Oscar-winning film star Ernest Borgnine dies
Source: AP
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Ernest Borgnine, the beefy screen star known for blustery, often villainous roles, but who won the best-actor Oscar for playing against type as a lovesick butcher in "Marty" in 1955, died Sunday. He was 95.
His longtime spokesman, Harry Flynn, told The Associated Press that Borgnine died of renal failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center with his wife and children at his side.
Borgnine, who endeared himself to a generation of Baby Boomers with the 1960s TV comedy "McHale's Navy," first attracted notice in the early 1950s in villain roles, notably as the vicious Fatso Judson, who beat Frank Sinatra to death in "From Here to Eternity."
Then came "Marty," a low-budget film based on a Paddy Chayefsky television play that starred Rod Steiger. Borgnine played a 34-year-old who fears he is so unattractive he will never find romance. Then, at a dance, he meets a girl with the same fear.
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Ernest Borgnine
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Great actor. I liked him in The Wild Bunch. Not a heavy like most of his other Westerns.
He had an awesome film career, but will probably be best remembered for TV... 
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NO!!!!!! 
I liked Ernest and gosh darn did that man live a long life when so many left before him.
I remember back some 30 years ago while in college, I was channel surfing on my 13" B&W TV and stumbled on his movie "Marty". I think that was probably the first movie that I had ever recall watching that I considered a "tear jerker".
R.I.P. dear sir. In your own unassuming way, you have graced both film and television with your humor and graciousness and made the medium enjoyable.
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OMG he was awesome
always remember him as airwolf's co chair. 
that sucks about as bad as if the person who played Kitts voice passed away (St Elsewhere ) end up having to play shadow of a hawke not
Still have it on tape too (yes I'm old school 
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Emperor of the north is one of my more favorite old movies.