Ernest Borgnine
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1917-01-24
Day of Death
2012-07-08 (95 years old)
Place of Birth
Hamden, Connecticut, USA
Ernest Borgnine
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).
Acting
Future Cop: Cops and Robin
as Officer Joe Cleaver
(2024)
The Spirit of the Season
as Grandpa
(2022)
Rat Pack
as Self (archive footage)
(2016)
Naples '44
as Self
(2015)
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
as Self (archive footage)
(2013)
(2012)
(2012)
Remote Control Magic: The Movie
as Self (archive footage)
(2011)
The Lion of Judah
as Slink (voice)
(2011)
Love's Christmas Journey
as Nicholas
(2011)
Night Club
as Albert
(2011)
National Lampoon's Snatched
as Big Frank Baum
(2010)
RED
as Henry, The Records Keeper
(2010)
The Genesis Code
as Carl Taylor
(2010)
Another Harvest Moon
as Frank
(2009)
(2009)
Oliviero Rising
as Bill
(2009)
The Wishing Well
as Big Jim
(2009)
(2008)
Strange Wilderness
as Milas
(2008)
Railroad to Hell: A Chinaman's Chance
as Judge Holliday
(2008)
Aces 'N' Eights
as Thurmond Prescott
(2008)
Frozen Stupid
as Frank Norgard
(2008)
Red and White: Gone with the West
as Himself / Narrator
(2007)
(2007)
A Grandpa for Christmas
as Bert O'Riley
(2006)
La cura del gorilla
as Jerry
(2006)
(2005)
(2005)
Rail Kings
as Steamtrain
(2005)
(2005)
3 Below
as Grandpa
(2004)
The Blue Light
as Faerie King
(2004)
Renegade
as Rolling Star
(2004)
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self (archive footage)
(2004)
Barn Red
as Michael Bolini
(2004)
The Trail to Hope Rose
as Eugene
(2003)
The Long Ride Home
as Lucas Moat
(2003)
The American Hobo: History of the Railriding Worker
as Himself - Narrator
(2003)
(2003)
Spongebob SquarePants: Deep Sea Sillies
as Mermaid Man (voice) (archive footage)
(2002)
11’09”01—September 11
as Old Man (segment "USA")
(2000)
Castle Rock
as Nate
(2000)
Frank Sinatra Memorial
as Self
(2000)
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
as Self (archive footage)
(2000)
The Kiss Of Debt
as Godfather Mariano
(2000)
Hoover
as J. Edgar Hoover
(1999)
The Lost Treasure of Sawtooth Island
as Ben Quinn
(1999)
The Last Great Ride
as Franklin Lyle
(1999)
Abilene
as Hotis Brown
(1998)
Small Soldiers
as Kip Killagin (voice)
(1998)
BASEketball
as Ted Denslow
(1998)
An All Dogs Christmas Carol
as Carface Carruthers (voice)
(1998)
Everyone Loves Mel
as Grandpa
(1997)
Gattaca
as Caesar
(1997)
McHale's Navy
as Admiral Quinton McHale Sr.
(1997)
(1997)
Ernest Borgnine on the Bus
as Self
(1996)
All Dogs Go to Heaven 2
as Carface (voice)
(1996)
(1996)
Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach
as Self (archive footage)
(1996)
(1995)
Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart
as Sheriff Laughton
(1995)
Tierärztin Christine II: Die Versuchung
as Dr. Gustav Gruber
(1995)
Captiva Island
as Arty
(1993)
La Classe américaine
as Ernest (archive footage)
(1993)
Der blaue Diamant
as Hans Kroger
(1993)
Tierärztin Christine
as Dr. Gustav Gruber
(1992)
Mistress
as Himself
(1991)
Mountain of Diamonds
as Ernie
(1990)
Tides of War
as Doctor
(1990)
Appearances
as Emil Danzig
(1990)
The Last Match
as Coach
(1990)
Any Man's Death
as Herr Gantz
(1989)
Laser Mission
as Prof. Braun
(1989)
Hoodwinked
as Sal Piccolo
(1989)
Real Men Don't Eat Gummi Bears
as Bischof
(1988)
The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission
as Gen. Sam Worden
(1988)
The Big Turnaround
as Father Lopez
(1988)
Skeleton Coast
as Colonel Smith
(1988)
Moving Target
as Captain Morrison
(1988)
Spike of Bensonhurst
as Baldo Cacetti
(1988)
The Opponent
as Victor
(1987)
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)
The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission
as Gen. Worden
(1984)
Code Name: Wild Geese
as Frank Fletcher
(1984)
Airwolf: The Movie
as Dominic Santini
(1984)
Love Leads the Way: A True Story
as Sen. Brighton
(1984)
The Manhunt
as Ben Robeson
(1983)
Carpool
as Mickey Doyle
(1983)
Young Warriors
as Lt. Bob Carrigan
(1983)
(1983)
Blood Feud
as J. Edgar Hoover
(1981)
Escape from New York
as Cabbie
(1981)
Deadly Blessing
as Isaiah
(1981)
High Risk
as Clint
(1980)
Super Fuzz
as Willy Dunlop
(1980)
When Time Ran Out...
as Det. Sgt. Tom Conti
(1979)
The Black Hole
as Harry Booth
(1979)
All Quiet on the Western Front
as Stanislaus Katczinsky
(1979)
Ravagers
as Rann
(1979)
The Double McGuffin
as Firat
(1979)
The Horror Show
as (archive footage)
(1978)
Convoy
as Lyle Wallace
(1978)
The Ghost of Flight 401
as Dom Cimoli
(1978)
Cops and Robin
as Joe Cleaver
(1977)
The Prince and the Pauper
as John Canty
(1977)
The Greatest
as Angelo Dundee
(1977)
Fire!
as Sam Brisbane
(1976)
Holiday Hookers
as Max
(1976)
Future Cop
as Officer Joe Cleaver
(1976)
Shoot
as Lou
(1975)
Hustle
as Santuro
(1975)
The Devil's Rain
as Jonathan Corbis
(1974)
Sunday in the Country
as Adam Smith
(1974)
Law and Disorder
as Cy
(1974)
Sandy in Disneyland
as Self
(1974)
Twice in a Lifetime
as Vince Boselli
(1973)
Emperor of the North
as Shack
(1973)
The Neptune Factor
as Chief Diver Don MacKay
(1973)
Legend in Granite
as Vince Lombardi
(1972)
The Poseidon Adventure
as Mike Rogo
(1972)
The Revengers
as Hoop
(1972)
The Boxer
as Captain Perkins
(1971)
Willard
as Al Martin
(1971)
Hannie Caulder
as Emmett Clemens
(1971)
The Trackers
as Sam Paxton
(1971)
Bunny O'Hare
as Bill Green - Gruenwald
(1971)
Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?
as Deputy Sam Hill
(1971)
Rain for a Dusty Summer
as The General
(1970)
The Adventurers
as Fat Cat
(1970)
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
as Sheriff Harve
(1969)
The Wild Bunch
as Dutch Engstrom
(1969)
A Bullet for Sandoval
as Don Pedro Sandoval
(1968)
Ice Station Zebra
as Boris Vaslov
(1968)
The Legend of Lylah Clare
as Barney Sheean
(1968)
The Split
as Bert Clinger
(1967)
The Dirty Dozen
as Maj. Gen. Worden
(1967)
Chuka
as Sgt. Otto Hahnsbach
(1966)
The Oscar
as Barney Yale
(1965)
The Flight of the Phoenix
as Trucker Cobb
(1964)
McHale's Navy
as Quinton McHale
(1961)
Barabbas
as Lucius
(1961)
The Last Judgment
as Pickpocket
(1961)
Go Naked in the World
as Pete Stratton
(1961)
Seduction Of The South
as Sante Carbone
(1961)
Black City
as Peppino Navarra
(1960)
Man on a String
as Boris Mitrov
(1960)
Pay or Die!
as Police Lt. Joseph Petrosino
(1959)
The Rabbit Trap
as Eddie Colt
(1959)
(1958)
The Vikings
as Ragnar
(1958)
Torpedo Run
as Lt. Archer 'Archie' Sloan
(1958)
The Badlanders
as John McBain
(1956)
Jubal
as Shep Horgan
(1956)
The Best Things in Life Are Free
as Lew Brown
(1956)
The Catered Affair
as Tom Hurley
(1956)
Three Brave Men
as Bernard F. Goldsmith
(1956)
(1955)
Marty
as Marty Piletti
(1955)
Bad Day at Black Rock
as Coley Trimble
(1955)
Violent Saturday
as Stadt, Amish Farmer
(1955)
The Last Command
as Mike Radin
(1955)
Run for Cover
as Morgan
(1955)
The Square Jungle
as Bernie Browne
(1954)
Johnny Guitar
as Bart Lonergan
(1954)
Vera Cruz
as Donnegan
(1954)
Demetrius and the Gladiators
as Strabo
(1954)
The Bounty Hunter
as Bill Rachin
(1953)
From Here to Eternity
as Sgt. James R. 'Fatso' Judson
(1953)
The Stranger Wore a Gun
as Bull Slager
(1951)
The Mob
as Joe Castro
(1951)
China Corsair
as Hu Chang
(1951)
The Whistle at Eaton Falls
as Bill Street
Crew
(2003)