Tom Sizemore

Actor Tom Sizemore, best known for his role in the war drama "Saving Private Ryan," died March 3 following a brain aneurysm earlier this month.

I found a drug, and it was called cocaine. Sizemore also had a history of addiction and run-ins with the law, including a 2020 civil lawsuit filed by a woman who claimed he groped her on a movie set when she was 11. This has been a difficult time for them." "The family is now deciding end-of-life matters." "He is currently in critical condition, and it’s a wait-and-see situation." 27, Lago revealed Sizemore's health had not improved since the aneurysm, as he remained in a coma.

Before addiction consumed Tim Sizemore's career, he was a go-to character actor known for portraying tough guys in movies such as "Heat" and "Saving Private ...

Drew in 2010, he said it was his ninth stint in treatment and described his periods of sobriety as the happiest in his life. And he He was arrested multiple times for driving under the influence, possessing drugs and for domestic violence. The past couple of years were great for him and he was getting his life back to a great place. Slowly, Sizemore worked his way into increasingly larger roles in Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, Passenger 57, True Romance and Natural Born Killers. He loved his sons and his family. Then, in Saving Private Ryan, Sizemore delivered the line that helps convince his group of fellow traumatized Army soldiers that searching for their lost comrade might be the one decent thing they do during the ugliness of World War II. [in the lowest-grossing movie of 2006](https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6741708&ft=nprml&f=6741708). "I saw that movie every week for, like, two months when it was playing in the theater," he said. "I saw it 11 weeks in a row. Sizemore had remained in a coma until his death on Friday. His courage and determination through adversity was always an inspiration to me.

As an actor, Sizemore was all-in, always. Sometimes—as in Strange Days and Natural Born Killers, playing drug-addled, murderous sex offenders hiding in plain ...

He was a straight razor in the form of an actor: functional, elegant, beautiful in repose, but capable of unfolding himself without warning and cutting the viewer to the bone. He [gave an interview](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4463366/Ex-addict-Tom-Sizemore-begged-Jack-Nicholson-10M.html) to the Daily Mail about his sobriety (he was four years in, he said) and invited the reporter and photographer to watch him undergo hair restoration surgery and publish the pictures in the newspaper. In quieter, more tenderhearted roles, he radiated a mix of discomfort, sorrow, and impending self-negation that only sometimes seemed indicated by the script. He was also accused of sexual assault of an 11-year old girl who was with him on the set of the 2003 film Born Killers (no relation to the Stone movie) after the Hollywood Reporter published [an investigative piece](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/tom-sizemore-was-removed-movie-set-allegedly-violating-11-year-old-girl-1057629/) based on interviews with people who’d worked on the shoot 14 years earlier. [caught on video](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2543993/Tom-Sizemore-52-caught-smoking-heroin-video-taken-weeks-ago-getting-clean-Celebrity-Rehab-three-years-ago.html) using heroin and crystal meth in the bathroom of his Los Angeles home and making racist remarks. “I’m grateful I have that since addicts have the propensity to forget how bad it was,” he said, “and I can’t because it’s there on tape.” He would later say that his drug use after the turn of the millennium destroyed him financially, costing him his $7 million house and rendering him functionally homeless. He was one of a long line of screen performers whose brilliance was shadowed by shocking offenses that employers were willing to factor into the hiring process because of his track record of superlative performances. Steven Spielberg knew Sizemore struggled with addiction when he booked him for Ryan in 1997, and made daily drug tests mandatory, warning Sizemore that if he tested positive on the last day, he’d reshoot every one of his 58 days of work with a new actor. Sizemore passed the tests and gave one of his finest performances. Again Sizemore convinced audiences that he was the cruelest, ugliest, most hateful character—in a film that also included two mass murderers, assorted thuggish rednecks and gangbangers, an incestuous and abusive father (Rodney Dangerfield), sadistic prison guards, and a venal prison warden (Tommy Lee Jones) who conspires to help Scagnetti kill Mickey and Mallory but sets him up to fail. He had few lines but still made a fearsome impression, convincing viewers that he was every bit as hard and wild as the leader of the group (played by Willem Dafoe, no slouch at inhabiting flamboyantly disreputable outsiders). Sizemore branched out in the mid-’90s, playing characters who were brusque, profane and violent but had a code and were loyal above all else.

Tom Sizemore, the talented-but-troubled actor who brought tough guy bravado to films like 'Heat' and 'Saving Private Ryan,' has died at the age of 61.

Lago, Sizemore’s manager, added that there will be a “private cremation service for the family with a larger celebration of life event planned in a few weeks.” He was transferred to Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank after his collapse, where he remained in critical condition and in a coma under intensive care. He’s been through so much and he’s so open that he’s not afraid to fall on his face. The actor was found unconscious after suffering a brain aneurysm from a stroke at his Los Angeles home in the early morning of Feb. However, Sizemore’s substance abuse issues — he claimed to have been addicted to drugs since he was a teenager — would eventually halt his promising career. “It is with great sadness and sorrow I have to announce that actor Thomas Edward Sizemore (‘Tom Sizemore’) aged 61 passed away peacefully in his sleep today at St Joseph’s Hospital Burbank,” his manager Charles Lago said in a statement to Rolling Stone.

Actor Tom Sizemore, known as much for his struggles with drug addiction and run-ins with the law as for his tough-guy roles in such films as "Saving Private ...

Sizemore, who denied the charges but did not testify at his trial, said in a letter to the judge that he had "permitted my personal demons to take over my life." He previously had a recurring role on the ABC network's Vietnam War drama "China Beach," playing an enlisted man who falls for star Dana Delany's character. But he is best remembered for playing battle-hardened soldiers in two films - Steven Spielberg's 1998 World War Two epic "Saving Private Ryan" Ridley Scott's 2001 portrayal of the U.S. Sizemore's first major leading role came in the 1997 horror thriller "The Relic," again playing a police detective. Drew." [hospitalized](/world/us/actor-tom-sizemore-saving-private-ryan-hospitalized-brain-aneurysm-manager-2023-02-19/) in critical condition after suffering a brain aneurysm on Feb.

Steven Spielberg offered him the part of Sgt Mike Horvath in Saving Private Ryan, and told him that he would be given a drug test at the end of every day of ...

Sizemore was tough, grizzled, loyal and he looked the part, but he was always going to be upstaged by Al Pacino and De Niro. Sizemore was the friend and confidant of Hanks’s thoughtful officer, and ready to pull a gun on any of his platoon who presumed to question his captain’s orders. Sizemore stayed clean and played the tough, beefy, courageous soldier who is to be the loyal subordinate of Capt John Miller, played by Tom Hanks, Miller being the high-school teacher in civilian life who in 1944 is entrusted with the almost hopeless, quixotic mission of rescuing a certain private in occupied France on compassionate grounds because all three of this man’s brothers had been killed in action.

The US actor made a name for himself as a quintessential Hollywood hardman, after starring in multiple high-octane thrillers.

He was married to actress Maeve Quinlan, known for her role in US soap opera The Bold and The Beautiful, between 1996 and 1999. In 2013, Sizemore appeared on an episode of US talk show Dr Phil, titled Explosive Relationships, in which he discussed the fallout from his years of struggling with substance abuse. He pleaded no contest to using methamphetamine outside a motel in 2006 and was arrested in Los Angeles in 2009 for suspected battery of a former spouse.

The actor, best known for his tough-guy roles in war and action movies including Black Hawk Down, also had a turbulent private life.

He was repeatedly arrested for drug use, and was [sentenced to 16 months in jail in 2007](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2007/jun/26/news1) for possession of methamphetamine. More recently Sizemore was cast in TV shows including regular roles in Robbery Homicide Division, Dr Vegas and the Hawaii Five-0 reboot. He was then cast in a prominent role in Saving Private Ryan, as Tom Hanks’ second-in-command, dropping out of Terrence Malick’s war film The Thin Red Line to do so. Later film roles saw him appear in Black Hawk Down, Splinter and Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House. [On 28 February](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/feb/28/no-further-hope-for-tom-sizemore-after-brain-aneurysm-actors-family-says), Lago said that doctors had told the actor’s family that there was “no further hope.” Born in Detroit in 1961, Sizemore gained a reputation for tough-guy roles in war and action films in the 1990s and 2000s.

LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Tom Sizemore, a talented but troubled actor who made a career of playing tough guys, has died, his manager said Friday.

The movie received a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars and the stars, who included Tom Hanks and Matt Damon, were nominated for outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture by the Screen Actors Guild. The actor worked with some of Hollywood’s biggest names, but was perhaps best known for his role in Steven Spielberg’s 1998 World War II epic “Saving Private Ryan.” “His brother Paul and twin boys Jayden and Jagger (17) were at his side.”

Before addiction consumed Tim Sizemore's career, he was a go-to character actor known for portraying tough guys in movies such as "Heat" and "Saving Private ...

Drew in 2010, he said it was his ninth stint in treatment and described his periods of sobriety as the happiest in his life. And he He was arrested multiple times for driving under the influence, possessing drugs and for domestic violence. The past couple of years were great for him and he was getting his life back to a great place. Slowly, Sizemore worked his way into increasingly larger roles in Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, Passenger 57, True Romance and Natural Born Killers. He loved his sons and his family. [in the lowest-grossing movie of 2006](https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6741708&ft=nprml&f=6741708). Then, in Saving Private Ryan, Sizemore delivered the line that helps convince his group of fellow traumatized Army soldiers that searching for their lost comrade might be the one decent thing they do during the ugliness of World War II. "I saw that movie every week for, like, two months when it was playing in the theater," he said. "I saw it 11 weeks in a row. Sizemore had remained in a coma until his death on Friday. His courage and determination through adversity was always an inspiration to me.

The actor had suffered a brain aneurysm on Feb. 18 at his home in Los Angeles. He died in his sleep Friday at a hospital in Burbank, California, his manager ...

Sizemore told the AP in 2013 that he believed his dependency was related to the trappings of success. A stuntman sued Sizemore and Paramount Pictures in 2016, saying he was injured when the allegedly intoxicated actor ran him over while filming USA's Shooter. Sizemore was the subject of two workplace sexual harassment lawsuits related to the 2002 CBS show Robbery Homicide Division, in which he played a police detective. Fleiss called Sizemore “a zero” in a conversation with The Associated Press after his conviction. Sizemore was convicted of abusing ex-girlfriend Heidi Fleiss in 2003 — the same year he pleaded no contest and avoided trial in a separate abuse case — and sentenced to jail. The book’s title was taken from a line uttered by his character in Saving Private Ryan, a role for which he garnered Oscar buzz.

Tom Sizemore, the “Saving Private Ryan” actor whose bright 1990s star burned out under the weight of his own domestic violence and drug convictions, ...

[told the AP in 2013](https://www.postandcourier.com/features/tom-sizemore-honest-about-long-lasting-battle-with-drugs/article_f5cd0c92-282a-5ed9-a427-1cac8d2933fb.html) that he believed his dependency was related to the trappings of success. Sizemore was the subject of two workplace sexual harassment lawsuits related to the 2002 CBS show “Robbery Homicide Division,” in which he played a police detective. Fleiss called Sizemore “a zero” in a conversation with The Associated Press after his conviction. Sizemore was convicted of abusing ex-girlfriend Heidi Fleiss in 2003 — the same year he pleaded no contest and avoided trial in a separate abuse case — and sentenced to jail. He struggled to maintain his emotional composure as he described a low point looking in the mirror: “I looked like I was 100 years old. The book’s title was taken from a line uttered by his character in “Saving Private Ryan,” a role for which he garnered Oscar buzz. Fleiss had been convicted in 1994 of running a high-priced call-girl ring. “I was a guy who’d come from very little and risen to the top. Fleiss also sued Sizemore, saying she suffered emotional distress after he threatened to get her own probation revoked. While the charges were dropped, the couple divorced in 1999. Despite the raft of legal trouble, Sizemore had scores of steady film and television credits — though his career never regained its onetime momentum. He racked up a string of domestic violence arrests.

Tom Sizemore, an actor known for his work in hit films like 'Saving Private Ryan,' 'Natural Born Killers' and 'Heat,' has died, his representative Charles ...

I saw it eleven weeks in a row," Sizemore said. He had an early, small role in the 1989 Oliver Stone film "Born on the Fourth of July" and scored his television break playing Sgt. Drew" in 2010. His costarring role as Bat Masterson in Kevin Costner's western "Wyatt Earp" earned Sizemore acclaim. Battling substance abuse for years, in 2003 he was convicted of domestic abuse against former girlfriend and Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss. "I am deeply saddened by the loss of my big brother Tom," Paul Sizemore said in the statement.