American actor Tom Sizemore, famous for his role in the movie "Saving Private Ryan", died on Friday at St. Joseph's Hospital in Burbank, California, at the age of 61, according to the American "CBC" network.
And this star had suffered on February 18, an aneurysm in the blood vessels of the brain, and his resuscitation equipment was removed from him, yesterday, after the doctors concluded that any medical intervention was no longer useful in his condition, according to his manager, Charles Lago.
Born November 29, 1961 in Detroit, Michigan, Sizemore studied theater at Wayne State University.
He married once, actress Maeve Quinlan, in 1996, and was arrested on suspicion of beating her in 1997. The charges were later dropped, and the couple separated in 1999.
He rose to fame since appearing in Natural Born Killers and the classic crime thriller Heat, but his drug addiction ruined his career, left him homeless, and sent him to prison numerous times.
In 2003, Sizemore was convicted of abusing his ex-girlfriend Heidi Fleiss and imprisoned. In late 2017, he was also accused of molesting an 11-year-old girl, which he denied, describing the allegations as "very disturbing".
On January 5, 2019, Sizemore was arrested on drug possession charges.
Sizemore participated in dozens of cinematic and television works, most notably "Black Hawk Down" and "Pearl Harbor" produced in 2001, and "Saving Private Ryan", in which he embodied the character of an American soldier during the war. The second world.
He also participated in the 1989 Vietnam War film Born on the Fourth of July, which was directed by Oliver Stone.
In his 2013 memoirs, Sizemore wrote, "I had a multimillion-dollar house, a Porsche, a restaurant that I owned with my partner Robert De Niro. Now I have absolutely nothing left... Success has turned me into a spoiled movie star, an arrogant idiot, and ultimately a death wisher."