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David Carradine found dead in Thailand hotel
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Thu Jun 04, 2009 10:17 amby Romulus111VADT
72-year-old
Re: David Carradine found dead in Thailand hotel
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Thu Jun 04, 2009 11:02 amby Alejandro Rhodes
Re: David Carradine found dead in Thailand hotel
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Thu Jun 04, 2009 11:30 amby Apex
Sad news. I enjoyed the Kung Fu series. It was re-run a few years ago on some local station, so finally got to see most of the episodes.
He was in Bankok making a movie. The timing of this unfortunate event seems rather odd, I'd say.
Re: David Carradine found dead in Thailand hotel
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Thu Jun 04, 2009 12:40 pmby beaky
Very sad.
I am shocked that he would kill himself- he certainly wasn't really as "together" as a lot of the characters he portrayed ("Bill" was probably closer to the truth- a very smart, disciplined person with a soft side but many "demons")... but he just didn't seem the type.
Maybe he had just found out he was terminally ill or something? But even then, I think he'd either decide to fight, or bow out in a more dignified way, with an explanation left behind.
Or maybe it was foul play... who knows?
Regardless, it makes me sad, and I'll miss him. He had a special presence onscreen.
Re: David Carradine found dead in Thailand hotel
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Thu Jun 04, 2009 3:44 pmby patchz
Yes, it's sad, more so because of the suicide. I did not really care for him lately, but that doesn't change the fact that he was a very good actor. My favorite role was the blind man in Circle of Iron. It is also one of my all time favorite martial arts movies. If you have not seen it, it would be worthwhile to rent it. It also had Christopher Lee, Roddy McDowall, and Eli Wallach. I may not have liked the roles he played in the last few years, but he will still be missed. 
Re: David Carradine found dead in Thailand hotel
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Thu Jun 04, 2009 5:21 pmby Romulus111VADT
Re: David Carradine found dead in Thailand hotel
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Thu Jun 04, 2009 7:14 pmby beaky
Well, so far the Bangkok PD is accepting it as a suicide, but... it just seems wrong to me. As messed-up as he had been at times, he didn't seem capable of just giving up.
But then again, I didn't know the guy... and everybody has an inner life that is hidden, from even those closest to them.
Re: David Carradine found dead in Thailand hotel
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Thu Jun 04, 2009 7:34 pmby Romulus111VADT
Well, so far the Bangkok PD is accepting it as a suicide, but... it just seems wrong to me. As messed-up as he had been at times, he didn't seem capable of just giving up.
But then again, I didn't know the guy... and everybody has an inner life that is hidden, from even those closest to them.
His publicists insist that there is no way he committed suicide. This would tend to suggest that he must suspect foul play. :-/
Apparently he was not only working on a movie, but he had several others in the works for the future. :-/
:-/
Re: David Carradine found dead in Thailand hotel
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Fri Jun 05, 2009 7:03 amby Anxyous
Damn.... He was great in Kill Bill...
Re: David Carradine found dead in Thailand hotel
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Fri Jun 05, 2009 9:26 amby expat
Well, so far the Bangkok PD is accepting it as a suicide, but... it just seems wrong to me. As messed-up as he had been at times, he didn't seem capable of just giving up.
But then again, I didn't know the guy... and everybody has an inner life that is hidden, from even those closest to them.
His publicists insist that there is no way he committed suicide. This would tend to suggest that he must suspect foul play.
Re: David Carradine found dead in Thailand hotel
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Fri Jun 05, 2009 12:23 pmby Romulus111VADT
Well, so far the Bangkok PD is accepting it as a suicide, but... it just seems wrong to me. As messed-up as he had been at times, he didn't seem capable of just giving up.
But then again, I didn't know the guy... and everybody has an inner life that is hidden, from even those closest to them.
His publicists insist that there is no way he committed suicide. This would tend to suggest that he must suspect foul play.
Re: David Carradine found dead in Thailand hotel
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Fri Jun 05, 2009 12:54 pmby Hagar
Re: David Carradine found dead in Thailand hotel
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Fri Jun 05, 2009 1:15 pmby Alejandro Rhodes
I think there's been a lot speculation in the media, maybe he was with some one else ( a woman) and the game went wrong ,and the lady ran away
Its not a Sin , But I can't believe he kill himself ..sorry about this post but and old man doing himself with all HIS money he has earned ? alone?? ,IN Bangkok? with 72 years old ,I mean We are not talking about 15 years old kid here
Re: David Carradine found dead in Thailand hotel
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Fri Jun 05, 2009 1:57 pmby beaky
[quote]I think there's been a lot speculation in the media, maybe he was with some one else ( a woman) and the game went wrong ,and the lady ran away
Its not a Sin , But I can't believe he kill himself ..sorry about this post but and old man doing himself with all HIS money he has earned ? alone?? ,IN Bangkok? with 72 years old ,I mean We are not talking about 15 years old kid here
Re: David Carradine found dead in Thailand hotel
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Fri Jun 05, 2009 2:02 pmby expat
Auto erotic asphyxiation in Bangkok................you could not make it up if you tried (the black humour in me wants to put a laughing smiley here, as he actually died, I wont)
Matt
