Ernest Borgnine

Known For: Acting
Born: January 24, 1917
Place of Birth: Hamden, Connecticut, USA
Died: July 8, 2012

Ernest Borgnine

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…

Filmography

Rat Pack

2022 · Self (archive footage)

Naples '44

2016 · Self

Passion & Poetry: Sam's Trucker Movie

2013 · Self

Remote Control Magic: The Movie

2012 · Self (archive footage)

The Man Who Shook the Hand of Vicente Fernandez

2012 · Rex Page

Love's Christmas Journey

2011 · Nicholas

The Lion of Judah

2011 · Slink (voice)

Night Club

2011 · Albert

National Lampoon's Snatched

2011 · Big Frank Baum

RED

2010 · Henry, The Records Keeper

Another Harvest Moon

2010 · Frank

The Genesis Code

2010 · Carl Taylor

The Wishing Well

2009 · Big Jim

Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants

2009 · Self

Oliviero Rising

2009 · Bill

Private Screenings: Ernest Borgnine

2009 · Self

Frozen Stupid

2008 · Frank Norgard

Railroad to Hell: A Chinaman's Chance

2008 · Judge Holliday

Aces 'N' Eights

2008 · Thurmond Prescott

Strange Wilderness

2008 · Milas

Red and White: Gone with the West

2008 · Himself / Narrator

A Grandpa for Christmas

2007 · Bert O'Riley

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project

2007 · Self

La cura del gorilla

2006 · Jerry

Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen'

2006 · Self

Rail Kings

2005 · Steamtrain

3 Below

2005 · Grandpa

That One Summer

2005 · Otis Garner

Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah

2005 · Self

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

2004 · Self (archive footage)

Renegade

2004 · Rolling Star

The Trail to Hope Rose

2004 · Eugene

Barn Red

2004 · Michael Bolini

The Blue Light

2004 · Faerie King

The Long Ride Home

2003 · Lucas Moat

Spongebob SquarePants: Deep Sea Sillies

2003 · Mermaid Man (voice) (archive footage)

Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King

2003 · Self

The American Hobo: History of the Railriding Worker

2003 · Himself - Narrator, Thanks

September 11

2002 · Old Man (segment "USA")

Hoover

2000 · J. Edgar Hoover

The District

2000 · Uncle Mike Murphy

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

2000 · Self (archive footage)

Frank Sinatra Memorial

2000 · Self

Everyone Loves Mel

2000 · Grandpa

Castle Rock

2000 · Nate

The Kiss Of Debt

2000 · Godfather Mariano

The Lost Treasure of Sawtooth Island

1999 · Ben Quinn

Family Law

1999 · Frank Collero

SpongeBob SquarePants

1999 · Mermaid Man (voice), Himself, Mermaid Man / Mermaid Man Doll (voice)

Abilene

1999 · Hotis Brown

The Last Great Ride

1999 · Franklin Lyle

An All Dogs Christmas Carol

1998 · Carface Carruthers (voice)

BASEketball

1998 · Ted Denslow

Small Soldiers

1998 · Kip Killagin (voice)

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

1997 · Self

Gattaca

1997 · Caesar

McHale's Navy

1997 · Admiral Quinton McHale Sr.

Ernest Borgnine on the Bus

1997 · Self

The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage

1996 · Self

Early Edition

1996 · Antonio Birelli

All Dogs Go To Heaven: The Series

1996 · Carface (voice)

Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders

1996

7th Heaven

1996 · Joe

All Dogs Go to Heaven 2

1996 · Carface (voice)

Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach

1996 · Self (archive footage)

Tierärztin Christine II: Die Versuchung

1995 · Dr. Gustav Gruber

JAG

1995 · Artemus Sullivan

The Single Guy

1995 · Manny Cordoba

Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart

1995 · Sheriff Laughton

Captiva Island

1995 · Arty

The Spirit of the Season

The Spirit of the Season

1994 · Grandpa

Touched by an Angel

1994 · Max Blandish

La Classe américaine

1993 · Ernest (archive footage)

Tierärztin Christine

1993 · Dr. Gustav Gruber

Der blaue Diamant

1993 · Hans Kroger

Walker, Texas Ranger

1993 · Eddie Ryan

Mistress

1992 · Himself

MGM: When the Lion Roars

1992

Mountain of Diamonds

1991 · Ernie

Mountain of Diamonds

1991 · Ernie

The Commish

1991 · Frank Nardino

Home Improvement

1991 · Eddie Phillips

飞狼国语公映版

1991

The Burning Shore

1991 · Ernie

Appearances

1990 · Emil Danzig

Any Man's Death

1990 · Herr Gantz

The Last Match

1990 · Coach

Tides of War

1990 · Doctor

The Simpsons

1989 · Ernest Borgnine (voice)

Hoodwinked

1989 · Sal Piccolo

Laser Mission

1989 · Prof. Braun

Oceano

1989 · Pedro El Triste

Real Men Don't Eat Gummi Bears

1989 · Bischof

Spike of Bensonhurst

1988 · Baldo Cacetti

The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission

1988 · Gen. Sam Worden

The Opponent

1988 · Victor

Skeleton Coast

1988 · Colonel Smith

Moving Target

1988 · Captain Morrison

The Big Turnaround

1988 · Father Lopez

Treasure Island in Outer Space

1987 · Billy Bones

Jake and the Fatman

1987 · Col. Tom Cody

The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission

1987 · Gen. Sam Worden

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

1986 · Self (archive footage)

Alice in Wonderland

1985 · Lion

The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission

1985 · Gen. Worden

Man Hunt

1984 · Ben Robeson

Love Leads the Way: A True Story

1984 · Sen. Brighton

Code Name: Wild Geese

1984 · Frank Fletcher

Murder, She Wrote

1984 · Cosmo Ponzini

Highway to Heaven

1984 · Guido Liggio

Airwolf: The Movie

1984 · Dominic Santini

The Last Days of Pompeii

1984 · Marcus

Airwolf

1984 · Dominic Santini

Masquerade

1983 · Jerry

Carpool

1983 · Mickey Doyle

Young Warriors

1983 · Lt. Bob Carrigan

James Bond: The First 21 Years

1983 · Self

Blood Feud

1983 · J. Edgar Hoover

Matt Houston

1982 · Buster Ryan

Deadly Blessing

1981 · Isaiah

Escape from New York

1981 · Cabbie

High Risk

1981 · Clint

Magnum, P.I.

1980 · Earl Gianelli / 'Mr. White Death'

Super Fuzz

1980 · Willy Dunlop

When Time Ran Out...

1980 · Det. Sgt. Tom Conti

The Black Hole

1979 · Harry Booth

All Quiet on the Western Front

1979 · Stanislaus Katczinsky

Ravagers

1979 · Rann

The Double McGuffin

1979 · Firat

The Horror Show

1979 · (archive footage)

Convoy

1978 · Lyle Wallace

Cops and Robin

1978 · Joe Cleaver

The Ghost of Flight 401

1978 · Dom Cimoli

Superstunt

1977 · Self

The Love Boat

1977 · Dominic Rosselli

The Prince and the Pauper

1977 · John Canty

The Greatest

1977 · Angelo Dundee

Fire!

1977 · Sam Brisbane

Jesus of Nazareth

1977 · The Centurion

Future Cop

1977 · Joe Cleaver

Shoot

1976 · Lou

Future Cop

1976 · Officer Joe Cleaver

Holiday Hookers

1976 · Max

Hustle

1975 · Santuro

Saturday Night Live

1975 · Self - Cameo (uncredited)

The Devil’s Rain

1975 · Jonathan Corbis

Sunday in the Country

1974 · Adam Smith

Law and Disorder

1974 · Cy

Little House on the Prairie

1974 · Jonathan

Sandy in Disneyland

1974 · Self

Twice in a Lifetime

1974 · Vince Boselli

Legend in Granite

Legend in Granite

1973 · Vince Lombardi

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts

1973 · Self

The Neptune Factor

1973 · Chief Diver Don MacKay

Emperor of the North

1973 · Shack

The Poseidon Adventure

1972 · Mike Rogo

The Revengers

1972 · Hoop

The Boxer

1972 · Captain Perkins

The Trackers

1971 · Sam Paxton

Hannie Caulder

1971 · Emmett Clemens

Bunny O'Hare

1971 · Bill Green - Gruenwald

Rain for a Dusty Summer

1971 · The General

Willard

1971 · Al Martin

Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?

1971 · Deputy Sam Hill

Great Performances

1971 · Self

Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?

1970 · Sheriff Harve

The Adventurers

1970 · Fat Cat

A Bullet for Sandoval

1969 · Don Pedro Sandoval

The Wild Bunch

1969 · Dutch Engstrom

The Split

1968 · Bert Clinger

The Legend of Lylah Clare

1968 · Barney Sheean

Ice Station Zebra

1968 · Boris Vaslov

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

1968 · Self

The Jerry Lewis Show

1967 · Self

The Dirty Dozen

1967 · Maj. Gen. Worden

Chuka

1967 · Sgt. Otto Hahnsbach

Hollywood Squares

1966 · The Center Square, Self

The Oscar

1966 · Barney Yale

The Flight of the Phoenix

1965 · Trucker Cobb

Get Smart

1965 · TV Viewer (uncredited)

The Dean Martin Show

1965

Run for Your Life

1965 · Harry Martin

McHale's Navy

1964 · Quinton McHale

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

1963 · Melvin Freebie

The Ray Anthony Show

The Ray Anthony Show

1963 · himself

McHale's Navy

1962 · Quinton McHale

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962 · Self

The Merv Griffin Show

1962 · Self

Barabbas

1961 · Lucius

Seduction Of The South

1961 · Sante Carbone

The Mike Douglas Show

1961 · Self

The Last Judgment

1961 · Pickpocket

Black City

1961 · Peppino Navarra

Go Naked in the World

1961 · Pete Stratton

Pay or Die!

1960 · Police Lt. Joseph Petrosino

Man on a String

1960 · Boris Mitrov

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

1959 · Roo

Laramie

1959

The Rabbit Trap

1959 · Eddie Colt

Torpedo Run

1958 · Lt. Archer 'Archie' Sloan

The Badlanders

1958 · John McBain

The Vikings

1958 · Ragnar

Wagon Train

1957 · Willy Moran, Estaban Zamora, Indian Brave (uncredited), Earl Packer

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

1957 · Self

The O. Henry Playhouse

1957 · Buck

Three Brave Men

1956 · Bernard F. Goldsmith

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

1956 · Big Jim Morrison, Willie

The Best Things in Life Are Free

1956 · Lew Brown

The Catered Affair

1956 · Tom Hurley

Jubal

1956 · Shep Horgan

Ernest Borgnine Presents The Catered Affair

1956 · Self

The Square Jungle

1955 · Bernie Browne

The Last Command

1955 · Mike Radin

Run for Cover

1955 · Morgan

Marty

1955 · Marty Piletti

Violent Saturday

1955 · Stadt, Amish Farmer

Bad Day at Black Rock

1955 · Coley Trimble

Vera Cruz

1954 · Donnegan

The George Gobel Show

The George Gobel Show

1954 · Self

The Bounty Hunter

1954 · Bill Rachin

Demetrius and the Gladiators

1954 · Strabo

Johnny Guitar

1954 · Bart Lonergan

The Lone Wolf

1954 · Saks

From Here to Eternity

1953 · Sgt. James R. 'Fatso' Judson

The Stranger Wore a Gun

1953 · Bull Slager

The Oscars

1953 · Self

General Electric Theater

1953 · Matty Moran, Major David Orlovsky

The Ford Television Theatre

1952 · Gus White

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951 · Stanislaus Katczinsky

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

1951 · Hully Brown

The Mob

1951 · Joe Castro

The Whistle at Eaton Falls

1951 · Bill Street

China Corsair

1951 · Hu Chang

The Bob Hope Show

1950 · Self

Ford Theatre

1948

The Philco Television Playhouse

1948 · , Mathew O'Rourke

Golden Globe Awards

1944 · Self - Audience Member

Future Cop: Cops and Robin

Future Cop: Cops and Robin

— · Officer Joe Cleaver

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