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Ernest Borgnine

Actor / Character Actor / Officer (armed Forces) | * 01/24/1917 († 95, 07/08/2012) | Hamden, Connecticut (United States of America (USA))
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Ernest Borgnine ( BORG-nyne; born Ermes Effron Borgnino; January 24, 1917 – July 8, 2012) was an American actor whose career spanned over six decades. He was noted for his gruff but relaxed voice and gap-toothed Cheshire Cat grin. A popular performer, he also appeared as a guest on numerous talk shows and as a panelist on several game shows. Borgnine's film career began in 1951 and included supporting roles in China Corsair (1951), From Here to Eternity (1953), Vera Cruz (1954), Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), and The Wild Bunch (1969). He also played the unconventional lead in many films, winning the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1956 for Marty (1955), which also won the 1956 Academy Award for Best Picture. Borgnine then starred as the title character in the sitcom ()
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Ernest Borgnine (born Ermes Effron Borgnino; January 24, 1917 – July 8, 2012) was an American actor whose career spanned over six decades. He was noted for his gruff but calm voice and gap-toothed Cheshire Cat grin. A popular performer, he also appeared as a guest on numerous talk shows and as a panelist on several game shows.Borgnine's film career began in 1951, and included supporting roles in China Corsair (1951), From Here to Eternity (1953), Vera Cruz (1954), Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) and The Wild Bunch (1969). He also played the unconventional lead in many films, winning the Academy Award for Best Actor for Marty (1955). He achieved continuing success in the sitcom McHale's Navy (1962–1966), in which he played the title character, and co-starred as Dominic Santini in the action series Airwolf (1984–1986), in addition to a wide variety of other roles.Borgnine earned his third Primetime Emmy Award nomination at age 92 for his work on the 2009 series finale of ER. He was known as the original voice of Mermaid Man on SpongeBob SquarePants from 1999 until his death in 2012. He had earlier replaced the late Vic Tayback as the voice of the villainous Carface Caruthers in both All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 (1996) and All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series (1996–1998).

Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Action

Known for these Movies & Shows

When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape. ...

The Poseidon Adventure

FSK: 12+ years

1972 | 3.5/5 | 1h 57min
Adventure, Thriller, Action
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Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward he faces constant badgering from family and friends to get married but has reluctantly res ...

Marty

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1955 | 3.8/5 | 1h 30min
Drama, Romance / Love
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In the future, crime is out of control and New York City's Manhattan is a maximum security prison. Grabbing a bargaining chip right out of the air, convicts bring down the President's plane in bad old ...

Escape from New York

FSK: 16+ years

1981 | 3.5/5 | 1h 39min
Science Fiction, Action
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As part of a deal with an intelligence agency to look for his missing brother, a renegade pilot goes on missions with an advanced battle helicopter. ...

Airwolf

FSK: 16+ years

1984 | 3.8/5 | 48min per episode
Action & Adventure, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
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Awards & Nominations for Ernest Borgnine

Academy Award for Best Actor National Board of Review Award for Best Actor Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Golden Boot Awards Star On Hollywood Walk of Fame Good Conduct Medal (United States) American Campaign Medal World War II Victory Medal Lone Sailor Award Academy Award for Best Actor Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie 2x Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series
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Movies with Ernest Borgnine as Actor(164)

as Judge Holliday2018 Railroad to Hell: A Chinaman's Chance
as Joe Cleaver2016 Cops and Robin
as Self (archive footage)2015 Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
as himself2013 Passion & Poetry: Sam's Trucker Movie
as Rex Page2012 The Man Who Shook the Hand of Vicente Fernandez
as Self (archive footage)2012 Remote Control Magic: The Movie
as Big Frank Baum2011 National Lampoon's Snatched
as Nicholas2011 Love's Christmas Journey
as Slink (voice)2011 The Lion of Judah
as Albert2011 Night Club
as Frank2010 Another Harvest Moon
as Carl Taylor2010 The Genesis Code
as Henry, The Records Keeper2010 RED
as Big Jim2010 The Wishing Well
as Bill2009 Oliviero Rising
as himself2009 Private Screenings: Ernest Borgnine
as Himself / Narrator2008 Red and White: Gone with the West
as Thurmond Prescott2008 Aces 'N' Eights
as Frank Norgard2008 Frozen Stupid
as Milas2008 Strange Wilderness
as Bert O'Riley2007 A Grandpa for Christmas
as himself2007 Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
as Jerry2006 La cura del gorilla
as himself2006 Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen'
as Steamtrain2005 Rail Kings
2005 That One Summer
as himself2005 Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah
as Grandpa2005 3 Below
as Self (archive footage)2004 Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Rolling Star2004 Renegade
as Michael Bolini2004 Barn Red
as Faerie King2004 The Blue Light
as Eugene2004 The Trail to Hope Rose
as Lucas Moat2003 The Long Ride Home
as Himself - Narrator2003 The American Hobo: History of the Railriding Worker
as himself2003 Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
as Old Man (segment "USA")2002 11'09''01 September 11
as J. Edgar Hoover2000 Hoover
as Self (archive footage)2000 Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
as Godfather Mariano2000 The Kiss Of Debt
as Nate2000 Castle Rock
as Ben Quinn1999 The Lost Treasure of Sawtooth Island
as Hotis Brown1999 Abilene
as Franklin Lyle1999 The Last Great Ride
as Kip Killagin (voice)1998 Small Soldiers
as Carface (voice)1998 An All Dogs Christmas Carol
as Ted Denslow1998 BASEketball
as Grandpa1998 Everyone Loves Mel
as himself1997 Ernest Borgnine on the Bus
as Caesar1997 Gattaca
as himself1997 Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
as Admiral Quinton McHale Sr.1997 McHale's Navy
as Carface (voice)1996 All Dogs Go to Heaven 2
as himself1996 The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
1996 Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders
as Arty1995 Captiva Island
as Dr. Gustav Gruber1995 Tierärztin Christine II: Die Versuchung
1994 Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart
as Hans Kroger1993 Der blaue Diamant
as Ernest (archive footage)1993 La Classe américaine
as Dr. Gustav Gruber1993 Tierärztin Christine
as himself1992 Mistress
as Ernie1991 Mountain of Diamonds
as Herr Gantz1990 Any Man's Death
as Coach1990 The Last Match
as Emil Danzig1990 Appearances
as Doctor1990 Tides of War
as Sal Piccolo1989 Hoodwinked
as Bischof1989 Real Men Don't Eat Gummi Bears
as Prof. Braun1989 Laser Mission
as Gen. Sam Worden1988 The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission
as Victor1988 The Opponent
as Baldo Cacetti1988 Spike of Bensonhurst
as Captain Morrison1988 Moving Target
as Father Lopez1988 The Big Turnaround
as Colonel Smith1988 Skeleton Coast
as Gen. Sam Worden1987 The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission
as Self (archive footage)1986 The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
as Gen. Worden1985 The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission
as Sen. Brighton1984 Love Leads the Way: A True Story
as Frank Fletcher1984 Code Name: Wild Geese
as Ben Robeson1984 The Manhunt
as Dominic Santini1984 Airwolf: The Movie
as Lt. Bob Carrigan1983 Young Warriors
as Mickey Doyle1983 Carpool
as himself1983 James Bond: The First 21 Years
as Clint1981 High Risk
as Isaiah Schmidt1981 Deadly Blessing
as Cabbie1981 Escape from New York
as Det. Sgt. Tom Conti1980 When Time Ran Out...
as Willy Dunlop1980 Super Fuzz
as (archive footage)1979 The Horror Show
as Harry Booth1979 The Black Hole
as Stanislaus Katczinsky1979 All Quiet on the Western Front
as Rann1979 Ravagers
as Firat1979 The Double McGuffin
as Lyle Wallace1978 Convoy
as Dom Cimoli1978 The Ghost of Flight 401
as John Canty1977 The Prince and the Pauper
as Angelo Dundee1977 The Greatest
as Sam Brisbane1977 Fire!
as Officer Joe Cleaver1976 Future Cop
as Max1976 Holiday Hookers
as Lou1976 Shoot
as Jonathan Corbis1975 The Devil's Rain
as Santuro1975 Hustle
as Adam Smith1974 Sunday in the Country
as Vince Boselli1974 Twice in a Lifetime
as Cy1974 Law and Disorder
as Chief Diver Don MacKay1973 The Neptune Factor
as Shack1973 Emperor of the North
as Vince Lombardi1973 Legend in Granite
as Captain Perkins1972 The Boxer
as Mike Rogo1972 The Poseidon Adventure
as Hoop1972 The Revengers
as Emmett Clemens1971 Hannie Caulder
as The General1971 Rain for a Dusty Summer
as Sam Paxton1971 The Trackers
as Al Martin1971 Willard
as Deputy Sam Hill1971 Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?
as Bill Green - Gruenwald1971 Bunny O'Hare
as Fat Cat1970 The Adventurers
as Sheriff Harve1970 Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
as Don Pedro Sandoval1969 A Bullet for Sandoval
as Dutch Engstrom1969 The Wild Bunch
as Bert Clinger1968 The Split
as Barney Sheean1968 The Legend of Lylah Clare
as Boris Vaslov1968 Ice Station Zebra
as Sgt. Otto Hahnsbach1967 Chuka
as Maj. Gen. Worden1967 The Dirty Dozen
as Barney Yale1966 The Oscar
as Trucker Cobb1965 The Flight of the Phoenix
as Quinton McHale1964 McHale's Navy
as Lucius1961 Barabbas
as Pete Stratton1961 Go Naked in the World
as Sante Carbone1961 Seduction Of The South
as Peppino Navarra1961 Black City
as Pickpocket1961 The Last Judgment
as Boris Mitrov1960 Man on a String
as Police Lt. Joseph Petrosino1960 Pay or Die!
as Eddie Colt1959 The Rabbit Trap
as Roo1959 Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
as John McBain1958 The Badlanders
as Lt. Archer 'Archie' Sloan1958 Torpedo Run
as Ragnar1958 The Vikings
as Bernard F. Goldsmith1956 Three Brave Men
as Tom Hurley1956 The Catered Affair
as Shep Horgan1956 Jubal
as Lew Brown1956 The Best Things in Life Are Free
as Marty Piletti1955 Marty
as Mike Radin1955 The Last Command
as Bernie Browne1955 The Square Jungle
as Stadt, Amish Farmer1955 Violent Saturday
as Morgan1955 Run for Cover
as Coley Trimble1955 Bad Day at Black Rock
as Bart Lonergan1954 Johnny Guitar
as Donnegan1954 Vera Cruz
as Strabo1954 Demetrius and the Gladiators
as Bill Rachin1954 The Bounty Hunter
as Sgt. James R. 'Fatso' Judson1953 From Here to Eternity
as Bull Slager1953 The Stranger Wore a Gun
as Bill Street1951 The Whistle at Eaton Falls
as Hu Chang1951 China Corsair
as Joe Castro1951 The Mob

TV Shows/Series with Ernest Borgnine as Actor(48)

as Uncle Mike Murphy2000 The District
as Mermaid Man (voice)1999 SpongeBob SquarePants
1999 Family Law
1996 Early Edition
as Carface Caruthers (voice)1996 All Dogs Go To Heaven: The Series
as Joe1996 7th Heaven
as Father (voice)1995 Pinky and the Brain
as Artemus Sullivan1995 JAG
as Manny Cordoba1995 The Single Guy
as Eddie Ryan1993 Walker, Texas Ranger
1992 MGM: When the Lion Roars
as Eddie Phillips1991 Home Improvement
1991 The Commish
as Ernest Borgnine (voice)1989 The Simpsons
as Pedro El Triste1989 Oceano
as Billy Bones1987 Treasure Island in Outer Space
1987 Jake and the Fatman
as Cosmo Ponzini1984 Murder, She Wrote
as Dominic Santini1984 Airwolf
1984 Highway to Heaven
as Marcus1984 The Last Days of Pompeii
as Jerry1983 Masquerade
1982 Matt Houston
1980 Magnum, P.I.
as Earl Gianelli / 'Mr. White Death'1980 Magnum, P.I.
as The Centurion1977 Jesus of Nazareth
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)1975 Saturday Night Live
1974 Little House on the Prairie
as himself1971 Great Performances
as himself1967 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
as himself1966 Hollywood Squares
as The Center Square1966 Hollywood Squares
as TV Viewer (uncredited)1965 Get Smart
1965 The Dean Martin Show
as Harry Martin1965 Run for Your Life
as Quinton McHale1962 McHale's Navy
1959 Laramie
as Willy Moran1957 Wagon Train
as Big Jim Morrison1956 Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Willie1956 Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Matty Moran1953 GE Theater
as Major David Orlovsky1953 GE Theater
as Hully Brown1951 Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Stanislaus Katczinsky1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Self (archive footage)1948 The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 Ford Theatre
1948 The Philco Television Playhouse
as Mathew O'Rourke1948 The Philco Television Playhouse

Movies with Ernest Borgnine as Crew(1)

Crew/Thanks2003 The American Hobo: History of the Railriding Worker

Full Name: Ernest Borgnine
Born: Wednesday, 01/24 1917 (January) in Hamden, Connecticut (United States of America (USA))
Died: Sunday, 07/08 2012 (July) in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (aged: 95)
Zodiac sign: Aquarius (Chinese zodiac sign: Snake)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Educated at: Hillhouse High School
Spouses (current/former): Katy Jurado, Ethel Merman, Tova Traesnaes
Other names for Ernest Borgnine (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Ermes Effron Borgnino"
"Эрнест Боргнайн"
"어네스트 보그나인"
Ernest Borgnine frequently works together with these people:
Tress MacNeille (57x, Actress)
Andy Samberg (29x, Actor)
Bill Hader (23x, Actor)
Pamela Hayden (23x, Actress)
Kevin Michael Richardson (19x, Actor)
Eddie Albert (19x, Actor)
Fred Armisen (19x, Actor)
Maggie Roswell (19x, Actress)
Michael Landon (19x, Actor)
Kristen Wiig (18x, Actress)
Kevin McCarthy (16x, Actor)
Bobb Hopkins (9x, Crew)
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