Ernest Borgnine
Ernest Borgnine
Ermes Effron Borgnino, known as Ernest Borgninewas an American film and television actor whose career spanned more than six decades. He was an unconventional lead in many films of the 1950s, winning the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1955 for Marty. On television, he played Quinton McHale in the 1962–1966 series McHale's Navy and co-starred in the mid-1980s action series Airwolf, in addition to a wide variety of other roles. Borgnine earned an Emmy Award nomination at age 92...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth24 January 1917
CityHamden, CT
CountryUnited States of America
Talk about cowboys. That's my passion. I think it's just wonderful when the studios revert back to doing westerns again.
Even radar was unheard of when I first went into the service. Then suddenly, they started putting bedsprings up on the tops of ships.
You get kicked around long enough, you become a professor of pain.
The Oscar made me a star, and I'm grateful. But I feel had I not won the Oscar I wouldn't have gotten into the messes I did in my personal life.
I don't care whether a role is 10 minutes long or two hours. And I don't care whether my name is up there on top, either. Matter of fact, I'd rather have someone else get top billing; then if the picture bombs, he gets the blame, not me.
My mother made me do all the housework as a boy. I still do it, even in hotels.