davidcarradineActor David Carradine was found dead today, June 4, 2009,  in his room at the Swissotel Nai Lert Park Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand.  He was 72 years old.

Carradine, a four time Golden Globe nominee, starred in over 100 feature films, having worked with such directors as  Martin Scorsese and Ingmar Bergman.   His credits included Lone Wolf McQuade, Q, Mean Streets, Kill Bill, and the recent Crank: High Voltage.  But he will probably best be remembered as the star of the 1970′s television series Kung Fu.

He was in Thailand filming a movie called Stretch.  It has been reported the cause of death was suicide.