide further details out of consideration for his family.

The Web site of the newspaper The Nation cited unidentified police sources as saying Carradine was found Thursday hanged in his luxury hotel room and is believed to have committed suicide.

Carradine was a leading member of a venerable Hollywood acting family that included his father, character actor John Carradine, and brother Keith.

young grashopper got old
 

And apparantly hung himself in Bankok at the age of 72...
At least that's what the news here reports, David Carradine is no more.

Just saw this on the news. Sorry to see him go and enjoyed his work.

Was wondering if there would ever be a "Kill Bill 4" but guess not now...

RIP

Same here:(

I enjoyed most of the movies he was in.

It would seem Grasshopper has snatched another pebble from the hand of Master Po. Time for him to leave. :(

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RIP Mr. Carradine!

Randy

Stijn's thread says he hung himself.

Too bad, he was enjoying a resurgence of sorts.

rest in peace amigo. via con dios.

Hung himself, what a way to go. Keep searching for truth grasshopper.

maybe it was one of those bankok hanging wicker sex slings that just went horribly wrong? you'd think the mamasan there to assist could have cut him loose.

t

i have been to bangkok twice. hanging myself never made my "must do" list.

sucky news.

In Bangkok of all places, where a single guy can have soooo much fun. Why would anyone kill themselves there?

It says he was found in the strings for controlling the curtain. Not exactly the way to commit suicide. Also, he was shooting a movie. I've never heard of an actor out on location killing themself.

Something seems fishy, and it in't that other htread!

David Caradine dead?
 

Heard he hung himself in Bangkok.

Wtf?.....caine from kung fu is the ****......

It's true. Heard on ent. news he was found in a Bangkok hotel room, hanged and half naked.

RIP

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He was a hard man, but he made the mistake of spending that one night there...

Auto erotic asphyxiation?

Nice one!

I hope he wasn't there for anything kinky.

RIP, Bill.
 

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Tim

I can see you have never been to Bangkok!

It starts as you walk out of the airport terminal... and gets worse as you get to the city center.

Sad. Autoerotic asphyxiation springs to mind. Nude, hanging in a closet. The fact that it was in Bankok is coincidence. ;)

I'd see him at comic book shows, promoting, I imagine, the Kill Bill series. If he wasn't at a booth looking miserable, he was outside, chain smoking.

Loved the guy's screen personna.

This is shocking. The guy was 72 years old, in apparent good health for his age, a working actor in the middle of shooting a new film... a guy who has legendary status on the screen and many fans... would just hang himself like that out of the blue. Weird. Maybe it was auto-erotic-asphyxiation like Michael Hutchence or Kevin Gilbert etc.... it is easy to assume that because he was found naked, but even that would not be a complete explanation for it... very strange.

Hung Fu ?

Cum and go

huh? :confused:

Believe that he was "different from day one" so to speak, either with or without any outside substances.

So they said half naked. Does that mean he was wearing no shirt or no pants?

Is a man without a shirt 1/2 naked? Or I should say, considered half naked? I don't think so.

Somehow, I think it will end up he tripped and wrapped the curtain cord around his neck.

Nah, the real question is where were his hands when he was found?

And what was hanging when he was found hanging? :eek:

You guys will eat every one of these posts when the truth comes out.

I guess the truth is out...

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The sheer mechanics of the thing are mind boggling.

Slap my face and call me stupid....but I don't get it.

Que the commercial:

"In Japan, the hand can be used like a knife. This, does not work on a curtain pull..."

Everyone's looking for a new thrill, I guess. :rolleyes: