The American actor Michael Madsen died at the age of 67. He was best known for his roles in films such as Kill Bill and Reservoir Dogs from director Quentin Tarantino.
The Hollywood star was found lifeless on Thursday morning in his house in Malibu, California. He probably died of a cardiac arrest, his manager says to CBS News. The local authorities assume a natural death, report international press agencies. Madsen was married and had six children.
In the forty years that he was active in Hollywood, he figured in hundreds of films and television series, starting in 1983 with Wargames. Then he played smaller roles, among other things in The Natural. The crime film is more famous Thelma & Louise by director Ridley Scott, from the nineties.
The scene was out of the scene Reservoir Dogs (1992), in which he as Mr. Blonde dancing on Stuck in the middle with you Van Stealers Wheel cut off the ear from a kidnapped police officer. He was subsequently asked more often by director Tarantino, among other things for The Hateful Eight and Once Upon A Time in Hollywood. Three films in which he cooperated have not yet premiered.
His manager calls Madsen “one of the most iconic actors in Hollywood”.