The real R. Lee Ermey was a family man ... Along these lines, Gunny’s commitment to the U.S. military expanded far beyond his role in Full Metal Jacket. Ermey devoted years of his life helping ...

Marine Corps drill instructor and Hollywood actor R. Lee Ermey was robbed of an ... thing or two we should all remember about military service. Ermey had a long career. As well as his iconic ...

US Naval Institute photo. Actor and former Marine drill instructor R. Lee Ermey was honored at the GI Film Festival 2015 with this year’s Memorable Military Movie Character award for his ...

He also hosted Outdoor Channel’s ” GunnyTime with R. Lee Ermey” and ” Military Makeover,” from the producers of Lifetime’s “Designing Spaces.” He also wrote a book and established ...

Betty Ermey says she still feels the larger-than-life presence of her beloved father, R. Lee Ermey ... going to juvenile detention or joining the military service. He went to the Navy recruit ...

R. Lee Ermey was laid to rest at Arlington National ... A Vietnam War veteran and former Marine drill instructor, Ermey leveraged his military experience to pursue a career as an actor and ...

Actor R. Lee Ermey, portraying "Gunnery Sgt. Hartman," yells at new Marine recruits in this scene from the 1987 movie "Full Metal Jacket" directed by Stanley Kubrick. Army died April 15, 2018.

R. Lee Ermey, who parlayed his real-life experience ... Six years later, Ermey began an acting career, specializing in military roles, including an uncredited role in Apocalypse Now in 1979.

R. Lee Ermey will best be remembered for playing hard-nosed military men throughout his acting career, such as Gunnery Sgt. Hartman in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket. Ermey died Sunday from ...

R. Lee Ermey, the gunnery sergeant turned actor who ... Born in Emporia, Kansas in 1944, Robert Lee Ermey enlisted in the military in 1961, eventually becoming a drill sergeant during the Vietnam ...

R. Lee Ermey, the real-life military veteran who turned maggots into Marines in Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket,” died Sunday morning from complications from pneumonia, according to a ...