Murdered – Old Hollywood

This will be a hard one to solve.

This actor was A list for a very brief period when he starred in a network television show for several seasons.

Other than that, there were more lows than highs.

For a couple generations before his, the family was in movies.

Our actor’s father’s best friend was Old Hollywood Harvey.

That will come in handy later.

Apparently our actor did some work for Old Hollywood Harvey which landed our actor his sole starring role. That favor was supposed to be just roughing someone up, but it accidentally led to death.

Old Hollywood Harvey covered it up and made sure the actor got the television role to keep him quiet.

Well, apparently everyone in the family knew what happened.

They also knew not to say anything when our actor was murdered.

No police were called.

No cause of death released.

Just a quiet funeral, sparsely attended.

David Carradine

Network television show: Kung Fu 1972 TV series

Old Hollywood Harvey: Eddie Mannix (READ previous related blind here)

His sole starring role: Kwai Chang Caine
Kwai Chang Caine is a fictional character and the protagonist of the ABC 1972–1975 action-adventure western television series Kung Fu. He has been portrayed by David Carradine as an adult

Police: Carradine’s Death Likely s e x Accident

Actor David Carradine was found dead in the closet of a Bangkok hotel room Thursday with a cord wrapped around his neck and genitals, leading Thai police to suspect his death was not a suicide but an accident resulting from dangerous s e x practices.

Carradine, 72, best known for his role in the 1970s television drama “Kung Fu,” was found by a chamber maid at Bangkok’s Park Nai Lert Hotel naked and dead, slumped in a closet with cords bound and connecting his neck and his genitals, Bangkok police said.

“The two ropes were tied together,” Police Lt. Gen. Worapong Chewprecha told reporters. “It is unclear whether he committed suicide or not or he died of suffocation or heart failure.”

Citing Porntip Rojanasunan, the director of the Central Institute of Forensic Science, told the Bangkok Post that the actor may have died from auto-erotic asphyxiation, the practice of cutting off one’s air supply to heighten s e xual pleasure. Carradine had been in Thailand since May 29 to shoot his latest film, “Stretch.” – Source

David Carradine Book Reveals Incest, Murder Suspicions

July 21, 2010- — Just over a year ago actor David Carradine died a seedy death, hanging by a drapery cord in the cramped closet of a Bangkok hotel room. Now, his ex-wife says she believes the 72-year-old “Kung Fu” actor was murdered.

Authorities ruled that Carradine had accidentally suffocated in a lone s e x practice known as autoerotic asphyxiation, but his fourth wife, Actress Marina Anderson, claims in a new book that the actor “never flew solo” and the autopsy and other details of his death “just don’t fit.”

Anderson, who was married to Carradine from 1998 to 2001, admits that her husband’s kinky s e x life — a penchant for bondage and being choked to the point of orgasm — was no surprise, ultimately destroying their marriage and leading to his death.

“I believe he was murdered,” she told ABCNews.com in an interview this week. “That’s all there is to it.”

“For David to accidentally do it to himself, that’s not the act,” said Anderson. “He never flew solo when we were together. That didn’t fit the scenario. David liked participation.”

Anderson knew that firsthand from satisfying Carradine’s s e xual requests during their marriage.

“I never got to the point of suffocation,” she said. “It totally freaked me out. I liked having oxygen in my brain.”

Family and friends refuted the findings and Anderson agreed. “David was always happy when he worked,” she said. Later, after two autopsies were conducted, Thai authorities concluded Carradine’s death had been caused by “accidental asphyxiation.”

“I believe he was targeted, whether they went up to his room unsolicited or he got bored and went into town and brought somebody up,” said Anderson. “I don’t believe he was by himself.”

At the time, Carradine family attorney Mark Geragos blamed the death on a mysterious sect of secret kung fu assassins. Geragos did not answer an e-mail from ABCNews.com, and he did not pick up his phone to comment on Anderson’s book.

A year later, in June, Carradine’s fifth wife and widow, the former Annie Bierman, filed a lawsuit against the production company that was handling the film, alleging breach of contract and wrongful death.

Her book is a tribute to the continuing affection she said she still felt for Carradine, now eight years after their divorce. Anderson explores the most intimate moments of their relationship, as well as the actor’s “dark side.”

“I felt I had a very heavy responsibility to his fans, family and our relationship to see that my book was a balanced and truthful recount of our life together,” said Anderson. “My memoir is very much a love story…I wanted people to know David as a man, not just an icon, with incredible talents and quirky idiosyncrasies.

“Fans may think this is a trash book, but it’s not,” she said.

Anderson’s four-year marriage to Carradine was eventually derailed by incest. She won’t identify the family member she calls, “X” — not even the gender — though she acknowledges the relationship was with a younger relative and spanned both his marriages to her and to his previous wife of 11 years, Gail Jensen – Source