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US actor Tom Sizemore, known for roles in Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down, has died at 61, his manager says.<\/p>\n
Sizemore found fame in the 1990s, often playing supporting roles as tough guys \u2013 usually military, police or criminal. His other credits included Natural Born Killers, Pearl Harbor and Heat.<\/p>\n
But he also had drug problems and served jail time for domestic violence.<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
Sizemore had been in a coma since suffering a ruptured brain aneurysm on 18 February.<\/p>\n
His manager, Charles Lago, said he died on Friday at a hospital in Burbank, California, with his brother Paul and twin boys Jayden and Jagger, 17, at his side.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Sizemore family has been comforted by the hundreds of messages of support,\u201d Lago said.<\/p>\n
He said Sizemore\u2019s sons were devastated, and asked that their privacy be respected.<\/p>\n
His brother, Paul Sizemore, said: \u201cI am deeply saddened by the loss of my big brother Tom. He was larger than life. He has influenced my life more than anyone I know.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was talented, loving, giving and could keep you entertained endlessly with his wit and storytelling ability.\u201d<\/p>\nSizemore (front left) and Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Born in a working class area of Detroit, Sizemore obtained a masters degree in theatre before his Hollywood break arrived with a bit part in Oliver Stone\u2019s Born on the Fourth of July in 1989.<\/p>\n
That work led to bigger roles in 1990s dramas such as Tony Scott\u2019s True Romance, Devil in a Blue Dress, opposite Denzel Washington, and the biopic Wyatt Earp, alongside Kevin Costner.<\/p>\n
Stone cast him again in the controversial Natural Born Killers as the violent Detective Jack Scagnetti; and he played a henchman to Robert De Niro\u2019s criminal in Heat.<\/p>\n
In the Oscar-winning film Saving Private Ryan in 1998, he was at Tom Hanks\u2019 side as the loyal Sergeant Horvath.<\/p>\nDirector Steven Spielberg reportedly threatened to fire Sizemore from Saving Private Ryan if he used drugs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Sizemore was nominated for a Golden Globe for playing a mobster in the 1999 TV movie Witness Protection, and provided the voice of mafia boss Sonny Forelli in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City in 2002.<\/p>\n
With fame and money came a heavy drug habit, and he wrote in his autobiography about addictions to heroin and crystal meth.<\/p>\n
He recounted how De Niro pushed him into one of his stints in rehab in 1995, telling Sizemore he would have him \u201carrested for heroin possession\u201d if he didn\u2019t go into a treatment centre. Sizemore chose rehab.<\/p>\n
When Saving Private Ryan came along, director Steven Spielberg reportedly threatened to fire the actor at the first sign of drug use and reshoot the film without him.<\/p>\nSizemore, Benjamin Bratt and Julia Roberts at the premiere of Red Planet in 2000<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
But Sizemore struggled to stay clean. And there were other \u201cpersonal demons\u201d.<\/p>\n
In 1997, he was arrested on suspicion of assaulting his wife, actress and tennis player Maeve Quinlan. They divorced two years later.<\/p>\n
In 2003, he was sentenced to six months in prison\u00a0for beating up his girlfriend, the former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss, and was ordered to complete more rehab and anger management.<\/p>\n
Ms Fleiss testified that he had also stubbed a cigarette out on her, knocked her to the ground outside his home, and made more than 70 obscenity-laced phone calls.<\/p>\n
He said at the time that he had \u201cpermitted my personal demons to take over my life\u201d.<\/p>\nSizemore with Brad Pitt at the premiere of the 2006 film Babel <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
In 2005, he went back to jail for violating his probation by failing a drug test, after being caught trying to use a prosthetic penis to fake the results. According to prosecutors, Sizemore had been caught once before trying to use a similar device.<\/p>\n
Two years later, he was sentenced to 16 months for violating the terms of his probation, and was also arrested for driving under the influence.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was a guy who\u2019d come from very little and risen to the top,\u201d Sizemore wrote in his 2013 autobiography.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d had the multimillion-dollar house, the Porsche, the restaurant I partially owned with Robert De Niro. And now I had absolutely nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve led an interesting life,\u201d he wrote. \u201cBut I can\u2019t tell you what I\u2019d give to be the guy you didn\u2019t know anything about.\u201d<\/p>\n
A 2007 documentary series, Shooting Sizemore, chronicled his efforts to reclaim his life and career.<\/p>\n
While he never regained the roles of the \u201990s, in recent years he made a guest appearance in the Netflix hit Cobra Kai and had a recurring role in the 2017 revi of David Lynch\u2019s cult TV show Twin Peaks.<\/p>\n
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US actor Tom Sizemore, known for roles in Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down, has died at 61, his manager says. Sizemore found fame in the 1990s, often playing supporting roles as tough guys \u2013 usually military, police or criminal. His other credits included Natural Born Killers, Pearl Harbor and Heat. But he also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"\n
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