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David Carradine
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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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Death Race 2000
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The Warrior and the Sorceress
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Kill Bill: Vol. 1
As Bill
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
As Bill (Snake Charmer)
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
As Bill 'Snake Charmer'
Crank: High Voltage
As Poon Dong
Mean Streets
As Drunk
Epic Movie
As Museum Curator
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Trapped and Playing by Someone Else’s Rules
With the upcoming release of Jumanji: Open World, we trace the evolution of the survival game subgenre, following how the core premise of human beings forced to...
10 films
Full Throttle
From the neon-lit streets of Tokyo to the dusty backroads of America, this chain follows the adrenaline, the engineering, and the outlaws who live for the race.
8 films
Riding the Circuit
From theme park gunslingers to bounty hunters on Mars, a journey through the sci-fi Western and the cultures that remade it.
8 films
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Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
2011 · Bill (Snake Charmer)
Crank: High Voltage
2009 · Poon Dong
Homo Erectus
2007 · Mookoo / Uncle Unky
Epic Movie
2007 · Museum Curator
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
2004 · Bill 'Snake Charmer'
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
2003 · Bill
Down 'n Dirty
2001 · Gil Garner
Nightfall
2000 · Gnomen
Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror
1998 · Luke
The Warrior and the Sorceress
1984 · Kain
The Long Riders
1980 · Cole Younger
Death Race 2000
1975 · Frankenstein
Mean Streets
1973 · Drunk