(Kill) Bill is dead

Bill (David Carradine) of the "Kill Bill" movie series died today at the Swissotel Nai Lert Park Hotel in central Bangkok, Thailand. He was in Bangkok to shoot his latest movie - "Stretch". He was 72.

David Carradine as Bill in "Kill Bill 2". Courtesy: Yahoo! Movies

From the New York Times:

"David Carradine, an enigmatic actor who never outran the identity he earned in "Kung Fu," the 1970s Chinese-western television series that made him an unlikely cult hero -- even though he also starred as Woody Guthrie in Hal Ashby's 1976 film biography "Bound for Glory" and, more than a quarter-century later, played the title character, a cunning assassin who becomes a murder target, in Quentin Tarantino's twin thrillers, "Kill Bill" Volumes I and II -- was found dead on Thursday in a hotel room in Bangkok, where he was filming a new movie. He was 72."