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 Award for Best Actor for Marty (1955). He achieved continuing success in the sitcom McHale's Navy (1962–1966), in which he played the title character, and co-starred as Dominic Santini in the action series Airwolf (1984–1986), in addition to a wide variety of other roles.

Borgnine earned his third Primetime Emmy Award nomination at age 92 for his work on the 2009 series finale of ER. He was known as the original voice of Mermaid Man on SpongeBob SquarePants from 1999 until his death in 2012. He had earlier replaced the late Vic Tayback as the voice of the villainous Carface Caruthers in both All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 (1996) and All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series (1996–1998).

Known For

The Simpsons

Ernest Borgnine (voice)

Great Performances

Self

Golden Globe Awards

Self - Audience Member

The Merv Griffin Show

Self

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Self

The Mike Douglas Show

Self

Murder, She Wrote

Cosmo Ponzini

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2024	The Spirit of the Season	Grandpa
2022	Rat Pack	Self (archive footage)
2016	Naples '44	Self
2013	Passion & Poetry: Sam's Trucker Movie	Self
2012	The Man Who Shook the Hand of Vicente Fernandez	Rex Page
2012	Remote Control Magic: The Movie	Self (archive footage)
2011	The Lion of Judah	Slink (voice)
2011	National Lampoon's Snatched	Big Frank Baum
2011	Love's Christmas Journey	Nicholas
2011	Night Club	Albert
2010	The Genesis Code	Carl Taylor
2010	RED	Henry, The Records Keeper
2010	Another Harvest Moon	Frank
2009	The Wishing Well	Big Jim
2009	Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants	Self
2009	Oliviero Rising	Bill
2009	Private Screenings: Ernest Borgnine	Self
2008	Strange Wilderness	Milas
2008	Aces 'N' Eights	Thurmond Prescott
2008	Red and White: Gone with the West	Himself / Narrator
2008	Frozen Stupid	Frank Norgard
2008	Railroad to Hell: A Chinaman's Chance	Judge Holliday
2007	A Grandpa for Christmas	Bert O'Riley
2007	Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project	Self
2006	Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen'	Self
2006	La cura del gorilla	Jerry
2005	3 Below	Grandpa
2005	Rail Kings	Steamtrain
2005	That One Summer
2005	Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah	Self
2004	Renegade	Rolling Star
2004	The Trail to Hope Rose	Eugene
2004	Barn Red	Michael Bolini
2004	Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade	Self (archive footage)
2004	The Blue Light	Faerie King
2003	The Long Ride Home	Lucas Moat
2003	Spongebob SquarePants: Deep Sea Sillies	Mermaid Man (voice) (archive footage)
2003	Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King	Self
2003	The American Hobo: History of the Railriding Worker	Himself - Narrator
2002	11’09”01—September 11	Old Man (segment "USA")
2000	Sir John Mills' Moving Memories	Self (archive footage)
2000	Castle Rock	Nate
2000	The Kiss Of Debt	Godfather Mariano
2000	Hoover	J. Edgar Hoover
2000	Frank Sinatra Memorial	Self
1999	The Lost Treasure of Sawtooth Island	Ben Quinn
1999	The Last Great Ride	Franklin Lyle
1999	Abilene	Hotis Brown
1998	Small Soldiers	Kip Killagin (voice)
1998	BASEketball	Ted Denslow
1998	An All Dogs Christmas Carol	Carface Carruthers (voice)
1998	Everyone Loves Mel	Grandpa
1997	Gattaca	Caesar
1997	McHale's Navy	Admiral Quinton McHale Sr.
1997	Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western	Self
1997	Ernest Borgnine on the Bus	Self
1996	Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders
1996	All Dogs Go to Heaven 2	Carface (voice)
1996	Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach	Self (archive footage)
1996	The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage	Self
1995	Captiva Island	Arty
1995	Tierärztin Christine II: Die Versuchung	Dr. Gustav Gruber
1995	Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart	Sheriff Laughton
1993	Der blaue Diamant	Hans Kroger
1993	Tierärztin Christine	Dr. Gustav Gruber
1993	La Classe américaine	Ernest (archive footage)
1992	Mistress	Himself
1991	Mountain of Diamonds	Ernie
1990	The Last Match	Coach
1990	Appearances	Emil Danzig
1990	Any Man's Death	Herr Gantz
1990	Tides of War	Doctor
1989	Real Men Don't Eat Gummi Bears	Bischof
1989	Laser Mission	Prof. Braun
1989	Hoodwinked	Sal Piccolo
1988	Moving Target	Captain Morrison
1988	The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission	Gen. Sam Worden
1988	Skeleton Coast	Colonel Smith
1988	The Opponent	Victor
1988	Spike of Bensonhurst	Baldo Cacetti
1988	The Big Turnaround	Father Lopez
1987	The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission	Gen. Sam Worden
1986	The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn	Self (archive footage)
1985	The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission	Gen. Worden
1984	Airwolf: The Movie	Dominic Santini
1984	The Manhunt	Ben Robeson
1984	Code Name: Wild Geese	Frank Fletcher
1984	Love Leads the Way: A True Story	Sen. Brighton
1983	Young Warriors	Lt. Bob Carrigan
1983	Carpool	Mickey Doyle
1983	Blood Feud	J. Edgar Hoover
1983	James Bond: The First 21 Years	Self
1981	Escape from New York	Cabbie
1981	Deadly Blessing	Isaiah
1981	High Risk	Clint
1980	Super Fuzz	Willy Dunlop
1980	When Time Ran Out...	Det. Sgt. Tom Conti
1979	All Quiet on the Western Front	Stanislaus Katczinsky
1979	The Black Hole	Harry Booth
1979	The Horror Show	(archive footage)
1979	The Double McGuffin	Firat
1979	Ravagers	Rann
1978	Convoy	Lyle Wallace
1978	The Ghost of Flight 401	Dom Cimoli
1978	Cops and Robin	Joe Cleaver
1977	The Prince and the Pauper	John Canty
1977	The Greatest	Angelo Dundee
1977	Fire!	Sam Brisbane
1976	Shoot	Lou
1976	Holiday Hookers	Max
1976	Future Cop	Officer Joe Cleaver
1975	Hustle	Santuro
1975	The Devil's Rain	Jonathan Corbis
1974	Law and Disorder	Cy
1974	Sunday in the Country	Adam Smith
1974	Twice in a Lifetime	Vince Boselli
1974	Sandy in Disneyland	Self
1973	Emperor of the North	Shack
1973	The Neptune Factor	Chief Diver Don MacKay
1973	Legend in Granite	Vince Lombardi
1972	The Poseidon Adventure	Mike Rogo
1972	The Revengers	Hoop
1972	The Boxer	Captain Perkins
1971	Hannie Caulder	Emmett Clemens
1971	Willard	Al Martin
1971	Bunny O'Hare	Bill Green - Gruenwald
1971	The Trackers	Sam Paxton
1971	Rain for a Dusty Summer	The General
1971	Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?	Deputy Sam Hill
1970	The Adventurers	Fat Cat
1970	Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?	Sheriff Harve
1969	The Wild Bunch	Dutch Engstrom
1969	A Bullet for Sandoval	Don Pedro Sandoval
1968	The Split	Bert Clinger
1968	Ice Station Zebra	Boris Vaslov
1968	The Legend of Lylah Clare	Barney Sheean
1967	The Dirty Dozen	Maj. Gen. Worden
1967	Chuka	Sgt. Otto Hahnsbach
1966	The Oscar	Barney Yale
1965	The Flight of the Phoenix	Trucker Cobb
1964	McHale's Navy	Quinton McHale
1961	Barabbas	Lucius
1961	Black City	Peppino Navarra
1961	Go Naked in the World	Pete Stratton
1961	The Last Judgment	Pickpocket
1961	Seduction Of The South	Sante Carbone
1960	Pay or Die!	Police Lt. Joseph Petrosino
1960	Man on a String	Boris Mitrov
1959	Summer of the Seventeenth Doll	Roo
1959	The Rabbit Trap	Eddie Colt
1958	The Vikings	Ragnar
1958	Torpedo Run	Lt. Archer 'Archie' Sloan
1958	The Badlanders	John McBain
1956	Jubal	Shep Horgan
1956	The Best Things in Life Are Free	Lew Brown
1956	The Catered Affair	Tom Hurley
1956	Three Brave Men	Bernard F. Goldsmith
1956	Ernest Borgnine Presents The Catered Affair	Self
1955	Bad Day at Black Rock	Coley Trimble
1955	Marty	Marty Piletti
1955	Violent Saturday	Stadt, Amish Farmer
1955	Run for Cover	Morgan
1955	The Square Jungle	Bernie Browne
1955	The Last Command	Mike Radin
1954	Johnny Guitar	Bart Lonergan
1954	Vera Cruz	Donnegan
1954	Demetrius and the Gladiators	Strabo
1954	The Bounty Hunter	Bill Rachin
1953	From Here to Eternity	Sgt. James R. 'Fatso' Judson
1953	The Stranger Wore a Gun	Bull Slager
1951	The Mob	Joe Castro
1951	China Corsair	Hu Chang
1951	The Whistle at Eaton Falls	Bill Street
	Future Cop: Cops and Robin	Officer Joe Cleaver

Year	TV Show	Role
2000	The District	Uncle Mike Murphy
1999	Family Law	Frank Collero
1999	SpongeBob SquarePants	Mermaid Man (voice)
1996	Early Edition	Antonio Birelli
1996	7th Heaven	Joe
1996	All Dogs Go To Heaven: The Series	Carface (voice)
1995	The Single Guy	Manny Cordoba
1995	JAG	Artemus Sullivan
1995	Pinky and the Brain	Father (voice)
1994	Touched by an Angel	Max Blandish
1993	Walker, Texas Ranger	Eddie Ryan
1992	MGM: When the Lion Roars
1991	Home Improvement	Eddie Phillips
1991	The Commish	Frank Nardino
1991	The Burning Shore	Ernie
1991	飞狼国语公映版
1989	The Simpsons	Ernest Borgnine (voice)
1989	Oceano	Pedro El Triste
1987	Jake and the Fatman	Col. Tom Cody
1987	Treasure Island in Outer Space	Billy Bones
1985	Alice in Wonderland	Lion
1984	Murder, She Wrote	Cosmo Ponzini
1984	Airwolf	Dominic Santini
1984	Highway to Heaven	Guido Liggio
1984	The Last Days of Pompeii	Marcus
1983	Masquerade	Jerry
1982	Matt Houston	Buster Ryan
1980	Magnum, P.I.	Earl Gianelli / 'Mr. White Death'
1977	Future Cop	Joe Cleaver
1977	Jesus of Nazareth	The Centurion
1977	The Love Boat	Dominic Rosselli
1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1974	Little House on the Prairie
1973	The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts	Self
1971	Great Performances	Self
1968	Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In	Self
1967	The Jerry Lewis Show	Self
1966	Hollywood Squares	The Center Square
1966	Hollywood Squares	Self
1965	Get Smart	TV Viewer (uncredited)
1965	Run for Your Life	Harry Martin
1965	The Dean Martin Show
1963	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	Melvin Freebie
1963	The Ray Anthony Show	himself
1962	McHale's Navy	Quinton McHale
1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self
1962	The Merv Griffin Show	Self
1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self
1959	Laramie
1957	Wagon Train	Willy Moran
1957	The O. Henry Playhouse	Buck
1957	Wagon Train	Estaban Zamora
1957	Wagon Train	Indian Brave (uncredited)
1957	Wagon Train	Earl Packer
1957	Tonight Starring Jack Paar	Self
1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Big Jim Morrison
1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Willie
1954	The George Gobel Show	Self
1954	The Lone Wolf	Saks
1953	General Electric Theater	Matty Moran
1953	The Oscars	Self
1953	General Electric Theater	Major David Orlovsky
1952	The Ford Television Theatre	Gus White
1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Stanislaus Katczinsky
1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Hully Brown
1950	The Bob Hope Show	Self
1948	Ford Theatre
1948	The Philco Television Playhouse
1948	The Philco Television Playhouse	Mathew O'Rourke
1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Audience Member