American actor Tom Sizemore, known for his roles in films Heat – City under Pressure and Saving Private Ryandied on Friday after spending weeks in hospital following a brain aneurysm.
The news was confirmed by the actor’s spokesperson to the CNN news channel.
Sizemore’s family had released a statement this week announcing that they had to decide “issues related to the end of life” of the actor, already after doctors recognized that there was nothing to be done about his state of health.
The 61-year-old actor, originally from Detroit, reached the peak of his professional career in the 1990s and 2000s, in films born killers (Natural Born Killers), Strange Pleasures It is pearl harbor. However, he gained notoriety when playing Mike Horvath in the World War II film about the rescue of Private Ryan.
Sizemore struggled, for a long time, with drug addiction and, throughout his career, he faced a series of legal problems, having been convicted, in 2003, of domestic violence against his ex-fiancée, Heidi Fleiss.