Birth name Ermes Effron Borgnino NationalityUSA Birth 24 january 1917 at Hamden (USA) Death 8 july 2012 (at 95 years) at Los Angeles (USA) Awards Academy Award for Best Actor
Ermes Effron Borgnino, known as Ernest Borgnine (/ˈbɔrɡnaɪn/; 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 the Academy Award for Best Actor 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 earned an Emmy Award nomination at age 92 for his work on the series ER. He was also known for being the original voice of Mermaid Man on SpongeBob SquarePants from 1999 to 2012. [...]See more...
Biography
Né dans une famille d'origine italienne, Ernest Borgnine ne se destine pas particulièrement à la comédie dans sa jeunesse. À 18 ans, il s'engage dans la Navy, jusqu'en 1945. Ce n'est qu'à la fin de la guerre qu'il s'inscrit à la Randall School of Drama, à Hartford, Connecticut. Il fait ses débuts sur scène à Broadway, quatre ans plus tard, dans la pièce Harvey.
En 1951, Borgnine vit à Los Angeles : il décroche un petit rôle dans le film The Whistle at Eaton Falls, de Robert Siodmak. C'est en 1953 qu'il obtient son premier grand rôle, dans le film maintes fois oscarisé Tant qu'il y aura des hommes. Il y incarne le sergent Fatso Judson, violent et cruel. Il donne ensuite sa pleine mesure dans Un homme est passé (1954), Vera Cruz (1954) ou Johnny Guitare (1954), trois films qui l'imposent comme l'un des « méchants » d’Hollywood.
Ernest Borgnine obtient l'Oscar du meilleur acteur en 1955 pour le rôle de Marty Pilletti dans Marty de Delbert Mann. Ce rôle lui permet d'aborder une nouvelle facette de son travail d'acteur : il y joue un boucher timide et tendre. Par la suite, il retrouve son emploi-type de « dur », notamment dans Les Vikings (1958).
Il participe à quelques longs métrages devenus « classiques », tels Les Douze Salopards (1967) — où il campe un savoureux général — et La Horde sauvage (1969). Sa filmographie ne compte pas moins de 140 films.
Dans les années 1980 et 1990, il apparaît dans quelques fictions d'anticipation qui ont marqué le public : New York 1997 (1981), de John Carpenter ou encore Bienvenue à Gattaca (1997). De 1984 à 1986, il joue dans les trois premières saisons de la série télévisée culte Supercopter (Airwolf). En 2004, il interprète Rolling star, dans le film inspiré de la bande dessinée, Blueberry. Loin des personnages sanguinaires qui l'ont rendu célèbre, il incarne un vieil homme doux et rêveur.
Ernest Borgnine prête aussi sa voix au super-héros vieillissant « l'homme-sirène » dans le dessin-animé Bob l'éponge. Après sa mort, ils lui rendront d'ailleurs hommage en faisant mourir son personnage mais en marquant le nom d'Ernest Borgnine sur la pierre tombale.
Alors qu'il a joué très souvent des rôles de sadique et de violent, il est reconnu dans toute la profession pour sa gentillesse, son grand humour, sa jovialité et sa très grande humilité malgré une carrière exceptionnelle.
Ernest Borgnine est décédé des suites d'une insuffisance rénale au centre médical Cedars-Sinai à Los Angeles, entouré de sa famille.
Dans la revue Positif, Christian Viviani rendra hommage à l’artiste :
« Méchant ou gentil, il laisse le souvenir d’un visage familier, lié à toute une conception du cinéma et de la cinéphilie, mais aussi celle d’un acteur à la présence impressionnante et dont la filmographie se lit comme une vaste page de l’histoire du cinéma américain. »
Après son décès, il a été crématisé et ses cendres ont été dispersées dans le Forest Lawn Memorial Park de Los Angeles. [...]See more...
Directed byFranco Zeffirelli GenresDrama, Historical ThemesFilms set in Africa, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Films based on the Bible, Portrayals of Jesus in film, Films about virginity ActorsRobert Powell, Anne Bancroft, Ernest Borgnine, Olivia Hussey, Claudia Cardinale, Abdelmajid Lakhal Roles Der Zenturio Rating84% The storyline of Jesus of Nazareth is a kind of cinematic Diatessaron, or “Gospel harmony”, blending the narratives of all four New Testament accounts. It takes a fairly naturalistic approach, de-emphasizing special effects when miracles are depicted and presenting Jesus as more or less evenly divine and human. The familiar Christian episodes are presented chronologically: the betrothal, and later marriage, of Mary and Joseph; the Annunciation; the Visitation; the circumcision of John the Baptist; the Nativity of Jesus; the visit of the Magi; the circumcision of Jesus; the Census of Quirinius; the flight into Egypt and Slaughter of the Innocents; the Finding in the Temple; the Baptism of Jesus; the woman caught in adultery; Jesus helping Peter catch the fish; the Parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15: 11-32); a dialogue between Jesus and Barabbas (non-biblical); Matthew's dinner party; the Sermon on the Mount; debating with Joseph of Arimathea; the curing of the blind man at the pool; the Raising of Lazarus (John 11:43); the Feeding of the Five Thousand; the Entry into Jerusalem; Jesus and the money changers; the Last Supper; the
, 1h26 Directed byRobert Fuest OriginUSA GenresHorror ThemesFilms about religion, Demons in film, Ghost films ActorsWilliam Shatner, Ernest Borgnine, Tom Skerritt, John Travolta, Eddie Albert, Joan Prather Roles Jonathan Corbis Rating51% A curse affects the Preston family, caused by their betrayal of the Satanic priest Jonathan Corbis (Ernest Borgnine). Corbis has harassed the Preston family for generations to obtain a Satanic book of great power. Corbis captures patriarch Steve Preston, who is allowed to escape to warn his wife and younger son about Corbis's wrath. He tells them to give the book to Corbis, but during a rainstorm he melts into a waxy substance.
, 1h38 Directed byDaniel Petrie OriginCanada GenresDrama, Science fiction, Action, Adventure ThemesSeafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Submarine films ActorsBen Gazzara, Yvette Mimieux, Walter Pidgeon, Ernest Borgnine, Donnelly Rhodes, Chris Wiggins Roles Chief Diver Don MacKay Rating44% Marine scientists prepare to leave their underwater Oceanlab after an extended stay performing oceanographic research. An underwater earthquake interrupts their plans. Dr. Andrews (Walter Pidgeon) enlists experimental sub captain Adrien Blake (Ben Gazzara) to survey the damage and rescue the oceanauts. He brings along Chief Diver "Mack" MacKay (Ernest Borgnine) and Dr. Leah Jansen (Yvette Mimieux), fiancée of one of the scientists. Blake finds the lab has been ripped from its moorings and has tumbled down an unexplored, deep ocean trench, presumably intact. With the lab's reserve air supply dwindling, the team descends into the unexplored trench and finds an incredible ecosystem populated with monstrously over-sized fish. After surviving encounters with unfriendly denizens, they find the lab partially intact, the surviving scientists breathing from scuba tanks, and fending off giant, hungry eels. All but one of the scientists are rescued, and the submarine returns to the surface. [...]See more...
, 1h31 Directed byGerd Oswald OriginUSA GenresComedy, Action ActorsBette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Cassidy, John Astin, Jay Robinson, Reva Rose Roles Bill Green - Gruenwald Rating56% The title character, a widow whose savings have been depleted by her selfish, middle-aged children, Lulu and Ad, finds herself homeless when the bank forecloses on her mortgage. She becomes friendly with Bill Green, an aging itinerant salvaging the house's plumbing, who she soon discovers is really fugitive bank robber William Gruenwald. Hoping to recoup her losses from the bank that took her home, Bunny blackmails Bill into teaching her how to rob the institution in exchange for keeping his identity a secret. She wears a long blonde wig, over-sized hat, and sunglasses, while he dons a fake beard, leather vest, and bell-bottom pants, and the two pull off the caper and escape on a 250cc Triumph TRW Trophy motorcycle. Buoyed by their success, Bunny convinces Bill to join her in more heists, and the different modus operandi they use - setting free a canary to distract the guard, setting off smoke bombs - make it difficult for police lieutenant Horace Greeley and criminologist R.J. Hart to profile their suspects. [...]See more...
, 1h35 Directed byDaniel Mann OriginUSA GenresScience fiction, Horror ThemesFilms about animals, Natural horror films ActorsBruce Davison, Elsa Lanchester, Ernest Borgnine, Michael Dante, Sondra Locke, Joan Shawlee Roles Al Martin Rating61% Willard is a meek social misfit who later develops a strange affinity for rats. He lives in a large Victorian home, with only his cranky and decrepit mother for company. On his 27th birthday, he is humiliated to come home to a birthday party thrown by his mother, where all of the attendees are her own aging friends. After having left the party in embarrassment, he notices a rat in his backyard and tosses it pieces of his birthday cake. Later, his mother gets upset with him for leaving the party and she scolds him later while also discussing how badly the house is falling apart. The next morning he goes out and feeds another rat (this one has babies with it) while imitating their squeaks. His mother starts telling him that he needs to kill the rats that have been running around their yard, which Willard refuses to do. [...]See more...