Ernest Borgnine
Born: 1917-01-24 in Hamden, Connecticut, USA
Died: 2012-07-08
Known For: Acting
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).
Filmography
2024
- The Spirit of the Season as Grandpa
2022
- Rat Pack as Self (archive footage)
2016
- Naples '44 as Self
2013
2012
- The Man Who Shook the Hand of Vicente Fernandez as Rex Page
- Remote Control Magic: The Movie as Self (archive footage)
2011
- The Lion of Judah as Slink (voice)
- Night Club as Albert
- Love's Christmas Journey as Nicholas
- National Lampoon's Snatched as Big Frank Baum
2010
- RED as Henry, The Records Keeper
- The Genesis Code as Carl Taylor
- Another Harvest Moon as Frank
2009
- Oliviero Rising as Bill
- The Wishing Well as Big Jim
- Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants as Self
- Private Screenings: Ernest Borgnine as Self
2008
- Strange Wilderness as Milas
- Frozen Stupid as Frank Norgard
- Aces 'N' Eights as Thurmond Prescott
- Railroad to Hell: A Chinaman's Chance as Judge Holliday
- Red and White: Gone with the West as Himself / Narrator
2007
- Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project as Self
- A Grandpa for Christmas as Bert O'Riley
2006
- La cura del gorilla as Jerry
- Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen' as Self
2005
- Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah as Self
- That One Summer
- 3 Below as Grandpa
- Rail Kings as Steamtrain
2004
- Renegade as Rolling Star
- Barn Red as Michael Bolini
- The Trail to Hope Rose as Eugene
- The Blue Light as Faerie King
- Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade as Self (archive footage)
2003
- The Long Ride Home as Lucas Moat
- Spongebob SquarePants: Deep Sea Sillies as Mermaid Man (voice) (archive footage)
- Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King as Self
- The American Hobo: History of the Railriding Worker as Himself - Narrator
2002
- September 11 as Old Man (segment "USA")
2000
- The District as Uncle Mike Murphy
- Castle Rock as Nate
- Frank Sinatra Memorial as Self
- Sir John Mills' Moving Memories as Self (archive footage)
- Hoover as J. Edgar Hoover
- The Kiss Of Debt as Godfather Mariano
1999
- Family Law as Frank Collero
- SpongeBob SquarePants as Mermaid Man (voice)
- Abilene as Hotis Brown
- The Last Great Ride as Franklin Lyle
- The Lost Treasure of Sawtooth Island as Ben Quinn
1998
- BASEketball as Ted Denslow
- Small Soldiers as Kip Killagin (voice)
- An All Dogs Christmas Carol as Carface Carruthers (voice)
- Everyone Loves Mel as Grandpa
1997
- Gattaca as Caesar
- McHale's Navy as Admiral Quinton McHale Sr.
- Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western as Self
- Ernest Borgnine on the Bus as Self
1996
- Early Edition as Antonio Birelli
- 7th Heaven as Joe
- All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 as Carface (voice)
- All Dogs Go To Heaven: The Series as Carface (voice)
- Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach as Self (archive footage)
- The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage as Self
- Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders
1995
- JAG as Artemus Sullivan
- Pinky and the Brain as Father (voice)
- The Single Guy as Manny Cordoba
- Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart as Sheriff Laughton
- Captiva Island as Arty
- Tierärztin Christine II: Die Versuchung as Dr. Gustav Gruber
1994
- Touched by an Angel as Max Blandish
1993
- Walker, Texas Ranger as Eddie Ryan
- Tierärztin Christine as Dr. Gustav Gruber
- La Classe américaine as Ernest (archive footage)
- Der blaue Diamant as Hans Kroger
1992
- Mistress as Himself
- MGM: When the Lion Roars
1991
- Home Improvement as Eddie Phillips
- The Commish as Frank Nardino
- Mountain of Diamonds as Ernie
- The Burning Shore as Ernie
- 飞狼国语公映版
1990
- Appearances as Emil Danzig
- Any Man's Death as Herr Gantz
- Tides of War as Doctor
- The Last Match as Coach
1989
- The Simpsons as Ernest Borgnine (voice)
- Hoodwinked as Sal Piccolo
- Real Men Don't Eat Gummi Bears as Bischof
- Oceano as Pedro El Triste
- Laser Mission as Prof. Braun
1988
- Skeleton Coast as Colonel Smith
- The Opponent as Victor
- The Big Turnaround as Father Lopez
- The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission as Gen. Sam Worden
- Spike of Bensonhurst as Baldo Cacetti
- Moving Target as Captain Morrison
1987
- Jake and the Fatman as Col. Tom Cody
- The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission as Gen. Sam Worden
- Treasure Island in Outer Space as Billy Bones
1986
- The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn as Self (archive footage)
1985
- Alice in Wonderland as Lion
- The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission as Gen. Worden
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Cosmo Ponzini
- Highway to Heaven as Guido Liggio
- Airwolf as Dominic Santini
- Code Name: Wild Geese as Frank Fletcher
- Airwolf: The Movie as Dominic Santini
- Love Leads the Way: A True Story as Sen. Brighton
- The Last Days of Pompeii as Marcus
- Man Hunt as Ben Robeson
1983
- Young Warriors as Lt. Bob Carrigan
- Carpool as Mickey Doyle
- James Bond: The First 21 Years as Self
- Masquerade as Jerry
- Blood Feud as J. Edgar Hoover
1982
- Matt Houston as Buster Ryan
1981
- Escape from New York as Cabbie
- High Risk as Clint
- Deadly Blessing as Isaiah
1980
- Magnum, P.I. as Earl Gianelli / 'Mr. White Death'
- When Time Ran Out... as Det. Sgt. Tom Conti
- Super Fuzz as Willy Dunlop
1979
- All Quiet on the Western Front as Stanislaus Katczinsky
- Ravagers as Rann
- The Double McGuffin as Firat
- The Horror Show as (archive footage)
- The Black Hole as Harry Booth
1978
- Convoy as Lyle Wallace
- The Ghost of Flight 401 as Dom Cimoli
- Cops and Robin as Joe Cleaver
1977
- The Love Boat as Dominic Rosselli
- Jesus of Nazareth as The Centurion
- The Greatest as Angelo Dundee
- The Prince and the Pauper as John Canty
- Future Cop as Joe Cleaver
- Fire! as Sam Brisbane
1976
- Future Cop as Officer Joe Cleaver
- Shoot as Lou
- Holiday Hookers as Max
1975
- Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
- Hustle as Santuro
- The Devil's Rain as Jonathan Corbis
1974
- Little House on the Prairie as Jonathan
- Law and Disorder as Cy
- Twice in a Lifetime as Vince Boselli
- Sunday in the Country as Adam Smith
- Sandy in Disneyland as Self
1973
- The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts as Self
- The Neptune Factor as Chief Diver Don MacKay
- Emperor of the North as Shack
- Legend in Granite as Vince Lombardi
1972
- The Revengers as Hoop
- The Poseidon Adventure as Mike Rogo
- The Boxer as Captain Perkins
1971
- Great Performances as Self
- Willard as Al Martin
- The Trackers as Sam Paxton
- Hannie Caulder as Emmett Clemens
- Bunny O'Hare as Bill Green - Gruenwald
- Rain for a Dusty Summer as The General
- Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster? as Deputy Sam Hill
1970
- The Adventurers as Fat Cat
- Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? as Sheriff Harve
1969
- A Bullet for Sandoval as Don Pedro Sandoval
- The Wild Bunch as Dutch Engstrom
1968
- The Split as Bert Clinger
- Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self
- Ice Station Zebra as Boris Vaslov
- The Legend of Lylah Clare as Barney Sheean
1967
- The Dirty Dozen as Maj. Gen. Worden
- Chuka as Sgt. Otto Hahnsbach
- The Jerry Lewis Show as Self
1966
- The Oscar as Barney Yale
- Hollywood Squares as The Center Square
1965
- Get Smart as TV Viewer (uncredited)
- Run for Your Life as Harry Martin
- The Dean Martin Show
- The Flight of the Phoenix as Trucker Cobb
1964
- McHale's Navy as Quinton McHale
1963
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Melvin Freebie
- The Ray Anthony Show as himself
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- McHale's Navy as Quinton McHale
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- Barabbas as Lucius
- The Last Judgment as Pickpocket
- Black City as Peppino Navarra
- Go Naked in the World as Pete Stratton
- Seduction Of The South as Sante Carbone
1960
- Pay or Die! as Police Lt. Joseph Petrosino
- Man on a String as Boris Mitrov
1959
- Laramie
- The Rabbit Trap as Eddie Colt
- Summer of the Seventeenth Doll as Roo
1958
- Torpedo Run as Lt. Archer 'Archie' Sloan
- The Badlanders as John McBain
- The Vikings as Ragnar
1957
- Wagon Train as Willy Moran
- Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
- The O. Henry Playhouse as Buck
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Big Jim Morrison
- Jubal as Shep Horgan
- The Catered Affair as Tom Hurley
- Three Brave Men as Bernard F. Goldsmith
- The Best Things in Life Are Free as Lew Brown
- Ernest Borgnine Presents The Catered Affair as Self
1955
- Marty as Marty Piletti
- Violent Saturday as Stadt, Amish Farmer
- The Last Command as Mike Radin
- Bad Day at Black Rock as Coley Trimble
- Run for Cover as Morgan
- The Square Jungle as Bernie Browne
1954
- Johnny Guitar as Bart Lonergan
- Vera Cruz as Donnegan
- The George Gobel Show as Self
- Demetrius and the Gladiators as Strabo
- The Bounty Hunter as Bill Rachin
- The Lone Wolf as Saks
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- From Here to Eternity as Sgt. James R. 'Fatso' Judson
- The Stranger Wore a Gun as Bull Slager
- General Electric Theater as Matty Moran
1952
- The Ford Television Theatre as Gus White
1951
- China Corsair as Hu Chang
- The Mob as Joe Castro
- The Whistle at Eaton Falls as Bill Street
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Stanislaus Katczinsky
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Hully Brown
1950
- The Bob Hope Show as Self
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Audience Member