R. Lee Ermey
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After more that 25 years in the entertainment industry, Golden Globe nominee and Boston Society of Film Critics award winner for Best Supporting Actor in director Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, R. Lee Ermey is one of the most successful and talented actors working in film and television today.

His numerous roles in feature film include the 2004 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre for New Line Cinema; Switchback, starring opposite Dennis Quaid and Danny Glover; Dead Man Walking; Seven; Leaving Las Vegas; Murder In The First; Life; The Frighteners and Sommersby; as well as his critically acclaimed role opposite Jared Leto in Prefontaine.  He also lends his voice to a wide variety of projects, from The Simpsons to Toy Story and Toy Story 2.

Ermey served 11 years active duty with the U.S. Marine Corps.  He rose to the rank of staff NCO, served two years as a drill instructor and completed a tour of duty in Vietnam. Medically retired in 1971, he used his G.I. Bill benefits, and enrolled at the University of Manila in the Philippines where he studied drama. Francis Ford Coppola was filming Apocalypse Now in the area and cast Ermey in a featured role. He has since gone on to star or appear in approximately sixty films.

Ermey is no stranger to prestigious television either. He has starred in numerous telefilms including HBO’s Weapons of Mass Distraction, TNT’s The Rough Riders and TNT’s You Know My Name, starring Sam Elliot, as well as Showtime’s The Apartment Complex.

Ermey starred with Elizabeth Pena in the feature On the Borderline. Just before that, he was in the feature film Skipped Parts, with Jennifer Jason Leigh and Drew Barrymore.
 
Recently, Ermey starred in Man of the House with Tommy Lee Jones, The Salton Sea with Val Kilmer, Saving Silverman, with Jason Biggs, Jack Black, Steve Zahn and Amanda Peet.  He appears opposite Jeff Bridges in Scenes of the Crime and with Harvey Keitel in Taking Sides.  For New Line he appeared in Run Ronnie Run, and starred in the remake of Willard opposite Crispin Glover.  Ermey also is hosting “Mail Call” for the History Channel, which focuses on military technology past, present and future.

Filmography: Apocalypse Now, Body Snatchers, Full Metal Jacket, Scenes of the Crime, Seven, The Frighteners, The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Toy Story 3, Willard (2003),

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