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Ronald Lee Ermey (March 24, 1944 – April 15, 2018) was an American actor and U.S. Marine drill instructor.He achieved fame for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 war film directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick from a screenplay he co-wrote with Michael Herr and Gustav Hasford. The film is based on Hasford's 1979 autobiographical novel The Short-Timers. It stars Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio, Adam Baldwin, Dorian Harewood, and Arliss Howard.
Ermey was a former U.S. Marine Corps staff sergeant and honorary gunnery sergeant, and served as a drill instructor during his tenure from 1961-1972. R. Lee Ermey, 'Full Metal Jacket' Golden Globe ...
It was among the first Vietnam War films to appear after the Vietnam Era, and was also the first role for R. Lee Ermey of Full Metal Jacket fame. [3] It is the first in Furie's Vietnam War motion-picture trilogy, followed by Under Heavy Fire (2001) and The Veteran (2006).
Ermey brought a quality of roughneck realism to “Full Metal Jacket,” because at the time he wasn’t an actor; he was a real Marine drill sergeant who‘d been hired as a consultant.
It was hosted by R. Lee Ermey, a retired United States Marine Corps staff sergeant and honorary gunnery sergeant. [1] The show debuted on August 4, 2002 as part of the "Fighting Fridays" lineup. [2] Most episodes were 30 minutes, but from 2007 through the show's end in 2009 some episodes were 60 minutes.
Professional tough guy R. Lee Ermey parlayed his time in the Marine Corps into various uniformed roles in "Full Metal Jacket," "Apocalypse Now," and as a drill sergeant-turned-therapist in a ...
Full Metal Jacket later used the nickname for similarly named characters. In the film Full Metal Jacket by Stanley Kubrick , the nickname "Gomer Pyle" is derisively given to Private Leonard Lawrence (played by Vincent D'Onofrio ) during boot camp , due to Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (played by R. Lee Ermey ) objecting to his real name.