Actor: Tom Sizemore

Tom Sizemore appeared in Saving Private Ryan, Heat, Black Hawk Down and Natural Born Killers within a few years, working for Spielberg, Mann and Stone at the same time.

The Heat performance is the best, playing a crew member whose loyalty is absolute and whose judgement is not, and he holds his own in scenes with De Niro and Kilmer.

Addiction and repeated legal problems ended the mainstream career in the early 2000s, and he was open about both in a memoir.

He worked continuously in low-budget film afterward and died in 2023. The 1990s work is genuinely strong and worth separating from what followed.