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RIP Ernest Borgnine
Topic Started: Jul 8 2012, 02:10 PM (299 Views)
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http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/08/showbiz/obit-borgnine/index.html

Film and television actor Ernest Borgnine, who won an Academy Award for his portrayal of a shy, homely butcher in 1955's "Marty," has died at age 95, his manager said Sunday.

The thick-set, gap-toothed Borgnine began taking theater classes after serving in the Navy during World War II, and made the move to film in 1951. He built a reputation for playing heavies in his early films, but turned that reputation on its head as the lovelorn title character in "Marty."

Borgnine went on to television stardom in the 1960s as the lead character in the comedy "McHale's Navy" and as one of the original celebrities on the game show "The Hollywood Squares." He was still making movies and doing television appearances less than a year before his death
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I loved him in "Airwolf" when I was a child.
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Jul 8 2012, 02:22 PM
I loved him in "Airwolf" when I was a child.
He was in his late 60s back then. Wow, that's only 5 years older than I am now really old for a guy still working!
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Joe Flynn died in 1974, at the age of (sit down) 50. Carl Ballantine died in 2009 at the age of 92, Bob Hastings (Lt. Carpenter) is still alive - he's 87. Edson Stroll died in 2011 at the age of 82. Billy Sands (Harrison "Tinker" Bell died at the age of 73. Gary Vinson (the quartermaster) took his own life at the age of 47 in 1984.

I didn't know that Gavin MacLeod was on McHales Navy.

Tim Conway is 80.

All in all, a pretty long-lived cast, I'd say.
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I remember seeing Ernest Borgnine in the TV movie version of All Quiet on the Western Front, and being really impressed with his acting in such a serious role. I didn't realise at the time that it was a TV movie, which I guess indicates it's quality.
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He'll always be Quinton McHale to me, but there's no question that he was a very good actor who could, and did, play a wide range of roles, and in productions of all levels of quality. He was definitely a working actor. Well done, Mr. Borgnine.
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i just love reading that someone made it to a ripe old age. 95!
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Not exactly his best work, but I remember being a kid, hopping the bus to the State Theater in the next town over, where we got to see him eaten by rats in the movie "Willard."

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DAAMN,It's a tragedy...Rest In Peace :(
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