David Carradine

David Carradine

David Carradine ( KARR-ə-deen; born John Arthur Carradine Jr.; December 8, 1936 – June 3, 2009) was an American actor, martial artist, director, and producer, whose career included over 200 major and minor roles in film, television and on stage, spanning more than six decades. He was widely known to television audiences as the star of the 1970s television series Kung Fu, playing Kwai Chang Caine, a peace-loving Shaolin monk traveling through the American Old West.A member of the Carradine family of actors, he got his break playing Atahuallpa in the Broadway play The Royal Hunt of the Sun. He appeared in two early Martin Scorsese films: Boxcar Bertha and Mean Streets, and played Woody Guthrie in the critically-acclaimed biopic Bound for Glory (1976), which earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Carradine has received more than 14,486,322 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). David Carradine is the 205th most popular actor (down from 174th in 2019), the 380th most popular biography from United States (down from 340th in 2019) and the 99th most popular American Actor.

David Carradine is most famous for his role as Kwai Chang Caine in the 1970s television series Kung Fu.