American actor Tom Sizemore, known for his role in “Saving Private Ryan”, suffered a ruptured aneurysm on February 18, 2023. In a coma, he will not wake up according to doctors.
[Mis à jour le 28 février 2023 à 18h41] A sad epilogue to a memorable Hollywood supporting role. Tom Sizemore, best known for playing the role of Sergeant Horwath in We have to save the soldier Ryan, suffered a ruptured aneurysm on February 18 at his home in Los Angeles after suffering a heart attack. Since then, the 61-year-old American actor has been in a coma. But in a press release sent by his manager to People magazine, we learn that “there is no more hope” of recovery for the actor: “Doctors have recommended [à sa famille] to end his life”.
Also in this press release, we learn that the family of Tom Sizemore is currently considering the various options available to them, stating that a new press release will be published this Wednesday. Tom Sizemore is best known to the general public for his “tough guy” roles that he was able to interpret in many cult films of the 1990s. In his filmography, there are great classics, such as We have to save the soldier Ryan, Born Killers, Heat or Pearl Harbor.
Born on November 29, 1961 in Detroit, Thomas Edward Sizemore Jr, known as Tom Sizemore to the general public, grew up with his father, a lawyer and professor of philosophy, and his mother, a civil servant. In 1986 he graduated from Temple University, majoring in drama. After settling in New York, he began his career in the late 1980s.
Tom Sizemore’s filmography is made up of great Hollywood classics. He first started on television in 1988 in the series China Beachbefore landing his first role on the big screen the following year in High security against Sylvester Stallone. We also see him in the role of a veteran in Born on July 4 by Oliver Stone. It is especially in the roles of “tough guy” that he made a name and a face in Hollywood: he embodies soldiers (Saving Private Ryan, Pearl Harbor, Black Hawk Down), police officers (Point Break) or crooks (Heat, Blue Steel). After a slump at the end of the 2000s, we find him in 2017 in the mini-series Twin Peaks by David Lynch.
Tom Sizemore also makes a notable appearance in the film Heat by Michael Mann, in which he plays the role not only of Robert De Niro, but also of Al Pacino and Val Kilmer. He plays one of Neil McCauley’s (De Niro) accomplices, the mobster Michael Cheritto. Originally, this character was to be played by Michael Madsen, before the role finally returned to him.
If Tom Hanks (Captain Miller) and Matt Damon (2nd Class Ryan) star mainly in Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster We have to save the soldier Ryan, Tom Sizemore also plays an important role in the script, that of Sergeant Horwath, the loyal right-hand man of the character played by Tom Hanks. He assists Captain Miller throughout the film, from the beaches of Omaha Beach to Ramelle’s bee’s nest where he tries to defend a bridge while protecting Private Ryan. The character of Tom Sizemore loses his life there, a few minutes before his captain.
Trouble with the law
Lately, Tom Sizemore made more headlines for his legal troubles. He was notably arrested during the 2000s on several occasions for possession of drugs and suffers from addiction. He declared in 2012 to be sober. He was also charged with domestic violence.