R. Lee Ermey
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Ronald Lee Ermey (March 24, 1944 – April 15, 2018) was a United States Marine Corps drill instructor and actor. Ermey often played the roles of authority figures, such as his breakout performance as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket, Mayor Tilman in the Alan Parker film Mississippi Burning, Bill Bowerman in Prefontaine, Sheriff Hoyt in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake, and plastic army men leader Sarge in the Toy Story films. He hosted two programs on the History Channel: Mail Call, in which he answered viewers' questions about various militaria both modern and historic; and Lock N' Load with R. Lee Ermey, which focused on the development of different types of weapons. He was a candidate for the National Rifle Association board of directors.
Known for
Credits
Toy Story (1995)
as Sergeant (voice)
Toy Story 3 (2010)
as Sarge (voice)
Se7en (1995)
as Police Captain
Toy Story 2 (1999)
as Sarge (voice)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
as Eagle Thrust Seven Helicopter Pilot (uncredited)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
as Gny. Sgt. Hartman
Starship Troopers (1997)
as Voice heard on speaker (voice) (uncredited)
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994)
as Prison Guard (uncredited)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
as Sheriff Hoyt
The Frighteners (1996)
as Hiles
Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
as Conventioneer
Mississippi Burning (1988)
as Mayor Tilman
The Watch (2012)
as Manfred
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)
as Uncle Charlie Hewitt / Sheriff Hoyt
On Deadly Ground (1994)
as Stone
Dead Man Walking (1995)
as Clyde Percy
Saving Silverman (2001)
as Coach
Life (1999)
as Older Sheriff Pike
The Pixar Story (2007)
as Sergeant (voice) (archive footage)
Man of the House (2005)
as Captain Nichols
Murder in the First (1995)
as Judge Clawson
Body Snatchers (1993)
as General Platt
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins (2000)
as Sarge (voice)
Toy Soldiers (1991)
as General Kramer
Shark Bait (2006)
as Jack (voice)
Sommersby (1993)
as Dick Mead
Recess: School's Out (2001)
as Colonel O'Malley (voice)
The Salton Sea (2002)
as Verne Plummer
Fletch Lives (1989)
as Jimmy Lee Farnsworth
Switchback (1997)
as Sheriff Buck Olmstead
Willard (2003)
as Mr. Martin
Purple Hearts (1984)
as Gunny
Run Ronnie Run (2002)
as Lead Kidnapper
Skipped Parts (2000)
as Caspar Callahan
True Identity (1991)
as Houston’s Boss
The Rift (1990)
as Captain Phillips
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2 (2001)
as Richard Benson
Best of the Best 3: No Turning Back (1995)
as Preacher Brian
Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond (2015)
as Self
Taking Sides (2002)
as General Wallace
Gunshy (1998)
as Jerry
The Boys in Company C (1978)
as Sergeant Loyce
The Siege of Firebase Gloria (1989)
as Sgt. Maj. Bill Hafner / Narrator
Kubrick by Kubrick (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
Kid (1990)
as Luke Clanton
I'm Dangerous Tonight (1990)
as Captain Aikman
The Sender (1998)
as Colonel Rosewater
Soul of the Game (1996)
as Wilkie
Hexed (1993)
as Detective Ferguson
Prefontaine (1997)
as Bill Bowerman
Dead Men Can't Dance (1997)
as Senator Fowler
Scenes of the Crime (2002)
as Mr. Parker
Birdseye (2002)
as Sheriff Gathers
Solstice (2008)
as Leonard
You Know My Name (1999)
as Marshal Nix
Weapons of Mass Distraction (1997)
as Billy Paxton
Down to the Bone: Anatomy of a Prequel (2007)
as Self
Full Metal Jacket: Between Good and Evil (2007)
as Self
The Terror Within II (1991)
as Von Demming
Chainsaw Redux: Making a Massacre (2004)
as Self - Sheriff Hoyt
Love Is a Gun (1994)
as Frank Deacon
Escape from Alaska (1999)
as Gary
Chain of Command (1994)
as Benjamin Brewster
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
as Sergeant (voice)
Stanley Kubrick: The Invisible Man (1996)
as Self
Filmworker (2018)
as Self
83 Hours 'Til Dawn (1990)
as Glen Fairling
Machete Maidens Unleashed! (2010)
as Self
Demonstone (1990)
as Col. Joe Haines
The Apartment Complex (1999)
as Frank Stanton
Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles - The Tophet Campaign (2001)
as Sky Marshall Sanchez
Jericho (2000)
as Marshall
Up from the Depths (1979)
as Arnold (uncredited)
The Chaos Factor (2000)
as Col. Ben Wilder
Kubrick Remembered (2014)
as Self
Y.M.I. (2004)
as John
Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles - The Tesca Campaign (2001)
Actor
Savate (1995)
as Benedict
French Silk (1994)
as Chief Crowder
On the Borderline (2001)
as Captain Elias
Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles - The Pluto Campaign (2001)
Actor
The Take (1990)
as Weller
Sarge! (2001)
as Himself
A Modern Art Masterpiece: The Untold Story of Full Metal Jacket (—)
as Self (archive footage)