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henri says on 13/Feb/10
In one of his last interviews he says he is 6'1". Maybe when he was younger, closer to 5-11 or 6ft in his last days.
Hugh 190-192cm says on 8/Jan/10
Looked more like 5"11 in Kill Bill Hugh 190cm says on 17/Jun/09
Sick way to die indeed. RIP. guyfrommars says on 14/Jun/09
He was barefoot mostly in the old Kung Fu series. Wore cowboy boots in Kill Bill. R.I.P. David. Brad says on 9/Jun/09
6' even 4 times I met him at Ray Courts' shows. Had a huge dog with him. Frank2 says on 8/Jun/09
No. he wasn't 5'10". I'm 5'11" and David was clearly slightly taller than me. jack says on 6/Jun/09
in the 'kiung fu' series 1970's he was nearly hittng 40, and still he looked at least 6'1", he was not as 5'10" Frank2 says on 6/Jun/09
Dreadful way to go, all alone in some Bangkok hotel room.
I first met David way back in 1972 when he starred in BOXCAR BERTHA with his then live-in girlfriend Barbara Hershey who in those days used Seagull as her last name.
The next time I saw him was at a jewelry store I frequented which was located in the Beverly Hilton Hotel. One day when I was there, Carradine strolled in to see if the manager Maurice could send his expensive Patek Philippe wristwatch back to the factory in Geneva, Switzerland for repair. It turned out that Carradine had accidentally placed the watch on a hot plate that had been turned up on full heat. The watch had pretty much melted into a golden blob. Maurice tried to explain there was nothing he could do, that the watch was beyond repair. Carradine wouldn't take no for an answer and insisted that Maurice send it back. So Maurice reluctantly agreed.
A few months later when I asked maurice whatever became of Carradine's watch, he laughed as he explained the factory could do nothing so they melted down the gold and used it to make him a brand new one. Then they charged him the same price a new one would have run. When Carradine got the watch back he was told they had fixed it. He was overjoyed since the watch had been given to him by a girlfriend and David felt it brought him luck.
It appears his luck ran out in that Bangkok hotel room.
If I remember correctly, David was about 6' tall and very thin. Patrick says on 5/Jun/09
RIP David. Stupid loss! Patrick says on 5/Jun/09
RIP David. Stupid loss! DandyRandy says on 5/Jun/09
Indeed RJ... RIP.
What a terrible loss. :( Rob says on 4/Jun/09
RIP
Seemed like a nice guy.. RJ says on 4/Jun/09
R.I.P boswell says on 22/May/09
David Carradine is someone I have seen several times on the set of his Kung Fu television show. The nicest thing I can say about him is that he is not bad on the piano. I'm surprised to see the heights that people are mentioning here. I would have put him at around 5' 10" but he slouches, in my experience. I think he was having troubles when I was running into him. He famously kicked in a glass door of a hotel, in Toronto. I don't think he is 6' tall. kevin mcmahon says on 13/Jan/09
I am friends with David he is definitely at least 6ft tall I stand 5ft10 and hes clearly taller than me. I have seen him with and without shoes on as well. dmeyer says on 1/Jun/07
looks 6 ft in that pic Alex says on 13/Jan/07
He isn't 5'10" , looks more 5'11". Joe says on 10/Jan/07
Carradine looks about 6 feet one. 5 10 surely can't be accurate. VMJMurphy says on 9/Jan/07
From the two recent pictures, if Stevie wonder is 6' then so is David Carradine ... Editor Rob says on 8/Jan/07
Regardless of how I saw him, this looks the happiest I've seen you in a pic (except for the one you are holding a dog or something in your arms with a band). Carradine looks happy.
Can you recount your meeting with him on this page as I think you mentioned the stuff about him/sly on the sly thread? Chinese slippers? Anonymous says on 7/Jan/07
If this picture is very recent, it looks as if Carradine is still a six-footer. Brad says on 2/Dec/06
He's really low key interacting with fans. He lightened up with me signing a Kung Fu lunch box over boring 8x10's. Editor Rob says on 29/Nov/06
I would never go up to talk to this man, or pay him outrageous money for an autograph having seen him 'interact' with fans.
When he was getting up to hobble over and give a 'talk' at an event I was near him and I will stick with my estimate...that he he has lost an easy inch or even a little more than that in height by 2006. kene says on 15/Sep/06
hi mark,picture1 of urs shows david wearing shoe lift 2~3inches(6-7cm) next to uma.. he could not be that 5ft11max tall.. not even a barefoot 179cm.. i believe his about 177cm most to be.. J. says on 21/Apr/06
His niece, Ever, is a castmember of the TV series 'Commander in Chief'. She says to the Daily News: "I'm about 5-foot-9, and I'm the shortest adult on the show, so I think it's true that we have the tallest cast on television."
The piece then goes on to reference 'Commander' stars Geena Davis, Harry J. Lennix, Donald Sutherland and Kyle Secor, who according to the article range from '6 feet' to '6 foot 5'.
Actually most of the early press from the show mentions the tallness of the cast. Goes to show you how short most of Hollywood must be!
Frank2 says on 7/Mar/06
Nope. David is six feet. J.J.F says on 30/Oct/05
Erm, those pics basically prove he is 5'10.5" at the most. Uma is definitely no more than 6' Joeblo says on 14/Apr/05
Carradine is 5'10. He's clearly wearing some suspicious cowboy boots (a.k.a. lifts) and Uma is barefoot basically. This is usually done to make the male or star, taller. Uma's 5'11 and Carradine's got a good 2-3 inches of rubber under his feet and looks a bit taller then her. Smoke says on 8/Apr/05
Yeah this guy is tricky, and I guess it all depends on footwear like it does for a lot of people. The day I met Carradine I was in flats, so max .5 inch heal. But from what I remember he defintely wasn't in flats when I met him, like I said he claims to have been 6'1" at his peak, and in comparison to my height he definately didn't seem too much shorter, maybe an inch, while I was in flats. Depending on his shoes he stands anywhere between 180-183 cm nowadays, but in his heyday he could very well have been 184-185 cm. |
