Actor Tom Sizemore, known both for his battle with drug addiction and trouble with the law, as well as for his tough-guy roles in movies like “Saving Private Ryan” and “Black Hawk Down,” died on Friday. vicar Charles Lake
Sizemore, who was hospitalized in critical condition after suffering a brain aneurysm on February 18 in his sleep at a hospital in Burbank, California, Lago said on Friday.
Originally from Detroit, where his mother worked for the city ombudsman and his father was a lawyer, he attended Wayne Sizemore State University and received a BA in theater from Temple University in Philadelphia.
An aspiring ace in New York, where he waited tables and acted in sports, Sizemore got his first break when director Oliver Stone cast him in a small role as a veteran in the 1989 antiwar film “Born on the 4th of July.”
Other supporting roles followed in the early 1990s, leading to a series of high-profile jobs in hard-hitting films such as Naturally Kills (1994).
He also played notable supporting roles such as the Gunslinger Bat Masterson in Kevin Costner’s western “Wyatt Earp” (1994), the violent sidekick to Robert De Niro in the film “Heat” (1995) and a paramedic with a messianic complex in Martin. Scorsese’s psychodrama “Raising the Dead” (1999).
The star’s first big role in the 1997 thriller “Relic” again in the role of a police detective. In 2000, he was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Service or Motion Picture Made for Television for his role as a public information officer in “witness protection”.
However, he is best remembered for his tough fight with military men in two films: “Salva Private Ryan,” the 1998 World War II epic directed by Steven Spielberg, and “Black Hawk Down,” Ridley Scott’s 2001 picture of the ill-fated US Army raid in Mogadishu. Somalia in 1993.
Although all of Amplitude’s career has been overshadowed by personal problems arising from known addictions, which led to his own and from prison and sustaining innovative treatments, and his relationship with Heidi Fleiss, Hollywood’s old madam.
In 2003, he was sentenced to six months in prison for domestic violence against Fleiss during their whirlwind romance.
Fleiss, who had been in prison for running a prostitution ring for Hollywood’s rich and famous in the 1990s, testified that Sizemore threw a cigarette at her and immediately knocked her to the ground outside her home.
More, who denied the crime and did not testify in his trial, said in a letter to the judge that “I allowed my soul to take personal demons.” Therefore, the actor, 41, also said that “I would have been convinced that if I did not have drugs, I would control my behavior.”
Another conviction for possession of methamphetamine landed him in rehab.
In 2005, he was jailed for violating the terms of his probation for domestic abuse and methamphetamine, failing a urinalysis in which he was found to be using a penis prosthesis, called the Whizzinator, to falsify the results.
Sizemore’s probation was reinstated after he was admitted to a psychiatric hospital for treatment of chronic depression and drug addiction that the plaintiff had suffered from for years.
The defendant was arrested on suspicion of domestic abuse in 2016 and the following year in California pleaded guilty to the equivalent of the law, and was sentenced to three years of probation.
The extent of his tumultuous life was recounted in a 2013 commentary: “By some miracle I was raised from there.” (NA)
