Kung Fu, the popular 1970s martial arts TV series starring David Carradine, followed the adventures of a Shaolin monk in the Wild West; the failure to give Bruce Lee the lead role has caused much ...

In 1971, Bruce Lee pitched a series called The Warrior, ... starring white actor David Carradine as an Asian martial artist in the Old West — a premise that raised eyebrows, ...

When ABC was casting "Kung Fu," a series about a martial artist monk in the Old West, Lee was considered for the lead, but the part went instead to David Carradine.

Undoubtedly it might have, had Lee been a white man, a point actor David Carradine proved in “Kung Fu.” Carradine played Caine, a Shaolin monk who traveled the Old West in search of serenity.

Allegedly, Lee's pitch for the show was the foundation for the 70s hit Kung Fu, but the lead role was denied him due to racial bias and went to David Carradine instead. 4.

When Bruce Lee conceived the film The Silent Flute in the United States in the late 1960s, ... David Carradine, then best known for his starring role in the TV series Kung Fu, ...

In 1972, the team behind a television western called “Kung Fu” cast white actor David Carradine over Lee to play a Chinese Shaolin monk. Despite the adversity Lee sometimes faced in the film ...

Bruce Lee would be proud. Breaking: Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor ... you might think it might resemble the ABC original 1972 TV series Kung Fu that starred David Carradine.