Tribute: Ernest Borgnine
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 5:42 pm
We mourn the loss of Oscar-winning actor Earnest Borgnine, who died today at age 95. As the title character in the Best Picture winner, “Marty,” he was heart-wrenchingly poignant, a man who feared that his romantic soul and yearning for love would never overcome his shy, clumsy appearance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIah4s6ePQoHe also appeared in “Bad Day at Black Rock” as a menacing small town man trying to keep a hate crime from being uncovered.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7TpDkSrJ0oOn television, he was the scheming but usually genial star of “McHale’s Navy.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iNOBFk-eEMRecently, he appeared in “Red” as a keeper of the deepest (in every sense of the word) secrets of the CIA, and provided voice talent for Lion of Judah and Mermaid Man in SpongeBob SquarePants
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May his memory be a blessing.