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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

Full Metal Jacket

1987
as Gny. Sgt. Hartman

Toy Story

1995
as Sergeant (voice)

Toy Story 2

1999
as Sarge (voice)

Toy Story 3

2010
as Sarge (voice)

Se7en

1995
as Police Captain

X-Men: The Last Stand

2006
as Sergeant (voice)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

2003
as Sheriff Hoyt

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

2006
as Uncle Charlie Hewitt / Sheriff Hoyt

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

2006
as Narrator (voice)

The Watch

2012
as Manfred

Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult

1994
as Prison Guard

The Terror Within II

1991
as Von Demming

Y.M.I.

2004
as John

The Sender

1998
as Colonel Rosewater

Kid

1990
as Luke Clanton

I'm Dangerous Tonight

1990
as Lt. Ackman

Full Metal Jacket: Between Good and Evil

2007
as Self - Contributer

Leaving Las Vegas

1995
as Conventioneer

Megiddo: The Omega Code 2

2001
as President Richard Benson

Fletch Lives

1989
as Jimmy Lee Farnsworth

Jericho

2000
as Marshall

Chain of Command

1994
as Benjamin Brewster

The Rift

1990
as Captain Phillips

Body Snatchers

1993
as General Platt

Escape from Alaska

1999
as Gary

Taking Sides

2001
as General Wallace

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins

2000
as Sarge (voice)

Cracker (US)

1997
as Lieutenant Fry

Shark Bait

2006
as Jack (voice)

Recess: School's Out

2001
as Colonel O'Malley (voice)

The Siege of Firebase Gloria

1989
as Sgt. Maj. Bill Hafner / Narrator

Chainsaw Redux: Making a Massacre

2004
as Himself / Sheriff Hoyt

The Salton Sea

2002
as Verne Plummer

Prefontaine

1997
as Bill Bowerman

Mississippi Burning

1988
as Mayor Tilman

Scenes of the Crime

2001
as Mr. Parker

Shooting 'Full Metal Jacket'

as Self - Contributer

You Know My Name

1999
as Marshal Nix

Gunshy

1998
as Jerry

Love Is a Gun

1994
as Frank Deacon

The Chaos Factor

2000
as Col. Ben Wilder

Savate

1995
as Benedict (uncredited)

Hexed

1993
as Detective Ferguson

Saving Silverman

2001
as Coach

On the Borderline

2001
as Captain Elias

Down to the Bone: Anatomy of a Prequel

2007
as Self - Contributer

Dead Man Walking

1995
as Clyde Percy

Mail Call

2002
as Host

83 hours 'til dawn

1990
as Glen Fairling

Sommersby

1993
as Dick Mead

Run Ronnie Run

2002
as Lead Kidnapper

French Silk

1994
as Chief Crowder

Birdseye

2002
as Sheriff Gathers

Skipped Parts

2000
as Caspar Callahan

On Deadly Ground

1994
as Stone

Weapons of Mass Distraction

1997
as Billy Paxton

The Boys in Company C

1978
as Sergeant Loyce

Kubrick par Kubrick

2020
as R. Lee Ermey

Willard

2003
as Frank Martin

Toy Soldiers

1991
as General Kramer

Purple Hearts

1984
as Gunny

Demonstone

1989
as Col. Joe Haines

Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot

1999
as General Thorton

Kubrick Remembered

2014

Switchback

1997
as Sheriff Buck Olmstead

Soul of the Game

1996
as Wilkie

The Apartment Complex

1999

Dead Men Can't Dance

1997
as Senator Fowler

Murder in the First

1995
as Judge Clawson

Man of the House

2005
as Captain Nichols

Machete Maidens Unleashed!

2010
as Himself

Filmworker

2018
as Himself

The Frighteners

1996
as Sgt. Hiles

GunnyTime

2015
as Host

Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles

1999
as Sky Marshall Sanchez

Guest Star

Episode Action
Lights, Camera, Action! 		1999
Episode Invader ZIM
Hobo 13 		2002
Episode The Simpsons
Waiting For Duffman 		2015
Episode Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Brooke Burke, R. Lee Ermey, Gerhard Reinke 		2003
Episode Family Guy
Mr. Saturday Knight 		2001
Episode Space: Above and Beyond
Pilot (2) 		1995
Episode Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Trophy 		2010
Episode SpongeBob SquarePants
The Inmates of Summer 		2007
Episode Space: Above and Beyond
Pilot (1) 		1995
Episode Fillmore!
South of Friendship, North of Honor 		2003
Episode Action
Dead Man Floating 		2000
Episode Promised Land
The Promise 		1997
Episode Action
Dragon's Blood 		2000
Episode Promised Land
The Collapse 		1997
Episode Father of the Pride
One Man's Meat Is Another Man's Girlfriend 		2004
Episode The X-Files
Revelations 		1995
Episode Human Target
Second Chance 		1992
Episode House
Birthmarks 		2008
Episode The District
New World 		2001
Episode The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
Pilot 		1993
Episode The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
Senior Spirit 		1993
Episode Raven
Wipe-Out 		1993
Episode Kim Possible
Rufus vs. Commodore Puddles 		2003
Episode House
Daddy's Boy 		2005
Episode Miami Vice
The Rising Sun of Death 		1987
Episode The Simpsons
Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming 		1995
Episode Scrubs
My Old Man 		2002
Episode Maximum Bob
Wandalust 		1998
Episode Street Justice
Innocent Blood 		1992
Episode China Beach
Who's Happy Now? 		1989
Episode Civil Wars
Das Boat House 		1992