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Ernest Borgnine

Ernest Borgnine (born Ermes Effron Borgnino), with his gap-toothed grin and stocky build, became one of the world's most recognized and revered actors. He will be remembered as the bumbling Lieutenant Commander Quinton McHale in the popular TV series McHale's Navy and as Dominic Santini in the action series Airwolf, as the lovesick butcher in Marty and as vicious Sgt. 'Fatso' Judson in From Here to Eternity (1953)

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Filmography

RED

2010
as Henry

Airwolf

1984
as Dominic Santini

Escape from New York

1981
as Cabbie

Gattaca

1997
as Caesar

Small Soldiers

1998
as Kip Killagin

Jubal

1956
as Shep Horgan

3 Below

2005
as Grandpa

The Big Turnaround

1988
as Father Lopez

Ice Station Zebra

1968
as Boris Vaslov

The Wild Bunch

1969
as Dutch Engstrom

When Time Ran Out...

1980
as Det. Sgt. Tom Conti

The Boxer

1972
as Captain Perkins

The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen

1995
as Ernest Borgnine

The Kiss Of Debt

2000
as Godfather Mariano

The American Hobo: History of the Railriding Worker

2003
as Narrator

Bunny O'Hare

1971
as Bill Green - Gruenwald

Love's Christmas Journey

2011
as Nicholas

Young Warriors

1983
as Lt. Bob Carrigan

The Split

1968
as Bert Clinger

Tierärztin Christine

1993
as Dr. Gustav Gruber

Fire!

1977
as Sam Brisbane

Castle Rock

2000
as Nate

La cura del gorilla

2006
as Jerry

Night Club

2011
as Albert

Moving Target

1988
as Captain Morrison

The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission

1988
as Gen. Sam Worden

Bad Day at Black Rock

1955
as Coley Trimble

Any Man's Death

1990
as Herr Gantz

The Flight of the Phoenix

1965
as Trucker Cobb

Vera Cruz

1954
as Donnegan

Love Leads the Way: A True Story

1984
as Sen. Brighton

The Double McGuffin

1979
as Firat

Heroes of Jules Verne Festival

2010
as Ernest Borgnine

Hoodwinked

1989
as Sal Piccolo

Der blaue Diamant

1993
as Hans Kroger

Lionpower from MGM

1967
as Barney Sheean

Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King

2003
as Ernest Borgnine

Johnny Guitar

1954
as Bart Lonergan

A Bullet for Sandoval

1969
as Don Pedro Sandoval

From Here to Eternity

1953
as Sgt. James R. 'Fatso' Judson

The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission

1987
as Gen. Sam Worden

Enemy Mind

2010
as Command

McHale's Navy

1964
as Lt. Commander Quinton McHale

The Lion of Judah

2011
as Slink

Demetrius and the Gladiators

1954
as Strabo

Treasure Island in Outer Space

1989
as Billy Bones

The Square Jungle

1955
as Bernie Browne

Railroad to Hell: A Chinaman's Chance

2018

Tides of War

1990
as Doctor

Everyone Loves Mel

1998
as Grandpa

Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants

2009
as Ernest Borgnine

Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?

1971
as Deputy Sam Hill

Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen'

2006
as Ernest Borgnine

Frozen Stupid

2008
as Frank Norgard

The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage

1996
as Ernest Borgnine

The Oscar

1966
as Barney Yale

Pay or Die!

1960
as Police Lt. Joseph Petrosino

The Wishing Well

2010
as Big Jim

Hannie Caulder

1971
as Emmett Clemens

Run for Cover

1955
as Morgan

The Ghost of Flight 401

1978
as Dom Cimoli

Barabbas

1961
as Lucius

The Manhunt

1984
as Ben Robeson

Violent Saturday

1955
as Stadt, Amish Farmer

BASEketball

1998
as Ted Denslow

McHale's Navy

1997
as Admiral Quinton McHale Sr.

Oliviero Rising

2007
as Bill

Film Portrait

1970
as Ernest Borgnine

Aces 'N' Eights

2008
as Thurmond Prescott

The Greatest

1977
as Angelo Dundee

Ravagers

1979
as Rann

Super Fuzz

1980
as Willy Dunlop

11'09''01 - September 11

2002
as Old Man (USA)

Strange Wilderness

2008
as Milas

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project

2007
as Himself

The Legend of Lylah Clare

1968
as Barney Sheean

The Black Hole

1979
as Harry Booth

Passion & Poetry: Sam's Trucker Movie

2013
as Ernest Borgnine

Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders

1996

Go Naked In The World

1961
as Pete Stratton

Marty

1955
as Marty Piletti

The Whistle at Eaton Falls

1951
as Bill Street

The Rabbit Trap

1959
as Eddie Colt

James Bond: The First 21 Years

1983
as Himself

Carpool

1983
as Mickey Doyle

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

1959
as Roo

An All Dogs Christmas Carol

1998
as Carface

Skeleton Coast

1988
as Colonel Smith

The Stranger Wore a Gun

1953
as Bull Slager

The Lost Treasures of Sawtooth Island

as Picaroon

Emperor of the North

1973
as Shack

The Badlanders

1958
as John McBain

Holiday Hookers

1976
as Max

Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?

1970
as Sheriff Harve

Legend in Granite

1973
as Vince Lombardi

Mistress

1992
as Himself

Laser Mission

1989
as Prof. Braun

Real Men Don't Eat Gummi Bears

1989
as Bischof

The Last Days of Pompeii

1984
as Marcus

Chuka

1967
as Sgt. Otto Hahnsbach

The Poseidon Adventure

1972
as Mike Rogo

McHale's Navy

1962
as Lt. Commander Quinton McHale

Rain for a Dusty Summer

1971
as The General

The Revengers

1972
as Hoop

Deadly Blessing

1981
as Isaiah Schmidt

Code Name: Wild Geese

1984
as Frank Fletcher

A Grandpa for Christmas

2007
as Bert O'Riley

Il giudizio universale

1961
as Pickpocket

Black City

1961
as Peppino Navarra

Three Brave Men

1956
as Bernard F. Goldsmith

The Dirty Dozen

1967
as Maj. Gen. Worden

Snatched

2011
as Big Frank Baum

Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart

1994

Hoover

2000
as J. Edgar Hoover

The Single Guy

1995

The Long Ride Home

2003
as Lucas Moat

I briganti italiani

1961
as Sante Carbone

Torpedo Run

1958
as Lt. Archer 'Archie' Sloan

Willard

1971
as Al Martin

The Vikings

1958
as Ragnar

Future Cop

1976

Future Cop

1976
as Joe Cleaver

Captiva Island

1995
as Arty

The Last Command

1955
as Mike Radin

74th Academy Awards Opening Film

2002
as Self - Audience Member

Ernest Borgnine on the Bus

1997
as Ernest Borgnine

The Horror Show

1979
as (archive footage)

Tierärztin Christine II: Die Versuchung

1995
as Dr. Gustav Gruber

SpongeBob SquarePants: Heroes of Bikini Bottom

2011
as Mermaid Man

Airwolf: The Movie

1984
as Dominic Santini

Another Harvest Moon

2010
as Frank

Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah

2005
as Ernest Borgnine

The Best Things in Life Are Free

1956
as Lew Brown

The Bounty Hunter

1954
as Bill Rachin

The Lady with the Torch

1999
as Ernest Borgnine

The Mob

1951
as Joe Castro

Jesus of Nazareth

1977
as The Centurion

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

1986
as Ernest Borgnine

Spike of Bensonhurst

1988
as Baldo Cacetti

The Prince and the Pauper

1977
as John Canty

The Adventurers

1970
as Fat Cat

China Corsair

1951
as Hu Chang

The Devil's Rain

1975
as Jonathan Corbis

The Neptune Factor

1973
as Chief Diver Don MacKay

All Dogs Go to Heaven

1996

The Genesis Code

2010
as Carl Taylor

The Man Who Shook the Hand of Vicente Fernandez

2012
as Rex Page

High Risk

1981
as Clint

Red and White: Gone with the West

2008
as Self - Host

Shoot

1976
as Lou

The Trail to Hope Rose

2004
as Eugene

Sunday in the Country

1974
as Adam Smith

Convoy

1978
as Sheriff Lyle 'Cottonmouth' Wallace

The Catered Affair

1956
as Tom Hurley

Hustle

1975
as Santuro

Law and Disorder

1974
as Cy

Blueberry

2004
as Rolling Star

All Dogs Go to Heaven 2

1996
as Carface (voice)

Remote Control Magic: The Movie

2012
as Ernest Borgnine

The Last Great Ride

2000
as Franklin Lyle

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

2000
as Ernest Borgnine

Barn Red

2004
as Michael Bolini

Jesus of Nazareth

1977
as The Centurion

The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission

1985
as Gen. Worden

The Trackers

1971
as Sam Paxton

All Quiet on the Western Front

1979
as Stanislaus Katczinsky

Producer

Movie Hoover 2000

Guest Star

Episode Matt Houston
Here's Another Fine Mess 		1983
Episode Get Smart
The Little Black Book (2) 		1968
Episode Wagon Train
Around the Horn 		1958
Episode The Match Game
JIM NABORS & THE U.S. MARINES Vs. ERNEST BORGNINE & THE U.S. NAVY. 		1965
Episode The Match Game
JIM NABORS &THE U.S. MARINES Vs. ERNEST BORGNINE & THE U.S. NAVY. 		1965
Episode Mystery Science Theater 3000
Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders 		1999
Episode The Match Game
JIM NABORS & THE U.S. MARINES Vs. ERNEST BORGNINE & THE U.S. NAVY. 		1965
Episode Murder, She Wrote
Death Takes a Dive 		1987
Episode The Lone Wolf
The Avalanche Story (a.k.a. The Reno Story) 		1970
Episode General Electric Theater
The Legend That Walks Like A Man 		1961
Episode Saturday Night Live
Bryan Cranston/Kanye West 		2010
Episode The Hollywood Squares
THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (1966:) NICK ADAMS, SALLY FIELD, CHARLEY WEAVER, ABBY DALTON, WALLY COX, ROSE MARIE, MOREY AMSTERDAM, AGNES MOOREHEAD & ERNEST BORGNINE. (NBC DATYIME DEBUT SEASON 1.) 		1966
Episode McHale's Navy
The Crew Reunion 		2007
Episode General Electric Theater
The Bar Mitzvah Of Major Orlovsky 		1962
Episode The Hollywood Squares
THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (1966:) NICK ADAMS, SALLY FIELD, CHARLEY WEAVER, ABBY DALTON, WALLY COX, ROSE MARIE, MOREY AMSTERDAM, AGNES MOOREHEAD & ERNEST BORGNINE. 		1966
Episode McHale's Navy
Ernest Borgnine Remembers 		2007
Episode The Hollywood Squares
THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (1966:) NICK ADAMS, SALLY FIELD, CHARLEY WEAVER, ABBY DALTON, WALLY COX, ROSE MARIE, MOREY AMSTERDAM, PAMELA MASON & ERNEST BORGNINE. 		1966
Episode JAG
Yesterday's Heroes 		1998
Episode The Commish
Rising Sun 		1993
Episode ER
And in the End… 		2009
Episode Pinky and the Brain
The Visit 		1996
Episode Zane Grey Theater
Black Creek Encounter 		1957
Episode I've Got a Secret
Ernest Borgnine 		1956
Episode Home Improvement
Birds of a Feather Flock to Taylor 		1992
Episode SpongeBob SquarePants
Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy 		1999
Episode Wagon Train
The Willy Moran Story 		1957
Episode The Simpsons
Boy-Scoutz 'N the Hood 		1993
Episode The Hollywood Squares
THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (1966:) NICK ADAMS, SALLY FIELD, CHARLEY WEAVER, ABBY DALTON, WALLY COX, ROSE MARIE, MOREY AMSTERDAM, PAMELA MASON & ERNEST BORGNINE. 		1966
Episode The Hollywood Squares
THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (1966:) NICK ADAMS, SALLY FIELD, CHARLEY WEAVER, ABBY DALTON, WALLY COX, ROSE MARIE, MOREY AMSTERDAM, PAMELA MASON & ERNEST BORGNINE. 		1966
Episode Jake and the Fatman
My Shining Hour 		1989
Episode Wagon Train
The Earl Packer Story 		1961
Episode The District
Last Waltz 		2003
Episode The Commish
A Christmas Story 		1994
Episode Family Law
Alienation of Affection 		2002
Episode Get Smart
The Little Black Book (1) 		1968
Episode Wagon Train
The Estaban Zamora Story 		1959
Episode 7th Heaven
The Known Soldier 		2002
Episode The Dean Martin Show
Episode #180 		1971
Episode Magnum, P.I.
Mr. White Death 		1982