Yahoo Movies is reporting actor David Carradine has been found dead. The actor was in Bangkok, Thailand in a suite at the luxury Swissotel Nai Lert Park Hotel. Police reportedly found him hung naked in his closet in what appears to be a suicide. However, Carradine representatives and family say they believe the death to be accidental, according to EOnline.

Carradine is known best for his young grasshopper role in the 1970s TV Show “Kung Fu: The Series” and as the title character in the “Kill Bill” films. He’s been nominated for a Golden Globe 4 times and returned to “Kung Fu” with a 1986 film adaptation and a TV spin-off continuation in the 90’s.

“It is shocking to me that he is no longer with us,” said Michael Madsen,  who co-starred with Carradine in “Kill Bill”. “I have so many great memories of David that I wouldn’t even know where to begin,” he said. “He has a very special place in my heart.”

Carradine recently appeared in a pair of Jason Statham films. Last August, “Death Race 2000″(2008) and “Crank 2: High Voltage” released earlier this spring. His casting in “Death Race 2000″ (2008) was of course in honor of his starring role in “Death Race 2000″ (1975), a cult favorite that co-starred a very young post-Italian Stallion pre-Rocky Sylvestor Stallon. His “Crank 2: High Voltage” casting was also an obvious for Carradine — the character of “Poon Dong” — maybe the best named character of his career.

Horror fans will remember the actor for his turns in  “Dead and Breakfast”, “Children of the Corn V“,  “The Monster Hunter”, “Waxwork II: Lost in Time”, the 80’s remake of “I Saw What you Did” (Patrick Lussier and Todd Farmer are giving that a film a second remake) and the 80’s TV Remake of “The Bad Seed” in addition to many B-Movie faves he did in other genres.

From martial arts to action to sci-fi to horror, Carradine was a genre actor king. Often cast in B-Movies, Carradine felt he had the ability to be a mainstream actor.

“There isn’t anything that Anthony Hopkins or Clint Eastwood or Sean Connery or any of those old guys are doing that I couldn’t do,” he said. “All that was ever required was somebody with Quentin’s courage to take and put me in the spotlight.”

The actor was 72.