Who is david carradine father

In Bound for Glory , Carradine played a legendary folk singer, in real-life, he was also a folk singer, before becoming a successful actor. His first series, Kung Fu , was canceled after the third season, due to injuries he sustained on the set. David Carradine passed away on June 3, , in a hotel room in Bangkok, Thailand. He was working on a movie entitled "Stretch".

Was an alcohol abuser for many years, until he entered rehab. He was sober at Before he was an actor, he worked as a manual laborer, where he began an open experiment with drugs. David's last traceable patrilineal ancestor is believed to have been a man named Parker Carradine, who was born in Georgia, in North America, c.

He was successfully represented in that matter by Vicki Roberts. Best remembered by the public for his starring role as Kwai Chang Caine on the television series Kung Fu First came to public attention in , appearing in an episode of Armstrong Circle Theatre He played truant from school at age 13; was sent to a reform school for a while, and spent time in foster homes in Massachusetts.

Stepfather of Max Carradine, who is intent on following his stepfather's footsteps and continuing the family acting dynasty. Was healthy and physically active until his death of accidental asphyxiation at age Despite high ratings, his second series Kung Fu: The Legend Continues was canceled in early , because he decided to call it quits. Created several flutes for the movie Circle of Iron , one of which he later played in Kill Bill: Vol. Knew absolutely nothing about the practice of the martial arts, at the same time he was starring on Kung Fu , instead it was his dancing experience that convinced him to accept the role.

He played various instruments: piano, guitar, flute, among many others. Met his first wife, Donna Lee Becht, when they were both sweethearts in high school, and lived with her off base while he was in the army in Virginia, stationed at Fort Eustis.

They were married at the end of and divorced in Before he was an actor, he was inducted into the United States Army, where he drew pictures for training aids. As a teenager, he moved back to California - residing in Oakland, in the early s. Legally changed his name from John to David, to not only become a professional actor, but also to avoid confusion with his famous father. When he was seven, his parents were divorced and his father left California to escape court actions in the alimony settlement.

His great-grandmother, Beverly Carradine, was a Methodist evangelical author. Was arrested in December for breaking a glass window at Rogers Center formerly Skydome in Toronto. He claimed he did this to avoid being mobbed by fans after a concert by The Rolling Stones. In his autobiography, he states that after his father's wife had a series of miscarriages, he discovered that she had had repeated illegal abortions without his knowledge.

This rendered her unable to carry a baby to full term. It was with this backdrop of marital discord that, at age 5, David almost succeeded in committing suicide by hanging.

Nearly one year after his death, his third wife, Gail Jensen , died on April 23, His first arrest was for assaulting a police officer, when he was in his early 20s. He pleaded to a lesser charge of disturbing the peace. His father ran away from home when John was age 14, but came back at one point to study sculpture at Philadelphia's Graphic Arts Institute.

John lived with his maternal uncle in New York City for a while, working in the film archives of the public library. Just before John Carradine died, late in , David and brother Keith Carradine were at his bedside. Hours before he was stricken, he had climbed the steep steps of Milan's Gothic cathedral, the Duomo. He had just finished a film in South Africa and was about to begin a European tour. David was with him, reading William Shakespeare to him--by this time John was unable to speak--when he died.

His fourth arrest was in for attempted burglary and malicious mischief. While under the influence of peyote, a nude Carradine began wandering around his Laurel Canyon neighborhood. He broke into a neighbor's home, shattering a window and cutting his arm. He then bled all over the homeowner's piano. At some time during this episode he accosted two young women, allegedly assaulting one while asking, or demanding of her, if she was a witch. The police literally followed a trail of blood to his home.

The burglary charges were dropped, as nothing was found to be missing, while Carradine pleaded "no contest" to the mischief charge and was given probation.

Both his father, John Carradine and one of his half-brothers, Robert Carradine , appeared on at least one episode of Kung Fu , with him. Sadly, this was John's last appearance with his family. Acting mentor and friends with Chris Potter. Best remembered for having taken a struggling, unfamiliar actor, Chris Potter , under his wing, when he was only 32 years old.

Their friendship had lasted 17 years, until Carradine's, unexpected death in There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way. Every day, at least six people will come up to me and say, "Your show [ Kung Fu ] changed my life.

A holy one, like the Blues Brothers. It's a marathon. You can't quit; even coming in dead last has honor. Quitting doesn't. Look, I had absolute faith in my future when I was starving in New York and no one believed in me besides me and my girlfriend.

I'd be stupid to lose that faith after I've become a fucking icon. Oh, yes. And I love the work. It's not even a matter of physical fitness, it's a matter of mind, body, unity and achieving a little tiny bit of spirituality, in your life.

It was a phenomenon kind of thing It was very special. I had a friend who was a mentor, and he suddenly said, "I've never seen you abuse a substance before. And I was.

That was spring of I like to think that I stopped drinking on St. Patrick's Day, but it was actually a month later. But I never believed it would get on TV. No way! All that was ever required was somebody with Quentin's [ Quentin Tarantino ] courage to take and put me in the spotlight. You can see these poses. It's real, you can't fake it, people actually die. It's the journey that's the point of it all.

Again, in the modern series, Caine is asked where he's going, and he says, "Nowhere in particular. But not, necessarily, a destination. I'm glad some people showed up. You know it's April 1, and I still thought people would think it was a joke. That was one reason I wanted to play someone like that. Whether or not that's the kind of guy I am, to be able to portray someone who has this sort of holy quality to him was very appealing.

With my tendencies as an anarchist and a revolutionary, this is the kind of place I would have wanted to blow up with a bomb in a paper bag. But I've reached a point now where I can see the limitations of Fidel Castro as easily as I can see the limitations of a Rockefeller. I don't want to be either of those guys. It probably went horribly bad and they left. There's a lot of weird stuff that happens in Bangkok.

This isn't L. With funeral plans still on hold, the family hired Baden, a renowned New York forensic expert, who flew to Los Angeles Monday to conduct a new investigation. Funeral plans have yet to be announced. I'll have to see the photos before they cut him down. Mark Geragos, attorney for the actor's half-brother, Keith Carradine, even suggested on last week's "Larry King Live," that a Kung Fu secret society could be to blame. But Carradine's fourth wife, Marina Anderson, told the New York Post, "If he was involved in secret societies, it was a secret that even I didn't know about.

But he did have some big secrets. Those secrets, according to at least two of Carradine's four ex-wives, included a passion for deadly sex play. His third wife, Gail Jensen, told RadarOnline that he liked to tie himself up, had a fetish for Speedos and often experimented with nearly drowning himself in the pool.

In another interview with TMZ, Jensen says that Carradine had hung himself up in the basement in a crucifix position, mimicking Jesus Christ, while a party was going on upstairs. He would tie himself up and I would walk in and see him and say, 'Oh, my God, David, you got to be kidding me -- and I would turn around and walk out. I would leave him to his own devices. Jensen, who was divorced from Carradine in , added, "He liked to be tied up.

And he could tie himself up He spent days planning a different feature. He would go to a hardware store and buy the stuff. Anderson, his fourth wife, told ABCNews.

But according to Dr. As for how one reaches orgasm with hands tied behind the back, he noted that anoxia -- severe oxygen deprivation -- alone can be associated with orgasm. But, he added, who has nothing to do with the Carradine investigation, "I do not know if that is fact or fiction. According to forensic psychiatrist Stephen Hucker of the University of Toronto, auto-erotic asphyxia is also associated with mood disorders, and in 60 percent of the cases, patients had made previous attempts to take their lives.

Though Carradine's ex-wife Anderson said he was "always happy when he was working," he reportedly suffered from bouts of depression and had written about suicide. He also abused alcohol, according to Anderson, who was credited with sobering up the actor for his role in "Kill Bill.