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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.
In 1986, D'Onofrio took on the role often considered the defining moment in his acting career, as Pvt. Leonard Lawrence, an overweight, clumsy Marine recruit in the movie Full Metal Jacket. On a tip from friend Matthew Modine, D'Onofrio was urged to send audition tapes to director Stanley Kubrick, in England. Four tapes later, D'Onofrio landed ...
Gomer is a naïve, extremely moral auto mechanic turned United States Marine Corps private, from Mayberry, North Carolina.The only apparent employee at Wally's Filling Station, he initially lived there in a back room, and according to Andy, was "saving up for college" and wanted to be a doctor.
She had parts on General Hospital, Gunsmoke, I Dream of Jeannie, The Andy Griffith Show, Bonanza, Gomer Pyle: USMC, Kojak, Days of Our Lives, Guiding Light and many more.Her last known acting ...
Gomer Pyle – USMC is an American situation comedy created by Aaron Ruben that originally aired on CBS from September 25, 1964, to May 2, 1969. The series was a spinoff of The Andy Griffith Show, and the pilot episode was introduced as the final fourth-season episode which aired on May 18, 1964. The show ran for five seasons, with a total of ...
One-time role in episode "Gomer Pyle – USMC" 1964-1969: Gomer Pyle – USMC: Gunnery Sergeant Vince Carter 1966: Password: Himself: Game show contestant / Celebrity guest star 1969-1971: The Jim Nabors Hour: Himself: 1970–1973: Love American Style: Various: Episodes: Love and the Bonded Separation (1973) Love and the Secret Life (1972) Love ...
Kaye's debut album, Columbia Presents Danny Kaye, had been released in 1942 by Columbia Records with songs performed to the accompaniment of Maurice Abravanel and Johnny Green. The album was reissued as a Columbia LP in 1949 and is described by the critic Bruce Eder as "a bit tamer than some of the stuff that Kaye hit with later in the '40s and ...
Forrest Compton (September 15, 1925 – April 4, 2020) was an American actor, primarily known for playing Mike Karr on the daytime soap opera The Edge of Night, as well as Colonel Gray on Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.