BANGKOK — Actor David Carradine, a born seeker and cult idol who broke through as the willing student called “grasshopper” in the 1970s TV series “Kung Fu” and decades later as leader of an assassin ...

For five decades, “patience, grasshopper” has been the informal tagline for Kung Fu, the classic “Eastern Western” television show that began on February 22, 1972, with a 90-minute ABC TV-movie pilot.

LOS ANGELES — Contrast marked the life of David Carradine, who became a star playing the austere and virtuous warrior Caine on the 1970s TV series "Kung Fu" even as his personal life was an excess of ...

For China, 1929. As the Republic crumbles, only the legendary Wudang monks dare to defy the ruthless warlords trafficking in the opium trade. Among them is White Crane (David Carradine, KUNG FU), a ...