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David Carradine

Career

Carradine is best known for his roles as Kwai Chang Caine in the 1970s television series , a 1964 western film based on a novel by Louis L'Amour. More recently, he portrayed Tempus on the television series on the History Channel, taking over the duties from his brother Keith.

Carradine is also known for producing and starring in several exercise videos teaching Tai chi and Qi Gong exercises. His close friend, an ex-U.S. Marine sergeant, Earl Stevenson, who is also a close friend of Johnny Depp and Jan-Michael Vincent, is a 4th Dan Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do. Earl and David met through a friend in 1984 in Los Angeles.

Background and family

Carradine is the son of noted of American actor John Carradine. Born of Irish, English, Scottish, Welsh, German, Spanish, Ukrainian, Cherokee and Italian descent, he is the half-brother of Keith Carradine, Robert Carradine, Bruce Carradine, and Michael Bowen. He is also the uncle of Ever Carradine and Martha Plimpton.

He studied drama at San Francisco State University before working as an actor on stage as well as in television and cinema.

. In this episode, an upcoming Jet Li film is auditioning boys the age of Lizzie's brother Matt for the role of the sidekick.

Carradine plays an old friend of Lizzie's father, Sam McGuire, who teaches Matt a few Kung fu moves for his audition tape. When asked how he knows Carradine's character, Mr. McGuire replies cryptically, "He's like a brother to me." This is an in-joke as the actor who portrays Sam, Robert Carradine, is David Carradine's actual brother. Additionally, a large portion of the episode is spent in parody of