The American actor Tom Sizemore, one of the protagonists of ‘Saving Private Ryan’, has died in a hospital in Burbank, California, after suffering a brain aneurysm in February, as reported to the media by his representative, Charles Lago.

The 61-year-old actor, born in Detroit (Michigan), was part of the cast of several successful films, some of them related to the world of crime or war between the 1990s and the early 21st century. Among them is, in addition to ‘Saving Private Ryan’ along with Oscar winner Tom Hanks, ‘Heat’, ‘Natural Born Killers’ (‘Natural Born Killers’), ‘Pearl Harbor’, ‘The Relic’ and ‘Black Hawk Down’ (‘Black Hawk shot down’).

The actor used to play tough guys and maybe His best known role was that of Sergeant Mike Horvath in ‘Saving Private Ryan’, a war movie about World War II. Furthermore, it was nominated for a Golden Globe 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’.

The actor, who has been involved in numerous controversies and came to confess his addiction to drugs on television, was sentenced in 2003 for assaulting his ex-partner Heidi Fleiss, while in 2009 he was also accused of having mistreated his girlfriend. In an interview with ‘Fox News’ in 2021, Sizemore shared his intentions to get sober: “I’ve been trying to get sober since 1991… I have a problem since a long time. She had periods, long periods, of sobriety and ended up relapsing,” he explained then.