His first film role was in Lock Up (1989), and among his other three roles that year was a part in Stone’s Born on the Fourth of July. He began in off-Broadway theatre in New York his friends included James Gandolfini, John McGinley and Edie Falco, with whom he had a relationship. He studied theatre at Wayne State University, Detroit, taking a master’s at Temple, in Philadelphia. It fell through a much different version, Good Thief, eventually appeared, without Sizemore, in 2021. Sizemore tried for years to produce a script about them, An Honest Thief, written by his lawyer brother Aaron, which nearly got made in 2014, starring Sizemore and Danny Trejo. His sober father won a scholarship to Harvard his uncles were exuberant denizens of a world of drugs and crime. He was also influenced by his father’s two brothers. A self-described “wayward, angry teen”, he was drawn to acting after watching Montgomery Clift, James Dean and Marlon Brando playing such roles, and by De Niro in Taxi Driver. Born in Detroit, he was the son of Thomas Sr, a lawyer and philosophy professor, and Judith (nee Schannault), who worked in the city ombudsman’s office. The two sides of Sizemore’s talent could be traced back to childhood. Tom Sizemore, right, with Tom Hanks, centre, in Saving Private Ryan, 1998.

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