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

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

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

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, 82, the epitome of tough-guy bravado as an actor in such 1940s films as "Dillinger," "Born to Kill" and "The Devil Thumbs a Ride" and who was equally well known for his off ...

He was born Lawrence James Tierney in Brooklyn, New York, on March 15, 1919. His father Lawrence Sr was a hard-bitten Irish-American cop, who rose to become chief of police of the New York ...

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, onscreen and offscreen tough guy, died in his sleep Feb. 26 in Los Angeles after having suffered strokes and bouts of pneumonia over the past several years.

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.