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
2022
- Rat Pack as Self (archive footage)
2016
- Naples '44 as Self
2013
2012
- Remote Control Magic: The Movie as Self (archive footage)
- The Man Who Shook the Hand of Vicente Fernandez as Rex Page
2011
- National Lampoon's Snatched as Big Frank Baum
- The Lion of Judah as Slink (voice)
- Love's Christmas Journey as Nicholas
- Night Club as Albert
2010
- RED as Henry, The Records Keeper
- Another Harvest Moon as Frank
- The Genesis Code as Carl Taylor
2009
- Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants as Self
- The Wishing Well as Big Jim
- Oliviero Rising as Bill
- Private Screenings: Ernest Borgnine as Self
2008
- Aces 'N' Eights as Thurmond Prescott
- Strange Wilderness as Milas
- Railroad to Hell: A Chinaman's Chance as Judge Holliday
- Frozen Stupid as Frank Norgard
- Red and White: Gone with the West as Himself / Narrator
2007
- A Grandpa for Christmas as Bert O'Riley
- Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project as Self
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
- Rail Kings as Steamtrain
- 3 Below as Grandpa
- That One Summer as Otis Garner
2004
- Renegade as Rolling Star
- Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade as Self (archive footage)
- The Trail to Hope Rose as Eugene
- Barn Red as Michael Bolini
- The Blue Light as Faerie King
2003
- Spongebob SquarePants: Deep Sea Sillies as Mermaid Man (voice) (archive footage)
- The Long Ride Home as Lucas Moat
- 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
- Sir John Mills' Moving Memories as Self (archive footage)
- Castle Rock as Nate
- Everyone Loves Mel as Grandpa
- Frank Sinatra Memorial as Self
- The Kiss Of Debt as Godfather Mariano
- Hoover as J. Edgar Hoover
1999
- SpongeBob SquarePants as Mermaid Man (voice)
- Family Law as Frank Collero
- Abilene as Hotis Brown
- The Last Great Ride as Franklin Lyle
- The Lost Treasure of Sawtooth Island as Ben Quinn
1998
- Small Soldiers as Kip Killagin (voice)
- BASEketball as Ted Denslow
- An All Dogs Christmas Carol as Carface Carruthers (voice)
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: The Series as Carface (voice)
- All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 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
- The Single Guy as Manny Cordoba
- Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart as Sheriff Laughton
- Tierärztin Christine II: Die Versuchung as Dr. Gustav Gruber
- Captiva Island as Arty
1994
- Touched by an Angel as Max Blandish
- The Spirit of the Season as Grandpa
1993
- Walker, Texas Ranger as Eddie Ryan
- La Classe américaine as Ernest (archive footage)
- Tierärztin Christine as Dr. Gustav Gruber
- Der blaue Diamant as Hans Kroger
1992
- MGM: When the Lion Roars
- Mistress as Himself
1991
- Home Improvement as Eddie Phillips
- The Commish as Frank Nardino
- The Burning Shore as Ernie
- 飞狼国语公映版
- Mountain of Diamonds as Ernie
- Mountain of Diamonds as Ernie
1990
- The Last Match as Coach
- Tides of War as Doctor
- Appearances as Emil Danzig
- Any Man's Death as Herr Gantz
1989
- The Simpsons as Ernest Borgnine (voice)
- Oceano as Pedro El Triste
- Laser Mission as Prof. Braun
- Real Men Don't Eat Gummi Bears as Bischof
- Hoodwinked as Sal Piccolo
1988
- The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission as Gen. Sam Worden
- Spike of Bensonhurst as Baldo Cacetti
- Skeleton Coast as Colonel Smith
- The Opponent as Victor
- The Big Turnaround as Father Lopez
- Moving Target as Captain Morrison
1987
- Jake and the Fatman as Col. Tom Cody
- Treasure Island in Outer Space as Billy Bones
- The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission as Gen. Sam Worden
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
- Airwolf as Dominic Santini
- Highway to Heaven as Guido Liggio
- The Last Days of Pompeii as Marcus
- Airwolf: The Movie as Dominic Santini
- Code Name: Wild Geese as Frank Fletcher
- Love Leads the Way: A True Story as Sen. Brighton
- Man Hunt as Ben Robeson
1983
- Masquerade as Jerry
- James Bond: The First 21 Years as Self
- Carpool as Mickey Doyle
- Young Warriors as Lt. Bob Carrigan
- Blood Feud as J. Edgar Hoover
1982
- Matt Houston as Buster Ryan
1981
- Escape from New York as Cabbie
- Deadly Blessing as Isaiah
- High Risk as Clint
1980
- Magnum, P.I. as Earl Gianelli / 'Mr. White Death'
- Super Fuzz as Willy Dunlop
- When Time Ran Out... as Det. Sgt. Tom Conti
1979
- All Quiet on the Western Front as Stanislaus Katczinsky
- The Black Hole as Harry Booth
- The Horror Show as (archive footage)
- Ravagers as Rann
- The Double McGuffin as Firat
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 Prince and the Pauper as John Canty
- Future Cop as Joe Cleaver
- The Greatest as Angelo Dundee
- Fire! as Sam Brisbane
- Superstunt as Self
1976
- Shoot as Lou
- Future Cop as Officer Joe Cleaver
- 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
- Emperor of the North as Shack
- The Neptune Factor as Chief Diver Don MacKay
- Legend in Granite as Vince Lombardi
1972
- The Poseidon Adventure as Mike Rogo
- The Boxer as Captain Perkins
- The Revengers as Hoop
1971
- Great Performances as Self
- Hannie Caulder as Emmett Clemens
- Willard as Al Martin
- Bunny O'Hare as Bill Green - Gruenwald
- The Trackers as Sam Paxton
- Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster? as Deputy Sam Hill
- Rain for a Dusty Summer as The General
1970
- The Adventurers as Fat Cat
- Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? as Sheriff Harve
1969
- The Wild Bunch as Dutch Engstrom
- A Bullet for Sandoval as Don Pedro Sandoval
1968
- Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self
- Ice Station Zebra as Boris Vaslov
- The Legend of Lylah Clare as Barney Sheean
- The Split as Bert Clinger
1967
- The Dirty Dozen as Maj. Gen. Worden
- Chuka as Sgt. Otto Hahnsbach
- The Jerry Lewis Show as Self
1966
- Hollywood Squares as The Center Square
- The Oscar as Barney Yale
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
- Go Naked in the World as Pete Stratton
- Black City as Peppino Navarra
- 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
- Summer of the Seventeenth Doll as Roo
- The Rabbit Trap as Eddie Colt
1958
- The Vikings as Ragnar
- Torpedo Run as Lt. Archer 'Archie' Sloan
- The Badlanders as John McBain
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
- Bad Day at Black Rock as Coley Trimble
- Run for Cover as Morgan
- The Square Jungle as Bernie Browne
- The Last Command as Mike Radin
- Violent Saturday as Stadt, Amish Farmer
1954
- The Lone Wolf as Saks
- The George Gobel Show as Self
- Johnny Guitar as Bart Lonergan
- Vera Cruz as Donnegan
- Demetrius and the Gladiators as Strabo
- The Bounty Hunter as Bill Rachin
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- From Here to Eternity as Sgt. James R. 'Fatso' Judson
- General Electric Theater as Matty Moran
- The Stranger Wore a Gun as Bull Slager
1952
- The Ford Television Theatre as Gus White
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Stanislaus Katczinsky
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Hully Brown
- The Mob as Joe Castro
- The Whistle at Eaton Falls as Bill Street
- China Corsair as Hu Chang
1950
- The Bob Hope Show as Self
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Audience Member