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Wide Hollywood Boulevard2. Pedestrians on Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame (WOF)3. Closeup flowers on David Carradine's WOF star4. Delivery man arrives with flowers for Carridine's WOF star5....\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles, 4 June 2009\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide Hollywood Boulevard\u003cbr/\u003e2. Pedestrians on Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame (WOF)\u003cbr/\u003e3. Closeup flowers on David Carradine's WOF star\u003cbr/\u003e4. Delivery man arrives with flowers for Carridine's WOF star\u003cbr/\u003e5. Medium shot of photographers taking pictures \u003cbr/\u003e6. Television journalist reporting live from Carradine's WOF star\u003cbr/\u003e7. VOX POP (English) \"Oh, I watched 'Kung Fu.' My parents had it on every night. It was on Channel 5 or something, and all the repeats and everything, and that was one of the first kind of Hollywood instances that I remember of maybe glamorizing peacefulness and non-violence but with strength. Obviously, there was violence in the martial art, but the premise was to be peaceful inside, and, through that, you can (sigh) create greater piece outside the initial fight.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. VOX POP (English) \"Pretty shocking that he passed away. He was definitely an icon for 'Kung Fu.' Just history. Bruce Lee, you know, came up with the 'Kung Fu' series and at the time he was unable to actually be on TV because of the stereotypes going on. So that actually got David Carradine. He did a great job with it. I'm really shocked, walking down Hollywood Boulevard today.\" \u003cbr/\u003e9. VOX POP (English) \"Well, obviously, the 'Kung Fu' days were amazing. But 'Kill Bill' was the last thing I remember him doing, and it was great. I'm just saddened that it would come to a point where you don't feel like you have the will to live anymore. You know, that just really breaks my heart.\" \u003cbr/\u003e10. VOX POP (English) \"It's so strange right now. I really can't understand why someone can do that -- especially a really famous person like him, a famous actor like him. I can't say anything about it. It feels really strange. So sorry.\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. Closeup of sympathy card\u003cbr/\u003e12. Pan down from flowers to WOF star \u003cbr/\u003eFlowers were placed on the Hollywood Walk of Fame star for \"Kung Fu\" actor David Carradine, who was found dead Thursday in Thailand. Police said he appeared to have hanged himself. \u003cbr/\u003eThe officer responsible for investigating the death, Lt. Teerapop Luanseng, said the 72-year-old actor had been staying in a suite at the luxury Swissotel Nai Lert Park Hotel. \u003cbr/\u003e\"I can confirm that we found his body, naked, hanging in the closet,\" Teerapop said. He said police suspected suicide. \u003cbr/\u003eA spokesman for the U.S. Embassy, Michael Turner, said the embassy was informed by Thai authorities that Carradine died either late Wednesday or early Thursday. \"We send our heartfelt condolences to his family and his loved ones,\" he said. \u003cbr/\u003eCarradine came from an acting family. His father, John, made a career playing creepy, eccentric characters in film and on stage. His brothers Keith, Robert and Bruce also became actors. Actress Martha Plimpton is Keith Carradine's daughter. \u003cbr/\u003e\"My Uncle David was a brilliantly talented, fiercely intelligent and generous man. He was the nexus of our family in so many ways, and drew us together over the years and kept us connected,\" Plimpton said Thursday. \u003cbr/\u003e Carradine was \"in good spirits\" when he left the U.S. for Thailand on May 29 to work on the movie \"Stretch,\" said Tiffany Smith of Binder \u0026amp; Associates, his managers. \u003cbr/\u003e \"David was excited to do it and excited to be a part of it,\" she said by phone from Beverly Hills, noting that Carradine was the sole featured American in the movie, whose other top cast members were French and Chinese. \"When he was on a set he was in heaven.\" \u003cbr/\u003e Filming on the thriller by French director Charles de Meaux began Tuesday, she said, adding that the crew was devastated by Carradine's death and did not wish to speak publicly about it for the time being. \u003cbr/\u003e\"It is shocking to me that he is no longer with us,\" said Michael Madsen, who played an assassin in \"Kill Bill.\" \u003cbr/\u003e\"I have so many great memories of David that I wouldn't even know where to begin,\" he said. \"He has a very special place in my heart.\" \u003cbr/\u003eThe Web site of the Thai newspaper The Nation said Carradine could not be contacted after he failed to appear for a meal with the rest of the film crew on Wednesday, and that his body was found by a hotel maid Thursday morning. It said a preliminary police investigation found that he had hanged himself with a cord used with the suite's curtains and that there was no sign that he had been assaulted. \u003cbr/\u003e Police said Carradine's body was taken to a hospital for an autopsy that would be done Friday. \u003cbr/\u003eCarradine appeared in more than 100 feature films with such directors as Martin Scorsese, Ingmar Bergman and Hal Ashby. One of his early film roles was as folk singer Woody Guthrie in Ashby's 1976 biopic, \"Bound for Glory.\" \u003cbr/\u003e But he was best known for his role as Kwai Chang Caine, a Shaolin priest traveling the 1800s American frontier West in the TV series \"Kung Fu,\" which aired in 1972-75. \u003cbr/\u003e \"I wasn't like a TV star in those days, I was like a rock 'n' roll star,\" Carradine said in an interview with Associated Press Radio in 1996. \"It was a phenomenon kind of thing. ... It was very special.\" \u003cbr/\u003e Actor Rainn Wilson, star of TV's \"The Office,\" tweeted about Carradine's death on Twitter: \"R.I.P. David Carradine. You were a true hero to so many of us children of the 70s. We'll miss you, Kwai Chang Caine.\" \u003cbr/\u003eCarradine reprised the role in a mid-1980s TV movie and played Caine's grandson in the 1990s syndicated series \"Kung Fu: The Legend Continues.\" \u003cbr/\u003e He returned to the top in recent years as the title character in Quentin Tarantino's two-part saga \"Kill Bill.\" Bill, the worldly father figure of a pack of crack assassins, was a shadowy presence in 2003's \"Kill Bill - Vol. 1.\" In that film, one of Bill's former assassins (Uma Thurman) begins a vengeful rampage against her old associates, including Bill. \u003cbr/\u003e In \"Kill Bill - Vol. 2,\" released in 2004, Thurman's character catches up to Bill. The role brought Carradine a Golden Globe nomination as best supporting actor. \u003cbr/\u003eBill was a complete contrast to Caine, the soft-spoken refugee from a Shaolin monastery, serenely spreading wisdom and battling bad guys in the Old West. He left after three seasons, saying the show had started to repeat itself. \u003cbr/\u003e\"David's always been kind of a seeker of knowledge and of wisdom in his own inimitable way,\" his brother, actor Keith Carradine, said in a 1995 interview. \u003cbr/\u003eAfter \"Kung Fu,\" Carradine starred in the 1975 cult flick \"Death Race 2000.\" He starred with Liv Ullmann in Bergman's \"The Serpent's Egg\" in 1977 and with his brothers in the 1980 Western \"The Long Riders.\" \u003cbr/\u003e But after the early 1980s, he spent two decades doing mostly low-budget films. Tarantino's films changed that. \u003cbr/\u003e \"All I've ever needed since I more or less retired from studio films a couple of decades ago ... is just to be in one,\" Carradine told The Associated Press in 2004. \u003cbr/\u003e\"There isn't anything that Anthony Hopkins or Clint Eastwood or Sean Connery or any of those old guys are doing that I couldn't do,\" he said. \"All that was ever required was somebody with Quentin's courage to take and put me in the spotlight.\" \u003cbr/\u003e One thing remained a constant after \"Kung Fu\": Carradine's interest in Asian herbs, exercise and philosophy. He wrote a personal memoir called \"Spirit of Shaolin\" and continued to make instructional videos on tai chi and other martial arts. \u003cbr/\u003eIn the 2004 interview, Carradine talked candidly about his past boozing and narcotics use, but said he had put all that behind him and stuck to coffee and cigarettes. \u003cbr/\u003e\"I didn't like the way I looked, for one thing. 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