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Actor Michael Madsen, best known for his role as “Mr. Blonde” in the Quentin Tarantino classic “Reservoir Dogs,” died of heart failure, according a news report Tuesday that cites his cardiologist.

The doctor, who was not named, told NBCLA that Madsen’s death was caused by heart failure, with heart disease and alcoholism listed as contributing factors.

No autopsy will be conducted, and the case is considered closed with no foul play suspected, the station reported.

Madsen, 67, was found dead Thursday at his Malibu home. His personal assistant and friend, Dougie Smith, told City News Service that he became concerned when he didn’t hear from Madsen on Wednesday and discovered him deceased the next morning.

Smith said Madsen had undergone a checkup last Friday at UCLA Medical Center for a shoulder injury he sustained in a horseback riding accident two years ago. Madsen was considering surgery on his rotator cuff but chose to wear a brace instead, according to Smith. During the visit, he also had a PET scan to check a minor brain bleed from the earlier accident, and everything came back clear.

A Chicago native, Madsen broke into films with a small part in the 1980s thriller “WarGames,” followed by appearances in productions including “The Natural,” “Thelma & Louise,” “Donnie Brasco” and “Die Another Day.”

But he made a splash in his work with Tarantino, beginning with the brutal crime drama “Reservoir Dogs,” playing a sadistic criminal known only as Mr. Blonde. He worked with Tarantino again in the films “Kill Bill: Vol. 2,” “The Hateful Eight” and “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”

Madsen was the brother of Oscar-nominated actress Virginia Madsen. He was married three times and had six children. His son Christian is also an actor, known for his work in “Divergent.”

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  1. These are the problems with this man’s death as well as every man’s death that’s ever died on this planet that’s been involved in your charade of fucking stupidity.

    SINCE MY WHOLE FAMILY DIED AT THE FBI OF ORLANDO IT GIVES ME GRANDFATHER CLAUSE!!!!

    THE EGG TELLING THE HUMAN WHAT HIS LAW IS!
    HATE GREED INCOMPETENCE STUPIDITY ARROGANTNESS
    You have the uniform code & the code of ethnics that everybody violates..
    Then I hear West Coast law group of California is paying these contractors to come out and do this stupid shit on a daily basis to me.
    GPS should prove every bit of them stalking me for the last 3 years from Ventura boulevard at Cane’s restaurant opening over there. The one that showed me his ideas the one that tried to get me for a concealed weapon when his cocksucker in the pickup truck was in a Land Rover talking about how he had virtual land on the property.
    These charges consist of FEDERAL AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED STALKING, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED INTIMIDATION,  FEDERAL AGGRAVATED BRUTALITY, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED CORRUPTION, and FEDERAL AGGRAVATED GREED & FEDERAL AGGRAVATED HATATRED, EVENTUALLY AGGRAVATED TAKING A BRIBE !  IN EVERY OFFICER THERE’S AN OFFSHORE BANK ACCOUNT  FOR EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD.
    My perception says this is all due to Aryan brotherhood on the D block at San Mateo County Jail where all the murders and everything happened at. right under Christina Corpus deputy Lovejoy.
    It’s like every cock sucking coward in the nation had to come out and cause as much shit as they could because they got to suck the man’s dick when they get there.
    That’s the reason they have so many offshore bank accounts with everyone at that San Mateo County jail as well as the prison system as well and across the United States of America. Minimum 5 million to $500 billion and every offshore bank account cross the United States of America at every sheriff and police department fire department how everybody that was a celebrity is now dead and they paid every one of your corrupt trustees to go to work for you because how they were just to trainee.
    Then you have this arrogant cop over here. On Sunday he comes over here and starts all this shit and has somebody called in from Santa Cruz to come down for an outreach program with a loaded fucking handgun under his goddamn arm both of them had loaded guns on him but yet they’re standing on fucking public property telling me where the fucking go right but when the sheriff’s department gets here they just let the motherfuckers run away right what an incompetent fucking agency. And this chief of police is HARBORING  A  FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE  ( WILLIAM MORRELL ) while working for the Department with him smoking His crack cocaine and drinking his whiskey. No clue about vehicular homicide as a drunk mother fucker driving his car with a loaded FIREARM as attempted murder right why your FEDUALLY AGGRAVATED BANK ARMED ROBBERY. Just to get to me on public land you have to go through a public Bank Shopping Center.

    Where at in the law does it state that law enforcement has a right to invade in the public business areas doing business with the public we’re at in the law does it state that you have a right to invade in the public?

    Then you have them go into Google and tell them that I can’t complain and can’t have a comment on any part of Google or anywhere on the fucking internet anymore because my public rights have been violated by this piece of shit. But this is the kind of education you give your law enforcement in the community right.

    In my intuitiveness leads me to believe that the Bakersfield Police Department send some Yahoo’s down here and had your Yahoo in this fucking Community Chase my dick around the whole time because how I caught the Bakersfield Police Department chief of police buying crack cocaine from someone in the fucking City and put it on a video for the Bakersfield Police Department of you and they’ve never done anything but yet they could send these jackasses down here though.

    There’s  $75 million in a offshore bank account
    There’s 75 million different reasons for him to come out here and do this stupid shit everyday

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