David Carradine WA Found Hanged in Hotel

David Carradine, star of the 1972-1975 TV series "Kung Fu" as Kwai Chang Caine, also appeared in more than 100 feature films with such directors as Martin Scorsese, Ingmar Bergman and Hal Ashby and one of his prominent early film roles was as singer Woody Guthrie in Ashby's 1976 biopic "Bound for Glory.", has been found dead in the Thai capital, Bangkok. A news report said he was found hanged in his hotel room and was believed to have committed suicide. The Web site of the Thai newspaper The Nation cited unidentified police sources as saying Carradine was found Thursday hanged in his luxury hotel room. It said Carradine was in Bangkok to shoot a movie and had been staying at the hotel since Tuesday. The newspaper 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 at 10 a.m. Thursday morning. The name of the movie was not immediately available. A police officer at Bangkok's Lumpini precinct station would not confirm the identity of the dead man, but said the luxury Swissotel Nai Lert Park hotel had reported that a male guest killed himself there.