61-year-old Saving Private Ryan, The Relic, and Heat actor Tom Sizemore has died. The actor passed on Friday at a hospital in Burbank. He had been in a coma since suffering a stroke and brain aneurysm on February 18th.
His manager Charles Lago confirmed that Sizemore passed away peacefully in his sleep at St Joseph’s Hospital. His brother Paul and twin boys Jayden and Jagger were at his side.
Sizemore’s early roles included Oliver Stone’s Born on the Fourth of July (1989). Stallone’s Lock Up (1989), Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991), Point Break (1991), True Romance (1993), and Natural Born Killers (1994).
Alongside working with Lawrence Kasdan on Wyatt Earp and Dreamcatcher, he would work with Kathryn Bigelow on Blue Steel and Point Break, and Strange Days.
In fact, he has worked with a roster of great directors. Ridley Scott (Black Hawk Down), Martin Scorsese (Bringing Out the Dead) Peter Hyams (The Relic), John Milius (Flight of the Intruder), and Carl Franklin (Devil in a Blue Dress) as well as Spielberg.
Other credits include Pearl Harbor, Passenger 57, Red Planet, Play It to the Bone, Striking Distance, and Get Carter.
On television, he received a Golden Globe nomination for Witness Protection. He appeared in Crash, Dr. Vegas, and China Beach, as well as the 2017 revival of David Lynch’s cult classic Twin Peaks.
His final role was already filmed. He will appear as a character called JT Taggart in the final season of Cobra Kai on Netflix.
Sizemore had always been open about his personal struggles with substance abuse in the past. These led to charges of domestic violence and abuse allegations.
Sizemore was born on November 29, 1961, in Detroit, Michigan. His mother, Judith (née Schannault), was a member of the city of Detroit ombudsman staff, and his father, Thomas Edward Sizemore Sr., was a lawyer and philosophy professor. He was raised Roman Catholic.
Sizemore has stated that his maternal grandfather was of French and Native American ancestry, and also that his grandfather was African-American.
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