The Gunny actor dies

R LEE Ermey, a former Marine who made a career in Hollywood playing hardnosed military men like Gunnery Sgt Hartman in Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, has died.

Ermey’s longtime manager Bill Rogin said he died on Sunday from pneumonia-related complications. He was 74.

The Kansas native was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his role in Vietnam War movie Full Metal Jacket, in which he immortalised lines such as: “What is your major malfunction?”

Rogin said the real Ermey was a kind family man.