Actor Tom Sizemore, who suffered a brain aneurysm Feb. 18, as the result of a stroke, and had been hospitalized in critical condition, in a coma and in intensive care since then, has died Friday at age 61.
Sizemore died in his sleep at a hospital in Burbank, California, Lago said in a statement on Friday.
A native of Detroit, where his mother worked for the city’s ombudsman and his father was an attorney and philosophy professor, Sizemore attended Wayne State University and earned a graduate degree in theater from Temple University in Philadelphia.
Sizemore, who’s often played tough guy roles in a career dating back to the ’80s and who, in real life, struggled with addiction and a string of legal issues, is 61.
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Sizemore is best known for action movies and crime dramas, including Saving Private Ryan, where he played Sgt. Horvath, as well as Black Hawk Down, Passenger 57, Heat, True Romance, Natural Born Killers, Devil in a Blue Dress, The Relic and Strange Days. On TV, he played a recurring role on the third season of China Beach that aired in 1989 and 1990; co-starred in the 2017 Twin Peaks revival; and headlined the 1999 TV movie Witness Protection, for which he earned a Golden Globe nomination.
On television, Sizemore won plaudits for his starring role as a police detective in the short-lived CBS television drama “Robbery Homicide Division.” He previously had a recurring role on the ABC network’s Vietnam War drama “China Beach,” playing an enlisted man who falls for star Dana Delany’s character.
