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R. Lee Ermey


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  • Full Metal Jacket
  • Full Metal Jacket review by HerrCommissar from Wales
    Rated - 4 stars A modern classic 4 July 2008
    ...is Island, somewhat overshadows the second half, occurring in Vietnam. However, R. Lee Ermey gives an intense performance as the Gunnery Sergeant, Hartman. This film is not...  
  • Mississippi Burning
  • Mississippi Burning review by from DERBYSHIRE
    Rated - 5 stars Hackman's finest performance? 15 May 2005
    ...tic scenes ever. The supporting cast - Willem Dafoe is a joy to behold as is R. Lee Ermey as the local Mayor. With career defining performances from Frances Mcdormand, ...  

R. Lee Ermey - filmography


  • Solstice on DVD (2007)
    Starring: R. Lee Ermey,  Amanda Seyfried,  Shawn Ashmore
    Director: Daniel Myrick
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Directed by Daniel Myrick (THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT), the horror movie SOLSTICE follows a group of high school friends on their summer vacation at a lake house. Soon, things take a turn for the worse when Meghan (Elizabeth Harnois) realises that her dead twin sister is trying to contact her. The ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 1,777 member
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  • Willard on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Crispin Glover,  R. Lee Ermey,  Laura Harring
    Director: Glen Morgan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Glen Morgan's WILLARD stars Crispin Glover in the title role as a socially awkward loner who lives with his ailing mother (Jackie Burroughs) in a decrepit old house. Trapped between duties at home and working at a dreary company formerly owned by his deceased father, Willard leads a bleak and ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 1,690 member
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  • The Wonder Of Sex on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Drew Barrymore,  Jennifer Jason Leigh,  Brad Renfro
    Director: Tamra Davis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Young Sam Callahan (Bug Hall) is reaching an age where his curiosity about the opposite sex and his possible interactions with it is reaching a boiling point. As an aspiring writer, he needs this information to give his stories realism. With the help of his mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and equally ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 538 members
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  • Life on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Eddie Murphy,  Martin Lawrence,  Obba Babatunde
    Director: Ted Demme
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence team up for a prison comedy underlined by serious social commentary. Rayford Gibson (Murphy), an opportunistic con man, and Claude Banks (Lawrence), an ambitious bank teller, are complete opposites who cross paths in 1930s Harlem. In order to pay off their debts to ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 3,539 members
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  • Prefontaine (1997)
    Starring: Jared Leto,  R. Lee Ermey,  Ed O'Neill
    Director: Steve James
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The true story of Olympic runner Steve Prefontaine who had an extraordinary talent for running despite being born with one leg shorter than the other.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 34 members
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  • Dead Men Can't Dance on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Kathleen York,  Adrian Paul,  Michael Biehn
    Director: Steve Anderson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A special military unit ventures into the Demilitarised Zone of Korea to destroy a North Korean nuclear power plant slated to start producing nuclear weapons. Events don't go as planned and so begins a tense struggle to survive.
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 36% from 57 members
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  • Dead Man Walking on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Susan Sarandon,  Sean Penn,  Robert Prosky
    Director: Tim Robbins
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This acclaimed film traces the relationship between a death-row inmate and the local nun to whom he turns for spiritual guidance in the days leading up to his scheduled execution. Matthew Poncelet (Sean Penn) has been convicted of the rape and murder of two young lovers and is awaiting execution. ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 9,592 members
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  • Deathstone on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Jan-Michael Vincent,  R. Lee Ermey,  Nancy Everhard
    Director: Andrew Prowse
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    When a mystical Chinese tomb is excavated a series of murders follow; all the victims coming from the same powerful family. When an American Marine is accused of the murders, two buddies come to his rescue to fight the supernatural.
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 40% from 64 members
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  • Full Metal Jacket on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Matthew Modine,  Adam Baldwin,  Vincent D'Onofrio
    Director: Stanley Kubrick
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In this riveting look at military life during the Vietnam conflict, Stanley Kubrick, who made the powerful antiwar classics PATHS OF GLORY (WWI) and DR. STRANGELOVE (the cold war), once again explores the behavior of men in battle. FULL METAL JACKET, adapted from Gustav Hasford's novel THE SHORT ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 76% from 30,534 members
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  • The Sender on DVD
    Starring: Michael Madsen,  Dyan Cannon,  Robert Vaughn
    Director: Richard Pepin
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A psychic father and daughter band together with an Angel to save Earth from an extraterrestrial Armageddon. Tying together strange occurrences from 1965 with the Bermuda Triangle and government hush-up conspiracies, this suspenseful thriller is like a detective story with extraterrestrials. ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 41% from 31 members
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R. Lee Ermey facts

5 most recent films

Solstice - 3.0 stars
Texas Chainsaw Massacre - The Beginning - 3.0 stars
Willard - 2.5 stars
The Wonder Of Sex - 2.5 stars
Life - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Full Metal Jacket - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Full Metal Jacket - 4.0 stars
Full Metal Jacket - HD DVD Version - 4.0 stars
Murder In The First - 3.5 stars
Mississippi Burning - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Sender - 2.0 stars
Prefontaine - 3.0 stars
Dead Men Can't Dance - 2.0 stars
Deathstone - 2.0 stars
The Wonder Of Sex - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Ed O'Ross - 3 times - show films
Matthew Modine - 3 times - show films
Kevyn Major Howard - 3 times - show films
Arliss Howard - 3 times - show films
Dorian Harewood - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Stanley Kubrick - 3 times - show films
Steve Anderson - 1 times - show films
Daniel Myrick - 1 times - show films
Glen Morgan - 1 times - show films
Tamra Davis - 1 times - show films