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Ernest Borgnine

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3.8

  • 1917 - 2012

Biography

Was an American actor. His parents were Charles who had emigrated from Ottiglio (AL), Italy and Anna who had emigrated from Carpi (MO), Italy. As an only child, Ernest enjoyed most sports, especially boxing, but took no real interest in acting. At age 18, after graduating from high school in New Haven, and undecided about his future career, he joined the United States Navy, where he stayed for ten years until leaving in 1945. After a few factory jobs, his mother suggested that his forceful personality could make him suitable for a career in acting, and Borgnine promptly enrolled at the Randall School of Drama in Hartford. After completing the course, he joined Robert Porterfield's famous Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Virginia, staying there for four years, undertaking odd jobs and playing every type of role imaginable. His big break came in 1949, when he made his acting debut on Broadway playing a male nurse in "Harvey". In 1951, Borgnine moved to Los Angeles to pursue a movie career, and made his film debut as Bill Street in The Whistle at Eaton Falls (1951). His career took off in 1953 when he was cast in the role of Sergeant "Fatso" Judson in From Here to Eternity (1953). This memorable performance led to numerous supporting roles as "heavies" in a steady string of dramas and westerns. He played against type in 1955 by securing the lead role of Marty Piletti, a shy and sensitive butcher, in Marty (1955). He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance, despite strong competition from Spencer Tracy, Frank Sinatra, James Dean and James Cagney. Throughout the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, Borgnine performed memorably in such films as The Catered Affair (1956), Ice Station Zebra (1968) and Emperor of the North (1973). Between 1962 and 1966, he played Lt. Commander Quinton McHale in the popular television series McHale's Navy (1962). In early 1984, he returned to television as Dominic Santini in the action series Airwolf (1984) co-starring Jan-Michael Vincent, and in 1995, he was cast in the comedy series The Single Guy (1995) as doorman Manny Cordoba. He also appeared in several made-for-TV movies. Ernest Borgnine passed away aged 95 on July 8, 2012, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, of renal failure. He is survived by his wife Tova, their children and his younger sister Evelyn.

Birthday: 1917-01-24

Born At: Hamden, Connecticut, USA

Casted In:

The Poseidon Adventure
551
The Wild Bunch
576
Gattaca
782
Escape from New York
1103
The Dirty Dozen
1654
11'09''01 - September 11
1926
Gummibärchen küßt man nicht
2205
Jesus of Nazareth
2413
Hustle
4990
The Black Hole
9570
Convoy
9584
Blueberry
10046
The Flight of the Phoenix
10243
All Quiet on the Western Front
10912
Poliziotto Superpiù
11333
From Here to Eternity
11426
Small Soldiers
11551
Vera Cruz
12766
BASEketball
14013
Strange Wilderness
14220
Bad Day at Black Rock
14554
McHale's Navy
14908
Marty
15919
Ice Station Zebra
17657
All Dogs Go to Heaven 2
19042
Aces 'N' Eights
19989
The Prince and the Pauper
22815
Barabbas
24248
The Mob
25728
Johnny Guitar
26596
Bersaglio sull'autostrada
28606
Young Warriors
30642
Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders
31244
Hannie Caulder
31283
The Split
31937
Emperor of the North Pole
31943
Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen'
31966
Deadly Blessing
33016
The Genesis Code
33903
Alice in Wonderland
34573
Laser Mission
35632
The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission
36571
The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission
36572
The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission
36573
Pay or Die!
37083
The Devil's Rain
38701
Chuka
39110
RED
39514
Violent Saturday
39834
Willard
42532
The Vikings
42661
Jubal
43260
Demetrius and the Gladiators
43332
The Stranger Wore a Gun
43356
The Lion of Judah
46256
High Risk
47201
When Time Ran Out...
47942
Man on a String
50378
An All Dogs Christmas Carol
51985
3 Below
53466
McHale's Navy
54295
The Oscar
56168
Il giudizio universale
58185
La cura del gorilla
60112
Airwolf: The Movie
61968
The Neptune Factor
62754
The Trail to Hope Rose
68940
The Greatest
69903
Torpedo Run
69977
Mistress
71825
The Ghost of Flight 401
72111
A Grandpa for Christmas
72140
The Double McGuffin
79188
Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah
80707
Skeleton Coast
81351
Castle Rock 
82936
Shoot
85022
Run for Cover
85639
Fire!
86243
The Legend of Lylah Clare
86816
Love's Christmas Journey
87313
Bunny O'Hare
88179
Los desesperados
88949
The Badlanders
94533
The Long Ride Home
98250
The Adventurers
106326
Qualcuno Pagherà
107333
The Catered Affair
107592
Ravagers
108061
Cane arrabbiato
110266
The Wishing Well
112806
Law and Disorder
119532
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
121369
The Best Things In Life Are Free
121899
Spike of Bensonhurst
123620
The Lost Treasure of Sawtooth Island
127181
The Revengers
127475
Another Harvest Moon
134472
Code Name: Wild Geese
138595
The Bounty Hunter
139308
Carpool
142166
Il re di poggioreale
144543
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
144910
The Man Who Shook the Hand of Vicente Fernandez
147764
The Rabbit Trap
149585
Snatched
154205
Sunday in the Country
163549
The Last Match
170577
Go Naked In The World
174709
Red and White: Gone with the West
204228
Love Leads the Way: A True Story
206321
Everyone Loves Mel
210098
Captiva Island
213737
Un uomo dalla pelle dura
213744
The Big Turnaround
214736
China Corsair
225430
Any Man's Death
239668
Three Brave Men
247691
The Trackers
252885
Frozen Stupid
253455
Rain for a Dusty Summer
260765
Der blaue Diamant
264161
The Last Great Ride
269015
The American Hobo: History of the Railriding Worker
272893
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
277129
Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
277591
Night Club
304029
Barn Red
305933
The Square Jungle
306099
Natale in casa d'appuntamento
306107
Hoodwinked
306112
The Whistle at Eaton Falls
313103
I briganti italiani
313105
Future Cop
406410
Ernest Borgnine on the Bus
441357
Legend in Granite
441664

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