Ernest Borgnine

ActorCrew Jan 24 (died age 95) Hamden, Connecticut, USA 1944–2024 (80 year career)

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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) …

Known For

Film

Gattaca

Caesar

Film

RED

Henry, The Records Keeper

Film

Escape from New York

Cabbie

Film

The Dirty Dozen

Maj. Gen. Worden

Film

The Wild Bunch

Dutch Engstrom

Film

Small Soldiers

Kip Killagin (voice)

Film

Jesus of Nazareth

The Centurion

Film

The Poseidon Adventure

Mike Rogo

Filmography

Acting (236)

Movies (174)

The Spirit of the Season

2024

as Grandpa

Rat Pack

2022

as Self (archive footage)

9.0

Naples '44

2016

as Self

5.7

Passion & Poetry: Sam's Trucker Movie

2013

as Self

The Man Who Shook the Hand of Vicente Fernandez

2012

as Rex Page

4.9

Remote Control Magic: The Movie

2012

as Self (archive footage)

The Lion of Judah

2011

as Slink (voice)

5.1

National Lampoon's Snatched

2011

as Big Frank Baum

4.1

Night Club

2011

as Albert

Love's Christmas Journey

2011

as Nicholas

6.8

RED

2010

as Henry, The Records Keeper

Another Harvest Moon

as Frank

The Genesis Code

as Carl Taylor

Oliviero Rising

as Bill

The Wishing Well

2009

as Big Jim

5.4

Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants

2009

as Self

10.0

Private Screenings: Ernest Borgnine

2009

as Self

Red and White: Gone with the West

2008

as Himself / Narrator

3.5

Frozen Stupid

2008

as Frank Norgard

Strange Wilderness

as Milas

Aces 'N' Eights

as Thurmond Prescott

Railroad to Hell: A Chinaman's Chance

2008

as Judge Holliday

3.5

A Grandpa for Christmas

2007

as Bert O'Riley

6.4

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project

2007

as Self

6.8

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

as Self

La cura del gorilla

as Jerry

Rail Kings

as Steamtrain

Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah

as Self

3 Below

as Grandpa

That One Summer

Renegade

as Rolling Star

Barn Red

as Michael Bolini

The Blue Light

as Faerie King

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

2004

as Self (archive footage)

7.8

The Trail to Hope Rose

2004

as Eugene

5.0

Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King

2003

as Self

The Long Ride Home

2003

as Lucas Moat

3.3

Spongebob SquarePants: Deep Sea Sillies

2003

as Mermaid Man (voice) (archive footage)

The American Hobo: History of the Railriding Worker

2003

as Himself - Narrator

6.5

September 11

2002

as Old Man (segment "USA")

6.4

The Kiss Of Debt

2000

as Godfather Mariano

Castle Rock

2000

as Nate

6.5

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

2000

as Self (archive footage)

Hoover

2000

as J. Edgar Hoover

2.0

Frank Sinatra Memorial

2000

as Self

The Lost Treasure of Sawtooth Island

1999

as Ben Quinn

2.5

Abilene

1999

as Hotis Brown

The Last Great Ride

1999

as Franklin Lyle

4.7

Small Soldiers

1998

as Kip Killagin (voice)

6.6

BASEketball

1998

as Ted Denslow

6.1

An All Dogs Christmas Carol

1998

as Carface Carruthers (voice)

Everyone Loves Mel

as Grandpa

Gattaca

as Caesar

Ernest Borgnine on the Bus

1997

as Self

5.0

McHale's Navy

1997

as Admiral Quinton McHale Sr.

4.4

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

1997

as Self

5.0

The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage

1996

as Self

7.0

All Dogs Go to Heaven 2

1996

as Carface (voice)

6.0

Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders

1996

2.5

Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach

1996

as Self (archive footage)

7.0

Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart

1995

as Sheriff Laughton

5.0

Captiva Island

1995

as Arty

Tierärztin Christine II: Die Versuchung

1995

as Dr. Gustav Gruber

5.5

La Classe américaine

1993

as Ernest (archive footage)

Tierärztin Christine

as Dr. Gustav Gruber

Der blaue Diamant

as Hans Kroger

Mistress

as Himself

Mountain of Diamonds

as Ernie

Any Man's Death

as Herr Gantz

Tides of War

as Doctor

Appearances

as Emil Danzig

The Last Match

as Coach

Hoodwinked

as Sal Piccolo

Laser Mission

as Prof. Braun

Real Men Don't Eat Gummi Bears

1989

as Bischof

Spike of Bensonhurst

as Baldo Cacetti

The Opponent

as Victor

Skeleton Coast

as Colonel Smith

The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission

as Gen. Sam Worden

Moving Target

as Captain Morrison

The Big Turnaround

as Father Lopez

The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission

1987

as Gen. Sam Worden

5.0

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

1986

as Self (archive footage)

8.0

The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission

1985

as Gen. Worden

6.3

Code Name: Wild Geese

as Frank Fletcher

Airwolf: The Movie

as Dominic Santini

Man Hunt

as Ben Robeson

Love Leads the Way: A True Story

1984

as Sen. Brighton

7.1

Blood Feud

1983

as J. Edgar Hoover

Carpool

1983

as Mickey Doyle

4.0

James Bond: The First 21 Years

as Self

Young Warriors

as Lt. Bob Carrigan

Escape from New York

as Cabbie

Deadly Blessing

as Isaiah

High Risk

as Clint

When Time Ran Out...

as Det. Sgt. Tom Conti

Super Fuzz

as Willy Dunlop

The Black Hole

as Harry Booth

Ravagers

as Rann

All Quiet on the Western Front

1979

as Stanislaus Katczinsky

The Horror Show

as (archive footage)

The Double McGuffin

as Firat

Convoy

as Lyle Wallace

Cops and Robin

as Joe Cleaver

The Ghost of Flight 401

as Dom Cimoli

The Greatest

as Angelo Dundee

The Prince and the Pauper

as John Canty

Fire!

as Sam Brisbane

Future Cop

as Officer Joe Cleaver

Shoot

as Lou

Holiday Hookers

as Max

Hustle

as Santuro

The Devil’s Rain

as Jonathan Corbis

Law and Disorder

as Cy

Twice in a Lifetime

as Vince Boselli

Sunday in the Country

as Adam Smith

Sandy in Disneyland

as Self

The Neptune Factor

as Chief Diver Don MacKay

Emperor of the North

as Shack

Legend in Granite

as Vince Lombardi

The Poseidon Adventure

as Mike Rogo

The Revengers

as Hoop

The Boxer

as Captain Perkins

Hannie Caulder

as Emmett Clemens

Willard

as Al Martin

The Trackers

as Sam Paxton

Bunny O'Hare

as Bill Green - Gruenwald

5.6

Rain for a Dusty Summer

1971

as The General

3.6

Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?

as Deputy Sam Hill

The Adventurers

as Fat Cat

Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?

as Sheriff Harve

The Wild Bunch

as Dutch Engstrom

A Bullet for Sandoval

1969

as Don Pedro Sandoval

Ice Station Zebra

as Boris Vaslov

The Split

as Bert Clinger

The Legend of Lylah Clare

as Barney Sheean

The Dirty Dozen

as Maj. Gen. Worden

Chuka

as Sgt. Otto Hahnsbach

6.3

The Oscar

1966

as Barney Yale

4.8

The Flight of the Phoenix

as Trucker Cobb

McHale's Navy

as Quinton McHale

Barabbas

as Lucius

Go Naked in the World

as Pete Stratton

Black City

as Peppino Navarra

The Last Judgment

as Pickpocket

Seduction Of The South

1961

as Sante Carbone

4.5

Pay or Die!

1960

as Police Lt. Joseph Petrosino

7.2

Man on a String

1960

as Boris Mitrov

6.0

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

as Roo

The Rabbit Trap

as Eddie Colt

The Vikings

as Ragnar

The Badlanders

as John McBain

Torpedo Run

as Lt. Archer 'Archie' Sloan

6.0

Jubal

1956

as Shep Horgan

6.9

Ernest Borgnine Presents The Catered Affair

1956

as Self

The Best Things in Life Are Free

as Lew Brown

The Catered Affair

as Tom Hurley

Three Brave Men

as Bernard F. Goldsmith

5.9

Marty

1955

as Marty Piletti

7.4

Bad Day at Black Rock

as Coley Trimble

Run for Cover

as Morgan

Violent Saturday

as Stadt, Amish Farmer

The Last Command

as Mike Radin

The Square Jungle

as Bernie Browne

Johnny Guitar

as Bart Lonergan

Vera Cruz

as Donnegan

The Bounty Hunter

as Bill Rachin

Demetrius and the Gladiators

1954

as Strabo

6.4

From Here to Eternity

1953

as Sgt. James R. 'Fatso' Judson

7.3

The Stranger Wore a Gun

as Bull Slager

The Mob

as Joe Castro

The Whistle at Eaton Falls

as Bill Street

China Corsair

as Hu Chang

Future Cop: Cops and Robin

as Officer Joe Cleaver

Television (62)

The District

2000

as Uncle Mike Murphy

6.8

SpongeBob SquarePants

1999

as Mermaid Man (voice)

Family Law

as Frank Collero

7th Heaven

as Joe

Early Edition

as Antonio Birelli

All Dogs Go To Heaven: The Series

as Carface (voice)

JAG

as Artemus Sullivan

The Single Guy

as Manny Cordoba

Touched by an Angel

as Max Blandish

Walker, Texas Ranger

as Eddie Ryan

MGM: When the Lion Roars

Home Improvement

as Eddie Phillips

The Commish

as Frank Nardino

飞狼国语公映版

The Burning Shore

as Ernie

The Simpsons

1989

as Ernest Borgnine (voice)

Oceano

as Pedro El Triste

Jake and the Fatman

as Col. Tom Cody

Treasure Island in Outer Space

as Billy Bones

Alice in Wonderland

as Lion

Murder, She Wrote

as Cosmo Ponzini

Highway to Heaven

as Guido Liggio

Airwolf

as Dominic Santini

The Last Days of Pompeii

as Marcus

Masquerade

as Jerry

Matt Houston

as Buster Ryan

Magnum, P.I.

as Earl Gianelli / 'Mr. White Death'

The Love Boat

as Dominic Rosselli

Jesus of Nazareth

as The Centurion

Future Cop

as Joe Cleaver

Saturday Night Live

as Self - Cameo (uncredited)

7.0

Little House on the Prairie

1974

as Jonathan

7.9

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts

as Self

Great Performances

as Self

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

as Self

The Jerry Lewis Show

as Self

Hollywood Squares

as Self

Get Smart

as TV Viewer (uncredited)

Run for Your Life

as Harry Martin

The Dean Martin Show

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

1963

as Melvin Freebie

5.7

The Ray Anthony Show

1963

as himself

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962

as Self

7.4

The Merv Griffin Show

as Self

McHale's Navy

as Quinton McHale

The Mike Douglas Show

as Self

Laramie

Wagon Train

as Willy Moran

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

1957

as Self

7.0

The O. Henry Playhouse

1957

as Buck

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

1956

as Big Jim Morrison

6.0

The George Gobel Show

as Self

The Lone Wolf

as Saks

The Oscars

as Self

General Electric Theater

1953

as Matty Moran

6.4

The Ford Television Theatre

1952

as Gus White

7.3

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

as Stanislaus Katczinsky

8.6

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as Hully Brown

The Bob Hope Show

as Self

The Philco Television Playhouse

Ford Theatre

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Audience Member

7.2

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

The American Hobo: History of the Railriding Worker

2003

Thanks

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