Tom Sizemore died at the age of 61

Tom Sizemore: “The End of Life Matters” following an update from doctors and a confirmation from CNN that “End of life matters”

The family of actor Tom Sizemore is currently “deciding end of life matters” following an update from doctors, according to a statement CNN received Monday evening from Sizemore’s manager Charles Lago.

“Today, doctors informed his family that there is no further hope and have recommended end of life decision. The family is now deciding end of life matters and a further statement will be issued on Wednesday,” the statement said.

In order to give the family a bit of privacy, they want to thank everyone for their messages of support and prayers. This has been a difficult time for them.”

Sizemore was admitted to the intensive care unit of a hospital after he had a brain aneurysm. Since that day, Tom has been in critical condition in the intensive care unit.

The small but important role that Sizemore was given in Oliver Stone’s 1989 film ” Born on the Fourth of July” was the start of his television career. Vinnie Ventresca around the same time, in the ABC series “China Beach.”

He played a baddie in a lot of the hit crime and war movies of the 90s and 2000s.

Sizemore played the roles of The Relic, True Romance, and Bringing Out the Dead, with Nicolas Cage playing the lead.

The actor nabbed a Golden Globe nomination in 2000 for best performance by an actor in a miniseries or motion picture made for television for his role in “Witness Protection.”

Battling substance abuse for years, in 2003 he was convicted of domestic abuse against former girlfriend and Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss. He had other legal run-ins and appeared on the VH1 series “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew” in 2010.

A Conversation With Paul Sizemore About His Role in Saving Private Ryan during World War II, and When he’s Solved to the Era of War

He backed up Robert De Niro in Heat as he replaced Harvey Keitel in Devil in a Blue Dress. In Saving Private Ryan, Sizemore’s line helped convince a group of Army soldiers that searching for their lost mate might be the most honorable thing they could do during World War II.

“I am deeply saddened by the loss of my big brother Tom,” Paul Sizemore said in the statement. He was bigger than life. He has influenced me more than anyone else. He was a genius, and could keep you entertained for hours with his stories. I am very sad that he is gone and will never see him again.

Sizemore followed that with performances in various films, including “Point Break” in 1991, “True Romance” in 1993, “Natural Born Killers” in 1994 and “Strange Days” in 1995.

His costarring role as Bat Masterson in Kevin Costner’s western “Wyatt Earp” earned Sizemore acclaim. He went on to other major roles in “Pearl Harbor” and “Black Hawk Down,” both released in 2001.

“There was some, but it was so goofy and so not like rehab that I got over it,” Sizemore said, laughing at the time. “Plus, it wasn’t about drugs. It’s about obsessions and compulsions, Barbees!

“I saw that movie every week for, like, two months when it was playing in the theater. I have seen it for eleven weeks in a row. “That’s when I first started thinking, ‘Whatever that is they’re doing up there, I want to be part of it. I want to do that.’”

When Sizemore was young he was able to watch movies with his mother. He was interested in Robert De Niro’s performance in Taxi Driver.

Sizemore studied theater at Wayne State University and Temple University. After a time of waiting tables in New York, he got cast in a lot of good films and started making a name for himself.

But Sizemore’s life went off the rails after appearing in a few more massive Hollywood war films, including Black Hawk Down and Pearl Harbor. He was convicted of assaulting his then-fiancée Heidi Fleiss, who had been known as the “Hollywood Madam,” in 2003. He was arrested many times for various offenses, including being under the influence of drugs and domestic violence. And he allegedly behaved inappropriately with an 11-year-old girl on a film set, according to some cast and crew members, although the claim was dismissed in 2020.

Sizemore managed to keep working. The lowest grossing movie of 2006 was starring him. He tried many times to get clean. When Sizemore appeared on Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew in 2010, he said it was his ninth stint in treatment and described his periods of sobriety as the happiest in his life.

Sizemore appeared on television and streaming shows such as Law & Order: Special Victim’s Unit, Twin Peaks and Cobra Kai by 2016 and was slowly working his way back into respectability.