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David Carradine est un Acteur, Réalisateur, Associate Producer et Monteur Américain né le 8 décembre 1936 à Hollywood (Etats-Unis)

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Nom de naissance John Arthur Carradine
Nationalité Etats-Unis
Naissance 8 décembre 1936 à Hollywood (Etats-Unis)
Mort 3 juin 2009 (à 72 ans) à Bangkok (Thailande)

David Carradine, né le 8 décembre 1936 à Hollywood, Los Angeles, Californie, et mort dans la nuit du 3 au 4 juin 2009 à Bangkok, est un acteur, réalisateur, scénariste et compositeur américain. Il est le fils de John Carradine.

Il est apparu dans plus de cent films et a été nommé quatre fois aux Golden Globe Awards. Il est principalement connu pour son rôle dans la série Kung Fu, diffusée dans les années 1970, et dans Kill Bill de Quentin Tarantino qui lui a fait retrouver le succès à la fin de sa carrière. Il y tient le rôle de Bill, l'antithèse du héros qu'il campait dans Kung Fu.

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Shortly after being drafted into the Army in 1960, Carradine proposed marriage to Donna Lee Becht (born September 26, 1937), whom he had met while they were students at Oakland High School. They were married on Christmas Day that year. She lived with him off-base in Virginia while he was stationed at Fort Eustis. In April 1962, she gave birth to their daughter Calista. After his discharge, they lived in New York while Carradine established his acting career, appearing on Broadway in The Deputy and Royal Hunt of the Sun. The marriage dissolved in 1968, whereupon Carradine left New York and headed back to California to continue his television and film careers.

In 1969, Carradine met actress Barbara Hershey while the two of them were working on Heaven with a Gun. The pair lived together until 1975. They appeared in other films together, including Martin Scorsese's Boxcar Bertha. In 1972, they appeared in a nude Playboy spread, recreating some sex scenes from Boxcar Bertha. That year Hershey gave birth to their son, Free (who later changed his name to Tom, much to his father's chagrin). The relationship fell apart around the time of his 1974 burglary arrest, when Carradine began an affair with Season Hubley, who had guest-starred on Kung Fu. Carradine was engaged to Hubley for a time, but they never married.

In February 1977, Carradine married his second wife, Linda, (née Linda Anne Gilbert, born March 16, 1950) the former wife of The Byrds lead guitarist, Roger McGuinn, in a civil ceremony, in Munich, Germany, immediately following the filming of The Serpent's Egg. Their daughter Kansas was born April 19, 1978. This marriage ended in divorce, as did the two that followed. He was married to Gail Jensen from 1986–1997. She died in April 2010, at the age of 60, of an alcohol-related illness. He was also married to Marina Anderson from 1998–2001. By this time, Carradine had proclaimed himself to be a "serial monogamist".

On December 26, 2004, Carradine married the widowed Annie Bierman (née Anne Kirstie Fraser, born December 21, 1960) at the seaside Malibu home of his friend, Michael Madsen. Vicki Roberts, his attorney and longtime friend of his wife, performed the ceremony. With this marriage he acquired three stepdaughters, Amanda Eckelberry (born 1989), Madeleine Rose (born 1995) and Olivia Juliette (born 1998), as well as a stepson, actor Max Richard Carradine (born 1998).

In one of his final interviews, Carradine stated that at 71, he was still "in excellent shape", attributing it to a good diet and having a youthful circle of friends. "Everybody that I know is at least 10 or 20 years younger than I am. My wife Annie is 24 years younger than I am.