The 54-year-old actor's latest arrest in downtown Los Angeles came after an altercation that left visible marks on the victim, who was not identified, Los Angeles police spokesman Tony Im said.
A spokesman for Sizemore declined to comment on Tuesday's arrest.
Sizemore was held in jail in lieu of bail of $US50,000 ($NZ70,000) , according to an Los Angeles County inmate record.
He is best known for two high-profile supporting roles in war movies - as the hard-boiled sergeant at Tom Hanks' side in 1998's Saving Private Ryan, and as a lieutenant colonel with uncanny calm under fire in 2001's Black Hawk Down.
In recent years, Sizemore had recurring roles in a number of major television shows, including the reboot of Hawaii Five-O, in which he played a police captain from 2011-12.
He has been cast in a recurring role on the USA Network drama Shooter. The show, starring Ryan Phillippe as an expert marksman, was due to begin airing this summer.
But following a number of deadly mass shootings, including most recently the killing on Sunday of three police officers and wounding of three others by an assailant armed with a rifle in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the network on Monday said it was moving the show to the fall season.
Sizemore in 2003 was convicted of beating and threatening ex-girlfriend and former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss. He later was sentenced to about six months in jail, according to media reports at the time.
Sizemore has since been arrested a number of times on drug-related charges.
