American Actor, Tom Sizemore Dies At 61

He was hospitalized in critical condition…

On Friday, Actor Tom Sizemore, known much for his struggles with drug addiction and run-ins with the law as for his tough-guy roles in "Saving Private Ryan" and "Black Hawk Down, films". He died at the age of 61, said his manager, Charles Lago.

On Friday, Sizemore was admitted to the hospital in critical condition after he suffered from a brain aneurysm on February 18, died in his sleep at a hospital in Burbank, California, Lago said in a statement.

A native of Detroit, where his mother worked for ombudsman and his father was an attorney and philosophy professor, Sizemore attended Wayne State University and received a graduate degree in theatre from Temple University in Philadelphia.

As a very aspiring actor in New York City waiting tables and performing in plays, Sizemore got his first break when director Oliver Stone cast him in a big role as Vet #1 in the 1989 anti-war film "Born on the Fourth of July."

Supporting parts followed in the 1990s, leading to a string of higher-profile work playing detectives in such films as Stone's 1994 mass murder drama "Natural Born Killers," the 1995 noir mystery "Devil in a Blue Dress" and 1995 cyberpunk thriller "Strange Days."