# Acting sergeants **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 18, 2012, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-sergeants/644420 "2012-12-18T13:29:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-sergeants/644420/1 "2012-12-18T13:29:22Z")
Are these advanced corporals, or non-coms on stage, or what? Just trying to avoid [a breach](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=675917) in the space-time continuum. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-sergeants/644420/2 "2012-12-18T13:42:09Z")
I was always amused by Phil Silvers as Sgt. Bilko, but I was partial to his grifter/ schemer character. Steve Martin’s version, not so much. But John Wayne always epitomized the crusty sergeant to me, in American films at least. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-sergeants/644420/3 "2012-12-18T14:48:55Z")
I would assume they would be a brevet basically waiting for the paperwork to catch up to the actual need in the field; especially pre-internet when communication in Uncle Sugars Mean Green Machine was usually reliably slow. That, and thanks for all the fish. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-sergeants/644420/4 "2012-12-18T14:52:07Z")
My favorite acting Sargent was Dick. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-sergeants/644420/5 "2012-12-18T16:18:45Z")
I’d just like to give a shout out to Sgt. Slaughter. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-sergeants/644420/6 "2012-12-18T16:27:05Z")
I just want to point out that **Acting Sergeants** would be a great name for a time traveling rock band. ---
**Author:** ![Monstera\_deliciosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monstera_deliciosa/32/109_2.png) [@Monstera\_deliciosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstera_deliciosa)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-sergeants/644420/7 "2012-12-18T16:30:52Z")
No, no, no. _ **The** _ acting Sergeant is R. Lee Ermey. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-sergeants/644420/8 "2012-12-18T16:37:24Z")
We could make it a movie, but people here have No Time For Sergeants. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-sergeants/644420/9 "2012-12-18T17:07:52Z")
> [@Doug\_K](#): > > My favorite acting Sargent was Dick. My favourite acting Dick was York. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-sergeants/644420/10 "2012-12-18T17:09:47Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > My favourite acting Dick was York. Well, my favorite acting York was Michael. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-sergeants/644420/11 "2012-12-18T17:52:46Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > My favourite acting Dick was York. Just to complete the cycle, my favorite acting sergeant was Gary Cooper. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-sergeants/644420/12 "2012-12-18T18:14:18Z")
They’re all just achtung. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-sergeants/644420/13 "2012-12-18T18:14:19Z")
I always liked Sgt. Carter. Vince, not Andrew. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-sergeants/644420/14 "2012-12-21T21:19:57Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > They’re all just achtung. Sgt. Schultz: "I see _notheeeeng!"_ ---
**Author:** ![2gigch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2gigch1/32/3313_2.png) [@2gigch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2gigch1)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-sergeants/644420/15 "2012-12-21T22:33:17Z")
Sgt Hatred is my guy.