Biography
Ronald Lee Ermey (March 24, 1944 – April 15, 2018) was a retired United States Marine Corps drill instructor and actor. Ermey 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 hosted two programs on the History Channel:...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Kubrick by Kubrick
2020
as Self (archive footage)
A rare and transcendent journey into the life and films of the legendary Stanley Kubrick like we've never seen before, featuring a treasure trove of u...

Filmworker
2018
as Self
The story of Leon Vitali, who surrendered his promising acting career to become Stanley Kubrick's devoted right-hand man.

Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond
2015
as Self
Retrospective looking at the revolutionary computer-animated feature film Toy Story.

Kubrick Remembered
2014
as Self
An 83-minute candid look into the life of Kubrick, including interviews with his widow, family, coworkers and actors, and featuring a tour of the Arch...

The Watch
2012
as Manfred
Four everyday suburban guys come together as an excuse to escape their humdrum lives one night a week. But when they accidentally discover that their ...

Machete Maidens Unleashed!
2010
as Self
In the final decades of the 20th century, the Philippines was a country where low-budget exploitation-film producers were free to make nearly any kind...

Toy Story 3
2010
as Sarge (voice)
Woody, Buzz, and the rest of Andy's toys haven't been played with in years. With Andy about to go to college, the gang find themselves accidentally le...

Solstice
2008
as Leonard
While on a summer trip with her friends, Megan begins to feel the presence of Sophie, her twin sister who recently committed suicide.

Full Metal Jacket: Between Good and Evil
2007
as Self
Follow Stanley Kubrick as he creates his savage and brilliant Vietnam film, hewing closely to the theme that dominated his creative life for four deca...

The Pixar Story
2007
as Sergeant (voice) (archive footage)
A look at the first years of Pixar Animation Studios - from the success of "Toy Story" and Pixar's promotion of talented people, to the building of it...
Down to the Bone: Anatomy of a Prequel
2007
as Himself
Documentary about the making of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning" featuring interviews with producer Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Fo...

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
2006
as Uncle Charlie Hewitt / Sheriff Hoyt
Chrissie and her friends set out on a road trip for a final fling before one is shipped off to Vietnam. Along the way, bikers harass the foursome and ...

Shark Bait
2006
as Jack (voice)
After losing everything, a young fish, Pi, goes to live with his family on the Reef. There he meets the love of his life but finds that she already ha...

X-Men: The Last Stand
2006
as Sergeant (voice)
When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men—led by Professor Charles Xavier—and the Brotherhood, a band of powerful mut...

Man of the House
2005
as Captain Nichols
Texas Ranger Roland Sharp is assigned to protect the only witnesses to the murder of a key figure in the prosecution of a drug kingpin -- a group of U...

Y.M.I.
2004
as John
Three Goth teens; Digger, Noisy and Video, each sworn to a secret pact they think will make them legendary, venture out on the last night of their liv...

Chainsaw Redux: Making a Massacre
2004
as Self - Sheriff Hoyt
Feature length documentary about the making of the film featuring interviews with producer Michael Bay, director Marcus Nispel, executive producers Br...

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
2003
as Sheriff Hoyt
After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equal...

Willard
2003
as Mr. Martin
Desperate for companionship, the repressed Willard befriends a group of rats that inhabit his late father's deteriorating mansion. In these furry crea...

Birdseye
2002
as Sheriff Gathers
A Colorado sheriff and his teenage son investigate a bizarre kidnapping, ultimately leading them on the hunt for a legendary Swiss criminal.

Scenes of the Crime
2002
as Mr. Parker
A young man about to get married earns extra cash by driving a local mobster, but things go awry when the mobster is shot dead by a rival crime boss.

Taking Sides
2002
as General Wallace
One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's. After the war, he was ...

The Salton Sea
2002
as Verne Plummer
After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriend...

Run Ronnie Run
2002
as Lead Kidnapper
A redneck with an uncanny knack for getting arrested becomes the star of his own reality program.

On the Borderline
2001
as Captain Elias
A young couple embark on a cross-country journey, only to run into trouble at the Texas/Mexico border.

Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
2001
as President Richard Benson
Stone (the Antichrist) becomes President of the European Union and uses his seat of power to dissolve the United Nations and create a one world govern...

Recess: School's Out
2001
as Colonel O'Malley (voice)
The school year is finally ending, and T.J. Detweiler is looking forward to summer. But boredom quickly sets in when his friends leave for camp — unti...

Saving Silverman
2001
as Coach
A pair of buddies conspire to save their best friend from marrying the wrong woman, a cold-hearted beauty who snatches him from them and breaks up the...
Sarge!
2001
as Himself
Non-Commissioned Officers (NCO) are the link between the Officers who lead and issue orders and the troops obligated to carry out the orders. This His...

Jericho
2000
as Marshall
A man, Jericho, wanders into a town and gets embroiled in a deeper mystery than he bargained for.

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins
2000
as Sarge (voice)
Buzz Lightyear must battle Emperor Zurg with the help of three hopefuls who insist on being his partners.

Skipped Parts
2000
as Caspar Callahan
A woman and her son must leave a small South Carolina town because of her wild behavior.

The Chaos Factor
2000
as Col. Ben Wilder
An American army intelligence officer discovers corruption and murder by American soldiers in Vietnam.

The Apartment Complex
1999
as Frank Stanton
A psychology graduate student becomes embroiled in a murder mystery after he takes a job as manager of Wonder View Apartments.

Toy Story 2
1999
as Sarge (voice)
Andy heads off to Cowboy Camp, leaving his toys to their own devices. Things shift into high gear when an obsessive toy collector named Al McWhiggen, ...

You Know My Name
1999
as Marshal Nix
In six months, the population of Cromwell, Oklahoma, has climbed from 500 to 10,000. Boom times have come to the oil-rich town. So has a new breed of ...

Escape from Alaska
1999
as Gary
A helicopter pilot work with a husband and his wife in the frozen North tagging foxes for the Environmental Protection Agency. When an avalanche hits ...

Life
1999
as Older Sheriff Pike
Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a crime they did not commit.

The Sender
1998
as Colonel Rosewater
A psychic father and daughter band together with an "angel" in an attempt to save Earth from an extraterrestrial Armageddon. This suspenseful thriller...

Gunshy
1998
as Jerry
When the New York journalist Jake Bridges catches his girlfriend with another guy, he goes to Atlantic City to drink himself to oblivion. He is saved ...

Starship Troopers
1997
as Voice heard on speaker (voice) (uncredited)
Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from...

Switchback
1997
as Sheriff Buck Olmstead
After FBI agent Frank Lacrosse believes his son was kidnapped by a notorious serial killer, he travels to Amarillo, Texas, where he believes the murde...

Weapons of Mass Distraction
1997
as Billy Paxton
As two warring media moguls grapple for ownership of a coveted professional football team, they use the newspapers, magazines and television stations ...

Dead Men Can't Dance
1997
as Senator Fowler
To stamp out the threat of nuclear war, a special ops team must travel to North Korea to carry out a covert mission to destroy a nuclear power plant. ...

Prefontaine
1997
as Bill Bowerman
It's the true-life story of legendary track star Steve Prefontaine, the exciting and sometimes controversial "James Dean of Track," whose spirit captu...

The Frighteners
1996
as Hiles
Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster his facade, he claims his "special" gift is the r...

Stanley Kubrick: The Invisible Man
1996
as Self
Exploring the reputation of Stanley Kubrick by means of extracts from his work and contributions of people with whom he worked.

Soul of the Game
1996
as Wilkie
In 1945, the world of baseball is divided between the Majors and the Negro Leagues - but the time has come for change. One team will be the first to s...

Dead Man Walking
1995
as Clyde Percy
A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.

Toy Story
1995
as Sergeant (voice)
Led by Woody, Andy's toys live happily in his room until Andy's birthday brings Buzz Lightyear onto the scene. Afraid of losing his place in Andy's he...

Leaving Las Vegas
1995
as Conventioneer
Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There,...

Se7en
1995
as Police Captain
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film t...

Savate
1995
as Benedict
1865: A young French officer, travelling the U.S. in search of the murderer of his best friend, gets involved in a struggle between poor farmers and a...

Best of the Best 3: No Turning Back
1995
as Preacher Brian
A martial arts instructor comes to the defense of a schoolteacher who has taken a stand against a local white supremacist organization.

Murder in the First
1995
as Judge Clawson
A young, inexperienced public defender is assigned to defend an inmate accused of committing murder while behind bars.

Love Is a Gun
1994
as Frank Deacon
A model causes an obsessed police photographer to lose his girlfriend and become a murder suspect.

Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
1994
as Prison Guard (uncredited)
Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he has to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for wh...

On Deadly Ground
1994
as Stone
Forrest Taft is an environmental agent who works for the Aegis Oil Company in Alaska. Aegis Oil's corrupt CEO is the kind of person who doesn't care w...

French Silk
1994
as Chief Crowder
Claire Laurent is a New Orleans lingerie manufacturer accused of murder, who falls in love with the detective hired to investigate her.

Chain of Command
1994
as Benjamin Brewster
When Merrill Ross (Michael Dudikoff) is thought to be a C.I.A. agent gone bad and teaming with some other alphabet named agency to take over the oil r...

The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
1993
as Brisco County Sr.
The feature-length pilot episode follows Brisco County Jr. is hired by the attorney of a group of robber barons to track down and apprehend the infamo...

Body Snatchers
1993
as General Platt
When Environmental Protection Agency inspector Steve Malone travels to a remote military base in order to check for toxic materials, he brings his fam...

Sommersby
1993
as Dick Mead
Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband, believed killed in battle. By al...

Hexed
1993
as Detective Ferguson
Lowly hotel clerk Matthew Welch stumbles unto a chance to go on a date with supermodel Hexina by pretending he is someone else. But something goes wro...

True Identity
1991
as Houston’s Boss
In order to escape from the mob, an African-American man must disguise himself as a white man.

Toy Soldiers
1991
as General Kramer
After federal agents arrest a drug czar and put him on trial, the cartel leader's vicious son storms a prep school and takes its students hostage. The...

The Terror Within II
1991
as Von Demming
In a world gone mad, the last human colony struggles to survive underground, beneath a land of nightmarish mutants who seek to destroy them. But when ...

83 Hours 'Til Dawn
1990
as Glen Fairling
A wealthy man's daughter is kidnapped and placed in a box with air for only 83 hours.

Kid
1990
as Luke Clanton
A young man (the 'Kid') returns to the small town where his parents were murdered when he was a boy. He's there for revenge. Locals Kate and Louie bef...

I'm Dangerous Tonight
1990
as Captain Aikman
An ancient Aztec cloth with a curse accidentally finds its way into the possession of a young woman. She decides to make a dress from the cloth. Whoev...

The Take
1990
as Weller
An ex-Miami cop just back from prison for corruption gets caught up in the Florida drug trade.

The Rift
1990
as Captain Phillips
An experimental submarine with a very experienced crew, the "Siren II" is sent to find out what happened to the "Siren I" after it mysteriously disapp...

Demonstone
1990
as Col. Joe Haines
Two U.S. Marine investigators looking into a series of grisly murders in Manila discover that the crimes are tied to an amulet with a 400-year-old cur...

Fletch Lives
1989
as Jimmy Lee Farnsworth
Fletch is a fish out of water in small-town Louisiana, where he's checking out a tumbledown mansion he's inherited. When a woman he flirts with turns ...

The Siege of Firebase Gloria
1989
as Sgt. Maj. Bill Hafner / Narrator
A Marine patrol stops at Firebase Gloria at the start of the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam war. With the firebase attacked, the patrol remains to h...

Mississippi Burning
1988
as Mayor Tilman
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where...

Full Metal Jacket
1987
as Gny. Sgt. Hartman
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the ...

Purple Hearts
1984
as Gunny
A Navy surgeon and a nurse fall in love while serving in Vietnam during the war. Their affection for one another provides a striking contrast to the v...

Up from the Depths
1979
as Arnold (uncredited)
A menacing shark-like predator attacks a Hawaiian tourist area in this low-budget creature feature. An uncredited Roger Corman served as executive pro...

Apocalypse Now
1979
as Eagle Thrust Seven Helicopter Pilot (uncredited)
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." ...

The Boys in Company C
1978
as Sergeant Loyce
Disheartened by futile combat, appalled by the corruption of their South Vietnamese ally, and constantly endangered by the incompetence of their own c...