Ernest Borgnine

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 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).

Known For: Acting

Born: Hamden, Connecticut, USA, 1917-01-24

Died: 2012-07-08

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	China Corsair	Hu Chang	55
2	1951	The Whistle at Eaton Falls	Bill Street	62
3	1951	The Mob	Joe Castro	66
4	1953	The Stranger Wore a Gun	Bull Slager	54
5	1953	From Here to Eternity	Sgt. James R. 'Fatso' Judson	73
6	1954	Johnny Guitar	Bart Lonergan	74
7	1954	Demetrius and the Gladiators	Strabo	65
8	1954	The Bounty Hunter	Bill Rachin	66
9	1954	Vera Cruz	Donnegan	67
10	1955	Bad Day at Black Rock	Coley Trimble	73
11	1955	Violent Saturday	Stadt, Amish Farmer	68
12	1955	Marty	Marty Piletti	74
13	1955	Run for Cover	Morgan	66
14	1955	The Last Command	Mike Radin	64
15	1955	The Square Jungle	Bernie Browne	59
16	1956	Ernest Borgnine Presents The Catered Affair	Self	0
17	1956	Jubal	Shep Horgan	68
18	1956	The Catered Affair	Tom Hurley	71
19	1956	The Best Things in Life Are Free	Lew Brown	50
20	1956	Three Brave Men	Bernard F. Goldsmith	48
21	1958	The Vikings	Ragnar	71
22	1958	The Badlanders	John McBain	62
23	1958	Torpedo Run	Lt. Archer 'Archie' Sloan	59
24	1959	The Rabbit Trap	Eddie Colt	60
25	1959	Summer of the Seventeenth Doll	Roo	63
26	1960	Man on a String	Boris Mitrov	60
27	1960	Pay or Die!	Police Lt. Joseph Petrosino	72
28	1961	Go Naked in the World	Pete Stratton	50
29	1961	Black City	Peppino Navarra	75
30	1961	The Last Judgment	Pickpocket	64
31	1961	Seduction Of The South	Sante Carbone	45
32	1961	Barabbas	Lucius	69
33	1964	McHale's Navy	Quinton McHale	46
34	1965	The Flight of the Phoenix	Trucker Cobb	72
35	1966	The Oscar	Barney Yale	51
36	1967	The Dirty Dozen	Maj. Gen. Worden	76
37	1967	Chuka	Sgt. Otto Hahnsbach	62
38	1968	The Legend of Lylah Clare	Barney Sheean	59
39	1968	Ice Station Zebra	Boris Vaslov	63
40	1968	The Split	Bert Clinger	67
41	1969	The Wild Bunch	Dutch Engstrom	76
42	1969	A Bullet for Sandoval	Don Pedro Sandoval	56
43	1970	The Adventurers	Fat Cat	45
44	1970	Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?	Sheriff Harve	50
45	1971	Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?	Deputy Sam Hill	80
46	1971	Willard	Al Martin	61
47	1971	Rain for a Dusty Summer	The General	40
48	1971	Bunny O'Hare	Bill Green - Gruenwald	56
49	1971	Hannie Caulder	Emmett Clemens	62
50	1971	The Trackers	Sam Paxton	57
51	1972	The Boxer	Captain Perkins	79
52	1972	The Revengers	Hoop	57
53	1972	The Poseidon Adventure	Mike Rogo	71
54	1973	Emperor of the North	Shack	67
55	1973	The Neptune Factor	Chief Diver Don MacKay	50
56	1973	Legend in Granite	Vince Lombardi	0
57	1974	Twice in a Lifetime	Vince Boselli	0
58	1974	Sandy in Disneyland	Self	60
59	1974	Law and Disorder	Cy	49
60	1974	Sunday in the Country	Adam Smith	64
61	1975	The Devil's Rain	Jonathan Corbis	50
62	1975	Hustle	Santuro	57
63	1976	Holiday Hookers	Max	35
64	1976	Future Cop	Officer Joe Cleaver	50
65	1976	Shoot	Lou	54
66	1977	Fire!	Sam Brisbane	70
67	1977	The Greatest	Angelo Dundee	57
68	1977	The Prince and the Pauper	John Canty	60
69	1978	The Ghost of Flight 401	Dom Cimoli	53
70	1978	Cops and Robin	Joe Cleaver	60
71	1978	Convoy	Lyle Wallace	63
72	1979	The Horror Show	(archive footage)	38
73	1979	The Double McGuffin	Firat	53
74	1979	Ravagers	Rann	43
75	1979	All Quiet on the Western Front	Stanislaus Katczinsky	67
76	1979	The Black Hole	Harry Booth	58
77	1980	When Time Ran Out...	Det. Sgt. Tom Conti	53
78	1980	Super Fuzz	Willy Dunlop	65
79	1981	High Risk	Clint	57
80	1981	Escape from New York	Cabbie	71
81	1981	Deadly Blessing	Isaiah	55
82	1983	Blood Feud	J. Edgar Hoover	0
83	1983	James Bond: The First 21 Years	Self	50
84	1983	Young Warriors	Lt. Bob Carrigan	37
85	1983	Carpool	Mickey Doyle	20
86	1984	Airwolf: The Movie	Dominic Santini	58
87	1984	Code Name: Wild Geese	Frank Fletcher	52
88	1984	Love Leads the Way: A True Story	Sen. Brighton	71
89	1984	The Manhunt	Ben Robeson	49
90	1985	The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission	Gen. Worden	63
91	1986	The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn	Self (archive footage)	80
92	1987	The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission	Gen. Sam Worden	51
93	1988	Moving Target	Captain Morrison	20
94	1988	The Big Turnaround	Father Lopez	35
95	1988	Skeleton Coast	Colonel Smith	39
96	1988	The Opponent	Victor	56
97	1988	The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission	Gen. Sam Worden	52
98	1988	Spike of Bensonhurst	Baldo Cacetti	56
99	1989	Real Men Don't Eat Gummi Bears	Bischof	0
100	1989	Laser Mission	Prof. Braun	39
101	1989	Hoodwinked	Sal Piccolo	63
102	1990	Tides of War	Doctor	60
103	1990	The Last Match	Coach	50
104	1990	Any Man's Death	Herr Gantz	40
105	1990	Appearances	Emil Danzig	0
106	1991	Mountain of Diamonds	Ernie	57
107	1992	Mistress	Himself	55
108	1993	Der blaue Diamant	Hans Kroger	20
109	1993	Tierärztin Christine	Dr. Gustav Gruber	55
110	1993	La Classe américaine	Ernest (archive footage)	76
111	1995	Captiva Island	Arty	0
112	1995	Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart	Sheriff Laughton	50
113	1995	Tierärztin Christine II: Die Versuchung	Dr. Gustav Gruber	55
114	1996	Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach	Self (archive footage)	70
115	1996	All Dogs Go to Heaven 2	Carface (voice)	59
116	1996	Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders		25
117	1996	The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage	Self	70
118	1997	Ernest Borgnine on the Bus	Self	50
119	1997	McHale's Navy	Admiral Quinton McHale Sr.	44
120	1997	Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western	Self	0
121	1997	Gattaca	Caesar	76
122	1998	Small Soldiers	Kip Killagin (voice)	65
123	1998	BASEketball	Ted Denslow	61
124	1998	Everyone Loves Mel	Grandpa	44
125	1998	An All Dogs Christmas Carol	Carface Carruthers (voice)	59
126	1999	The Last Great Ride	Franklin Lyle	47
127	1999	Abilene	Hotis Brown	0
128	1999	The Lost Treasure of Sawtooth Island	Ben Quinn	25
129	2000	Castle Rock	Nate	72
130	2000	The Kiss Of Debt	Godfather Mariano	0
131	2000	Frank Sinatra Memorial	Self	0
132	2000	Sir John Mills' Moving Memories	Self (archive footage)	0
133	2000	Hoover	J. Edgar Hoover	20
134	2002	11’09”01—September 11	Old Man (segment "USA")	64
135	2003	Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King	Self	0
136	2003	The American Hobo: History of the Railriding Worker	Himself - Narrator	65
137	2003	Spongebob SquarePants: Deep Sea Sillies	Mermaid Man (voice) (archive footage)	0
138	2003	The Long Ride Home	Lucas Moat	33
139	2004	The Trail to Hope Rose	Eugene	50
140	2004	Barn Red	Michael Bolini	57
141	2004	The Blue Light	Faerie King	0
142	2004	Renegade	Rolling Star	48
143	2004	Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade	Self (archive footage)	74
144	2005	That One Summer		0
145	2005	Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah	Self	70
146	2005	3 Below	Grandpa	55
147	2005	Rail Kings	Steamtrain	50
148	2006	Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen'	Self	60
149	2006	La cura del gorilla	Jerry	54
150	2007	Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project	Self	68
151	2007	A Grandpa for Christmas	Bert O'Riley	64
152	2008	Strange Wilderness	Milas	49
153	2008	Red and White: Gone with the West	Himself / Narrator	35
154	2008	Aces 'N' Eights	Thurmond Prescott	64
155	2008	Railroad to Hell: A Chinaman's Chance	Judge Holliday	35
156	2008	Frozen Stupid	Frank Norgard	0
157	2009	Private Screenings: Ernest Borgnine	Self	0
158	2009	Oliviero Rising	Bill	0
159	2009	Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants	Self	100
160	2009	The Wishing Well	Big Jim	59
161	2010	The Genesis Code	Carl Taylor	26
162	2010	Another Harvest Moon	Frank	46
163	2010	RED	Henry, The Records Keeper	67
164	2011	National Lampoon's Snatched	Big Frank Baum	42
165	2011	Night Club	Albert	0
166	2011	The Lion of Judah	Slink (voice)	50
167	2011	Love's Christmas Journey	Nicholas	67
168	2012	The Man Who Shook the Hand of Vicente Fernandez	Rex Page	49
169	2012	Remote Control Magic: The Movie	Self (archive footage)	0
170	2013	Passion & Poetry: Sam's Trucker Movie	Self	0
171	2015	Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words	Self (archive footage)	72
172	2016	Naples '44	Self	57
173	2022	Rat Pack	Self (archive footage)	90
174	2024	The Spirit of the Season	Grandpa	0
175		Future Cop: Cops and Robin	Officer Joe Cleaver	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Audience Member	72
2	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse		63
3	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse	Mathew O'Rourke	63
4	1948	Ford Theatre		0
5	1950	The Bob Hope Show	Self	70
6	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Hully Brown	73
7	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Stanislaus Katczinsky	86
8	1952	The Ford Television Theatre	Gus White	73
9	1953	General Electric Theater	Matty Moran	63
10	1953	General Electric Theater	Major David Orlovsky	63
11	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
12	1954	The Lone Wolf	Saks	70
13	1954	The George Gobel Show	Self	73
14	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Big Jim Morrison	55
15	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Willie	55
16	1957	The O. Henry Playhouse	Buck	0
17	1957	Tonight Starring Jack Paar	Self	70
18	1957	Wagon Train	Willy Moran	63
19	1957	Wagon Train	Estaban Zamora	63
20	1957	Wagon Train	Indian Brave (uncredited)	63
21	1957	Wagon Train	Earl Packer	63
22	1959	Laramie		64
23	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	54
24	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	75
25	1962	The Merv Griffin Show	Self	58
26	1962	McHale's Navy	Quinton McHale	67
27	1963	The Ray Anthony Show	himself	0
28	1963	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	Melvin Freebie	57
29	1965	Run for Your Life	Harry Martin	72
30	1965	The Dean Martin Show		73
31	1965	Get Smart	TV Viewer (uncredited)	79
32	1966	Hollywood Squares	The Center Square	78
33	1966	Hollywood Squares	Self	78
34	1967	The Jerry Lewis Show	Self	50
35	1968	Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In	Self	65
36	1971	Great Performances	Self	53
37	1973	The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts	Self	54
38	1974	Little House on the Prairie		79
39	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Cameo (uncredited)	70
40	1977	Future Cop	Joe Cleaver	72
41	1977	Jesus of Nazareth	The Centurion	78
42	1977	The Love Boat	Dominic Rosselli	63
43	1980	Magnum, P.I.	Earl Gianelli / 'Mr. White Death'	73
44	1982	Matt Houston	Buster Ryan	62
45	1983	Masquerade	Jerry	50
46	1984	Airwolf	Dominic Santini	76
47	1984	The Last Days of Pompeii	Marcus	73
48	1984	Highway to Heaven	Guido Liggio	74
49	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Cosmo Ponzini	75
50	1985	Alice in Wonderland	Lion	69
51	1987	Jake and the Fatman	Col. Tom Cody	60
52	1987	Treasure Island in Outer Space	Billy Bones	63
53	1989	Oceano	Pedro El Triste	50
54	1989	The Simpsons	Ernest Borgnine (voice)	80
55	1991	The Burning Shore	Ernie	0
56	1991	飞狼国语公映版		0
57	1991	Home Improvement	Eddie Phillips	74
58	1991	The Commish	Frank Nardino	71
59	1992	MGM: When the Lion Roars		78
60	1993	Walker, Texas Ranger	Eddie Ryan	70
61	1994	Touched by an Angel	Max Blandish	72
62	1995	Pinky and the Brain	Father (voice)	77
63	1995	The Single Guy	Manny Cordoba	63
64	1995	JAG	Artemus Sullivan	73
65	1996	7th Heaven	Joe	64
66	1996	All Dogs Go To Heaven: The Series	Carface (voice)	59
67	1996	Early Edition	Antonio Birelli	73
68	1999	SpongeBob SquarePants	Mermaid Man (voice)	77
69	1999	Family Law	Frank Collero	82
70	2000	The District	Uncle Mike Murphy	68

Ernest Borgnine

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