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LOS ANGELES (ASSOCIATED PRESS) — Actor Michael Madsen, whose menacing characters in “Reservoir Dogs” and “Kill Bill” made him a standout in Quentin Tarantino’s films, has died.
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Michael Madsen (Photo by Arthur Mola/Invision/AP, File) -
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Actors Virginia Madsen, left, and her brother Michael Madsen (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)
Madsen’s manager says the actor was found unresponsive in his home in Malibu, California on Thursday and was declared dead from what appeared to be cardiac arrest.
Madsen’s career spanned more than 300 credits stretching back to the early 1980s, many in low budget films. But his most memorable screen moment may have been the sadistic torture of a captured police officer in 1992’s “Reservoir Dogs.” He would become a Tarantino regular, appearing in the “Kill Bill” films and “The Hateful Eight.”
Madsen was 66.
