American Actor, Tom Sizemore Dies Aged 61

American actor, Tom Sizemore, best known for appearances in ‘Saving Private Ryan’ and ‘The Relic‘, has lost his life at the age of 61, his manager confirmed in a statement.

“It is with great sadness and sorrow I have to announce that actor Thomas Edward Sizemore … passed away peacefully in his sleep today at St Joseph’s Hospital Burbank. His Brother Paul and twin boys Jayden and Jagger (17) were at his side,” Sizemore’s representative, Charles Lago said.

Sizemore has been in a coma in the intensive care unit of Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Los Angeles after suffering a brain aneurysm on 18 February.

On 28 February, Lago made it known that the doctors had told the actor’s family that there was “no further hope.”

At the time, Lago said: “Today doctors informed his family that there is no further hope and have recommended an end-of-life decision. The family is now deciding end-of-life matters.”

Born in Detroit in 1961, Sizemore gained a reputation for tough-guy roles in war and action films in the 1990s and 2000s. He had small roles as law enforcement types in Point Break and True Romance, and bigger roles as a detective in the ultraviolent thriller Natural Born Killers and a member of a heist crew in Heat.

Sizemore’s first lead role was as another cop: the detective in the horror film The Relic, in which a vicious monster goes on a killing spree in a museum. He was then cast in a prominent role in Saving Private Ryan, as Tom Hanks’ second-in-command, dropping out of Terrence Malick’s war film The Thin Red Line to do so.

Later film roles saw him appear in Black Hawk Down, Splinter, and Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House. More recently Sizemore was cast in TV shows including regular roles in Robbery Homicide Division, Dr. Vegas, and the Hawaii Five-0 reboot. In 2017 he appeared as insurance agent Anthony Sinclair in the third series of Twin Peaks.