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The Academy Award winner was 95 years old.

I guess I've really been out of the loop. I thought he passed away a few years ago. We always enjoyed watching McHale's Navy when I was a kid.
RIP, Ernie.
JimK

Aw man, not another one...

R.I.P. Mr. Borgnine...

Sorry to see him go. At least we can say he had a full life. McCale's Navy was great show. His movie, Marty quickly comes to mind.
RIP Ernest!

rickenbrother wrote:Sorry to see him go. At least we can say he had a full life. McCale's Navy was great show. His movie, Marty quickly comes to mind.
RIP Ernest!

He also had a role in The Poseidon Adventure
JimK

Here's a nice read about him:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Borgnine

a great actor...he worked a lot also in Italian movies, an expressive face that was an added value to the characters he played

Sad to see him go. Somehow I'm sure he enjoyed life to the fullest. RIP Mr. Borgnine

Saw a clip of a movie he made just two years ago. Still awesome.

I also remember when growing up he did a scene from the movie Next Stop Greenwich Village right in my neighborhood.

While Ernest Borgnine’s physical appearance always doomed him to be typecast in narrow range of roles. He could portray a sympatric character just as well as that of a heavy. Strange that the one and only time Hollywood allowed him to be cast against type, Ernest Borgnine won an Oscar for his 1955 portrayal of “Marty” a lonely unmarried 34-year old Italian-American butcher from the Bronx. Getting the role at short notice after Rod Steiger turned down the part for contractual reasons.

During the same year of 1955 Ernest Borgnine, this time in a more accustomed supporting role, acted out arguably one of the most memorable scenes in American cinema history opposite a one-armed Spencer Tracy …



Also, in the above You Tube clip you’ll catch sight of a young Lee Marvin sitting at a table in one of his early film appearances. Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin went on to share the screen a few times over the years – notably in the two Robert Aldrich directed movies “The Dirty Dozen” and “The Emperor of the North Pole”



If you watch and listen to this extensive 3-part video interview that Ernest Borgnine sat down and gave to the “Archive of American Television” in October 2008 then you realise why he had such a long film and TV career. He just loved everything about the business for as he says ...

"Every time I step in front of a camera I feel young again. I don’t care whether a role is ten minutes long, or two hours. And I don’t care whether my name is up there on top, either. Matter of fact, I’d rather have someone else get top billing; then if the picture bombs, he gets the blame, not me."

There’s no denying Ernest Borgnine enjoyed the road he travelled.