Overview

• Emergency services were summoned early Thursday after someone found Madsen unresponsive at his Malibu residence.
• His representative confirmed he died of cardiac arrest at age 67.
• Over four decades he amassed more than 300 film and television credits.
• In the past two years he focused on independent productions including Resurrection Road, Concessions and Cookbook for Southern Housewives.
• He had been preparing a poetry collection titled Tears For My Father: Outlaw Thoughts and Poems, due to publish later this year.