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He has been portrayed by David Carradine as an adult Caine, Keith Carradine as a younger Caine, Radames Pera as the child Caine, and Stephen Manley as the youngest Caine. In late 19th-century China, Kwai Chang Caine was the orphaned son of an American man and a Chinese woman.
Kwai Chang Caine (David Carradine) is the orphaned son of an American man, Thomas Henry Caine (Bill Fletcher), and a Chinese woman, Kwai Lin, born in mid-19th-century China. [9] After his maternal grandfather's death he is accepted for training at a Shaolin Monastery , where he grows up to become a Shaolin priest and martial arts expert.
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Kwai Chang Caine (Chinese: 虔官昌; pinyin: Qián Guānchāng) is the main character of the 1972 television series Kung Fu. He is a Shaolin master who travels through the American Old West to find his half-brother, Danny Caine.
Caine has been portrayed by David Carradine as an adult, Keith Carradine as a younger Caine, Radames Pera as a child Caine, and Stephen Manley as the youngest Caine.
Kwai is the orphaned son of an American man, Thomas Henry Caine (Bill Fletcher), and a Chinese woman, Kwai Lin because of his orphan status he is raised by his maternal grandfather. After his grandfather dies he is accepted for training at a Shaolin Monastery, where he grows up to become a Shaolin priest and martial arts expert.
In the pilot episode, Caine's beloved mentor and elder, Master Po, is murdered by the Emperor's nephew; outraged, Caine retaliates by killing the nephew. With a price on his head, Caine flees China to the western United States, where he seeks to find his family roots and, ultimately, his half-brother, Danny Caine whom he ultimately finds him in the third and final season also discovering he's an uncle.
Kung Fu: Created by Ed Spielman, Herman Miller. With David Carradine, Radames Pera, Keye Luke, Philip Ahn. The adventures of Shaolin monk Kwai Chang Caine as he wanders through the American West, armed only with his spiritual training and his skill in Kung Fu.
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Feb 22, 2012 · The back story behind the series tells us that Kwai Chang Caine is the orphaned son of an American by the name of Thomas Henry Caine (Bill Fletcher). His mother was a Chinese woman, Kwai Lin. Kwai Chang Caine was born in mid-19th-century China and after his maternal grandfather dies, Caine is accepted for training at a Shaolin Monastery.
The series follows the adventures of Kwai Chang Caine (David Carradine), a highly trained Shaolin monk who must flee China and ends up traveling through the 19th century American West armed only with his spiritual training and his skill in martial arts, as he seeks Danny Caine, his half-brother.
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In the late 19th century China, Kwai Chang Caine was the orphaned son of an American man and a Chinese woman. He was raised in a Shaolin Monastery in Hunan Province, and was trained by the monks to be a Shaolin master.
