Michael Herr

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1940 age 0

   Born

2. 1979 age 39

   CreditApocalypse Nowscreenwriter

3. 1987 age 47

   CreditFull Metal Jacketscreenwriter

4. 2016 age 76

   Died

• RER. Lee Ermey2 titles
• FCFrancis Ford Coppola1 title
• MBMarlon Brando1 title
• RDRobert Duvall1 title
• CCCarmine Coppola1 title
• RCRoman Coppola1 title
• DTDean Tavoularis1 title
• LFLaurence Fishburne1 title
• CSCharlie Sheen1 title
• SGScott Glenn1 title

• There was such a dense concentration of energy there [Vietnam], American and essentially adolescent, if that energy could have been channeled into anything more than noise, waste and pain it would have lighted up Indochina for a thousand years.

  Michael Herr, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I think that Vietnam is what we had instead of happy childhoods.

  Michael Herr, CC BY-SA 4.0

• War stories aren't really anything more than stories about people anyway.

  Michael Herr, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam, we've all been there.

  Michael Herr, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Soldier: You guys aught to do a story on me suntahm.<br>Herr: Why should we do a story about you?<br>Soldier: 'Cause I'm so fuckin' good, 'n' that ain' no shit, neither. Got me one hunnert 'n' fifty-se'en gooks kilt. 'N' fifty caribou. Them're all certified.

  Michael Herr, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Mal Hombre: God damn it, Sergeant. I thought you were a professional soldier.<br>Sergeant: I waited as long as I could, Sir. Any longer, and I was gonna lose my man.<br>Mal Hombre: This outfit is perfectly capable of taking care of its own dirty laundry. Is that clear, Sergeant?<br>Sergeant: Colonel, since when is a wounded trooper 'dirty laundry'?

  Michael Herr, CC BY-SA 4.0