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Oscar Award Winner Ernest Borgnine dies at 95

Written By Unknown on Sunday 8 July 2012 | 21:42


Ernest Borgnine seemed born to play the heavy when he burst onto the Hollywood scene as "Fats" Judson, a sadistic stockade sergeant who brutally beat to death a private in the 1953 film "From Here to Eternity. "

However, two years later came the starring role in "Marty," Borgnine on the stocky, toothless challenged the encasellament and has been recognized as a versatile actor who inhabit the one butcher in the Bronx the search for love.

After a long career spent in seven to ten years in film and television, including the easy villains and representations in a serious role in the comedy television series of 1960 "McHale's Navy" and a lot of pieces his grandfather.

Borgnine, who won an Oscar for her performance in "Marty," died Sunday of apparent renal failure in hospital Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, said his publicist for a long time, Harry Flynn. He was 95 years.

The role alongside Frank Sinatra in "From Here to Eternity," based on the bestselling novel of military life that represents James Jones in Hawaii before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Borgnine moved to the top of the bad of the film in movies like "True Cross" and "Bad Day at Black Rock."

He left behind expectations in "Marty," the 1955 film version of the original game series on a Paddy Chayefsky television butcher sensitive Italian American bachelor who yearns for something more than hanging out with friends Saturday night.

"Well, I waddaya do tonight?" Marty's best friend, Angie, played by Joe Mantell, asks in return is often quoted in the film.

"I do not know, Ang, Wadden you want to do?" Marty replies.

Borgnine sensitive portrait of the self-described as "bad fat", not only earned him an Oscar for best actor, but the film also won Oscars for Chayefsky and director Delbert Mann, the Oscar for Best film.

In a film career began in 1951, Borgnine has appeared in over 115 films, including "Johnny Guitar," "Demetrius and the Gladiators," "The Flight of the Phoenix", "The Oscar", "The Dirty Dozen "" The Wild Bunch "," Willard "," The Adventure of Poseidon "and" The Emperor of the North ".

Between 1962 and 1966, played the leading role in the ABC comedy "McHale's Navy." Since the breakup of a captain regulation torpedo boat in the South Pacific during WWII, Borgnine was constantly frustrated pitted against Captain Binghamton (played by Joe Flynn). Tim Conway McHale played bumbling companion, the lieutenant Charles Parker.

Born Ermes Effron Borgnino in Hamden, Connecticut, January 24, 1917, Borgnine was the son of Italian immigrants.

His parents separated when he was two years old, and his mother took him to live in Italy, returning after several years.

Borgnine graduated from New Haven High School in 1935, then worked a couple of weeks as a vegetable truck driver before enlisting in the Navy as an apprentice seaman.

He was discharged two months before the Pearl Harbor attack, and quickly returned to soldier. He spent the war as a gunner mate on a destroyer.

After his discharge, Borgnine returned home, not knowing what was going to do.

Finally, the mother suggested she give it a good shot. After all, he said, "You're always making a fool in front of people."

After six months of study at the Randall School of Dramatic Art in Hartford, Connecticut, the GI Bill, Borgnine got a job in the theater exchange in Abingdon, Virginia, working backstage before finally landing a $ 30 a week acting in place of street theater company.

"We conducted 14 exhibitions in our heads all the time," said columnist Hedda Hopper of Hollywood in 1956. "We have gone from 'John Loves Mary" in "Much Ado About Nothing" -. What kind of theater training school is fine, but the road is where you learn "

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