2," released in 2004, Thurman's character comes face to face again with Bill himself. 1." In that film, one of Bill's former assassins (Uma Thurman) begins a vengeful rampage against her old associates. The character, the worldly father figure of a pack of crack assassins, was a shadowy presence in 2003's "Kill Bill - Vol. He returned to the top in recent years as the title character in Quentin Tarantino's two-part saga "Kill Bill."
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." One of his prominent early film roles was as singer Woody Guthrie in Ashby's 1976 biopic "Bound for Glory."īut 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. In all, Carradine appeared in more than 100 feature films with such directors as Martin Scorsese, Ingmar Bergman and Hal Ashby. Police said Carradine's body was taken to a hospital for an autopsy which would be carried out Friday. It cited police as saying there was no sign that he had been assaulted. The officer responsible for investigating the deatd that he had hanged himself with a cord used with the suite's curtains. Police said he appeared to have hanged himself. Police said he appeared to have hanged himself.īANGKOK - David Carradine, star of the 1970s TV series "Kung Fu" whose career roared back to life when he played the assassin-turned-victim in Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill," was found dead Thursday in Thailand. David Carradine, star of the 1970s TV series "Kung Fu" whose career roared back to life when he played the assassin-turned-victim in Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill," was found dead Thursday in Thailand.