David Carradine
Known for: Acting
Born: December 7, 1936 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA - Died: June 2, 2009
David Carradine (born John Arthur Carradine Jr.; December 8, 1936 – June 3, 2009) was an American actor best known for playing martial arts roles. He is perhaps best known as the star of the 1970s television series Kung Fu, playing Kwai Chang Caine, a peace-loving Shaolin monk travelling through the American Old West. He also portrayed the title character of both of the Kill Bill films. He appeared in two Martin Scorsese films: Boxcar Bertha and Mean Streets. David Carradine was a member of the Carradine family of actors that began with his father, John Carradine. The elder Carradine's acting career, which included major and minor roles on stage, television, and in cinema, spanned more than four decades. A prolific "B" movie actor, David Carradine appeared in more than 100 feature films in a career spanning more than six decades. He received nominations for a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award for his work on Kung Fu, and received three additional Golden Globe nominations for his performances in the Woody Guthrie biopic Bound for Glory (1976), the television miniseries North and South (1985), and Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Volume 2, for which he won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor. Throughout his life, Carradine was arrested and prosecuted for a variety of offenses, which often involved substance abuse. Films that featured Carradine continued to be released after his death. These posthumous credits were from a variety of genres including action, documentaries, drama, horror, martial arts, science fiction, and westerns. In addition to his acting career, Carradine was a director and musician. Moreover, influenced by his Kung Fu role, he studied martial arts. On April 1, 1997, Carradine received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Carradine, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Bill
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
Bill 'Snake Charmer'
Bird on a Wire
Eugene Sorensen
Heaven with a Gun
Coke Beck
The Long Goodbye
Dave aka Socrates (uncredited)
Last Hour
Detective Mike Stone
The Misfit Brigade
Col. Von Weisshagen
Dead & Breakfast
Mr. Wise
Cannonball
Coy "Cannonball" Buckman
Break
The Bishop
Boxcar Bertha
Big Bill Shelly
Being Michael Madsen
Self
Road of No Return
Mr. Hover
The Best of Sex and Violence
Self - Cameo Appearance
Autumn
Philip
Brothers in Arms
Driscoll
Evil Toons
Gideon Fisk
Out of the Wilderness
Clint Dugan
Camille
Cowboy Bob
An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island
Chief Wulisso (voice)
Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II
Dark One
Circle of Iron
The Blind Man / Monkeyman / Death / Changsha
Gray Lady Down
Captain Gates
Kung Fu Killer
Crane