Overview

• Deputies responding to a 911 call found Madsen unresponsive at his Malibu home and pronounced him dead at 8:25 a.m.
• The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department confirmed no foul play and his representatives cited cardiac arrest as the preliminary cause of death.
• Madsen’s managers said a coroner’s report is expected in four to six weeks to formally determine the cause.
• He amassed more than 300 film and television credits over roughly 40 years, earning breakthrough recognition in Reservoir Dogs and later roles in Kill Bill and The Hateful Eight.
• His managers highlighted upcoming independent films—Resurrection Road, Concessions and Cookbook for Southern Housewives—and a pending poetry collection, Tears For My Father: Outlaw Thoughts and Poems.