American actor Michael Madsen (1957–2025) has appeared in over 300 film and television productions since 1982.[1] Madsen made his screen debut in the film Against All Hope (1982), a film made for prison inmates.[2] Next year, he appeared in the commercially successful WarGames, which grossed $125 million worldwide.
According to the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes and film industry data website The Numbers, his most critically acclaimed and commercially successful films Kill Me Again (1989), Reservoir Dogs (1992), Donnie Brasco (1997), Die Another Day (2002), Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003), Sin City (2005), Scary Movie 4 (2006), The Garden Left Behind (2019), Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), and QT8: The First Eight (2019).[3][4]
Filmography
Film
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Television
Music videos
Video games
Documentary
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Steve McQueen: The King of Cool
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| 2002
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Thelma & Louise: The Last Journey
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Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
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Bullets Over Hollywood
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QT8: The First Eight
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A prolific actor who appeared in more than 300 movies and television shows [...]
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FATAL INSTINCT To Kill For
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[...] he had already committed to playing Virgil Earp in Lawrence Kasdan's Wyatt Earp (1994).
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Preston Lennox - Michael Madsen
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Originaltitel: ROUGH DRAFT [...] Michael Madsen (Detective Haynes)
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Originaltitel: DETOUR [...] Michael Madsen (Burl Rogers)
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Originaltitel: FAIT ACCOMPLI [...] Michael Madsen (Frank Barlow)
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The Thief & the Stripper (also known as Strip 'n Run)
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ULTIMATE TARGET Ides of March
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Michael Madsen - Maugrim (voice)
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CAST [...] MICHAEL MADSEN AS TONY CIPRIANI
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