Tom Sizemore, who died Friday at age 61, had hundreds of film and TV credits in a three-decade-plus career, famously in Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down and many others.
A Detroit native, Sizemore on the big screen worked with the likes of Steven Spielberg, Michael Mann, Arthur Penn and multiple times with Martin Scorsese, Oliver Stone, Kathryn Bigelow, Tony Scott and Lawrence Kasdan. Those credits included Heat, Natural Born Killers, Pearl Harbor, Wyatt Earp, Passenger 57, Bringing Out the Dead, The Relic, Strange Days, Red Planet, Dreamcatcher, Flight of the Intruder, Guilty by Suspicion, Bad Love and many more.
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On the small screen, he toplined the short-lived 2002 CBS cop drama Robbery Homicide Division and also recurred on such series as Law & Order: SVU, China Beach, Shooter, The Red Road, Crash, Dr. Vegas, the Hawaii Five-O revival and 2017’s Twin Peaks.
Sizemore also voiced the key role of mob boss Sonny Forelli in 2002’s Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
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Click above for a photo gallery of his career in moves and TV.
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BLUE STEEL, 1989
Image Credit: MGM/courtesy Everett Collection Tom Sizemore
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HARLEY DAVIDSON AND THE MARLBORO MAN, 1991
Image Credit: MGM/ Courtesy: Everett Collection Tom Sizemore and Don Johnson.
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WHERE SLEEPING DOGS LIE, 1991
Image Credit: August Entertainment/courtesy Everett Collection Tom Sizemore
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AN AMERICAN STORY, 1992
Image Credit: CBS/courtesy Everett Collection Tom Sizemore (seated front), standing front from left: Patricia Clarkson, Brad Johnson, Lisa Blount, David Labiosa, standing rear from left: Sean Hennigan, Brad Leland and Titus Welliver.
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WATCH IT, 1993
Image Credit: Skouras Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection John C. McGinley and Tom Sizemore.
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HEART AND SOULS, 2993
Image Credit: Bruce W. Talamon / Universal Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection Alfre Woodard, Charles Grodin, Robert Downey Jr., Kyra Sedgwick and Tom Sizemore.
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TRUE ROMANCE, 1993
Image Credit: Warner Brothers/courtesy Everett Collection Christopher Penn and Tom Sizemore.
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NATURAL BORN KILLERS, 1994
Image Credit: Everett Collection Juliette Lewis and Tom Sizemore.
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STRANGE DAYS, 1995
Image Credit: Everett Collection Ralph Fiennes and Tom Sizemore.
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THE RELIC, 1997
Image Credit: Paramount/courtesy Everett Collection Tom Sizemore and Penelope Ann Miller.
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WITNESS TO THE MOB, 1998
Image Credit: Everett Collection Tom Sizemore as John Gotti.
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SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, 1998
Image Credit: Everett Collection Tom Hanks and Tom Sizemore.
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THE MATCH, 1999
Image Credit: Gramercy Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection Tom Sizemore
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BRINGING OUT THE DEAD, 1999
Image Credit: Everett Collection Tom Sizemore and Nicolas Cage.
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RED PLANET, 2000
Image Credit: Warner Bros. / courtesy Everett Collection Benjamin Bratt, Tom Sizemore and Val Kilmer.
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PEARL HARBOR, 2001
Image Credit: Touchstone Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection Tom Sizemore
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TICKER, 2001
Image Credit: Tom Vollick / Artisan Entertainment / courtesy Everett Collection Tom Sizemore
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BLACK HAWK DOWN, 2001
Image Credit: Colombia Pictures/ Courtesy Everett Collection Tom Sizemore
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SINS OF THE FATHER, 2002
Image Credit: Everett Collection Tom Sizemore and Ving Rhames.
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DREAMCATCHER, 2003
Image Credit: Warner Brothers/courtesy Everett Collection Tom Sizemore
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ROBBERY HOMICIDE DIVISION, 2002
Image Credit: USA Network / Courtesy: Everett Collection Tom Sizemore
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PAPARAZZI, 2004
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox Film Corp Tom Sizemore and Cole Hauser.
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HUSTLE, 2004
Image Credit: ESPN/courtesy Everett Collection Tom Sizemore
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DR. VEGAS, 2004-05
Image Credit: Everett Collection Carlos Gomez and Tom Sizemore, (Season 1), 2004-05.
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RED, 2008
Image Credit: Magnolia Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection Tom Sizemore
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CSI: MIAMI, 2008
Image Credit: Cliff Lipson / © CBS / courtesy everett collection Tom Sizemore, ‘Down To The Wire’, (Season 6, May 12, 2008)
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IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA, 2010
Image Credit: Patrick McElhenney / ©FX /Courtesy: Everett Collection Charlie Day, Tom Sizemore, ‘The Gang Gets Stranded in the Woods’, (Season 6, ep. 611, aired Dec. 2, 2010)
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THE RED ROAD, 2014
Image Credit: Tina Rowden / © Sundance Channel / Courtesy: Everett Collection Tom Sizemore, ‘Snaring of the Sun’, (Season 1, ep 106, aired April 3, 2014).
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LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT, 2015
Image Credit: Michael Parmelee / ©NBC / Courtesy Everett Collection Tom Sizemore, ‘Depravity Standard’, (Season 17, ep. 1709, aired Nov. 18, 2015).
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LUCIFER, 2016
Image Credit: Michael Courtney/©Fox/courtesy Everett Collection om Sizemore in ‘Manly Whatnots’ (Season 1, Episode 4, aired FEbruary 15, 2016).
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ATOMICA, 2017
Image Credit: Syfy Films/courtesy Everett Collection Tom Sizemore
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BLOOD RUNS THICK, 2017
Image Credit: Lucky Strike Films /Courtesy Everett Collection Director Romane Simon (left), Tom Sizemore (center).
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JOE’S WAR, 2017
Image Credit: Gravitas Ventures / courtesy Everett Collection Tom Sizemore
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TWIN PEAKS, 2017
Image Credit: Suzanne Tenner/©Showtime/courtesy Everett Collection Tom Sizemore and John Savage in ‘What story is that, Charlie?’ (Season 1, Episode 13, aired August 6, 2017).
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THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST, 2018
Image Credit: Inspired Family Entertainment/courtesy Everett Collection Tom Sizemore and Jason London.
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THE RUNNERS, 2020
Image Credit: Uncorkd Entertainment / Courtesy Everett Collection Tom Sizemore
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