Thursday 3 July 2025, the world received the news that one of the largest actors in the world and famous for its performances in Quentin Tarantino’s films, Michael Madsen, was found dead in his home in the city of Malibu, California, USA.
In addition to distinguishing himself in his partnerships with Quentin Tarantino, Michael Madsen was also very important in various film works. His characters were of mysterious and great stature men, as well as a very peculiar sense of humor.
10 films with Michael Madsen’s considerable participation
To remember some of the brilliant career of this theaters, the He listed 10 films that have the actual participation of the actor. Take a look below!
1. Thelma & Louise (1991)
Ridley Scott’s film, “Thelma & Louise”, accompanies two women who decide to travel by car. But what was supposed to be a moment of free time and fun became an escape from the law when Louise kills a man who tried to rape Thelma in a bar.
So, they flee to Mexico. In the middle of this plot, Jimmy Lennox appears, a musician played by Madsen, who is involved with Louise and tries to marry her, despite having received several no.
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2. Rental Dogs (1992)
With the direction and script of Quentin Tarantino, Michael Madsen played Mr. Blonde in “Rental Dogs”, being the right man of Joe Cabot, the Crime Crime in Los Angeles.
The film presents a criminal named Joe Cabot, who brings together six bad guards for a great theft, but something goes wrong and one of them ends up hurting. So criminals must find out who betrayed them.
3. Free Willy (1993)
Also very important in this work directed by Simon Wincer, Michael Madsen, plays Glen, who is married to Annie Greenwood (Jayne Atkinson) and decides to adopt the boy Jesse (Jason James Richter). This boy, having to clean up a dirt he did in a park, knows and develops an incredible friendship with an orca named Willy, who lives in captivity. The plot brings several actions to free the animal.
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4. Wyatt Earp (1994)
In this work, directed by Lawrence Kasdan, Michael Madsen plays the role of Virgil, brother of the iconic Xerife Wyatt Earp. Production is a biography that tells several facts of the life of a famous police officer of the old West.
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5. Donnie Bresco (1997)
The actor was also very important in this work because he played the character Sonny Black, who was one of the members of the Bonanno family. The film presents “Lefty Ruggerio”, one of the great American mafia. Protects a young man from Miami, Donnie Brasco. With the relationship between friendship and partnerships between them that become more solid, Lefty transforms Ruggerio into one of the intent and connoisseurs of the criminal world of the Bonanno family.
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6. Kill Bill: vol. 1 (2003)
In these works, Michael Madsen was not the great protagonist, but playing the character Budd, he played an important role in the Deadly Viper Killers team, the former protagonist group in Thurman, who plays Beatrix Kiddo.
In work vol. 1, the bride, played by a Thurman, is a high level killer and is part of the Bill group (David Carradine), with whom he maintains a love relationship. However, knowing he is pregnant, he decides to get out of this life and live a normal life, marrying another man.
But on the day of the ceremony, her colleagues attack her, make her lose the baby and leave her in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes up, he decides to look at and kill one from one of his former teammates.
Budd is important as he is Bill’s brother and the third goal in the list of people that the protagonist wants to kill.
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7. Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)
This is a continuation of the first plot in which the bride continues to look for revenge. We will not provide more information not to reveal important points on the first production. However, the film also presents Michael Madsen in a role of great importance.
8. Sin City – The City of Sin (2005)
Directed by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez, this work, which is based on comics with the same name, bears four different plots, but the interconnection. The actor managed to stand out in the story called “That Yellow Bastard”, in the role of detective Bob, one of John Hartigan’s friends (Bruce Willis).
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9. Road of No Return – Way Without Volta (2009)
It is a weave directed by Parviz Saghizadeh. The plot accompanies four killers who are secretly gathered on a secret mission to put an end to the rise of drug trafficking in the country. Michael Madsen plays J. Marcone, one of those criminals.
10. The Eight Hold (2015)
This was one of the productions directed and written by Quentin Tarantino in which Michael Madsen participated. The narrative takes place in a snowstorm, in which John Ruth (Kurt Russell) is carrying a prisoner, Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh) with the expectation of receiving a lot of money back.
However, along the way, travelers begin to take other people, thus forming eight travelers. Among these is Joe Gage, played by Michael Madsen. Over time, travelers begin to discover the bloody secrets of each other and end up in a conflict.
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