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Kung Fu star David Carradine has been found dead in a Bangkok hotel room

Thai police are reported to have told BBC News that the 72-year-old was discovered sitting in a wardrobe by a hotel maid on Thursday morning. He is thought to have had a rope around his neck and body.

"[It's] shocking. He was full of life, always wanting to work... a great person," said his personal manager Chuck Binder.

Binder added to the New York Post that Carradine had "been in good spirits" when he spoke to him last week.

Carradine was in Thailand to work on upcoming movie Stretch. He had appeared in more than one hundred films throughout his career, including Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill saga.

He is survived by his wife and four children.