Tom Sizemore, ‘Saving Private Ryan’ actor, dies

American actor Tom Sizemore, one of the protagonists “Saving Private Ryan” (Saving Private Ryan”), died on Friday.

He died at a Burbank hospital in California after suffering a brain aneurysm in February, his representative Charles Lago told the media.

The 61-year-old actor, born in Detroit (Michigan), was part of the cast of several successful films, some of which are related to the world of crime or war between the nineties and the beginning of the 21st century.

Among them is, beside “Saving Private Ryan” along with Oscar winner Tom Hanks, “Heat,” “Natural Born Killers,” “Pearl Harbor,” “The Relic” and “Black Hawk Down.”

The actor played tough guys, and perhaps his most famous role was that of Sergeant Mike Horvath in Saving Private Ryan. war movie about the Second World War.

He was nominated for a Golden Globe in 2000 for his role in the miniseries “Witness Protection” and appeared as a supporting role in episodes of the television series “Twin Peaks” and “Cobra Kai”.

The actor, who is embroiled in numerous controversies and has come to admit his drug addiction on television, was convicted in 2003 of assaulting his ex-partner Heidi Fleiss, while in 2009 he was also accused of harassing his girlfriend.

In 2005, he became the father of twins, but his career fell apart when a video of him having sex with several women emerged: the ‘Tom Sizemore Sex Scandal’. The actor claimed that he had sex with Paris Hilton, which she denied.

In an interview with On Fox News in 2021, Sizemore shared his intentions to get sober: “I’ve been trying to get sober since 1991.… I have a problem for a long time. He had periods, long periods of sobriety and eventually relapsed,” he explained at the time.

Because of these problems, he lived in a car for two years and “squatted” in a house without electricity and water.