Ermey later played a drill instructor in the pilot episode of "" and the ghost of a drill instructor in the film "The Frighteners", both similar to his character in "Full Metal Jacket". Ermey subsequently appeared in about 60 films, including "Purple Hearts", "Mississippi Burning", "The Siege of Firebase Gloria", "Dead Man Walking", "Se7en", "Fletch Lives", "Leaving Las Vegas", "Prefontaine", "Saving Silverman", "On Deadly Ground", "Sommersby", "Life", "Man of the House", "Toy Soldiers", and "The Salton Sea", as well as the remake of "Willard", and as an evil sadist in two of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" films.