American actor David Carradine has been found dead, hanging by a nylon rope in a hotel room closet in Bangkok, Thailand, according a Thai police official. His personal manager, Chuck Binder, confirmed his death but gave no details.
The rope was believed to be from the hotel room curtains, Bangkok Police Col. Pirom Chanpirom said. He said investigators found no sign of forced entry into Carradine’s room. An autopsy was being conducted at a Bangkok hospital, but no results will be available for another day, he said.
Carradine, who became famous in the 1970s when he starred as traveling Shaolin monk Kwai Chang Caine in the television series Kung Fu, was 72.
Modern audiences may best know him as Bill in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill films.
