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tefain · Joined: 19 Sep 2007 Location: Not too far out there

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090604/ap_en_ot/as_thailand_david_carradine_3

Just read this. Bad news week all around. Sad

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

BritishinSuwon

Just read that. Weird story though. First story I read said he had hung himself, second (with a quote from his agent) said it "appeared" he died due to natural causes.
Either way, it's sad. He was always one of my favorites. Just seemed so...cool.

tefain · Joined: 19 Sep 2007 Location: Not too far out there

Yeah the younger crowd knows him for Kill Bill, but he had quite the career.

Awful either way.

VanIslander · Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 1:34 pm Post subject:

How apt.

If there was any 72-year old actor to die in a Bangkok hotel room I'd think it'd be David Carradine.

I am not at all surprised. It just seems to suit him.

Perhaps it's because he presented an image of a mystic, scuzzy, sage from without.

RIP Kung Fu Guru.

Sergio Stefanuto · Joined: 14 May 2009 Location: UK

Never heard of him, I'm afraid

Rteacher · Joined: 23 May 2005 Location: Western MA, USA

Not sure what the cause of death was, but one of his 2008 film credits was a role in "My Suicide" ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Carradine

dporter · Joined: 26 Apr 2009

Suicide seems like an odd way out for him. I wonder if there is more. Maybe something along the lines of Michael Hutchence.

DeLaRed · Joined: 16 Oct 2008

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

Suicide is what was first reported to the press..but now that has been quickly RULED out.

Hard to imagine anyone would believe that a very famous individual would fly to Bangkok, get naked in a closet and hang himself. C'mon folks. Think about the ramifications for a very famous person with a public career would mean to OFF himself in such a way. Obviously unintended death on his part.

Anyways, most have realized it was aphixation that did him in, I mean the press and authorities as well.

Rteacher · Joined: 23 May 2005 Location: Western MA, USA

If it was accidental, it likely was "autoerotic asphyxia" ...
http://www.thezephyr.com/deadlyclimax.htm

However, on Larry King's show, one of David's actor friends said that he heard that police in Thailand definitely suspect "foul play" ...

Big_Bird · Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 1:50 am Post subject:

The room was supposedly locked from the inside, and the rope was tied around 'other parts of his body' according to other reports. Sounding more and more like a sex act gone wrong.

Adventurer · Joined: 28 Jan 2006

I think that's too bad, because I really liked his acting in the Kung Fu series. Thailand has too much sexuality and of an underlife in a not good for many expats or people who go there, and there is drugs out there. If you take drugs and then have thoughts of doing who knows what you could get yourself killed, but we can only speculate. We're human we can make mistakes, but if we're not careful, it can be deadly. I really loved Kung Fu the series. I have series I and II in the U.S. I don't have number 3. For me, when I was young, it was an inspiritation to watch.

Had he been somewhat close to that, I doubt he would have been found hanging. I mourn his death whether it was a suicide, him trying to be erotic. People try to stimulate themselves, but why do it in such a risky way. Anyway, anything could have happened.
I am sorry the world lost the actor. If he was murdered, I hope we find the culprit(s).

R.I.P. Kung Fu guru. You will sorely be missed. I hope you are sleeping well and in peace. I really do.

How sad....

JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

(haa! i keep seeing "R.I.P. something-something Guru" on this thread! you know what. i can no longer read "Jongno-gu" or "guru" in the print media without doing a mental double-take)

Damn it. Damn this whole sordid, disturbing death.

Adventurer, Thailand didn't do anything to that "expat". He wasn't an expat. He was only in Thailand to film a movie.

Found dead with a shoestring tied around his neck and his genitals.
And how utterly cruel fate can be. The name of the movie was "Stretch".

Did you know that "Master Po" in the TV series Kung Fu was played by none other than Keye Luke? Yes. Charlie Chan's "Number One Son" in the 1930s, and well as just about the first major recurring role for an ethnic Asian in Hollywood.

And who was "Master Kan" in the TV series? That would be Philip Ahn, the first Korean-American to grace the silver screen. His parents were the first-ever Korean couple admitted into the United States.

And of course David's illustrious father John Carradine, well... his films line a shelf in my library.

Much history there. With a tragic footnote.

bluelake · Joined: 01 Dec 2005

chris_J2 · Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Location: From Brisbane, Au.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Carradine#Death