R. Lee Ermey

Actor Mar 24 (died age 74) Emporia, Kansas, USA 1978–2020 (42 year career)

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Biography

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 Ca…

Known For

Film

Se7en

Police Captain

Film

Toy Story

Sergeant (voice)

Film

Full Metal Jacket

Gny. Sgt. Hartman

Film

Toy Story 3

Sarge (voice)

Film

Apocalypse Now

Eagle Thrust Seven Helicopter Pilot (uncredited)

Film

Toy Story 2

Sarge (voice)

Film

Starship Troopers

Voice heard on speaker (voice) (uncredited)

Film

X-Men: The Last Stand

Sergeant (voice)

Filmography

Acting (122)

Movies (84)

Kubrick by Kubrick

2020

as Self (archive footage)

7.5

Filmworker

2018

as Self

7.1

Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond

as Self

Kubrick Remembered

as Self

The Watch

as Manfred

Toy Story 3

as Sarge (voice)

Machete Maidens Unleashed!

as Self

Solstice

as Leonard

Down to the Bone: Anatomy of a Prequel

2007

as Himself

The Pixar Story

2007

as Sergeant (voice) (archive footage)

7.6

Full Metal Jacket: Between Good and Evil

as Self

Shark Bait

as Jack (voice)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

2006

as Uncle Charlie Hewitt / Sheriff Hoyt

6.2

X-Men: The Last Stand

as Sergeant (voice)

Man of the House

as Captain Nichols

Y.M.I.

as John

Chainsaw Redux: Making a Massacre

2004

as Self - Sheriff Hoyt

6.0

Willard

2003

as Mr. Martin

6.1

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

2003

as Sheriff Hoyt

6.3

Birdseye

2002

as Sheriff Gathers

Taking Sides

as General Wallace

The Salton Sea

as Verne Plummer

Scenes of the Crime

as Mr. Parker

Run Ronnie Run

as Lead Kidnapper

Saving Silverman

as Coach

On the Borderline

as Captain Elias

Recess: School's Out

as Colonel O'Malley (voice)

6.6

Megiddo: The Omega Code 2

2001

as President Richard Benson

4.5

Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles - The Tesca Campaign

2001

5.0

Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles - The Pluto Campaign

2001

4.0

Sarge!

2001

as Himself

Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles - The Tophet Campaign

2001

as Sky Marshall Sanchez

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins

as Sarge (voice)

Jericho

as Marshall

Skipped Parts

as Caspar Callahan

The Chaos Factor

as Col. Ben Wilder

Toy Story 2

as Sarge (voice)

Life

as Older Sheriff Pike

Escape from Alaska

as Gary

You Know My Name

as Marshal Nix

The Apartment Complex

as Frank Stanton

Gunshy

as Jerry

The Sender

as Colonel Rosewater

Starship Troopers

as Voice heard on speaker (voice) (uncredited)

7.1

Switchback

1997

as Sheriff Buck Olmstead

Prefontaine

as Bill Bowerman

Dead Men Can't Dance

as Senator Fowler

Weapons of Mass Distraction

as Billy Paxton

The Frighteners

as Hiles

Soul of the Game

as Wilkie

Stanley Kubrick: The Invisible Man

as Self

Se7en

as Police Captain

Toy Story

as Sergeant (voice)

Dead Man Walking

as Clyde Percy

Murder in the First

as Judge Clawson

Leaving Las Vegas

as Conventioneer

Best of the Best 3: No Turning Back

as Preacher Brian

Savate

as Benedict

Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult

1994

as Prison Guard (uncredited)

On Deadly Ground

as Stone

French Silk

as Chief Crowder

Love Is a Gun

as Frank Deacon

Chain of Command

as Benjamin Brewster

Sommersby

as Dick Mead

Body Snatchers

as General Platt

Hexed

as Detective Ferguson

The Terror Within II

as Von Demming

Toy Soldiers

as General Kramer

True Identity

as Houston’s Boss

The Take

as Weller

The Rift

1990

as Captain Phillips

4.6

I'm Dangerous Tonight

as Captain Aikman

Demonstone

as Col. Joe Haines

83 Hours 'Til Dawn

as Glen Fairling

Kid

as Luke Clanton

Fletch Lives

as Jimmy Lee Farnsworth

6.0

The Siege of Firebase Gloria

1989

as Sgt. Maj. Bill Hafner / Narrator

Mississippi Burning

as Mayor Tilman

Full Metal Jacket

as Gny. Sgt. Hartman

Purple Hearts

as Gunny

Apocalypse Now

as Eagle Thrust Seven Helicopter Pilot (uncredited)

8.3

Up from the Depths

1979

as Arnold (uncredited)

3.7

The Boys in Company C

1978

as Sergeant Loyce

6.5

A Modern Art Masterpiece: The Untold Story of Full Metal Jacket

as Self (archive footage)

Television (38)

Batman: The Brave and the Bold

as Wildcat (voice)

Eleventh Hour

as Bob Henson

House

as John House

Father of the Pride

as Bunny (voice)

Kim Possible

as Additional Voices (voice)

7.5

My Life as a Teenage Robot

Mail Call

Fillmore!

Pet Star

as Self - Judge

Scrubs

as Janitor's Father

The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy

2001

as Sergeant / Drill Sergeant

Invader ZIM

Scrubs

as Janitor's Father

The District

as Jim Bodsworth

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Walter Burlock

Family Guy

as Coach (voice)

Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles

1999

as Sanchez (voice)

7.0

The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot

1999

as General Thornton (voice)

Action

as Titus Scroad

Maximum Bob

as Col. Theodore Baker

The Angry Beavers

Cracker

as Lieutenant Fry

Rough Riders

as Secretary of State John Hay

6.0

Promised Land

1996

6.1

All Dogs Go To Heaven: The Series

1996

as Sergeant Yorkie (voice)

5.9

High Incident

1996

as Tony Van Camp

7.8

E! True Hollywood Story

1996

8.1

Space: Above and Beyond

1995

as Sgt. Major Bougas

7.2

Sweet Justice

1994

as Luke

The X-Files

1993

as Reverend Patrick Findley

8.4

The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.

1993

as Brisco Country Sr.

Human Target

Street Justice

as Special Agent Landau

Civil Wars

The Simpsons

as Colonel Hapablap (voice)

Tales from the Crypt

as Sheriff

China Beach

Miami Vice

as Ernest Haskell