Michael Madsen
Born: 1957-09-25 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died: 2025-07-03
Known For: Acting
Biography
Michael Madsen (September 25, 1957 – July 3, 2025) was an American actor, poet, and photographer. He starred in central roles in such films as Reservoir Dogs, Free Willy, Donnie Brasco, and Kill Bill, in addition to a supporting role in Sin City. Madsen is also credited with voice work in several video games, including Grand Theft Auto III, True Crime: Streets of L.A. and DRIV3R.
Filmography
2026
- Mr. Wonderful as Brian Fenton
- A Corpse in Kensington as Michael
- Legend of the White Dragon as Max Reed
- Demon Hunters
- Michael Jackson: A Life in Music as Self (archive footage)
- Blood Behind Us as Reed Philibosian
2025
- Queen of Manhattan as District Attorney
- Resurrection Road as Quantrill
- Sinatra! Eternity as Robert (Bob) Nelson
- Concessions as Rex Fuel
- The Things We Carry
2024
- Arena Wars as Samson
- Dark Feathers: Dance of the Geisha as Kensei
- Prepare to Die as Sheriff Hansen
- Chuck Zito: An American Story as Self
- Baba Yaga: Assassins Revenge as Logan Bergman
- South of Hope Street as Benjamin
- Monster Mash as Doctor Frankenstein
- Once Upon a Time in Hollyweird as Self
- Final Wager as Ian
- Max Dagan as Don Clancy
- DinoGator as Layton
- Spirit Riser as Narrator (voice)
2023
- Outlaw Johnny Black as Dutch
- Buckle Up
- Assault on Hill 400 as General Cota
- Waking Karma as Paul
- The Lurking Fear as Officer Hansen
- Necronomicon
2022
- American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective as Self
- Damon's Revenge as Damon
- Incarnation as Peter
- Until We Meet Again as Detective Morrison
- Death Count as Detective Casey
- The Wraith Within as Sheriff Townsend
2021
- American Night as Lord Samuel Morgan
- Every Last One of Them as Bill
- Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend as Self (archive footage)
- Red Prophecies as Richard Tyler
- Christmas Thieves as Vince
- Burial Ground Massacre as Damon
- Playing with Stars
- Ten Million Throwaways as Narrator
- Batman: Dying Is Easy as Bullock
- Run Raven Run as Narrator (voice)
2020
- Angels Fallen as Balthazar
- Shark Season as James
- Red Handed as Lou
- Unbelievable!!!!! as President Ben Dover
- Nishabdham as Richard Dawkins
- 2 Graves in the Desert as Vince
- Puppy Love as Wesley
- The Garden Left Behind as Kevin
- Conjuring: The Book of the Dead as Jefferson
- Dirty Fears as Michael
- Serpent in the Bottle as Joe
2019
- Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood as 'Bounty Law' - Sheriff Hackett
- Arctic Dogs as Duke (voice)
- QT8: The First Eight as Self
- The Hateful Eight as Joe Gage
- Trading Paint as Linsky
- Rock, Paper, Scissors as Doyle Dechert
- Welcome to Acapulco as Hyde
- Primitiva as Narrator (voice)
- The Dirty Kind ... (Executive Producer)
- Born2Race as Bobby Unser
2018
- Megalodon as Admiral King
- Love Addict as Mr. Dickinson
- Papa as Ivan
- Grindhouse Nightmares
- Garlic and Gunpowder as Jason
- Hangover in Death Valley as Ted (archive footage)
- Q-4: Dream Corporation
- Dirty Dealing as Dean
- Assassins Revenge as Detective Frank McMillian
- The Journey Ahead as Max
- Spatss! as Gang Leader
- Dead On Time as Mike McGuirk
2017
- The Broken Key as Tully DeMarco
- The Wrong Neighbor as Coach Jaworski
- Devil's Domain as Bill
- Unfallen as General McCallister
- Gasoline as Макс, баща на Дим
2016
- Emigratis as Self
- Vigilante Diaries as Moreau
- Master of Photography
- Last Man Club as Stearman Pilot
- Back in the Day as Enzo
- Along for the Ride as Self
- Kidnapped in Romania as Mihai
- Magi as Lawrence Irlam
- Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider as Self
- Talons as George Fitzgerald
2015
- The Hateful Eight as Joe Gage
- Powers as SuperShock
- Big Time in Hollywood, Fl as Harvey Scoles
- A Hitman in London as The Boss
- Hope Lost as Manol
- Lumberjack Man as Dr. Peter Shirtcliff
- Diamond Cartel as Mike
- No Deposit as Peter Shay
- Lady Psycho Killer as Doctor Douglass
- The Lost Tree as John
- Death in the Desert as Ray Easler
- Flipped as Casey
- Sacred Blood as Detective Brennan
- Bikini Inception as Himself
2014
- Beyond the Game as Robert
- 2047: Sights of Death as Lobo
- Express 'Moscow-Russia' as продюсер Милы
- The Ninth Cloud as Bob
- Water Wars as Bane
- Non Escludo Il Ritorno as Paul Hummel
- Bra Wars – Hollywood’s Affair With The Bra as Self
- Turn Around Jake as Russell O'Malley
2013
- Golden Boy as Walter Clark Sr.
- I'm in Love with a Church Girl as Frank Harris
- Ashley as Bill
- Infected as Louis Hartley
- Garbage as Michael
- Nomad the Beginning as Wolf
- A Sierra Nevada Gunfight as Sheriff Sawyer
- Along the Roadside as Jerry
- ICE Agent as Carlos Garcia
- Lionhead as Walter Powell
- Madoff: Made Off with America as Agent Kennedy
- Alien Battlefield
- Terrible Angels as Ben Nolan
- Gabrielle as Edward Sheehan
2012
- Piranhaconda as Prof. Lovegrove
- Loosies as Lt. 'Sully' Sullivan
- Sins as Don Mancino
- Eldorado as Ted
- Magic Boys as Terence
- Beyond the Trophy as Cole Lambert
- Prince of the City as Ben Carlton
- Ace of Spades: Bad Destiny as Sef
- Cole Younger & The Black Train as Marshall Stallings
2011
- Bob's Burgers as Kevin Costner (voice)
- Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair as Budd (Sidewinder)
- Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side as Self
- Amsterdam Heavy as Keele
- The Lion of Judah as Boss (voice)
- The 5th Execution as Rik
- Not Another Not Another Movie as Lester Storm
- Dirty Little Trick as Vito
- A Cold Day in Hell as U.S. Marshal Stallings
- The Forest as Lt. Brandon Ross
2010
- Hawaii Five-0 as Roy Parrish
- Blue Bloods as John
- The Killing Jar as Doe
- Zulu Gumball as Self
- Terror Trap as Hotel Operator
- The Big I Am as Martell
- The Portal as Dr. Azirra
- Let the Game Begin as Dr. Turner
- The Brazen Bull
- Trader Games as William
- Corruption.Gov as Senator John Mordire
- Federal as Sam Gibson
- Six Days in Paradise as Rich McShane
2009
- Celebrity Ghost Stories as Self
- Green Lantern: First Flight as Kilowog (voice)
- Amazing Racer as Dave Blair
- The Tomb as George
- The Bleeding as Father Roy
- Break as The Associate
- The Face is Familiar as Himself
- Hired Gun as Dan Moeller
- Road of No Return as J. Marcone
- The Way as Commander
- Gloves of Stone as Willie
- You Might As Well Live as Clinton Manitoba
- Lost in the Woods as Stuart Bunka
- Outrage: Born in Terror as Farragut
- Clear Lake, WI as The Reverend
- Serbian Scars as Dreq
- Deep Winter as Dean
- Christmas Crash as Joseph Johnson
- Creepshow Raw: Insomnia as Barry
2008
- Hell Ride as The Gent
- House as Tin Man/Officer Lawdale
- Crash and Burn as Vincent Scaillo
- Vice as Max Walker
- Last Hour as Monk
- The Craft of Dirty Harry as Self
- The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry as Self
- The Evolution of Clint Eastwood as Self
- A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry as Self
- The Business End: Violence in Cinema as Self
- Killer's Freedom as Leo Ibiza
- No Bad Days as Lester
- 45 R.P.M. as Major Baxter
- Eyes Front
2007
- Boarding Gate as Miles Rennberg
- Croc as Croc Hawkins
- Being Michael Madsen as Self
- Afghan Knights as Cooper
- Living & Dying as Agent Lind
- Tooth and Nail as Jackal - Rover
- Machine as Ray
- Strength and Honour as Sean Kelleher
- Cosmic Radio as Senator Atwood
- L.A. Dicks as Steven Miller
2006
- Scary Movie 4 as Oliver
- The Last Drop as J.T. Colt
- All In as Seal
- Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light as Self
- Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood as Self
- Hoboken Hollow as J.T. Goldman
- Canes as Guillermo List
- The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird as Self
- UKM: The Ultimate Killing Machine as Major Blevins
- Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films as Self
- Prohibition Opens the Floodgates as Self
- Southern Comfort
2005
- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as Maugrim (voice)
- Sin City as Bob
- Tilt as Don 'The Matador' Everest
- BloodRayne as Vladimir
- Law of Corruption as American
- Chasing Ghosts as Kevin Harrison
- Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood
2004
- Kill Bill: Vol. 2 as Budd 'Sidewinder'
- On Air with Ryan Seacrest as Self
- Renegade as Wallace Sebastian Blount
- Frankenstein as Detec. Harker
- Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade as Self
- The Making of 'Kill Bill Vol. 2' as Self
- Jacked$ as Boss
2003
- Kill Bill: Vol. 1 as Budd
- My Boss's Daughter as T.J.
- 44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out as Frank McGregor
- Pauly Shore Is Dead as Michael Madsen
- Thelma & Louise: The Last Journey as Self
- Vampires Anonymous as Geno
2002
- CSI: Miami as Cooper 'Coop' Daly
- Die Another Day as Falco
- The Real Deal as Baker Jacks
- Welcome to America as Special Agent Leon Fogel
- The Thief & the Stripper as Jimmie D.
- Primal Instinct as Russ
2001
- 24 as Jim Ricker
- Celebrity Big Brother as Self
- Friday Night with Jonathan Ross as Self
- The Ghost as Dan Olinghouse
- L.A.P.D.: To Protect And To Serve as James Alexander
- Animal Precinct
- Extreme Honor as Sparks
- Choke as Will
- 42K as Narrator
- Fall as Jeremy Banes
- Pressure Point as Jed Griffin
- Outlaw as Conner
2000
- The Stray as Ben
- Luck of the Draw as Zippo
- The Alternate as Agent Briggs
- The Price of Air as Mr. Ball
- Voodoo Dawn as Frank Barlow
- High Noon as Frank Miller
- Sacrifice as Tyler Pierce
- The Inspectors 2: A Shred of Evidence as Joe
- Ultimate Target as Uncle
- Bad Guys as Jay Peters
1999
- The Florentine as Whitey
- Supreme Sanction as Dalton
- Ballad of the Nightingale as Giovanni
- Flat Out as Gene
1998
- Species II as Press Lenox
- Vengeance Unlimited as Mr. Chapel
- The Sender as Dallas Grayson
- Rough Draft as Haynes
- Detour as Burl Rogers
- Papertrail as FBI Agent Brad Abraham
- Steve McQueen: The King of Cool as Self
1997
- Donnie Brasco as Dominick 'Sonny Black' Napolitano
- Executive Target as Nick James
- The Maker as Skarney
- Catherine's Grove as Joe Mason
- Surface to Air as Gunnery Sgt. Zach Massin
- The Girl Gets Moe as Donnelly
1996
- Mulholland Falls as Eddie Hall
- The Last Days of Frankie the Fly as Sal
- The Winner as Wolf
1995
- Species as Preston Lennox
- Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home as Glen Greenwood
- MADtv as Self
- Red Line as Mr. Lawrence
- Man with a Gun as John Wilbur Hardin
1994
- Wyatt Earp as Virgil Earp
- The Getaway as Rudy Travis
- Blue Tiger as Gun Salesman (uncredited)
- Dead Connection as Det. Matt Dickson
- Who Do You Think You're Fooling? as Mr. Blonde (archive footage)
- Season of Change as Randy Parker
1993
- Free Willy as Glen Greenwood
- Beyond the Law as Blood
- Money for Nothing as Detective Laurenzi
- A House in the Hills as Mickey
- Trouble Bound as Harry Talbot
- Almost Blue as Morris
- Inside Edge as Richard Montana
1992
- Reservoir Dogs as Mr. Blonde / Vic Vega
- Straight Talk as Steve
- To Kill For as Cliff Burden
- Baby Snatcher as Cal Hudson
1991
- Thelma & Louise as Jimmy
- The Doors as Tom Baker
1990
- The Outsiders as Mick Jenkins
- Gabriel's Fire
- Montana as Pierce
- The End of Innocence as Earl
1989
- Quantum Leap as Blue
- Kill Me Again as Vince Miller
- Blood Red as Enzio
1988
- War and Remembrance as 'Foof' Turhall
- Sidewalks Entertainment
- Shadows in the Storm as Earl
- Iguana as Sebastián
1987
- Jake and the Fatman
- Tour of Duty as Sergeant Greg Block
- The Killing Time as Stu
1986
- Crime Story as Johnny Fosse
1985
- Our Family Honor as Augie Danzig
1984
- Miami Vice as Sally Alvarado
- The Natural as Bump Bailey
- Racing with the Moon as Frank
1983
- The Hitchhiker as John Hampton
- WarGames as Steve
- Special Bulletin as Jimmy Lenox
- Diner as Boogie
1982
- St. Elsewhere as Mike O'Connor
- Cagney & Lacey
- Against All Hope as Cecil Moe