David Carradine was an Amercican actor, best known for his role in "Kung Fu." He was found dead by suicide in a hotel room on June 4, 2009. Find more David Carradine news and information here.
Photo Agency ** Update : Sources close to the late actor now say that his death was "accidental."** Seventy-two-year-old actor David Carradine was found dead today of an apparent suicide in a Thailand hotel. Thailand's news site The Nation reported that evidence on the scene suggested he hung himself, and there were no signs of struggle. Carradine was in the country to film a movie called Stretch . The film crew became concerned when he failed to show up for dinner last night and they... Read Full Story
David Carradine's death photos have been leaked to the Thai press. David Carradine 's family is in shock after a photo showing the actor shortly after his death has leaked to a Thai tabloid. The photo reportedly confirms suspicions that Carradine died to an accident involving auto-erotic asphyxiation. From newsnidea.com: A Thai publication Thai Rath has published a Crime Scene Photo recently. RadarOnline.com described the image like this : The shocking published photo shows Carradine with... Read Full Story
David Carradine, hero to every guy in the world, is dead today at the age of 72. The first report coming out of Thailand is that Carradine committed suicide in a hotel room in Bangkok, where he was about to star shooting a movie. Carradine was the star or guest star of more than 200 films and television shows - his IMDB page is huge . His most famous works include the television shows Kung Fu and Shane , and many of the younger people will know him from Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill... Read Full Story
The forensics expert investigating the death of actor David Carradine has concluded that he did not commit suicide, but added that more information was needed before determining the exact cause of death.
Keith and Robert Carradine, David’s brothers, each read part of a statement at a Los Angeles hotel Thursday morning. This was their first public appearance since the actor was found hanging in a Bangkok hotel room last week. Since that time, the David Carradine death scene photo has been... Read Full Story
Did David Carradine pull a Michael Hutchence ? The mere mention of Michael Hutchence makes me wince since he was one of the first men I ever fell in love with (a girl can dream) and his death left me devastated. Like the sexy INXS singer, whose mysterious 1997 death in a Sydney hotel was believed to have been related to a sexual fetish gone wrong, police in Thailand are focusing on the possibility that David Carradine may have accidentally died from suffocation or heart failure while... Read Full Story
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thai coroners completed an autopsy on the body of actor David Carradine Friday, a day after the star of 1970s-era U.S. television show "Kung Fu" was found naked and hanging dead in his luxury hotel room. Coroners at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn hospital said they had not yet determined how the 72-year-old actor died and were waiting for the results of a toxicology screen. Police said it could take several weeks before the reason was known. "We are now running tests and then we... Read Full Story
KAIFENG, China (Reuters Life!) - A Chinese kung fu artist who tows cars and cuts paper with her braided hair has given up her crowning glory to officially become a Buddhist nun. Zhang Tingting completely shaved off the hair that she says has "kung fu power" and extraordinary strength so that she can enter a temple as a nun. "I really always wanted to cut my hair off, but I couldn't because of the performances. But this time I've given it up for good," Zhang told Reuters. "It feels great... Read Full Story
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The medical examiner who oversaw a private autopsy on David Carradine said on Wednesday that the "Kung Fu" star died from asphyxiation and the way the actor's body was bound allowed him to rule out suicide. Carradine was found hanging in the closet of his Bangkok hotel suite on June 4 and his family hired New York-based forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden to conduct a follow-up death investigation to the one handled by Thai authorities. Baden had earlier said the... Read Full Story
The family of Kill Bill star David Carradine is “profoundly disturbed” after a photo purporting to be of the hanged actor in his Bangkok hotel room was publishe.
The grainy photo shows a nude man, with his face blacked out, suspended from a clothes rail with his hands apparently bound together above his head. It was published on the cover of tabloid newspaper Thai Rath and is believed to have been taken by a forensics police officer.
* David Carradine in 2008 with wife Annie Bierman and... Read Full Story
