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Just heard Ernest Borgnine has died. Bloody hell, that's ANOTHER good 'un gone  Too many good films to list! The dirty dozen, the wild bunch, from here to eternity ...
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Just heard Ernest Borgnine has died.
Bloody hell, that's ANOTHER good 'un gone
Too many good films to list! The dirty dozen, the wild bunch, from here to eternity ...
From here to eternity...apt movie for this guy!
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Yeah, I remember him in The Poseidon Adventure. Great support character actor. Always played what he did best - a guy who was a few pennies short of a quid  Probably playing poker with Rod Steiger in the afterlife. And, how come Eli Wallach still going strong at nearly 97? I'd have thought he'd want to join in the game. RIP Alan
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Let's not forget "McHale's Navy". PT73 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McHale's_NavyI remember this show as a kid in b/w. Also, as "Cabbie" in "Escape from NY" W/ Kurt Russel. Uncle Charlie
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Great actor. Not just another pretty face.
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Just saw this before I logged on here, too bad he did some great stuff.
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He was unemployed after the war, could't find a job he wanted to do, his mother told him he should try that acting thing. Lots of B movies and TV, but the first serious movie he actually stared in, "Marty" in 1955, he wins an Oscar for Best Actor. Everyone should see "Marty", then compare his acting in the earlier "From Here To Eternity", and later films, "The Wild Bunch" comes to mind. The man could do anything, unfortunately, casting wise, as Smokey points out, "Not just another pretty face". 
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Ernest was one of the greats in my opinion, I agree with MACMC...see Marty, it was a great movie. He was one of the last of the "Real" Hollywood men.
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He was super in "From Here to Eternity".
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Great actor, and from all reports, also a very nice gentleman off-screen.
(...RIP Ernie)
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and a Shriner... 
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his starring role in "Marty" got him an Academy Award
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"The Wild Bunch"
RIP Mr.Borgnine,one of the greats.
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Pound for pound one our finest actors.
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I always remember him, even as a young kid cos my mum always pronounced his name as Earnest Bor-gig-nee, in fact she still does bless her, she's 87 now! It got me watching his films though. RIP.
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