Dale Dye Net Worth

Dale Dye's Quotes

• A great number of the war films I saw, however, didn't match my own experience... The uniforms were pressed, the guys were clean, and they reacted in such a heroic fashion to life in extremes. No matter what Sir Laurence Olivier had to say, it isn't just acting when something is so out of your frame of reference. You have to have an idea of what the truth is. Nobody did.
• The military is probably the best school in the world for an actor. You have to sublimate your own personality and become something else. I'm good at that.

Interesting Facts about Dale Dye

1. Served as a combat correspondent with the 1st Marine Division in Vietnam in 1967-1968. A fellow combat correspondent in the same unit was the late Gustav Hasford. Hasford wrote "The Short-Timers," the Vietnam novel on which the movie Full Metal Jacket (1987) was based.
2. Daughter is actress Adrienne Dye.
3. His Alma Mater, Missouri Military Academy, has a long-standing football rivalry with another nearby military school, Kemper. Kemper Military School & College, in Boonville, Missouri was used as the filming location for Combat Academy (1986) & Child's Play 3 (1991).
4. Son: Christopher Dye - Music Composer.
5. During the Second Gulf War, Dye was hired by Los Angeles radio station KFI as a military commentator and given a two-hour radio show.
6. Has worked with film legends Steven Spielberg, Brian De Palma, and Oliver Stone among others.
7. Was considered for the title role in RoboCop (1987).
8. He's the only actor to appear in all of Oliver Stone's Vietnam trilogy films: Platoon (1986), Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and Heaven & Earth (1993).
9. As of 2018, he has appeared in four films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Platoon (1986), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), JFK (1991) and Saving Private Ryan (1998). Of those, Platoon is a winner in the category.