---
name: "Michael Herr"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/michael-herr"
fi1m_id: "michael-herr"
imdb_id: "nm0380282"
tmdb_id: 8643
wikidata_id: "Q937835"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "13 April 1940"
died: "23 June 2016"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-17T23:16:57.949146+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."
---

# Michael Herr

## Identity

Michael Herr

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/michael-herr
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** michael-herr
- **IMDb ID:** nm0380282
- **TMDB ID:** 8643
- **Wikidata ID:** Q937835
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Herr, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q937835, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0380282/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8643

Producer. Born 13 April 1940 in Lexington, Kentucky, USA. Died 23 June 2016.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 13 April 1940, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
- **Died:** 23 June 2016
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Herr, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q937835, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0380282/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8643

## 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

Michael Herr was an American writer and war correspondent. He is the author of the memoir *Dispatches* (1977), based on his time reporting from Vietnam for *Esquire* magazine between 1967 and 1969.

Herr co-wrote the screenplay for *Full Metal Jacket* (1987) with Stanley Kubrick and Gustav Hasford; the film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. He also contributed to the narration for Francis Ford Coppola's *Apocalypse Now* (1979) and *The Rainmaker* (1997).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Full Metal Jacket* (1987), Fi1m 81, Screenplay, Associate Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/full-metal-jacket.md)

## Complete filmography (2)

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

- *The Rainmaker* (1997), Screenplay
- *Full Metal Jacket* (1987), Screenplay, Associate Producer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/full-metal-jacket.md)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1988: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Full Metal Jacket*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/michael-herr