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

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 news report said he was found hanged in his hotel room and was believed to have committed suicide.

A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy, Michael Turner, confirmed the death of the 72-year-old actor. He said the embassy was informed by Thai authorities that 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 Thai newspaper The Nation cited unidentified police sources as saying Carradine was found Thursday hanged in his luxury hotel room.

It said Carradine was in Bangkok to shoot a movie and had been staying at the hotel since Tuesday.

The newspaper said Carradine could not be contacted after he failed to appear for a meal with the rest of the film crew on Wednesday, and that his body was found by a hotel maid at 10 a.m. Thursday morning. The name of the movie was not immediately available.

It said a preliminary police investigation found that he had hanged himself with a cord used with the room's curtains. It cited police as saying he had been dead at least 12 hours and there was no sign that he had been assaulted.

A police officer at Bangkok's Lumpini precinct station would not confirm the identity of the dead man to The Associated Press, but said the luxury Swissotel Nai Lert Park hotel had reported that a male guest killed himself there.

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

In all, he appeared in more than 100 feature films with such directors as Martin Scorsese, Ingmar Bergman and Hal Ashby.

But he was best known for his role as Kwai Chang Caine, a Shaolin priest traveling the 1800s American frontier West in the TV series "Kung Fu," which aired in 1972-75.

He reprised the role in a mid-1980s TV movie and played Caine's grandson in the 1990s syndicated series "Kung Fu: The Legend Continues."

He returned to the top in recent years as the title character in Quentin Tarantino's two-part saga "Kill Bill."
 

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He couldn't have shoved a sword through his gut? Very dishonorable.
 

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I was going to make a thread about this, but nevermind.

This really sucks.
 

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The last thing I'll remember is him hitting on a black hooker to a Trace Adkins song in Crank 2. What a way to end a career.
 

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Man can only be asked about Yellowbook.com so many times before he snaps.

Honestly this is sad, I find it crazy that at 72 you can suddenly say life sucks so bad I want to end it NOW. He must've been battling deep depression or something.
 

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Or just found out he has a painful medical condition with no cure. That's probably the only way I'd ever kill myself... 70+ and about to live through a world of pain.
 

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My friend sent a great reply: Is anyone aware of the whereabouts of Uma Thurman during that time....
 

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Mik said:
Or just found out he has a painful medical condition with no cure. That's probably the only way I'd ever kill myself... 70+ and about to live through a world of pain.
Like a Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique?
 

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Oh God, he pulled a Michael Hutchence. How embarrassing.
 

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Sad, but outside of being an actor who appealed to a really niche market because of his limited range, I can't really get too worked up about it.
 

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BUTT said:
Oh God, he pulled a Michael Hutchence. How embarrassing.

I sometimes wonder if I'll still care about sex once I hit my 70s, so Carradine's tying a rope around his prick gives me hope.
 

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Incandenza said:
BUTT said:
Oh God, he pulled a Michael Hutchence. How embarrassing.

I sometimes wonder if I'll still care about sex once I hit my 70s, so Carradine's tying a rope around his prick gives me hope.
I can't find any news pieces that say this. Where are you guys getting this from?
 

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dubq said:
Incandenza said:
BUTT said:
Oh God, he pulled a Michael Hutchence. How embarrassing.

I sometimes wonder if I'll still care about sex once I hit my 70s, so Carradine's tying a rope around his prick gives me hope.
I can't find any news pieces that say this. Where are you guys getting this from?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/06/04/entertainment/main5062168.shtml?source=mostpop_story

"I can confirm that we found his body, naked, hanging in the closet," Teerapop said. He said police suspected suicide.
 

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Gary Floyd said:
dubq said:
Incandenza said:
BUTT said:
Oh God, he pulled a Michael Hutchence. How embarrassing.

I sometimes wonder if I'll still care about sex once I hit my 70s, so Carradine's tying a rope around his prick gives me hope.
I can't find any news pieces that say this. Where are you guys getting this from?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/06/04/entertainment/main5062168.shtml?source=mostpop_story

"I can confirm that we found his body, naked, hanging in the closet," Teerapop said. He said police suspected suicide.

I don't think he hung himself by the dilz-nick.
 

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Mattdotcom said:
Gary Floyd said:
dubq said:
Incandenza said:
BUTT said:
Oh God, he pulled a Michael Hutchence. How embarrassing.

I sometimes wonder if I'll still care about sex once I hit my 70s, so Carradine's tying a rope around his prick gives me hope.
I can't find any news pieces that say this. Where are you guys getting this from?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/06/04/entertainment/main5062168.shtml?source=mostpop_story

"I can confirm that we found his body, naked, hanging in the closet," Teerapop said. He said police suspected suicide.

I don't think he hung himself by the dilz-nick.
An earlier BBC report said he did, but I can't seem to find it.
 

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Oh, okay, I thought you were grossly misrepresenting auto erotic asphyxiation
 

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So, is this more or less embarassing than dying of a broken neck while trying to suck your own dick?
 

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Autoerotic Asphyxiation: The Legend Continues
 

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It says something that his friends and agent were so horrified and defensive about the fact that he might have committed suicide that they had to make sure the truth got out; that he was into auto-asphyxiation. The cause would've been know no matter what, but right from the start when it looked like it was def a suicide, they were all "No way, absolutely 100% no way"

I think if a friend of mine died like that, I'd be more than willing to keep his/her weird sexual secrets to myself.
 
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