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Roger Corman, memorably dubbed "the Orson Welles of the Z-Movie" and "the Pope of Pop Cinema," never expected the words "Academy Award recipient" would accompany his name.

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This week's Sound on Sight podcasts include a look at heist flicks inspired by the release of the Taking of Pelham 123 remake and a memorial retrospective on the career of David Carradine.

This imposing, dignified African-American actor set receiving records as a professional football player with the San Francisco 49ers and the Los Angeles Rams before segueing to film and TV work in the late 1960s and.... This imposing, dignified African-American actor set receiving records as a professional football player with the San Francisco ...

DAVID Carradine, who gained fame as an actor in the 1970s starring in the Kung Fu television series, and more recently played the head of a group of assassins in the Kill Bill movies, has been found hanged in his hotel room closet in Bangkok.

A THAI police commander said on Friday that US actor David Carradine, found hanged in his Bangkok hotel room, may have died from a sex act gone wrong.

Much like the character that made him famous, David Carradine was always seeking, both spiritually and professionally, his life forever intertwined with the Shaolin priest he played in the 1970s TV series "Kung Fu." Just as the character, Kwai Chang Caine, roamed the 19th Century American West, Carradine spent his latter years searching for the ...

I have always admired actor David Carradine; he has such a gentle, wise presence onscreen that few other actors do.

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DAVID Carradine appeared in more than 200 films and television dramas. It was, however, for roles in the Kung Fu television series at the start of his career and two blockbusting Kill Bill movies towards the end of his life, that he is most readily recognised.

A leading and supporting player of TV and movies, David Carradine rose to fame with his iconic role, Kwai Chang Caine, the half-Asian student of life on the popular TV series, "Kung Fu" - a role he would go on to reprise for a syndicated series in the late 1990s.

Actor David Carradine, a born seeker and cult idol who broke through as the willing student called "grasshopper" in the 1970s TV series "Kung Fu" and decades later as leader of an assassin squad in "Kill Bill," was found dead in Thailand.

An Edmonton director who worked with David Carradine just last month in Alberta remembered the actor - who was found dead Thursday in Bangkok - as one of the wisest and most genuine people he'd met in the movie business.

Michael Madsen, Martin Scorsese and Martha Plimpton have paid tribute to David Carradine, who was found dead in his hotel room in Thailand.

The same serenity that made his fugitive Kwai Chang Caine so empathetic in the iconic '70s TV show Kung Fu also gave his master assassin palpable menace in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill movies.

Chronological highlights of David Carradine's film career: - "Shane," 1966, TV series.

NationMultimedia : Kung Fu and Kill Bill star David Carradine was found hung in a hotel room in Bangkok on Wednesday, Thai police said.