Ernest Borgnine

from Hamden, Connecticut, USA

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Biography

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).

Timeline

2022Aged 105

  • Poster for Rat Pack

    Self (archive footage)

2016Aged 99

  • Poster for Naples '44

    Self

2015Aged 98

  • Poster for Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words

    Self (archive footage)

2013Aged 96

  • Poster for Passion & Poetry: Sam's Trucker Movie

    Self

2012Aged 95

  • Poster for The Man Who Shook the Hand of Vicente Fernandez

    Rex Page

  • Poster for Remote Control Magic: The Movie

    Self (archive footage)

2011Aged 94

  • Poster for National Lampoon's Snatched

    Big Frank Baum

  • Poster for Night Club

    Albert

  • Poster for The Lion of Judah

    Slink (voice)

  • Poster for Love's Christmas Journey

    Nicholas

2010Aged 93

  • Poster for The Genesis Code

    Carl Taylor

  • Poster for Another Harvest Moon

    Frank

  • Poster for RED

    Henry, The Records Keeper

2009Aged 92

  • Poster for Private Screenings: Ernest Borgnine

    Self

  • Poster for Oliviero Rising

    Bill

  • Poster for Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for The Wishing Well

    Big Jim

2008Aged 91

  • Poster for Red and White: Gone with the West

    Himself / Narrator

  • Poster for Strange Wilderness

    Milas

  • Poster for Aces 'N' Eights

    Thurmond Prescott

  • Poster for Railroad to Hell: A Chinaman's Chance

    Judge Holliday

  • Frozen Stupid

    Frank Norgard

2007Aged 90

  • Poster for Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project

    Self

  • Poster for A Grandpa for Christmas

    Bert O'Riley

2006Aged 89

  • Poster for Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen'

    Self

  • Poster for La cura del gorilla

    Jerry

2005Aged 88

  • Poster for That One Summer

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah

    Self

  • Poster for 3 Below

    Grandpa

  • Poster for Rail Kings

    Steamtrain

2004Aged 87

  • Poster for Barn Red

    Michael Bolini

  • Poster for The Blue Light

    Faerie King

  • Poster for The Trail to Hope Rose

    Eugene

  • Poster for Renegade

    Rolling Star

  • Poster for Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

    Self (archive footage)

2003Aged 86

  • Poster for Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King

    Self

  • Poster for The American Hobo: History of the Railriding Worker

    Himself - Narrator

  • Poster for Spongebob SquarePants: Deep Sea Sillies

    Mermaid Man

  • Poster for The Long Ride Home

    Lucas Moat

2002Aged 85

  • Poster for 11'09''01 September 11

    Old Man (segment "USA")

2000Aged 83

  • Poster for Castle Rock

    Nate

  • Poster for The Kiss Of Debt

    Godfather Mariano

  • Poster for Frank Sinatra Memorial

    Self

  • Poster for Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

    Self (archive footage)

  • Hoover

    J. Edgar Hoover

1999Aged 82

1998Aged 81

  • Poster for Small Soldiers

    Kip Killagin (voice)

  • Poster for BASEketball

    Ted Denslow

  • Poster for Everyone Loves Mel

    Grandpa

  • Poster for An All Dogs Christmas Carol

    Carface (voice)

1997Aged 80

  • Poster for Ernest Borgnine on the Bus

    Self

  • Poster for McHale's Navy

    Admiral Quinton McHale Sr.

  • Poster for Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

    Self

  • Poster for Gattaca

    Caesar

1996Aged 79

  • Poster for Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for All Dogs Go to Heaven 2

    Carface (voice)

  • Poster for Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage

    Self

1995Aged 78

1993Aged 76

  • Poster for Der blaue Diamant

    Hans Kroger

  • Poster for Tierärztin Christine

    Dr. Gustav Gruber

  • Poster for La Classe américaine

    Ernest (archive footage)

1992Aged 75

  • Poster for Mistress

    Himself

1991Aged 74

  • Poster for Mountain of Diamonds

    Ernie

1990Aged 73

  • Poster for Tides of War

    Doctor

  • Poster for The Last Match

    Coach

  • Poster for Any Man's Death

    Herr Gantz

  • Poster for Appearances

    Emil Danzig

1989Aged 72

  • Poster for Real Men Don't Eat Gummi Bears

    Bischof

  • Poster for Laser Mission

    Prof. Braun

  • Poster for Hoodwinked

    Sal Piccolo

1988Aged 71

  • Poster for The Big Turnaround

    Father Lopez

  • Poster for Moving Target

    Captain Morrison

  • Poster for Skeleton Coast

    Colonel Smith

  • Poster for The Opponent

    Victor

  • Poster for The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission

    Gen. Sam Worden

  • Poster for Spike of Bensonhurst

    Baldo Cacetti

1987Aged 70

  • Poster for The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission

    Gen. Sam Worden

1986Aged 69

  • Poster for The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

    Self (archive footage)

1985Aged 68

  • Poster for The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission

    Gen. Worden

1984Aged 67

  • Poster for Airwolf: The Movie

    Dominic Santini

  • Poster for Code Name: Wild Geese

    Frank Fletcher

  • Poster for Love Leads the Way: A True Story

    Sen. Brighton

  • Poster for The Manhunt

    Ben Robeson

1983Aged 66

  • Poster for Blood Feud

    J. Edgar Hoover

  • Poster for James Bond: The First 21 Years

    Self

  • Poster for Young Warriors

    Lt. Bob Carrigan

  • Poster for Carpool

    Mickey Doyle

1981Aged 64

  • Poster for High Risk

    Clint

  • Poster for Escape from New York

    Cabbie

  • Poster for Deadly Blessing

    Isaiah

1980Aged 63

  • Poster for When Time Ran Out...

    Det. Sgt. Tom Conti

  • Poster for Super Fuzz

    Willy Dunlop

1979Aged 62

  • Poster for The Horror Show

    (archive footage)

  • Poster for The Double McGuffin

    Firat

  • Poster for Ravagers

    Rann

  • Poster for All Quiet on the Western Front

    Stanislaus Katczinsky

  • Poster for The Black Hole

    Harry Booth

1978Aged 61

  • Poster for The Ghost of Flight 401

    Dom Cimoli

  • Poster for Cops and Robin

    Joe Cleaver

  • Poster for Convoy

    Lyle Wallace

1977Aged 60

  • Poster for Fire!

    Sam Brisbane

  • Poster for The Greatest

    Angelo Dundee

  • Poster for The Prince and the Pauper

    John Canty

1976Aged 59

  • Poster for Holiday Hookers

    Max

  • Poster for Future Cop

    Officer Joe Cleaver

  • Poster for Shoot

    Lou

1975Aged 58

  • Poster for The Devil's Rain

    Jonathan Corbis

  • Poster for Hustle

    Santuro

1974Aged 57

  • Poster for Twice in a Lifetime

    Vince Boselli

  • Poster for Law and Disorder

    Cy

  • Poster for Sunday in the Country

    Adam Smith

1973Aged 56

1972Aged 55

  • Poster for The Boxer

    Captain Perkins

  • Poster for The Revengers

    Hoop

  • Poster for The Poseidon Adventure

    Mike Rogo

1971Aged 54

  • Poster for Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?

    Deputy Sam Hill

  • Poster for Willard

    Al Martin

  • Poster for Rain for a Dusty Summer

    The General

  • Poster for Bunny O'Hare

    Bill Green - Gruenwald

  • Poster for Hannie Caulder

    Emmett Clemens

  • Poster for The Trackers

    Sam Paxton

1970Aged 53

  • Poster for The Adventurers

    Fat Cat

  • Poster for Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?

    Sheriff Harve

1969Aged 52

  • Poster for The Wild Bunch

    Dutch Engstrom

  • Poster for A Bullet for Sandoval

    Don Pedro Sandoval

1968Aged 51

  • Poster for The Legend of Lylah Clare

    Barney Sheean

  • Poster for Ice Station Zebra

    Boris Vaslov

  • Poster for The Split

    Bert Clinger

1967Aged 50

  • Poster for The Dirty Dozen

    Maj. Gen. Worden

  • Poster for Chuka

    Sgt. Otto Hahnsbach

1966Aged 49

  • Poster for The Oscar

    Barney Yale

1965Aged 48

  • Poster for The Flight of the Phoenix

    Trucker Cobb

1964Aged 47

  • Poster for McHale's Navy

    Quinton McHale

1961Aged 44

  • Poster for Go Naked in the World

    Pete Stratton

  • Poster for Black City

    Peppino Navarra

  • Poster for The Last Judgment

    Pickpocket

  • Poster for Seduction Of The South

    Sante Carbone

  • Poster for Barabbas

    Lucius

1960Aged 43

  • Poster for Man on a String

    Boris Mitrov

  • Poster for Pay or Die!

    Police Lt. Joseph Petrosino

1959Aged 42

  • Poster for The Rabbit Trap

    Eddie Colt

  • Poster for Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

    Roo

1958Aged 41

  • Poster for The Vikings

    Ragnar

  • Poster for The Badlanders

    John McBain

  • Poster for Torpedo Run

    Lt. Archer 'Archie' Sloan

1956Aged 39

  • Poster for Jubal

    Shep Horgan

  • Poster for The Catered Affair

    Tom Hurley

  • Poster for The Best Things in Life Are Free

    Lew Brown

  • Poster for Three Brave Men

    Bernard F. Goldsmith

1955Aged 38

  • Poster for Bad Day at Black Rock

    Coley Trimble

  • Poster for Violent Saturday

    Stadt, Amish Farmer

  • Poster for Marty

    Marty Piletti

  • Poster for Run for Cover

    Morgan

  • Poster for The Last Command

    Mike Radin

  • Poster for The Square Jungle

    Bernie Browne

1954Aged 37

  • Poster for Johnny Guitar

    Bart Lonergan

  • Poster for Demetrius and the Gladiators

    Strabo

  • Poster for The Bounty Hunter

    Bill Rachin

  • Poster for Vera Cruz

    Donnegan

1953Aged 36

  • Poster for The Stranger Wore a Gun

    Bull Slager

  • Poster for From Here to Eternity

    Sgt. James R. 'Fatso' Judson

1951Aged 34

  • Poster for China Corsair

    Hu Chang

  • Poster for The Whistle at Eaton Falls

    Bill Street

  • Poster for The Mob

    Joe Castro