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David Carradine
David Carradine was an American actor and director, whose career included over 200 major and minor roles in film, television and on stage. He was widely known to television audiences as the star of the series Kung Fu (1972–1975), playing Kwai Chang Caine, a peace-loving Shaolin monk traveling through the American Old West.
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Born 8 December 1936 · Died 3 June 2009 · Q187038
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2026· 1 entry
2014· 1 entry
Carradine was posthumously inducted into the Martial Arts History Museum Hall of Fame
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2010· 1 entry
The Guardian: David Carradine's widow seeks damages from film company
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2009· 13 entries
The Guardian: Raindance honours David Carradine film
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The Guardian: David Carradine's death 'not suicide', says American pathologist | Ben Child
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Michael Baden, the medical examiner hired by Carradine's family to conduct his autopsy, stated that the actor died from asphyxiation, and that the way Carradine's body was bound allowed him to rule out suicide
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Psychology Today: David Carradine: A Study in Risky Sexual Behavior
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The Guardian: David Carradine's family threaten action over 'leaked crime scene' photos
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The Guardian: David Carradine's family want FBI to investigate Bangkok death
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The Guardian: Obituary: David Carradine
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The Guardian: Kill Bill and Kung Fu star David Carradine found dead
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The Guardian: David Carradine: A life in clips
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The Guardian: Kung Fu star and Kill Bill actor David Carradine found dead
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Was found dead in a hotel room in Bangkok, Thailand, hanging from a rope tied around his neck and genitals
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SFGate: David Carradine found dead
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Died 2009-06-03.
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2005· 3 entries
Awarded Saturn Awards (2005).
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“The first thing I ever did outside of school, which was a production of Romeo & Juliet, he came up from Hollywood to San Francisco to see it. And right after he just sort of opened up to me with all this advice. He became very proud of me.”
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Carradine visited the Shaolin Monastery in Henan, China, as part of the extra features for the third season of the Kung Fu DVDs
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2004· 2 entries
Carradine married his fifth wife, widow Annie Bierman (née Anne Kirstie Fraser; born in 1960) at the seaside Malibu home of his friend Michael Madsen
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The Guardian: Profile: David Carradine
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1997· 2 entries
Carradine received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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Carradine was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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1994· 1 entry
In Toronto, filming Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, Carradine was arrested for kicking in a door at the SkyDome while attending a Rolling Stones concert
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1985· 1 entry
When he appeared in a major supporting role in North and South, a miniseries about the American Civil War, as the evil and abusive Justin LaMotte
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1980· 1 entry
While in South Africa filming Safari 3000 (also known as Rally), which co-starred Stockard Channing, Carradine was arrested for possession of marijuana
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1978· 1 entry
Carradine starred in Deathsport, an unofficial sequel to Death Race 2000
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1976· 1 entry
Earned critical praise for his portrayal of folksinger Woody Guthrie in Hal Ashby's Bound for Glory, for which he won a National Board of Review Award for Best Actor and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and New
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1974· 1 entry
At the height of his popularity in Kung Fu, Carradine was arrested again, this time for attempted burglary and malicious mischief
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1973· 1 entry
Left an unreleased script he developed with James Coburn and Stirling Silliphant, The Silent Flute
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1972· 3 entries
Between making the Kung Fu pilot and the series, but released in 1975
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Appeared together in a nude Playboy spread, recreating some sex scenes from Boxcar Bertha
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Co-starred as "Big" Bill Shelly in one of Martin Scorsese's earliest films, Boxcar Bertha, which starred Barbara Hershey, his partner at the time
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1970· 1 entry
Carradine played one half of a flower power beatnik duo in the season 4 Ironside episode, "The Quincunx", performing the songs "I Stepped on a Flower", "Lonesome Stranger", and "Sorrow of the Singing Tree"
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1968· 3 entries
With Plummer taking Carradine's part
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Whereupon Carradine left New York and headed back to California to continue his television and film careers
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Carradine met actress Barbara Hershey while the two of them were working on Heaven with a Gun
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1966· 1 entry
Awarded Theatre World Award (1966).
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1965· 1 entry
“Many of the important roles that I got later on were because the guy who was going to hire me was in that audience and had his mind blown.”
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1964· 1 entry
Carradine got a contract with Universal
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1963· 1 entry
Made his television debut on an episode of Armstrong Circle Theatre, "Secret Document X256" followed by several other television roles
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1962· 1 entry
Donna gave birth to their daughter, Calista, who became an actress
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1960· 2 entries
Carradine proposed to Donna Lee Becht whom he had met when they were students at Oakland High School; they married on Christmas Day that year
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Carradine was inducted into the United States Army, where he drew pictures for training aids
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1947· 1 entry
Carradine appeared in a live telecast adaptation of A Christmas Carol, with his father in the role of Ebenezer Scrooge
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1936· 1 entry
Born 1936-12-08.
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