‘Heat’ and ‘Saving Private Ryan’ actor Tom Sizemore dies

‘Heat’ and ‘Saving Private Ryan’ actor Tom Sizemore dies

Disappearance of Tom Sizemore

Born November 29, 1961 in Detroit, Thomas Edward Sizemore Jr. began his film career in the cinema High security in 1989. The same year he appeared in Born on the 4th of July by Oliver Stone. From there, he becomes a valuable supporting role, comfortable embodying the characters largely limit. After his role as a DEA agent in Breaking point by Kathryn Bigelow, bursts onto the screen true romance by Tony Scott and in born killers by Oliver Stone. Tom Sizemore has an eerie presence to him, easily threatening but often contradicted a penetrating and touching gaze.

We have to save Private Ryan
Saving Private Ryan ©Paramount Pictures

Tom Sizemore reached his peak popularity starting in the mid-1990s, chaining performances with major directors. That’s it Michael Cherritosidekick of Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) in Heat by Michael Mann in 1995. Three years later, he played the role of Sgt Mike Horvat In We have to save Private Ryan by Steven Spielberg, faithful comrade in arms of Captain John H. Miller (Tom Hanks). In 1999 he was inside To the open grave by Martin Scorsese, before joining the cast of the following year Pearl Harbor by Michael Bay. In 2001 he delivered the uniforms for the battle of Mogadishu to The Fall of the Black Falcon by Ridley Scott.

A brilliant cycle for Tom Sizemore which especially earned him a nomination at the 2000 Golden Globes for her performance in the HBO TV movie Witness protectionbut unfortunately leaves room for aa long crossing of the desert. Addictions, domestic violence, multiple convictions… During the 2000s, his private life was much more chronicled than his appearances on the DTV circuit and a string of critical and commercial failures.

A career destroyed by drugs and violence

A drug addict since the age of 15, Tom Sizemore’s addictions took a toll on his professional career. It is known that Steven Spielberg, on the set ofWe have to save Private Ryan, forced a daily drug test on him, threatening to fire him and turn everything around without him if he failed the tests. While he managed to stay sober during this shoot, he hasn’t stopped diving since, despite the interventions of his colleagues and friends Robert Downey Jr. and Robert De Niro. It is for all the years 2000 and 2010 arrested and convicted several times for possession and use of drugs.

His relationships with women were also where abuse and scandals, especially his relationship with Heidi Fleiss, a famous 90s pimp nicknamed “Hollywood Madam”. He filed a complaint against Tom Sizemore, which he was convicted in 2003 for domestic violence but avoided jail time, having pleaded guilty. In 2016, he was arrested and charged with Domestic violence about his girlfriend at the time. In 2018 he was accused of sexually assaulting a young actress, then 11 years old, allegedly on the set of Born killers in 2003. The charges against the actor were eventually dropped.

At the end of a career that will therefore have gone from light to dark, the actor collapsed February 18, 2023 at her home in Los Angeles, the victim of a ruptured brain aneurysm. Plunged into a coma and with no hope of recovery, his family made the decision to suspend treatment. He died on Friday March 3, 2023.

Source: Cine Serie

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