Tim Colceri
Tim Colceri was cast as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket, and then he was not. R. Lee Ermey took the part instead and Colceri was moved to the door gunner: one scene, a helicopter, a machine gun, and two lines that have outlived everything else in his career. "Get some!" and "Ain't war hell?" get quoted constantly by people who could not name the actor saying them, which is the ordinary fate of a great small performance.
What makes the scene work is that he plays it as pleasure rather than rage. The man is having a wonderful time, and the horror of the sequence comes entirely from that choice.
The rest of the filmography is journeyman genre work, mostly through the nineties: Warden Bates in Slaughter of the Innocents, Captain Jankowski in Babylon 5: In the Beginning, Grady in Never Too Young to Die, a metal head in Leprechaun 4: In Space, action pictures like The Sweeper and Rage. He appears as himself in Filmworker, the documentary about Leon Vitali, the actor who gave up his own career to work for Stanley Kubrick, which is a fitting late credit for a man whose one immortal moment came out of the same operation.
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Where to start with Tim Colceri
Full Metal Jacket is the only essential item here, and you were going to watch it anyway. When the helicopter arrives, that is him. The scene is short and it is the most concentrated thing in the film's Vietnam half.
Past that the pickings are lean and you should be honest with yourself about why you are looking. Babylon 5: In the Beginning is the best of the genre work, a television movie with real stakes attached. Leprechaun 4: In Space is precisely what its title promises and more fun than it has any right to be. The Sweeper and Rage are nineties action of the sort that used to fill a video shop shelf.
Filmworker is the one that rewards a fan, since it takes seriously the people who worked at the edges of a great director's sets.