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Actor Ernest Borgnine died today of renal failure. He was 95.
Borgnine’s career lasted more than six decades. He first came to fame in 1953 playing the thuggish Fatso in From Here to Eternity. Two years later, Borgnine was cast in a role that was 180 degrees awat from Fatso. He was casty as Marty Pigelli, the 30-something bachelor who feared he would be alone for the rest of life in the Paddy Chayefsky penned Marty. Borgnine’s performance would win him an Academy Award for Best Actor beating out the likes of Jimmy Cagney, Spencer Tracy, James Dean and his From Here to Eternity co-star Frank Sinatra.
Yet Borgnine is perhaps best known for his work in TV with the lead role in McHale’s Navy. Younger viewers will recognize his voice as The Mermaid Man in Sponge Bob Square Pants.
Borgnine was also amongst Hollywood’s most Republicans.
I leave you with a classic scene from Marty which remains as resonant now as when it was filmed nearly sixty years ago.
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c. j. acworth| 7.9.12 @ 7:14AM
I liked him in Peckinpahs "Wild Bunch" with William Holden.
Reggie Love| 7.9.12 @ 10:33AM
That was a great movie. What a cast,William Holden,,Borgnine,Ben Johnson,Robert Ryan and the very underrated Warren Oates.
ANother very good movie of Borgnines was Emporer of The North from 1973. He plays a nasty train conductor who trys to keep bums Lee MArvin and Keith Carradine off the train.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 7.9.12 @ 5:32PM
Both were excellent flicks with Borgnine; the scene with the string and the bolt under the train from "Emperor of the North" is one of the best sadistic scenes you could find on film.
Bob Grant| 7.9.12 @ 7:08PM
Did you watch it with your boy obama. Whose head was on whose chest?
Prester John| 7.9.12 @ 9:15AM
McHaaaaale!!
Occam's Tool| 7.9.12 @ 6:35PM
I need to watch "Emperor of the North" again. You understand, I sympathise with Borgnine's character; if Hillary had taken that approach with Obama in 2008 (looking into bathhouses, for example), she would be President today and we probably would be better off. (Not necessarily doing well, but better off, as Hillary likes power more than ideology.)
Albert Constantine Jr.| 7.9.12 @ 7:20PM
As someone who has spent more than a quarter century dealing with riff raff, I found more in common with Borgnine's character when I saw the movie in the late 90s than I did the first time I saw the movie in the 70s. As an older guy now, I also identify more with Lee Marvin's de-training of Carradine as well these days.