Sunday, April 15, 2018

Gunny's Gone West

Actor R Lee Ermey, known for his role as foul-mouthed Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket, has died aged 74.

The former US Marine Corps soldier turned award-winning actor played a host of military men during his career.

Ermey's manager, posting to the actor's Twitter account, said he died from "complications of pneumonia".
A couple of his commercials:




Godspeed, Gunny.

3 comments:

  1. I added the strikeout in the original story because somebody in Blighty doesn't understand that Marines are not "soldiers". Later versions, which you'll see if you go to the linked story, corrected that.

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  2. Best Geico commercial ever.

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  3. The Taz one was pretty goo. So was the Pyramids one, for anyone whose ever dealt with a contractor.

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