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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/09/movies/ernest-borgnine-tough-but-tender-actor-is-dead-at-95.html?_r=0Ernest Borgnine, the rough-hewn actor who seemed destined for tough-guy characters but won an Academy Award for embodying the gentlest of souls, a lonely Bronx butcher, in the 1955 film Marty, died on Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 95.
His death, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, was announced by Harry Flynn, his longtime spokesman.
Mr. Borgnine, who later starred on McHales Navy on television, made his first memorable impression in films at age 37, appearing in From Here to Eternity (1953) as Fatso Judson, the sadistic stockade sergeant who beats Frank Sinatras character, Private Maggio, to death. But Paddy Chayefsky, who wrote Marty as a television play, and Delbert Mann, who directed it (it starred Rod Steiger), saw something beyond brutality in Mr. Borgnine and offered him the title role when it was made into a feature film.
The 1950s had emerged as the decade of the common man, with Willy Loman of Death of a Salesman on Broadway and the likes of the bus driver Ralph Kramden (The Honeymooners) and the factory worker Chester Riley (The Life of Riley) on television. Mr. Borgnines Marty Pilletti, a 34-year-old blue-collar bachelor who still lives with his mother, fit right in, showing the tender side of the average, unglamorous guy next door.
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Skittles
(153,261 posts)social media mindset again?
Uncle Joe
(58,506 posts)Earnest was such a good and lovable actor, he should have two eulogies.
Keep resting in peace, Earnest.
MiniMe
(21,722 posts)First I heard of it.
hfojvt
(37,573 posts)This isn't LBN.
First I ever heard of Borgnine's death.
It wasn't on the local news last night. Nor tonight. Maybe this afternoon, but I was working then.
Skittles
(153,261 posts)but, as Uncle Joe mentioned, he was absolutely grand and deserves a second eulogy
damn, I cannot remember who is alive and who is dead any more.
No wonder the news didn't mention it.
I was kinda surprised a few weeks ago that Jim Nabors is still alive.
Next thing you know I will learn that Isaac Asimov has died or something.
Captain Kangaroo, is he still alive?
Sandy Duncan?
Ruth Buzzi?
Skittles
(153,261 posts)Ms. Buzzi and Ms. Duncan are still with us
Contrary1
(12,629 posts)hfojvt
(37,573 posts)Herman Wouk and Harper Lee are still alive. Fidel too (I thought he had died). Zsa Zsa is still alive.
MiniMe
(21,722 posts)So 2 days, not 2 years.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Facebook got me. Sorry all
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)Contrary1
(12,629 posts)Thanks for posting. I always enjoyed his characters.
hfojvt
(37,573 posts)besides McHale's Navy and Airwolf.
Maybe the Poseiden Adventure (which I have seen two or three times on TV).
He did a bit part of almost every TV show there was from Magnum PI to Murder She Wrote to Little House on the Prairie, etc. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000308/
madamesilverspurs
(15,814 posts)1000words
(7,051 posts)I'd like to think Ernest Borgnine's spirit has something to do with it.
geomon666
(7,512 posts)Who was in his coffin before?
hfojvt
(37,573 posts)Billy Sands
They faked McHale's death so Captain Binghamton would realize how much he really needed him, and also so that the Japanese, thinking they were vulnerable would attack with the Yakamora.
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edbermac
(15,950 posts)1000words
(7,051 posts)IkeRepublican
(406 posts)She looks like Ernest Borgnine!
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)K&R
I knew he had connections.....
ErikJ
(6,335 posts)He even claimed it on Fox News
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)whistler162
(11,155 posts)and General Francisco Franco is still dead.
rock
(13,218 posts)May you rest in peace, Mr Borgnine.