[Stoat]

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Academy Award winner and actor Ernest Borgnine shows off his new Chief Petty Officer (CPO) cover at the United States Navy Memorial in Washington, District of Columbia (DC). Mr. Borgnine was made an honorary US Navy (USN) CPO by Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) Terry Scott [not shown] on October 15, 2004. Mr. Borgnine served in the Navy for ten years from 1935-1945 and left the service as a Gunners Mate First Class (GM1). (Released to Public)

Ernest Borgnine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Uriah_lost]

Pound for pound, Americas finest actor! Who can forget Airwolf?
Seriously, what a great guy...God bless him!

[Stoat]

More FR threads on Ernest Borgnine

Ernest Borgnine turning 90 on Wednesday

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[Chode]

Bravo Zulu!!!

[FlingWingFlyer]

I didn’t know he was still alive! Amazing! What a great guy and awesome actor.

[Trajan88]

E.B. was great in “Escape from New York” and in the way underrated tv sit-com “Single Guy” (he played an apartment doorman to perfection).

[Nowhere Man]

You’re a class act, Mr. Borgnine! I love “Airwolf” and “Mermaid-Man!” “McHale’s Navy” also rules!

[kbennkc]

Many young people have never seen or perhaps heard of the movie “Marty” . I recommend it to all .

[TheWasteLand]

Here’s to you Sergeant “Fatso” Judson.

[Carpe Cerevisi]

He does a great Mermaid Man on Spongebob.

[Lijahsbubbe]

I saw theinterview this morning. It was embarrassing. Ernest Borgnine deserved to be interviewed by someone better than the lightweight that interviewed him.

Whoever he is, he had no depth of understanding and made silly comments. Especially at the end when he remarked that coming up next was animal adoptions, and oh look, this pug looks like Ernest. Totally disrespectful.

[PackerBoy]

I wrote to Ernest Borgnine once, trying to get a copy of the made for TV movie he did in the 70s -- where he played Vince Lombardi. I think it was called "Seven Blocks of Granite: The Vince Lombardi Story." Never heard back from him.

I wonder if that movie still exists anywhere.

[dfwgator]

"There's Evil Afoot!"

[tang-soo]

I like the story in his autobiography about the "dutch oven" he pulled on his wife at the time, Ethel Merman.

Seriously, here are his credits on imdb.com.

[Revolting cat!]

Ernest Borgnine for President!

[stevem]

Mr. Borgnine served in the Navy for ten years from 1935-1945 and left the service as a Gunners Mate First Class (GM1). (Released to Public)

I believe he was also a Navy Commander and served as Captain of PT73 in both the South Pacific AND in the Mediterranean. In this assignment he had probably the funniest XO in the history of the Navy.

[Ticonderoga34]

Don’t forget that he was in the “The Wild Bunch” too. A file many consider a classic.

[Radix]

I don’t suppose that Commander McHale will be getting any new work in lefty Hollywierd soon.

[shield]

Thank You, Mr. Ernest Borgnine.

He represents the great old Hollywood...he's not part of today's Hollyweirdo.

[WorkingClassFilth]

A great actor and a great American.

His pinnacle, for me, was ‘Shack’ in ‘The Emperor of the North.’ An awesome, brutal film and Ernie was really terrifying.

[good old days]

Ernie is class all the way. “Marty” is one of my very favorite movies of all time. God bless you, Ernie!