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'Kung Fu' star David Carradine found dead in Thailand,

David carradine of "Kung Fu" fame and more recently "Kill Bill," has died. He was 72.

The actor was found dead Wednesday in a hotel room in Bangkok, Thailand, where he had been shooting a movie, reports the AP. His body was discovered when he hadn't showed up for dinner and producer went to the actor's room.

So far, there's no word on a cause of death, although initial unfounded reports had said he had hung himself in an apparent suicide.

Carradine is best known for playing Kwai Chang Caine in the 1970s series "Kung Fu," which was also subsequently revived in sequels in the '80s and '90s. He also starred in both of Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill" films.

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David Carradine, the star of the 1970s television series “Kung Fu” and the title villain of the “Kill Bill” movies, has died in Thailand, The Associated Press reported. The United States Embassy in Bangkok told The A.P. that Mr. Carradine had been found dead in his hotel suite in Bangkok, where he was working on a movie. He was 72.

Mr. Carradine was part of an acting family that included his father, John; his brother, Bruce, and half-brothers Keith and Robert; and his nieces Ever Carradine and Martha Plimpton.
After a short run as the title character in the 1966 television adaptation of the Western “Shane,” he found fame in the 1972 series “Kung Fu” as Kwai Chang Caine, a wanderer raised by Shaolin monks to be a martial arts master. He enjoyed a career resurgence in recent years when he was cast by Quentin Tarantino in the action movies “Kill Bill: Vol. 1″ and “Vol. 2.”