‘Full Metal Jacket’ actor R. Lee Ermey dies at 74

R. Lee Ermey 1944 - 2018 Photo: AP

R. Lee Ermey, a former Marine who made a career in Hollywood playing hard-nosed military men like Gunnery Sgt Hartman in Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, has died. Ermey’s longtime manager Bill Rogin says he died Sunday morning from pneumonia-related complications. He was 74.

The Kansas native was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his memorable performance in Full Metal Jacket, in which he immortalised lines such as: “What is your major malfunction?” His co-stars Matthew Modine and Vincent D’Onofrio tweeted their condolences Sunday evening.