Chances are if you’ve seen an American war film in the last 30 years, the name Dale Dye might ring a bell.
Dye is a former Marine captain whose brief cameos and appearances are peppered throughout action films like “Under Siege,” “Mission: Impossible,” “Starship Troopers,” and “Saving Private Ryan.” After his first onscreen appearance in Tobe Hooper’s “Invaders from Mars,” Dye played Captain Harris in Oliver Stone’s semi-autobiographical war epic “Platoon.” The concept of actor boot camps is nothing new, and the intense soldier training that goes on at these grueling sessions does tend to bond the players together.
The experience can also add some verisimilitude that pays respect to the actual soldiers that had to go through actual boot camp.
Dale Dye’s actor boot camps are legendary in the business.
Apparently, the one that Charlie Sheen and the other actors went through during the making of “Platoon” in 1986 was particularly brutal.
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