Tom Sizemore: Saving Private Ryan actor dies at 61 after brain aneurysm

US histrion Tom Sizemore, known for roles successful Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down, has died astatine 61, his manager says.

Sizemore recovered fame successful the 1990s, often playing supporting roles arsenic pugnacious guys - usually military, constabulary oregon criminal. His different credits included Natural Born Killers, Pearl Harbor and Heat.

But helium besides had cause problems and served jailhouse clip for home violence.

Sizemore had been successful a coma since suffering a ruptured encephalon aneurysm connected 18 February.

His manager, Charles Lago, said helium died connected Friday astatine a infirmary successful Burbank, California, with his member Paul and duplicate boys Jayden and Jagger, 17, astatine his side.

"The Sizemore household has been comforted by the hundreds of messages of support," Lago said, adding that they wanted "privacy during this hard time".

He said Sizemore's sons were devastated by the nonaccomplishment of their father.

Born successful a moving people country of Detroit, Sizemore obtained a masters grade successful theatre earlier his Hollywood interruption arrived with a spot portion successful Oliver Stone's Born connected the Fourth of July successful 1989.

That enactment led to bigger roles successful 1990s dramas specified arsenic Ridley Scott's True Romance, Devil successful a Blue Dress, other Denzel Washington, and the biopic Wyatt Earp, alongside Kevin Costner.

Stone formed him again successful the arguable Natural Born Killers arsenic the convulsive Detective Jack Scagnetti; and helium played a henchman to Robert De Niro's transgression successful Heat.

In the Oscar-winning movie Saving Private Ryan successful 1998, helium was astatine Tom Hanks' broadside arsenic the loyal Sergeant Horvath.

Sizemore was nominated for a Golden Globe for playing a mobster successful the 1999 TV movie Witness Protection, and provided the dependable of mafia brag Sonny Forelli successful Grand Theft Auto: Vice City successful 2002.

With fame and wealth came a dense cause habit, and helium wrote successful his autobiography astir addictions to heroin and crystal meth.

He recounted however De Niro pushed him into 1 of his stints successful rehab successful 1995, telling Sizemore helium would person him "arrested for heroin possession" if helium didn't spell into a attraction centre. Sizemore chose rehab.

When Saving Private Ryan came along, manager Steven Spielberg reportedly threatened to occurrence the histrion astatine the archetypal motion of cause usage and reshoot the movie without him.

But Sizemore struggled to enactment clean. And determination were different "personal demons".

In 1997, helium was arrested connected suspicion of assaulting his wife, histrion and tennis subordinate Maeve Quinlan. They divorced 2 years later.

Ms Fleiss testified that helium had besides stubbed a cigaret retired connected her, knocked her to the crushed extracurricular his home, and made much than 70 obscenity-laced telephone calls.

He said astatine the clip that helium had "permitted my idiosyncratic demons to instrumentality implicit my life".

In 2005, helium went backmost to jailhouse for violating his probation by failing a cause test, aft being caught trying to usage a prosthetic penis to fake the results. According to prosecutors, Sizemore had been caught erstwhile earlier trying to usage a akin device.

Two years later, helium was sentenced to 16 months for violating the presumption of his probation, and was besides arrested for driving nether the influence.

"I was a feline who'd travel from precise small and risen to the top," Sizemore wrote successful his 2013 autobiography.

"I'd had the multimillion-dollar house, the Porsche, the edifice I partially owned with Robert De Niro. And present I had perfectly nothing."

"I've led an absorbing life," helium wrote. "But I can't archer you what I'd springiness to beryllium the feline you didn't cognize thing about."

A 2007 documentary series, Shooting Sizemore, chronicled his efforts to reclaim his beingness and career.

While helium ne'er regained the roles of the '90s, successful caller years helium made a impermanent quality successful the Netflix deed Cobra Kai and had a recurring relation successful the 2017 revival of David Lynch's cult TV amusement Twin Peaks.