Wednesday, July 11, 2012

RIP Ernest Borgnine 1917-2012

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RIP Ernest Borgnine 1917-2012
Posted By: NaturalWisdom
Date: Wednesday, 11-Jul-2012 18:04:29

A real trooper, working right up to the end...
Ernest Borgnine
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ernest Borgnine (born Ermes Effron Borgnino; January 24, 1917 – July 8, 2012) was 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 an Oscar 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 was also known for his role as Mermaid Man in the animated television series Spongebob Squarepants. Borgnine earned an Emmy Award nomination at age 92 for his work on the series ER.
Borgnine died of renal failure on July 8, 2012, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. His wife and children were at his side. He was 95 years old.
During an interview in 1998, Borgnine admitted to some personal feelings about politics:
"I'm 81 years old and I like to speak my mind. As a legacy, on the day I die, I'd like to have a newspaper publish all the things that I find wrong in the United States today. And my first would be to get rid of the politicians. We put politicians into Congress and the Senate for what? For representation. But who do they represent? They represent not only their party, but the people who give them the money, the lobbyists."
Source for above quote: Fantle, David; Johnson, Tom. 25 Years of Celebrity Interviews from Vaudeville to Movies to TV, Reel to Real, Badger Books (2004) pp. 106–113

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Does anybody remember his answer to Steve Doosey on Fox & Friends on how he stays so young?