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
Se7en (1995)
as Police Captain
Toy Story 2 (1999)
as Sarge (voice)
Toy Story (1995)
as Sergeant (voice)
Toy Story 3 (2010)
as Sarge (voice)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
as Eagle Thrust Seven Helicopter Pilot (uncredited)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
as Sheriff Hoyt
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)
Mississippi Burning (1988)
as Mayor Tilman
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)
as Uncle Charlie Hewitt / Sheriff Hoyt
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins (2000)
as Sarge (voice)
Switchback (1997)
as Sheriff Buck Olmstead
The Watch (2012)
as Manfred
The Frighteners (1996)
as Hiles
Sommersby (1993)
as Dick Mead
Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
as Conventioneer
Body Snatchers (1993)
as General Platt
Life (1999)
as Older Sheriff Pike
Recess: School's Out (2001)
as Colonel O'Malley (voice)
On Deadly Ground (1994)
as Stone
Man of the House (2005)
as Captain Nichols
Dead Man Walking (1995)
as Clyde Percy
Purple Hearts (1984)
as Gunny
Shark Bait (2006)
as Jack (voice)
Saving Silverman (2001)
as Coach
Murder in the First (1995)
as Judge Clawson
Gunshy (1998)
as Jerry
Kubrick's War: The Making of Full Metal Jacket (—)
as Self - Gny. Sgt. Hartman, Full Metal Jacket(archive footage) (archive sound)
Kubrick by Kubrick (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
The Salton Sea (2002)
as Verne Plummer
Toy Soldiers (1991)
as General Kramer
Willard (2003)
as Mr. Martin
Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles - The Tophet Campaign (2001)
as Sky Marshall Sanchez
Machete Maidens Unleashed! (2010)
as Self
I'm Dangerous Tonight (1990)
as Captain Aikman
Kid (1990)
as Luke Clanton
The Pixar Story (2007)
as Sergeant (voice) (archive footage)
Fletch Lives (1989)
as Jimmy Lee Farnsworth
Birdseye (2002)
as Sheriff Gathers
Best of the Best 3: No Turning Back (1995)
as Preacher Brian
The Rift (1990)
as Captain Phillips
Scenes of the Crime (2002)
as Mr. Parker
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2 (2001)
as Richard Benson
Run Ronnie Run (2002)
as Lead Kidnapper
Sarge! (2001)
as Himself
Taking Sides (2002)
as General Wallace
Prefontaine (1997)
as Bill Bowerman
Solstice (2008)
as Leonard
The Siege of Firebase Gloria (1989)
as Sgt. Maj. Bill Hafner / Narrator
Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles - The Tesca Campaign (2001)
Actor
Hexed (1993)
as Detective Ferguson
Soul of the Game (1996)
as Wilkie
Love Is a Gun (1994)
as Frank Deacon
The Boys in Company C (1978)
as Sergeant Loyce
Savate (1995)
as Benedict
Dead Men Can't Dance (1997)
as Senator Fowler
Skipped Parts (2000)
as Caspar Callahan
Demonstone (1990)
as Col. Joe Haines
The Sender (1998)
as Colonel Rosewater
The Terror Within II (1991)
as Von Demming
True Identity (1991)
as Houston’s Boss
Weapons of Mass Distraction (1997)
as Billy Paxton
Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond (2015)
as Self
You Know My Name (1999)
as Marshal Nix
Down to the Bone: Anatomy of a Prequel (2007)
as Self
Chainsaw Redux: Making a Massacre (2004)
as Self - Sheriff Hoyt
Escape from Alaska (1999)
as Gary
Filmworker (2018)
as Self
83 Hours 'Til Dawn (1990)
as Glen Fairling
Full Metal Jacket: Between Good and Evil (2007)
as Self
Chain of Command (1994)
as Benjamin Brewster
Up from the Depths (1979)
as Arnold (uncredited)
Jericho (2000)
as Marshall
The Apartment Complex (1999)
as Frank Stanton
The Chaos Factor (2000)
as Col. Ben Wilder
Y.M.I. (2004)
as John
Stanley Kubrick: The Invisible Man (1996)
as Self
Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles - The Pluto Campaign (2001)
Actor
The Take (1990)
as Weller
French Silk (1994)
as Chief Crowder
Kubrick Remembered (2014)
as Self
On the Borderline (2001)
as Captain Elias
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
as Sergeant (voice)