Severe aneurysm killed actor Tom Sizemore; The star underwent a toxicological test with Spielberg…

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The actor suffered a brain aneurysm in February and was disconnected from the device that helped him breathe on Friday

By Ysac Freitas

04/03/2023 19:06 BRT

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Saving Private Ryan star Tom Sizemore has died Friday at the age of 61. He had been in the hospital since February 18 when he suffered an aneurysm. The information comes from the newspaper The Guardian and the website TMZ. A few days earlier, doctors concluded that, according to his agent Charles Lago, nothing more could be done for him.

“It is with great sadness that I announce that actor Thomas Edward Sizemore (Tom Sizemore), 61, passed away peacefully in his sleep today at St Joseph’s Hospital Burbank. His brother Paul and twins Jayden and Jagger, 17, were by his side .”, his agent said in the statement. Born in Detroit in 1961, Sizemore worked as an actor in New York in the 1980s and had his breakthrough role in Oliver Stone’s Born on the 4th of July (1989).

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Sizemore has worked with some of Hollywood’s biggest stars, but his most memorable role was as an American soldier during World War II in the 1998 film Saving Private Ryan, directed by Steven Spielberg. Tom, who has played drug addicts, sex offenders and murderers, has a life sentence that includes charges of drug sales and assaulting women.

While filming the film, director Steven Spielberg knew Sizemore was struggling with addiction when he cast it and made daily drug testing mandatory, warning Sizemore that he would reshoot each of his 58 days if he was on the last day the job with a new actor would test positive. Despite his personal problems, he continued to work and appeared in television series such as “Hawaii 5.0” and “Law & Order”.