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Įrmey then served in Marine Wing Support Group 17 at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma on Okinawa, Japan. He served in the aviation support field for a few years before becoming a drill instructor in India Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, where he was assigned from 1965 to 1967.

Military career Įrmey enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1961 at age 17 and went through recruit training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego in San Diego, California. The judge gave the young Ermey a choice between military service or jail Ermey chose military service.

In 1961, when Ermey was 17, his mother took him to a judge in an attempt to correct his behavior. Īs a teenager, Ermey was an admitted 'troublemaker and a bit of a hell-raiser', and frequently got into trouble. Then, in 1958, when Ermey was 14, his father moved the family to a rural home between Zillah, Washington, and Granger, Washington. A few years after his birth, his father moved the family (including Ermey and his five brothers) to a small farm outside of Kansas City, Kansas. He also hosted GunnyTime on the Outdoor Channel.Įrmey was born in Emporia, Kansas, on March 24, 1944, to John Edward (1924 – 2016) and Betty (née Pantle) Ermey (1925 – 2005). Lee Ermey, which concerned the development of different types of weapons. On television, Ermey hosted two programs on the History Channel: Mail Call, in which he answered viewers' questions about various military issues both modern and historic and Lock n' Load with R. 'Tice' Ryan in Rocket Power and John House in House. Ermey was also a United States Marine Corps staff sergeant and an honorary gunnery sergeant.Įrmey 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 (1995–2010), Lt. He achieved fame for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Lee Ermey and was a board member for the National Rifle Association, as well as a spokesman for Glock.Ronald Lee Ermey (March 24, 1944 – April 15, 2018) was an American actor and U.S.

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He also played track and field coach and Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman in Prefontaine, General Kramer in Toy Soldiers and Mayor Tilman in Mississippi Burning.Įrmey also hosted the History Channel series Mail Call and Lock N' Load with R. Lee came up with, I don't know, 150 pages of insults,' Kubrick said.'Įrmey voiced the little green army man Sarge in the Toy Story films. They didn't know what he was going to say, and we could see how they reacted. We lined them all up and did an improvisation of the first meeting with the drill instructor.

'In the course of hiring the Marine recruits, we interviewed hundreds of guys. 'Kubrick told Rolling Stone that 50 percent of Ermey's dialogue in the film was his own.

'Ermey had been brought on as a technical consultant for the 1987 film, but he had his eyes on the role of the brutal gunnery sergeant and filmed his own audition tape of him yelling out insults while tennis balls flew at him.

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