---
name: "Kevyn Major Howard"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kevyn-major-howard"
fi1m_id: "kevyn-major-howard"
imdb_id: "nm0397441"
tmdb_id: 8657
wikidata_id: "Q6397858"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "27 January 1956"
died: "14 February 2025"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 73
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-04T18:09:06.612127+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Kevyn Major Howard

## Identity

Kevyn Major Howard

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kevyn-major-howard
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kevyn-major-howard
- **IMDb ID:** nm0397441
- **TMDB ID:** 8657
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6397858
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevyn_Major_Howard, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6397858, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0397441/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8657

Actor. Born 27 January 1956 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Died 14 February 2025.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 27 January 1956, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- **Died:** 14 February 2025
- **Active:** 1983–1987
- **Average Fi1m score:** 73, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevyn_Major_Howard, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6397858, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0397441/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8657

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Full Metal Jacket*](https://film.one/film/full-metal-jacket.md) (81)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Kevyn Major Howard (1956–2025) was a Canadian actor best known for playing Private First Class Rafterman, a combat photographer, in Stanley Kubrick's *Full Metal Jacket* (1987). Born in Montreal, Quebec, he moved to Los Angeles in the late 1970s and began his screen career with a role in the film *Serial* (1980) and a guest appearance on the television series *Trapper John, M.D.*.

Howard appeared in supporting parts in films including *Death Wish II* (1982) as Stomper, *Sudden Impact* (1983) as Hawkins, *Scarface* (1983) as an uncredited extra, and *Alien Nation* (1988) as Rudyard Kipling. His television credits include episodes of *The A-Team* (1983), *MacGyver* (1985), *Magnum, P.I.* (1987) and *Miami Vice* (1988). After retiring from acting around 1999, he worked as a headshot photographer and founded the nonprofit organisation Fueled by the Fallen, which creates memorial vehicles for fallen service members and first responders.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Full Metal Jacket* (1987), Fi1m 81, as Rafterman — [page](https://film.one/film/full-metal-jacket.md)
- *Sudden Impact* (1983), Fi1m 65, as Hawkins — [page](https://film.one/film/sudden-impact.md)

## Complete filmography (20)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Crusade* (1999), series, as Officer
- *Cityscrapes: Los Angeles* (1996), as Sean
- *The Heroes of Desert Storm* (1991), Actor
- *Cityscrapes* (1990), as Dereck
- *The Outsiders* (1990), series, as Officer Jarrett
- *Alien Nation* (1988), as Rudyard Kipling
- *War Party* (1988), as Calvin Morrisey
- *Full Metal Jacket* (1987), as Rafterman — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/full-metal-jacket.md)
- *MacGyver* (1985), series, as Sonny
- *Miami Vice* (1984), series, as Bates — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/miami-vice.md)
- *Roadhouse 66* (1984), as Dink
- *Scarface* (1983), as Extra (uncredited) — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/scarface.md)
- *Sudden Impact* (1983), as Hawkins — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/sudden-impact.md)
- *The A-Team* (1983), series, as Marcus
- *Death Wish II* (1982), as Stomper
- *Freedom* (1981), Actor
- *Joe Dancer: The Big Black Pill* (1981), as David Farinpour
- *Magnum, P.I.* (1980), series, as Kenneth Geiger
- *Scared Straight! Another Story* (1980), as Robert Davis
- *Off the Minnesota Strip* (1980), as Steve Gruenberg

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