David Carradine – Kwai Chang Caine in Kung Fu (as well as Bill in Kill Bill) – has died.Kung Fu was one of my favourite Saturday night shows when I was a kid - probably my earliest TV memory, even before Doctor Who. Not being a big fan of Westerns, the Eastern twist made it stand out from a lot of American shows of the 70s. After that, I loved anything with an Asian martial arts theme to it: The Water Margin, Shogun, Monkey...
Carradine's brother Keith, who played the teenaged Caine ("Grasshopper", according to the blind Shaolin Master Po), is still going strong and has been brilliant in Dexter and as serial killer Frank in Criminal Minds in recent years. To paraphrase Jules in Pulp Fiction, may his brother's ghost walk the earth, like Caine.
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