In 1990, a teenage Sage Stallone made his acting debut in “Rocky V,” the fifth installment of the famous “Rocky” franchise. In the movie, Sage played the role of Robert Balboa Jr., the only son of Sylvester Stallone’s titular character Rocky. Expectedly, a teenage Sage couldn’t have been more excited — a little too excited, maybe. “To tell you the truth, I was turning into a little spoiled brat after ‘Rocky V,'” he admitted to People back in 1996. “I was 15 years old, and I thought I was a big shot, like, ‘Ay, alright, let’s hit the bars, baby.'” A few years later, Sage once again appeared alongside his father in the 1996 film “Daylight.” That same year, he co-founded Grindhouse Releasing, a company that aims to restore and preserve exploitation films. In addition to his acting career, Sage also had a short stint in filmmaking with credit in “Vic,” a 2006 short drama that served as his directorial debut.
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Sadly, despite what looked like a promising Hollywood career ahead of him, Sage’s dreams were cut off. In July 2012, the young actor suddenly died, with an autopsy later revealing the cause of death to be coronary heart disease. “Sylvester Stallone is devastated and grief-stricken over the sudden loss of his son,” Sylvester’s publicist Michelle Bega said in a statement, per The Guardian. “Sage was a very talented and wonderful young man, his loss will be felt forever.”
