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In recent decades he's been one of America's finest over-actors, but long ago Ernest Borgnine was the real deal. He was Fatso in From Here to Eternity (1953), got beaten up by Spencer Tracy in Bad Day at Black Rock, and won his Oscar for playing the sensitive butcher, Marty (1955). Borgnine is best known as Lt. Cdr. Quinton McHale on TV's McHale's Navy and two 1960s movies spawned from the sitcom (McHale's Navy and McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force). He was ... the voice of "Mermaid Man" on TV's SpongeBob SquarePants, "Carface" in All Dogs Go to Heaven II, and the first "center square" on Hollywood Squares when the game show first debuted in 1966.
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Once one of Hollywood's busiest character actors and a frequent villain, Ernest Borgnine is now best known for his good-guy roles in two television favorites, the wartime comedy McHale's Navy (1962-66) and the adventure drama Airwolf (1984-86). Borgnine spent ten years in the U.S. Navy (1935-45) before studying acting. In 1951, after four years at Virginia's Barter Theater and a role on Broadway, he went to Hollywood. His wide, gap-toothed face lent itself to portrayals of bad guys, and he received rave reviews for his performances as a sadistic sergeant in From Here to Eternity (1953, with Frank Sinatra) and a ruffian in Bad Day at Black Rock (1955). He was cast against type for the lead in the drama Marty (1955) and won an Oscar. He has appeared in hundreds of television and feature film productions, including with Lee Marvin in The Dirty Dozen (1967) and Emperor of the North Pole (1973) and with William Holden in Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969).
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He boasts one of the longest resumes in Hollywood, and well he should — at 90 years old, Ernest Borgnine hasn't tired of working and this month adds another title to the list. In Hallmark Channel's A Grandpa for Christmas (premiering Nov. 24), the Academy Award winner plays Bert, an octogenarian who takes in the 9-year-old granddaughter he's never met when her mother — from whom Bert has been estranged — is injured in a car accident. And just like a doting grandfather would, Borgnine has nothing but praise for his young costar, Juliette Goglia, who shines brightly in her role as Becca. "I had a ball," he says. "I felt like going home and getting my Oscar and giving it to her. … She is good."
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Ernest Borgnine, best known as a supporting player, has one of the most familiar faces in movies and television. It is a difficult one to forget; burly, gap-toothed, and pug-ugly, with bushy black eyebrows, and a smile that can suggest warmhearted affability or gleeful sadism. Borgnine has won acclaim playing roles appropriate to both smiles.
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The ever-popular Ernest Borgnine, one of the all-time great “regular guy” stars, anchored McHale’s Navy, a cheerful, rambunctious ‘60s sitcom set in the South Pacific during World War II. By its second season, the show had perfected its formula (a formula already lifted wholesale from The Phil Silvers Show): Lt. Commander McHale (Borgnine) and the scrappy crew of his PT boat (including Tim Conway, later of The Carol Burnett Show, as bumbling Ensign Parker and Gavin MacLeod, later to helm The Love Boat, as seaman “Happy” Haines) scheme, swindle, and romance their way through the war, avoiding the enemy whenever possible, and making life miserable for their petty, tyrannical commanding officer, Capt. Binghamton (Joe Flynn, later to appear in numerous Disney live-action movies like The Love Bug and The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes). Though some episodes reflected real world issues of the 1960s (for example, Ensign Parker feels less of a man when a pretty nurse turns out to be better than him at pretty much everything), by and large the show existed in a bubble of slapstick and classic vaudeville schtick--and the show’s fans wouldn’t want it any other way. Despite the backdrop of WWII, McHale’s Navy aimed young. McHale and his crew are basically a gang of rascally kids getting away with pranks and defying the adult authority figures around them. Though the guys routinely pursue nurses, their “dates” amount to little more than stolen kisses and light petting--compared to the leering Hogan’s Heroes, McHale’s Navy is strangely prepubescent.
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Synopsis: The first of two full-length television sequels which reprise the 1967 original, finds two convicts (Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine) again forced to lead a suicide mission behind enemy lines. This time, they head into Germany to thwart an unbelievable plot to assassinate Hitler. ~ John Bush, AllRead More
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