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Ernest Borgnine (Ermes Effron Borgnine)
actor
Born: 1/24/1917
Birthplace: Hamden, Connecticut
A heavy-set veteran character actor with more than 70 movies to his credit, he earned acclaim as the lonely New York butcher in Marty (1955), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor. He is also remembered as the outlaw in The Wild Bunch (1969) and the Skipper on a PT boat in the TV series McHale's Navy (1962–66). Most recently, he was seen in BASEketball (2000) and starred in the TV series The Single Guy (1995–96), but is best known for acting in westerns and war and action/adventure movies.
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- Ernest Borgnine - Biography of Ernest Borgnine, Star of TV's McHale's Navy
- 1955 Cannes Film Festival - 1955 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or Marty (United States) Particular praise for the following ...
- BASEketball - Starring Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Ernest Borgnine, Jenny McCarthy, Yasmine Bleeth
- The Dirty Dozen (1967) - Starring Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes
- Johnny Guitar - Starring Joan Crawford, Mercedes McCambridge, Sterling Hayden, Ernest Borgnine
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