Ernest Borgnine

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1/24/1917

Place of Birth

Hamden, Connecticut, USA

Also Known As

Ermes Effron BorgninoЭрнест Боргнайн어네스트 보그나인

Ernest Borgnine

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) and The Wild Bunch (1969). He also played the unconventional lead in many films, winning the Academy...

Career Timeline

2024

The Spirit of the Season

as Grandpa

2022

Rat Pack

as Self (archive footage)

2016

Naples '44

as Self

2013

Passion & Poetry: Sam's Trucker Movie

as Self

2012

Remote Control Magic: The Movie

as Self (archive footage)

The Man Who Shook the Hand of Vicente Fernandez

as Rex Page

2011

Love's Christmas Journey

as Nicholas

The Lion of Judah

as Slink (voice)

Night Club

as Albert

National Lampoon's Snatched

as Big Frank Baum

2010

RED

as Henry, The Records Keeper

Another Harvest Moon

as Frank

The Genesis Code

as Carl Taylor

2009

The Wishing Well

as Big Jim

Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants

as Self

Oliviero Rising

as Bill

Private Screenings: Ernest Borgnine

as Self

2008

Frozen Stupid

as Frank Norgard

Railroad to Hell: A Chinaman's Chance

as Judge Holliday

Aces 'N' Eights

as Thurmond Prescott

Strange Wilderness

as Milas

Red and White: Gone with the West

as Himself / Narrator

2007

A Grandpa for Christmas

as Bert O'Riley

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project

as Self

2006

La cura del gorilla

as Jerry

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

as Self

2005

Rail Kings

as Steamtrain

3 Below

as Grandpa

That One Summer

Role unknown

Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah

as Self

2004

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

as Self (archive footage)

Renegade

as Rolling Star

The Trail to Hope Rose

as Eugene

Barn Red

as Michael Bolini

The Blue Light

as Faerie King

2003

The Long Ride Home

as Lucas Moat

Spongebob SquarePants: Deep Sea Sillies

as Mermaid Man (voice) (archive footage)

Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King

as Self

The American Hobo: History of the Railriding Worker

as Himself - Narrator

2002

September 11

as Old Man (segment "USA")

2000

Hoover

as J. Edgar Hoover

The District

as Uncle Mike Murphy

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

as Self (archive footage)

Frank Sinatra Memorial

as Self

Castle Rock

as Nate

The Kiss Of Debt

as Godfather Mariano

1999

The Lost Treasure of Sawtooth Island

as Ben Quinn

Family Law

as Frank Collero

SpongeBob SquarePants

as Mermaid Man (voice)

Abilene

as Hotis Brown

The Last Great Ride

as Franklin Lyle

1998

An All Dogs Christmas Carol

as Carface Carruthers (voice)

Everyone Loves Mel

as Grandpa

BASEketball

as Ted Denslow

Small Soldiers

as Kip Killagin (voice)

1997

Gattaca

as Caesar

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

as Self

McHale's Navy

as Admiral Quinton McHale Sr.

Ernest Borgnine on the Bus

as Self

1996

The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage

as Self

Early Edition

as Antonio Birelli

All Dogs Go To Heaven: The Series

as Carface (voice)

Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders

Role unknown

7th Heaven

as Joe

All Dogs Go to Heaven 2

as Carface (voice)

Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach

as Self (archive footage)

1995

Tierärztin Christine II: Die Versuchung

as Dr. Gustav Gruber

JAG

as Artemus Sullivan

The Single Guy

as Manny Cordoba

Pinky and the Brain

as Father (voice)

Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart

as Sheriff Laughton

Captiva Island

as Arty

1994

Touched by an Angel

as Max Blandish

1993

La Classe américaine

as Ernest (archive footage)

Tierärztin Christine

as Dr. Gustav Gruber

Der blaue Diamant

as Hans Kroger

Walker, Texas Ranger

as Eddie Ryan

1992

Mistress

as Himself

MGM: When the Lion Roars

Role unknown

1991

Mountain of Diamonds

as Ernie

The Commish

as Frank Nardino

Home Improvement

as Eddie Phillips

飞狼国语公映版

Role unknown

The Burning Shore

as Ernie

1990

Appearances

as Emil Danzig

Any Man's Death

as Herr Gantz

The Last Match

as Coach

Tides of War

as Doctor

1989

The Simpsons

as Ernest Borgnine (voice)

Hoodwinked

as Sal Piccolo

Laser Mission

as Prof. Braun

Oceano

as Pedro El Triste

Real Men Don't Eat Gummi Bears

as Bischof

1988

Spike of Bensonhurst

as Baldo Cacetti

The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission

as Gen. Sam Worden

The Opponent

as Victor

Skeleton Coast

as Colonel Smith

Moving Target

as Captain Morrison

The Big Turnaround

as Father Lopez

1987

Treasure Island in Outer Space

as Billy Bones

Jake and the Fatman

as Col. Tom Cody

The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission

as Gen. Sam Worden

1986

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

as Self (archive footage)

1985

Alice in Wonderland

as Lion

The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission

as Gen. Worden

1984

Man Hunt

as Ben Robeson

Love Leads the Way: A True Story

as Sen. Brighton

Code Name: Wild Geese

as Frank Fletcher

Murder, She Wrote

as Cosmo Ponzini

Highway to Heaven

as Guido Liggio

Airwolf: The Movie

as Dominic Santini

The Last Days of Pompeii

as Marcus

Airwolf

as Dominic Santini

1983

Masquerade

as Jerry

Carpool

as Mickey Doyle

Young Warriors

as Lt. Bob Carrigan

James Bond: The First 21 Years

as Self

Blood Feud

as J. Edgar Hoover

1982

Matt Houston

as Buster Ryan

1981

Deadly Blessing

as Isaiah

Escape from New York

as Cabbie

High Risk

as Clint

1980

Magnum, P.I.

as Earl Gianelli / 'Mr. White Death'

Super Fuzz

as Willy Dunlop

When Time Ran Out...

as Det. Sgt. Tom Conti

1979

The Black Hole

as Harry Booth

All Quiet on the Western Front

as Stanislaus Katczinsky

Ravagers

as Rann

The Double McGuffin

as Firat

The Horror Show

as (archive footage)

1978

Convoy

as Lyle Wallace

Cops and Robin

as Joe Cleaver

The Ghost of Flight 401

as Dom Cimoli

1977

The Love Boat

as Dominic Rosselli

The Prince and the Pauper

as John Canty

The Greatest

as Angelo Dundee

Fire!

as Sam Brisbane

Jesus of Nazareth

as The Centurion

Future Cop

as Joe Cleaver

1976

Shoot

as Lou

Future Cop

as Officer Joe Cleaver

Holiday Hookers

as Max

1975

Hustle

as Santuro

Saturday Night Live

as Self - Cameo (uncredited)

The Devil's Rain

as Jonathan Corbis

1974

Sunday in the Country

as Adam Smith

Law and Disorder

as Cy

Little House on the Prairie

as Jonathan

Sandy in Disneyland

as Self

Twice in a Lifetime

as Vince Boselli

1973

Legend in Granite

as Vince Lombardi

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts

as Self

The Neptune Factor

as Chief Diver Don MacKay

Emperor of the North

as Shack

1972

The Poseidon Adventure

as Mike Rogo

The Revengers

as Hoop

The Boxer

as Captain Perkins

1971

The Trackers

as Sam Paxton

Hannie Caulder

as Emmett Clemens

Bunny O'Hare

as Bill Green - Gruenwald

Rain for a Dusty Summer

as The General

Willard

as Al Martin

Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?

as Deputy Sam Hill

Great Performances

as Self

1970

Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?

as Sheriff Harve

The Adventurers

as Fat Cat

1969

A Bullet for Sandoval

as Don Pedro Sandoval

The Wild Bunch

as Dutch Engstrom

1968

The Split

as Bert Clinger

The Legend of Lylah Clare

as Barney Sheean

Ice Station Zebra

as Boris Vaslov

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

as Self

1967

The Jerry Lewis Show

as Self

Chuka

as Sgt. Otto Hahnsbach

The Dirty Dozen

as Maj. Gen. Worden

1966

Hollywood Squares

as The Center Square

Hollywood Squares

as Self

The Oscar

as Barney Yale

1965

The Flight of the Phoenix

as Trucker Cobb

Get Smart

as TV Viewer (uncredited)

The Dean Martin Show

Role unknown

Run for Your Life

as Harry Martin

1964

McHale's Navy

as Quinton McHale

1963

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

as Melvin Freebie

The Ray Anthony Show

as himself

1962

McHale's Navy

as Quinton McHale

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

as Self

The Merv Griffin Show

as Self

1961

Barabbas

as Lucius

Seduction Of The South

as Sante Carbone

The Mike Douglas Show

as Self

The Last Judgment

as Pickpocket

Black City

as Peppino Navarra

Go Naked in the World

as Pete Stratton

1960

Pay or Die!

as Police Lt. Joseph Petrosino

Man on a String

as Boris Mitrov

1959

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

as Roo

Laramie

Role unknown

The Rabbit Trap

as Eddie Colt

1958

Torpedo Run

as Lt. Archer 'Archie' Sloan

The Badlanders

as John McBain

The Vikings

as Ragnar

1957

Wagon Train

as Willy Moran

Wagon Train

as Estaban Zamora

Wagon Train

as Earl Packer

Wagon Train

as Indian Brave (uncredited)

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

as Self

The O. Henry Playhouse

as Buck

1956

Three Brave Men

as Bernard F. Goldsmith

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

as Big Jim Morrison

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

as Willie

The Best Things in Life Are Free

as Lew Brown

The Catered Affair

as Tom Hurley

Jubal

as Shep Horgan

Ernest Borgnine Presents The Catered Affair

as Self

1955

The Square Jungle

as Bernie Browne

The Last Command

as Mike Radin

Run for Cover

as Morgan

Marty

as Marty Piletti

Violent Saturday

as Stadt, Amish Farmer

Bad Day at Black Rock

as Coley Trimble

1954

Vera Cruz

as Donnegan

The George Gobel Show

as Self

The Bounty Hunter

as Bill Rachin

Demetrius and the Gladiators

as Strabo

Johnny Guitar

as Bart Lonergan

The Lone Wolf

as Saks

1953

From Here to Eternity

as Sgt. James R. 'Fatso' Judson

The Stranger Wore a Gun

as Bull Slager

The Oscars

as Self

General Electric Theater

as Matty Moran

General Electric Theater

as Major David Orlovsky

1952

The Ford Television Theatre

as Gus White

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Stanislaus Katczinsky

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as Hully Brown

The Mob

as Joe Castro

The Whistle at Eaton Falls

as Bill Street

China Corsair

as Hu Chang

1950

The Bob Hope Show

as Self

1948

Ford Theatre

Role unknown

The Philco Television Playhouse

Role unknown

The Philco Television Playhouse

as Mathew O'Rourke

1944

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Audience Member