Quentin Tarantino recalls fearing the end of his career after firing Lawrence Tierney, only to find support from Michael Madsen.

Quentin Tarantino paid homage Friday to the late actor Michael Madsen -- remembering the time Michael applauded him for ...

A month after his death at age 67, one of Michael Madsen‘s most prolific collaborators paid tribute to the late actor in Los ...

Quentin Tarantino has recalled Michael Madsen’s supportive reaction after he fired actor Lawrence Tierney from Reservoir Dogs after one week of filming. At such a critical moment in US history, we ...

Quentin Tarantino has remembered Michael Madsen, after he backed the director's choice to fire Lawrence Tierney on a movie ...

Quentin Tarantino paid tribute to his late friend Michael Madsen as he shared how the star backed him for firing an actor ...

Tierney then moved to France for several years, though his alcoholism and scrapes with the law continued. Michael Tierney, the son of Lawrence's brother Edward, said, Larry was married once, I guess.

Lawrence Tierney, a veteran character actor and onetime B-movie leading man, has died at the age of 82. Mr. Tierney had suffered several strokes in recent years and had recent bouts with pneumonia ...

LAWRENCE TIERNEY, the actor who has died aged 82, was almost as violent and wild in real life as the psychopaths and gangsters that were his stock-in-trade on screen.

“Tierney’s life was more action-packed and outrageous than any movie,” says Kearns, who wrote and produced the 20th Century Fox Burt Reynolds comedy Cloud 9 with Academy Award-winner Al Ruddy.

Seinfeld banned Tierney from the set, although he and David would joke that “if you aren’t good, we’re going to invite Lawrence Tierney back.” Tierney sounded like a scary dude.