Actor’s roles true to life

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 April 15 from pneumonia-related complications. He was 74. Ermey was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his memorable performance in Full Metal Jacket, in which he immortalized lines such as: “What is your major malfunction?” His first film credit was as a helicopter pilot in Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, quickly followed by a part in The Boys in Company C as a drill instructor.