The death of actor Tom Sizemore, who suffered a brain aneurysm on February 18, and died this Friday at the age of 61,
shocked Hollywood.
Remembered
for his role in the film
Saving Private Ryan
(1998) and in
"Fire Against Fire" -
starring Al Pacino and Robert Deniro - Sizemore's career faded amid conflicts over
gender violence and drugs
.
Hours after the confirmation of his death, the United States media dusted off the file and went in search of what was the
last known public photo
of Sizemore.
The last public photo of Tom Sizemore before his death, on January 20, at the premiere of the film "Bermuda Island" at the Fine Arts Theater in Beverly Hills.
The actor was photographed on January 20 at the Fine Arts Theater in Beverly Hills, during
the premiere of
"Bermuda Island",
a film in which he worked with John Wells and Sarah French.
In that photo, published by the New York Post, he was with Randy Davison, Doug Lito, Paola Paulin and Mark Anthony Cox.
Sizemore wore a barely-buttoned plaid shirt over a light blue T-shirt, a gray jacket,
faded jeans,
a dark hat and a long red chain with a dangling cross.
Actor Randy Davison fired Tom Sizemore with a post on his social media.
But what caught the most attention was the appearance of his face, emaciated, as if
gone from the situation
in which he was being photographed.
The death of Tom Sizemore
According to his representative, Charles Lago, Sizemore died while he was hospitalized in a coma under intensive care in a hospital in the city of
Burbank, in Los Angeles, California,
United States.
Last Monday, Lago had released an official statement stating that "the doctors informed his family that
there is no more hope
and recommended the decision to
end his life
."
On February 18, Sizemore collapsed at his Los Angeles home, and paramedics transported him to the hospital.
There, doctors determined that he had suffered a
brain aneurysm
as a result of a
stroke
.
Tom Sizemore had domestic violence and drug problems.
Reuters Photo
Known for playing the tough guy, Sizemore rose to fame in the 1990s with movies like
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, Passenger 57, True Romance,
and
Naturally Killer
.
Sizemore got his big break in Steven Spielberg
's 1998 war film
Saving Private Ryan, in which he played tech sergeant Mike Horvath.
Saving Private Ryan
earned a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars.
Throughout his career, Tom Sizemore has worked with such directors as Michael Mann, Martin Scorsese, Peter Hyams, Carl Franklin, Oliver Stone, Ridley Scott, and Michael Bay.
Tom Sizemore starred in Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan."
Photo EFE
He was
nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 2000
for his role in the miniseries
Witness Protection
and has appeared as a supporting role in episodes of the television series
Twin Peaks and Cobra Kai
.
In his career, he cannot stop going through his filmography without highlighting
Bringing Out the Dead
(Limited Lives), the (usually forgotten) Martin Scorsese film from 1999, starring Nicolas Cage.
Tom Sizemore, a violent and drug past
Sizemore is also a convicted abuser.
In 2003,
he was convicted of domestic violence against his girlfriend
at the time, and in 2017, Sizemore pleaded no contest to two domestic violence charges after being arrested a few months earlier on suspicion of assaulting his partner.
Tom Sizemore had domestic violence and drug problems.
AP photo.
In 2005, Sizemore
was sentenced to several months in prison
after he was caught trying to fake a urine test.
In 2007 he was arrested for possession of methamphetamine, and in 2019 he was arrested for possession of "various illegal narcotics."
Sizemore has gone public with his
fight against substance abuse
, appearing on television shows like
Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew
and
Dr. Phil
to discuss his legal problems.
“
I was a person who came from the bottom and reached the top
.
I had a million dollar house, the Porsche, the restaurant that I co-owned with Robert De Niro.
And
now I have absolutely nothing
,” he wrote in his 2013 memoir “
By Some Miracle I Made It Out of There
.”
With information from AP and New York Post.
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