R. Lee Ermey in Fletch Lives | 1989

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R. Lee Ermey in Fletch Lives | 1989

Starring: Chevy Chase, Hal Holbrook and Julianne Phillips
Directed by: Michael Ritchie
About this actor

Ronald Lee Ermey (born March 24, 1944) is a retired U.S. Marine Corps drill instructor and an actor. Ermey has often played the roles of authority figures, such as his breakout performance as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket, Mayor Tilman in the Alan Parker film Mississippi Burning, Bill Bowerman in Prefontaine, Sheriff Hoyt in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake, and plastic army men leader Sarge in the Toy Story films. He has hosted two militainment programs on the History Channel: Mail Call, in which he answered viewers' questions about various militaria both modern and historic; and Lock N' Load with R. Lee Ermey, which focuses on the development of different types of weapons. Born in Emporia, Kansas, Ermey enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1961. Ermey was a drill instructor at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, California, and Parris Island, South Carolina from 1965 to 1967. In 1968, Ermey arrived in Vietnam where he served for 14 months with the...

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