R. Lee Ermey
Born in Emporia, Kansas, USA — Mar 24 1944• Died Apr 15 2018
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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 mi…
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Walter Burlock
The Simpsons
Colonel Hapablap (voice)
Family Guy
Coach (voice)
House
John House
The X-Files
Reverend Patrick Findley
Scrubs
Janitor's Father
Miami Vice
Ernest Haskell
The District
Jim Bodsworth
The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
Sergeant / Drill Sergeant
Kim Possible
Additional Voices (voice)
Tales from the Crypt
Sheriff
Batman: The Brave and the Bold
Wildcat (voice)
Se7en
Police Captain
Toy Story
Sergeant (voice)
China Beach
The Angry Beavers
Promised Land
Toy Story 3
Sarge (voice)
Toy Story 2
Sarge (voice)
Fillmore!
Space: Above and Beyond
Sgt. Major Bougas
Eleventh Hour
Bob Henson
Apocalypse Now
Eagle Thrust Seven Helicopter Pilot (uncredited)
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
Brisco Country Sr.
Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles
Sanchez (voice)
My Life as a Teenage Robot
Father of the Pride
Bunny (voice)
Invader ZIM
Action
Titus Scroad
Full Metal Jacket
Gny. Sgt. Hartman
Pet Star
Self - Judge
Street Justice
Special Agent Landau
The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot
General Thornton (voice)
High Incident
Tony Van Camp
Cracker
Lieutenant Fry
Starship Troopers
Voice heard on speaker (voice) (uncredited)
Saving Silverman
Coach
All Dogs Go To Heaven: The Series
Sergeant Yorkie (voice)
Civil Wars
Sommersby
Dick Mead
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Sheriff Hoyt
Sweet Justice
Luke
Life
Older Sheriff Pike
Maximum Bob
Col. Theodore Baker
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
Prison Guard (uncredited)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
Uncle Charlie Hewitt / Sheriff Hoyt
Mississippi Burning
Mayor Tilman
Human Target
The Frighteners
Hiles
Willard
Mr. Martin
The Watch
Manfred
Dead Man Walking
Clyde Percy
Rough Riders
Secretary of State John Hay
Murder in the First
Judge Clawson
Switchback
Sheriff Buck Olmstead
Leaving Las Vegas
Conventioneer
The Pixar Story
Sergeant (voice) (archive footage)
On Deadly Ground
Stone
E! True Hollywood Story
The Salton Sea
Verne Plummer
Body Snatchers
General Platt
Toy Soldiers
General Kramer
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins
Sarge (voice)
Man of the House
Captain Nichols
Fletch Lives
Jimmy Lee Farnsworth
Shark Bait
Jack (voice)
Mail Call
Gunshy
Jerry
I'm Dangerous Tonight
Captain Aikman
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
President Richard Benson
Recess: School's Out
Colonel O'Malley (voice)
Soul of the Game
Wilkie
Run Ronnie Run
Lead Kidnapper
True Identity
Houston’s Boss
The Sender
Colonel Rosewater
Hexed
Detective Ferguson
Machete Maidens Unleashed!
Self
Y.M.I.
John
Kubrick Remembered
Self
The Rift
Captain Phillips
Down to the Bone: Anatomy of a Prequel
Himself
Best of the Best 3: No Turning Back
Preacher Brian
Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond
Self
Kubrick by Kubrick
Self (archive footage)
Solstice
Leonard
Prefontaine
Bill Bowerman
Savate
Benedict
The Boys in Company C
Sergeant Loyce
Love Is a Gun
Frank Deacon
Skipped Parts
Caspar Callahan
You Know My Name
Marshal Nix
Full Metal Jacket: Between Good and Evil
Self
Taking Sides
General Wallace
Weapons of Mass Distraction
Billy Paxton
Purple Hearts
Gunny
Kid
Luke Clanton
Scenes of the Crime
Mr. Parker
Jericho
Marshall
Dead Men Can't Dance
Senator Fowler
Birdseye
Sheriff Gathers
Filmworker
Self
On the Borderline
Captain Elias
Demonstone
Col. Joe Haines
The Apartment Complex
Frank Stanton
Up from the Depths
Arnold (uncredited)
Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles - The Tesca Campaign
French Silk
Chief Crowder
The Siege of Firebase Gloria
Sgt. Maj. Bill Hafner / Narrator
The Terror Within II
Von Demming
83 Hours 'Til Dawn
Glen Fairling
Escape from Alaska
Gary
Chainsaw Redux: Making a Massacre
Self - Sheriff Hoyt
Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles - The Pluto Campaign
The Take
Weller
Stanley Kubrick: The Invisible Man
Self
A Modern Art Masterpiece: The Untold Story of Full Metal Jacket
Self (archive footage)
The Chaos Factor
Col. Ben Wilder
Chain of Command
Benjamin Brewster
X-Men: The Last Stand
Sergeant (voice)
Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles - The Tophet Campaign
Sky Marshall Sanchez
Sarge!
Himself