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R. Lee Ermey

Ronald Lee Ermey was a retired United States Marine Corps drill instructor and actor who was often typecast in authority figure roles, such as Mayor Tilman in the film Mississippi Burning, Bill Bowerman in Prefontaine, Sheriff Hoyt in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake, Jimmy Lee Farnsworth in Fletch Lives, a police captain in Se7en, plastic army men leader Sarge in the first three films of the Toy Story franchise, Lt. "Tice" Ryan in Rocket Power and John House in House, and as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket

Aliases
  • Lee Ermey
  • R. Lee Ermy
  • Lee Emery
  • R. Lee Emrey
English
Filmography

Kubrick par Kubrick

2020
as R. Lee Ermey

Filmworker

2018
as Himself

Kubrick Remembered

2014

The Watch

2012
as Manfred

Machete Maidens Unleashed!

2010
as Himself

Toy Story 3

2010
as Sarge (voice)

Down to the Bone: Anatomy of a Prequel

2007
as Self - Contributer

Full Metal Jacket: Between Good and Evil

2007
as Self - Contributer

X-Men: The Last Stand

2006
as Sergeant (voice)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

2006
as Uncle Charlie Hewitt / Sheriff Hoyt

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

2006
as Narrator (voice)

Shark Bait

2006
as Jack (voice)

Man of the House

2005
as Captain Nichols

Y.M.I.

2004
as John

Chainsaw Redux: Making a Massacre

2004
as Himself / Sheriff Hoyt

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

2003
as Sheriff Hoyt

Willard

2003
as Frank Martin

Birdseye

2002
as Sheriff Gathers

Run Ronnie Run

2002
as Lead Kidnapper

The Salton Sea

2002
as Verne Plummer

On the Borderline

2001
as Captain Elias

Saving Silverman

2001
as Coach

Recess: School's Out

2001
as Colonel O'Malley (voice)

Taking Sides

2001
as General Wallace

Megiddo: The Omega Code 2

2001
as President Richard Benson

Scenes of the Crime

2001
as Mr. Parker

The Chaos Factor

2000
as Col. Ben Wilder

Jericho

2000
as Marshall

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins

2000
as Sarge (voice)

Skipped Parts

2000
as Caspar Callahan

Escape from Alaska

1999
as Gary

The Apartment Complex

1999

You Know My Name

1999
as Marshal Nix

Toy Story 2

1999
as Sarge (voice)

The Sender

1998
as Colonel Rosewater

Gunshy

1998
as Jerry

Switchback

1997
as Sheriff Buck Olmstead

Prefontaine

1997
as Bill Bowerman

Weapons of Mass Distraction

1997
as Billy Paxton

Dead Men Can't Dance

1997
as Senator Fowler

The Frighteners

1996
as Sgt. Hiles

Soul of the Game

1996
as Wilkie

Se7en

1995
as Police Captain

Toy Story

1995
as Sergeant (voice)

Leaving Las Vegas

1995
as Conventioneer

Savate

1995
as Benedict (uncredited)

Dead Man Walking

1995
as Clyde Percy

Murder in the First

1995
as Judge Clawson

On Deadly Ground

1994
as Stone

Chain of Command

1994
as Benjamin Brewster

Love Is a Gun

1994
as Frank Deacon

Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult

1994
as Prison Guard

French Silk

1994
as Chief Crowder

Sommersby

1993
as Dick Mead

Hexed

1993
as Detective Ferguson

Body Snatchers

1993
as General Platt

The Terror Within II

1991
as Von Demming

Toy Soldiers

1991
as General Kramer

I'm Dangerous Tonight

1990
as Lt. Ackman

The Rift

1990
as Captain Phillips

83 hours 'til dawn

1990
as Glen Fairling

Kid

1990
as Luke Clanton

Demonstone

1989
as Col. Joe Haines

Fletch Lives

1989
as Jimmy Lee Farnsworth

The Siege of Firebase Gloria

1989
as Sgt. Maj. Bill Hafner / Narrator

Mississippi Burning

1988
as Mayor Tilman

Full Metal Jacket

1987
as Gny. Sgt. Hartman

Purple Hearts

1984
as Gunny

The Boys in Company C

1978
as Sergeant Loyce

Shooting 'Full Metal Jacket'

as Self - Contributer