Ernest Borgnine : dead at age 95

TechPro · Post by **TechPro** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 11:04 pm

CBS News article:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31749_162-5 ... hollywood/

A blog commemorating his many performances:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/cel ... inment_pop

Foil · Post by **Foil** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 8:36 am

Wow, add me to the list of people who thought he'd already passed away long ago. Definitely a memorable actor.

CDN_Merlin · Post by **CDN_Merlin** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 10:09 am

I liked him in Airwolf

Tunnelcat · Post by **Tunnelcat** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 4:34 pm

One of the last voices he was still regularly doing was for the SpongeBob Squarepants cartoon. He played Mermaidman alongside Tim Conway who voiced Barnacle Boy. They must have stayed good friends from the McHale's Navy days. Borgnine was a great actor. He'll be missed.

Isaac · Post by **Isaac** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 4:42 pm

Best photo of him:

Tunnelcat · Post by **Tunnelcat** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 5:00 pm

He looks like CUDA's avatar of Clint.

roid · Post by **roid** » Wed Jul 11, 2012 6:16 pm

i hope i'm not the only one who thought he was a bad actor, part of the old guard of hollywood.
i mean, i kinda hated every character he ever played

coz they were all cartoon characters pretend to be otherwise.
perhaps he was merely doomed to be surrounded with poor writers.

am i the only one?

not that i hate the guy... just sayin.

this feel inappropriate to say somehow. like i'm slagging off a cultural god? hmmmmm
anyway, better to speak one's mind that be bored with life i say.

Foil · Post by **Foil** » Thu Jul 12, 2012 8:52 am

I'll agree that he wasn't a great actor, and that his roles were often a bit caricature-ish. ...But that's exactly why I said (above) that he was so memorable.

One role of his that I particularly remember is probably the '65 Flight of the Phoenix. He wasn't in the film long, but I thought the disturbed oil guy role really fit for some reason.

Tunnelcat · Post by **Tunnelcat** » Thu Jul 12, 2012 9:25 am

Oh, I love that movie, and I do think that Borgnine did a very good job there for once. But I also liked him in McHale's Navy. I thought he played straight to Tim Conway and Phil Silvers very well. It's very hard to play straight to Tim Conway. On the Carol Burnett Show, Harvey Korman, bless his soul, could almost never keep a straight face when performing with Conway in a skit.

Isaac · Post by **Isaac** » Thu Jul 12, 2012 8:40 pm

roid wrote:am i the only one?

not that i hate the guy... just sayin.

this feel inappropriate to say somehow. like i'm slagging off a cultural god? hmmmmm
anyway, better to speak one's mind that be bored with life i say.

Time to kill roid. He stated an opinion on the net.

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