Tom Sizemore, the “Saving Private Ryan” star who built a long Hollywood career amid drug addiction struggles and run-ins with law enforcement, has died. He was 61.
The legendary actor passed away on February 18 at his home in Los Angeles following a brain aneurysm, his manager confirmed.
Sizemore “passed away peacefully in his sleep today at St. Joseph’s Hospital Burbank. Her brother Paul and twin boys Jaden and Jagger were with her,” Charles Lago told Page Six.
News of Sizemore’s death comes after Lagos revealed on Monday that his medical care was at a critical juncture.
“Today, doctors informed his family that there is no further hope and they have recommended an end-of-life decision,” Lago said in a statement obtained by the Post. He added that Sizemore’s family was “making end-of-life decisions.”
the star Fought for his life At Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California, an unidentified man found Sizemore unconscious and called 911, according to reports at the time.
Born on November 29, 1961 in Detroit, Sizemore Studied at Wayne State University and received his master’s degree in theater from Temple University in 1986.
Played a veteran in Oliver Stone’s Born on the Fourth of July, released in 1989. He later starred in several other projects, including “Lock Up,” “Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man,” “Point Break,” “True Romance,” “Natural Born Killers” and “Strange Days.”
Sizemore’s career-defining role came in the 1998 blockbuster “Saving Private Ryan,” in which he played Sgt. Mike Horvath.
“I had a great time working with Tom Hanks — we were like ‘good Tom’ and ‘bad Tom,’ and you could guess who was who,” Sizemore said in his 2013 memoir, “Saving Private Ryan.” Wrote about, “By some miracle I made it out of there.”
“The real purpose of my character in the film was to keep Hanks’ character alive and make sure the other men don’t see that he’s falling apart. At the end of the shoot, Tom wrote me a beautiful note about how he would never forget making the film with me.”
“Saving Private Ryan” won five Oscars, including Best Director for Steven Spielberg.
Sizemore’s other notable films include “Pearl Harbor” and “Heat.” She also appeared in six episodes of the TV series “Twin Peaks” in 2017, and voiced Sonny Forelli in the 2002 video game “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City”.
One of his last films was “The Legend of Jack and Diane” in 2022. He is connected Also for projects due in 2023 and 2024.
The struggling actor struggled publicly with cocaineGot addicted to heroin and methamphetamine and got into legal trouble For possession of drugs And Domestic abuse. He appeared on “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew” in 2010.
While promoting her memoir, Sizemore claimed that her “Heat” co-star Robert DeNiro asked her to check into rehab after filming wrapped on the 1995 film.
“I went in to see my shrink, and I went in, and there were all these people … and I sat down and Bob came in and went, ‘Okay. Okay, now we can talk. .. Now listen to me, I’m not a psychiatrist … but you’re either going to rehab or going to jail and walking into a cop,'” Sizemore told Access Hollywood About his family-led intervention.
“I was trying to make a joke of it because all these guys are there and I’m embarrassed, and he goes, ‘Tom, I’m not playing. They’ll put you in jail for a year,’ ” he added.
“I did the last scene of ‘Heat,’ and I was supposed to go to rehab right then, but I had my assistant drive my car … and I dove into the back seat of the moving vehicle with my prosthetics and I Drove to Loews Hotel and I checked in under the names Amil Gooch and Bob [DeNiro] Finally found me there, and when I realized he was coming at me, I closed the balcony,” Sizemore explained.
Sizemore was married to “The Bold and the Beautiful” actress Maeve Quinlan from 1996 to 1999. After a violent argument at their home in 1997, Quinlan called the police. He later withdrew the charges and reduced the incident to one. “Big misunderstanding.”
Sizemore’s scandalous reputation remained. In 2003, he was convicted of domestic violence against his then-girlfriend, Heidi Fleiss. The “Hollywood Madam” had nothing to say about her former beau in a 2017 interview. With USA Today.
“He would bring home these strange things. They were very mean,” Fleiss told the outlet of Sizemore’s alleged porn preferences.
“No one in Hollywood would have more sordid stories,” he added. “I’ve dealt with a lot of people doing a lot of different things. It’s different with Tom. He is completely second level. “
Sizemore dated Jenelle McIntyre from 2003 to 2006. McIntyre gave birth to the couple’s twin boys, Jagger and Jayden Sizemore, in July 2005.
Months later, a sex tape titled “The Tom Sizemore Sex Scandal” was released, which allegedly featured the actor in hardcore scenes with three women at once, the distributor Vivid entertainment claimed at the time. Sizemore allegedly alleged in the video that he had an affair with Paris Hilton, who He refused.
Sizemore pleaded no contest to using methamphetamine outside a California motel in 2006 and was sentenced to 36 months of probation.
In 2009, he was arrested twice in LA for suspected battery of an ex-spouse and for allegedly transporting or selling a controlled substance. Los Angeles Times.
He then Pleaded no contest In February 2017 — on two domestic violence charges for assaulting his girlfriend — a deal that spared him more jail time —
That November, the former child actress Kirsten Pike is accused of The Hollywood Reporter that Sizemore molested her on the set of “Natural Born Killers” in 2003 when she was just 11 years old. He was briefly kicked off the set due to the allegations but was allowed to complete the project.
The actress filed a lawsuit against Sizemore in May 2018 seeking $3 million, claiming that his alleged abuse caused chronic emotional problems. His publicist denied the allegations, and a Utah judge dismissed the lawsuit in August 2020.
“Beyond the loss of work and the pain and humiliation this has caused me and my family, the thought that an 11-year-old girl would think I violated her, even if it was because she accidentally touched someone wrong. understood when the director put him in. My lap for a photo shoot or whatever malicious, self-serving reasons put the idea in his head is what destroys me the most,” Sizemore said in a statement. America today.
According to his IMDB profile, Sizemore was still attached to dozens of projects in production or post-production this year.
His final completed works include the upcoming sixth season of the television series “Cobra Kai” and an episode of the 2023 disaster film “Bermuda Island.”
