Actor Michael Madsen, a stoic actor who worked with Quentin Tarantino among other directors in various acclaimed films from the 1980s onward, has died, according to his publicist Liz Rodriguez. He was 67.

Michael Madsen apparently went into cardiac arrest and was found unresponsive in his home in Malibu, California, on Thursday morning, according to his manager.

Michael Madsen, who has died aged 67, was an actor who made his name as the psychopathic Mr Blonde in Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs and went on to appear in four more of his films; over a vastly prolific career,