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.
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 ...