David Carradine
David Carradine (born John Arthur Carradine; December 8, 1936 – June 3, 2009) was an American actor and martial artist best known for playing martial arts roles.
He is perhaps best known as the star of the 1970s television series "Kung Fu", playing Kwai Chang Caine, a peace-loving Shaolin monk travelling through the American Old West.
He also portrayed the character Bill in both of the "Kill Bill" films.
David Carradine was a member of the Carradine family of actors that began with his father, John Carradine.
The elder Carradine's acting career, which included major and minor roles on stage and television, and in cinema, spanned more than four decades.
A prolific "B" movie actor, David Carradine appeared in more than 100 feature films in a career spanning more than six decades.
He received nominations for a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award for his work on "Kung Fu", and received three additional Golden Globe nominations for his performances in the Woody Guthrie biopic "Bound for Glory" (1976), the television miniseries "North and South" (1985), and Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill: Volume 2", for which he won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Throughout his life, Carradine was arrested and prosecuted for a variety of offenses, which often involved substance abuse.
On June 3, 2009, he was found dead in a closet in his hotel room in Bangkok, Thailand, due to a fatal autoerotic asphyxiation accident.
Films that featured Carradine continued to be released after his death.
These posthumous credits were from a variety of genres including action, documentaries, drama, horror, martial arts, science fiction, and westerns.
In addition to his acting career, Carradine was a director and musician.
Moreover, influenced by his "Kung Fu" role, he studied martial arts.
On April 1, 1997, Carradine received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Brian Kennedy (gallery director)
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He is currently the director of the Peabody Essex Museum.
He was the director of the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio from 2010 to 2019.
He was the director of the Hood Museum of Art from 2005 to 2010, and the National Gallery of Australia( Canberra) from 1997- 2004.
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Americana (film)
Americana is a 1983 American drama film starring, produced, edited and directed by David Carradine.
The screenplay and story, written by Richard Carr, was based on a portion of the 1947 novel, "
The Perfect Round", by Henry Morton Robinson.
The novel's setting was originally post-World War II, but the screenplay involved the post-war experiences of a Vietnam War veteran, obsessed with restoring an abandoned carousel.
In 1981, the film won The People's Choice Award at the Director's Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.
Financing the film himself, Carradine shot most of the footage for the film, which was co-produced by Skip Sherwood, in 1973 with a band of 26 people, mostly his family and friends, over the course of 18 days.
Problems with financing and distribution kept the film from being released until 1983.
The film was well received by audiences, but met with primarily negative criticism.
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From 1982 to 1993 he was the director of Sogn Folk Museum, from 1993 to 2010 he was the director of Maihaugen and from 2001 he has been the director of the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History.
In 2010 he was decorated with the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.
Dana Blankstein
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Question: What is the place of birth of the director of film Americana (Film)?
Answer: Hollywood