Tom Sizemore

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.

(Reuters) -Tom Sizemore, an American actor known for his roles in "Saving Private Ryan" and "Black Hawk Down," has died at 61, Washington Post reported on ...

LOS ANGELES: Tom Sizemore, a talented but troubled actor who made a career of playing tough guys, but struggled to stay on the right side of the law, ...

He was talented, loving, giving and could keep you entertained endlessly with his wit and storytelling ability. I am devastated he is gone and will miss him always. “He was larger than life. His courage and determination through adversity was always an inspiration to me.” He has influenced my life more than anyone I know. In 2003 he was convicted of attacking his then-girlfriend and spent eight months in jail.

LOS ANGELES, March 4 ― Tom Sizemore, a talented but troubled actor who made a career of playing tough guys, has died, his manager said yesterday.

Sizemore's personal life was frequently troubled and he struggled with addiction and had spells in jail, including after assaulting his girlfriend. 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. “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,” a statement said.

The Black Hawk Down star's career was mired by drug problems and domestic violence convictions.

"But I can't tell you what I'd give to be the guy you didn't know anything about." And now I had absolutely nothing." According to prosecutors, Sizemore had been caught once before trying to use a similar device. "I was a guy who'd come from very little and risen to the top," Sizemore wrote in his 2013 autobiography. He was larger than life. Sizemore chose rehab.

Revisit Tom Sizemore's iconic roles, from "Heat" to "Saving Private Ryan" to "Twin Peaks." The actor died after suffering a brain aneurysm.

Photo : ©DreamWorks/courtesy Everett / Everett Collection He appeared in numerous projects per year, often boosting low-profile films with his star presence. One of the defining character actors of the 1990s, his run through the decade saw him work with several of Hollywood’s top filmmakers, including Oliver Stone, Kathryn Bigelow, Michael Mann, Martin Scorsese, Tony Scott and Steven Spielberg.

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, 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 other legal run-ins and appeared on the VH1 series “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Vinnie Ventresca in the ABC series “China Beach.” His costarring role as Bat Masterson in Kevin Costner’s western “Wyatt Earp” earned Sizemore acclaim. “I am deeply saddened by the loss of my big brother Tom,” Paul Sizemore said in the statement. This has been a difficult time for them.”

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.

After suffering a brain aneurysm last month, the troubled performer passed away on Friday.

The following year, he was a key part of Robert De Niro’s crew in Michael Mann’s immediate cops-and-robbers classic, Heat. Though his character, Technical Sergeant Mike Horvath, seemed at times to be the most indestructible, he did not survive the randomness of combat in Steven Spielberg’s film. His first major role was in 1994, in Lawrence Kasdan’s Wyatt Earp, playing the part of Bat Masterson opposite Kevin Costner. He was talented, loving, giving and could keep you entertained endlessly with his wit and storytelling ability. The 61-year-old performer, best known for his work in films like Saving Private Ryan, Heat, and Black Hawk Down, suffered a brain aneurysm [on February 18](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2023/02/tom-sizemore-in-critical-condition-following-brain-aneurysm). “I am deeply saddened by the loss of my big brother Tom,” the performer’s brother Paul Sizemore said.

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.

After news broke that Tom Sizemore died from a stroke caused by a ruptured brain aneurysm, people immediately claimed that the Hollywood star suffered a COVID- ...

[Tech ARP](https://www.techarp.com/) [Health](https://www.techarp.com/science/) Did they really expect the COVID-19 vaccine to be an elixir of immortality? Even assuming Tom Sizemore was fully-vaccinated, it is ludicrous for anti-vaccination activists to blame his ruptured aneurysm on the vaccine. They will just move on to the next celebrity tragedy… It’s a list of mostly non-specific adverse events that are monitored post-vaccination, and includes COVID-19 and other infections, as well as: The resulting haemorrhage causes brain damage, leading to coma and even death. It does not help that Tom Sizemore had a long history of substance abuse, battling drug addiction since he was just 15 years old. Despite De Niro’s help, Sizemore was arrested on January 5, 2019, for possession of “various illegal narcotics in Burbank, California. An aneurysm is on the list of 1600 possible side effects from the #vaccine. However, he showed no signs of improvement and remained in a coma. It is with great sadness and sorrow I have to announce that actor Thomas Edward Sizemore, aged 61, passed away peacefully in his sleep today at St Joseph’s Hospital Burbank.

The film industry has lost many legendary figures recently, and sadly, beloved character actor Tom Sizemore has died after suffering a critical brain aneurysm.

[the best war movies of the century](https://collider.com/best-war-movies/); the massive ensemble brings life to the various heroes who served in the U.S. Sizemore has a memorable role as a shady mob boss who is just one of the quirky clients that Bobby Dean (Will Smith) has to deal with. Every character and moment is touched with Lynch’s idiosyncratic nuances, and Sizemore’s role as the aggressive, bullying boss of FBI Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan), who's trapped within the childlike body of Dougie Jones, does a great job at evoking the audience’s sympathy for the famous lead character of the original series. [Saving Private Ryan](https://collider.com/is-saving-private-ryan-based-on-a-true-story/) is packed with so many great actors in brief roles; do you remember the scenes with Vin Diesel, Nathan Fillion, Paul Giamatti, Ted Danson, and Bryan Cranston? Sizemore is essential in increasing the film’s tension when his character Tom Wolls is paired with Pierce; Wolls’ violent behavior and unstable mental state immediately cause Pierce’s world to spiral out of his control. [Devil In A Blue Dress](https://collider.com/film-noir-to-stream-one-false-move-devil-in-a-blue-dress/) is Carl Franklin’s modernized take on the hard-boiled detective story, and it examines systematic racism as it impacts his charismatic lead detective Easy Rawlings (Denzel Washington). Sizemore’s sneering performance as the racist private investigator DeWitt Albright that blocks all of Easy’s leads shows the barriers in the system that sadly still exist. Sergeant Ron Kovic (Tom Cruise) from a strictly nationalist patriot into a fierce critic of the United States military’s involvement in the Vietnam War. Stone worked off of a brilliant screenplay from Quentin Tarantino that analyzed the impact of media sensationalism on the public’s reaction to violence; Sizemore makes these themes evident with his performance as an obsessive police detective who is just as ruthless and bloodthirsty as the serial killers he’s chasing. Sizemore was clearly a favorite of Bigelow, who cast him in several of her genre films throughout the 1990s. Between dozens of smaller titles released in the last few years and a few memorable TV appearances, Sizemore remained one of the hardest working actors in the industry. The news of Sizemore’s condition and subsequent death comes as a shock because in the last few years, he’s remained just as active as he’s always seemed to be.

Tom Sizemore, 61, died from a brain aneurysm and it will be a triple blow to Liz Hurley, 57, who has now suffered the deaths of three lovers in three years.

In his memoir, By Some Miracle I Made It Out Of There, Detroit-born Sizemore wrote: ‘I’d come from a poor background and made it big. Then I lost it all.’ In 2003 he was convicted of beating up his girlfriend, Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss, and in 2007 he spent two years in jail for breaking parole on drugs offences. He is survived by 17-year-old twin sons, Jayden and Jagger. Other film credits include Born On The Fourth Of July, True Romance and Pearl Harbor. I was in no fit state to have a real relationship. But my demons got in the way.