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Actor Ernest Borgnine Dies at 95
NBC 5 Chicago ^
| 7/8/2012
Posted on 07/08/2012 4:38:50 PM PDT by markomalley
Ernest Borgnine, the beefy screen star known for blustery, often villainous roles, but who won the best-actor Oscar for playing against type as a lovesick butcher in "Marty'' in 1955, died Sunday. He was 95.
Borgnine died at 1:10 p.m. at Cedars Sinai Medical Center, spokeswoman Simi Singer told NBC4.
His longtime spokesman, Harry Flynn, told The Associated Press that Borgnine died of renal failure with his family by his side.
Television fans loved Borgnine as the scheming Navy officer in the sitcom "McHale's Navy.'' Borgnine was also known as the heavy who beats up Frank Sinatra in ``From Here to Eternity'' and one of the thugs who menaces Spencer Tracy in "Bad Day at Block Rock.''
Younger fans, however, might know him as the voice of Mermaid Man from the cartoon "SpongeBob Squarepants," according to the Internet Movie Data Base (IMDB). Borgnine appeared on television hundreds of times during his long career, including "Airwolf" and "Saturday Night Live." He was on 40 episodes of the classic game show, "The Hollywood Squares."
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To: markomalley
Rest in peace Mr Borgnine.
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posted on
07/08/2012 5:02:56 PM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: servantboy777; Jvette
To: markomalley
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posted on
07/08/2012 5:06:02 PM PDT
by
DCBryan1
(I'll take over the Mormon over the Moron any day!)
To: matthew fuller
Gunny’s mate 1st Class. Same as my Uncle Leon in WW II. RIP Mr. Borgnine.
To: markomalley
The perverted Hollywood of today has no use for great character actors like him anymore.
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posted on
07/08/2012 5:15:52 PM PDT
by
Vision
("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)
To: alloysteel
I thought he had died 20 years ago Me too! And I'm usually pretty good with keeping up with all the older stars status of whether or not they died. Seems like 5 to 10 years ago I thought he had died.
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posted on
07/08/2012 5:17:22 PM PDT
by
tsowellfan
(http://www.cafenetamerica.com/)
To: martin_fierro
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posted on
07/08/2012 5:22:12 PM PDT
by
tsowellfan
(http://www.cafenetamerica.com/)
To: markomalley
May he be in Heaven 3 days before satan knows he’s gone.
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posted on
07/08/2012 5:22:32 PM PDT
by
Freddd
(No PA Engineers)
To: Tanniker Smith
Don’t forget the classic “Spike of Bensonhurst”!And The Wild Bunch.
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posted on
07/08/2012 5:23:50 PM PDT
by
Inyo-Mono
(My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
To: markomalley
"Whaddya wanna do tonight, Marty?"
"Idunno. Whadda you wanna do tonight, Ange?"
"Oh, Idunno."
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posted on
07/08/2012 5:30:36 PM PDT
by
Oratam
To: markomalley
Leonard Nimoy @TheRealNimoy Ernest Borgnine was helpful to me when we worked together on Wagon Train. Before Star Trek. A good man. RIP Estaban Zamora story Wagon Train 1959 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J58NGv9JNVI
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posted on
07/08/2012 5:32:24 PM PDT
by
SMGFan
To: Inyo-Mono
The Wild Bunch ...
great, great film.
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posted on
07/08/2012 5:33:14 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Roger Taney? Not a bad Chief Justice. John Roberts? A really awful Chief Justice.)
To: servantboy777
Fingers crossed for Jane Fonda as #3....
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posted on
07/08/2012 5:35:16 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
To: markomalley
Many times this has been announced. I think they had him dead at least five times over the years.
To: Calusa
McHale’s Navy made my dweeby adolescent years better. He was always so far ahead of Leadbottom and the brass.
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posted on
07/08/2012 5:42:44 PM PDT
by
BerryDingle
(I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
To: markomalley
I didn't like him in the
Devil's Rain. He played the part well, at least it seemed that way when I was a kid.
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posted on
07/08/2012 5:43:40 PM PDT
by
scripter
("You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." - C.S. Lewis)
To: markomalley
“Borgnine was also known as the heavy who beats up Frank Sinatra in ``From Here to Eternity’’.
Always liked Ernie. Like him even more now. Outlived Blue Eyes by fourteen years.
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posted on
07/08/2012 5:49:49 PM PDT
by
elcid1970
(Nuke Mecca now. Death to Islam means freedom for all mankind. Deus vult!")
To: markomalley
He was a U.S. Navy veteran. So long Skip.
To: markomalley
Had the great pleasure of meeting him at a Convention not long ago. He was perfectly lively and walking around the place on his own. When I commented that memorobilia from one of his films (The Vikings) was missing he said. “Of course! A lot of them are missing I made over 120 films!”
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posted on
07/08/2012 5:53:41 PM PDT
by
Williams
(No Obama)
To: markomalley
RIP, Ernest. God Bless.
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posted on
07/08/2012 5:58:42 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
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