Stanley Kubrick didn’t need to write dialogue for R. Lee Ermey as the sadistic drill sergeant in Full Metal Jacket. Those perversely poetic insults — “you slimy fucking walrus-looking piece of shit,” ...

R. Lee Ermey, an actor whose barking, foulmouthed drill sergeant in “Full Metal Jacket” highlighted a decadeslong career in which he frequently portrayed authority figures, died Sunday morning. He was ...

R. Lee Ermey, a character actor who drew on his experience as a Marine Corps drill instructor during the Vietnam War to portray the violent, howling sergeant in filmmaker Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal ...

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 ...