Was hired to play the Gunnery Sergeant/Drill Instructor in
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
after director
Stanley Kubrick discarded his original idea of casting
Bill McKinney
in the role after seeing McKinney as the sodomy-minded hillbilly in
Beim Sterben ist jeder der Erste (1972). (Kubrick thought McKinney was too creepy.) He never got to
play the role as Kubrick decided to use former D.I.
R. Lee Ermey, who had
been hired as a technical advisor, in the part. Colceri was bitter but
accepted Kurbrick's consolation prize of a small role as the helicopter
door-gunner.
