Michael Madsen, actor recognized for “Reservoir Canine” and “Kill Invoice Vol. 2,” dies at age 67

Michael Madsen, the actor recognized for appearances in a number of Quentin Tarantino movies, together with “Reservoir Canine,” “Kill Invoice Vol. 2” and “The Hateful Eight,” has died, his supervisor instructed CBS Information. He was 67.

Madsen apparently went into cardiac arrest and was discovered unresponsive in his house in Malibu, California, on Thursday morning, supervisor Ron Smith mentioned.

“Within the final two years Michael Madsen has been doing a little unimaginable work with unbiased movie together with upcoming function movies Resurrection Highway, Concessions and Cookbook for Southern Housewives, and was actually wanting ahead to this subsequent chapter in his life,” managers Susan Ferris and Ron Smith and publicist Liz Rodriguez mentioned in an announcement. 

“Michael was additionally making ready to launch a brand new ebook known as Tears For My Father: Outlaw Ideas and Poems presently being edited. Michael Madsen was considered one of Hollywood’s most iconic actors, who shall be missed by many,” they added.

Initially from Chicago, Madsen appeared in additional than 300 films and TV exhibits all through his greater than 4 a long time in Hollywood, in keeping with IMDB.

He started his profession at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater.

“I’m heartbroken to listen to of the passing of previous good friend Mike Madsen,” Steppenwolf co-founder Terry Kinney mentioned in an announcement. “Though I knew him years in the past, it was very memorable, as he acted in a manufacturing of ‘Of Mice and Males’ which I directed. Michael was a automobile mechanic after we began rehearsals. He wrote lengthy handwritten letters to me for years about how artwork saved his life. He was great in that manufacturing and you could possibly see his future success from the outset. He shall be missed.”

He’s maybe greatest recognized for his position as Mr. Blonde in Quentin Tarantino’s directorial debut “Reservoir Canine,” and the long-lasting scene through which he tortures a police officer whereas the 1973 Stealers Wheel hit “Caught within the Center with You” performs within the background.

Whereas normally not taking part in the lead position, his unmistakable gruff voice made him a memorable presence in smaller roles and even bit elements in movies like “Sin Metropolis,” “Donnie Brasco” and “As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood.”

Madsen has additionally revealed a number of collections of poetry, together with “Burning in Paradise” and “Anticipating Rain.”

“His work displays the identical gritty realism and emotional undercurrent that defines his performing,” his representatives mentioned in an announcement. “Along with performing and writing, he’s an achieved photographer and has produced a lot of unbiased initiatives.”

Throughout a speech at his handprint ceremony at Los Angeles’ well-known TCL Chinese language Theatre in 2020, Madsen mirrored, “I may have been a bricklayer. I may have been an architect. I may have been a garbageman. I may have been nothing. However I obtained fortunate. I obtained fortunate as an actor.”

Madsen additionally referenced “errors” he had made in his life throughout that speech, which was primarily addressed to his spouse, DeAnna Morgan. Madsen pleaded no contest to a DUI cost in 2019, which had come inside 10 years of one other DUI cost. He was sentenced to 4 days in jail and 5 years probation, CBS Information Los Angeles reported.

He obtained a $500 quotation for a misdemeanor after allegedly trespassing on a property in 2022, Individuals reported on the time, which got here only a month after his son, Hudson, died by suicide at 26. Two years later, he was arrested on a cost of misdemeanor home battery and later launched after what his consultant mentioned was a “disagreement between Michael and his spouse,” Individuals reported.

Madsen and Morgan had two different sons, Calvin and Luke. Madsen had two different sons from a earlier marriage to Jeannine Bisignano, Max and Christian, each of whom are additionally actors.