Overview

• Madsen was found unresponsive at his Malibu home on July 3 and pronounced dead at 8:25 a.m. by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies.
• His representative and law enforcement sources indicated cardiac arrest as the preliminary cause of death and said there was no evidence of foul play.
• A coroner’s report is pending to officially determine the cause of death.
• Over a four-decade span, he amassed more than 300 film credits and became best known for his role as Mr. Blonde in Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs.
• At the time of his death, Madsen was developing independent features such as Resurrection Road and Concessions while preparing his poetry memoir, Tears For My Father: Outlaw Thoughts and Poems.