'Full Metal Jacket' actor R. Lee Ermey dies at age 74

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    R. Lee Ermey, a former Marine Corps drill instructor known to millions of moviegoers as the sadistic Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket," died Sunday morning, according to his longtime manager. He was 74.

    In a statement posted on Twitter, Bill Rogin said Ermey had died due to complications from pneumonia.

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    He was a class guy...All the way...
     
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    Yes. And he played that character very well.
     
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