Comments on: Ernest Borgnine as Cabbie

By: Willi

Willi — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:17:00 +0000

+1 for Sherriff Lyle Wallace! I love this character.
http://youtu.be/JBcLLsI_L-0

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 01:04:00 +0000

When they aren’t proclaiming to have conquered “moral relativism.”

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 23:21:00 +0000

several of the commentators indicated that “the other side does it.”

Using false equivalency is how they sleep at night, I suppose.

By: unit_1421

unit_1421 — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 19:19:00 +0000

I loved him in Convoy and Escape from New York.

By: lannielouey

lannielouey — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 19:14:00 +0000

Marty. It is a wonderful old movie and his best work by far. In addition, the supporting cast is fantastic. His old country Italian mother and aunt are delightful, both bun haired widows, one concerned about her son and her sister, the sourpuss. (“Someaday you gonna smile, Teresa and we gonna have a party”) I bought this movie because I love it so much. It has a story to tell about people that are considered “plain” and Marty, the middle aged, chubby bachelor butcher, couldn’t have been played by anyone else but our Ernest. ”Whenea gonna get married, Maity? A mana you age shoulda be married wid a family. You shoulda be ashamed of youself”. We will miss you, Ernest. Thanks for the memories.

By: BBNinja

BBNinja — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 17:57:00 +0000

Oh…that makes me a sad Panda. :/ I loved him as Mermaid Man in Spongebob Squarepants. I wonder who they will get to replace his iconic voice in future episodes.

By: Teller

Teller — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:29:00 +0000

Definitely FH2E, Wild Bunch and as Shep Horgan in Jubal, an xlnt Delmer Daves western.

By: mccrum

mccrum — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:05:00 +0000

I was, ah, referring to the post four days ago http://boingboing.net/2012/07/05/meet-the-legions-of-wignuts-wh.html where several of the commentators indicated that “the other side does it.”

By: Daneel

Daneel — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:42:00 +0000

I know him best as Sgt. Fatso Judson in “From Here to Eternity”

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 13:57:00 +0000

And Jan Michael Vincent became a withered toothless wino only a couple years later.

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 13:55:00 +0000

Andy Griffith earned his place in heaven for “A Face In The Crowd” where he played a drunken sociopath who gets a tv show as a very Glenn Beck character with the ability to sway national elections and the desire to lead his own Fascist movement.

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 13:18:00 +0000

He was also the cowboy bully in “Bad Day At Flat Rock” where he kept pushing around a one armed and old looking Spencer Tracy. During the fight he goes through a screen door that was supposed to open and he tears it off the hinges instead.

By: Kerouac

Kerouac — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 12:10:00 +0000

The Wild Bunch was actually the first thing I thought of.

By: SHeadius

SHeadius — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 11:01:00 +0000

One of my fav obscure movies of all time is “Pay or Die!” with Borgnine as officer Joeseph Petrosino battling the early 190o’s mob. Saw this movie 45 years ago as a kid at an all-night slumber party and couldn’t get my hands on a decent copy of it on DVD until a couple years ago when Warner started offering little-known classics on burned DVDs called the “Archive Collection”.

It’s amazing all the cool movies that were made over the years that nobody ever heard of. This is one.

By: Over the River

Over the River — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 10:12:00 +0000

He always gave over 100%. Smooth sailing Lieutenant Commander Quinton McHale, stay ahead of others.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Ernest_Borgnine_McHales_Navy_1962.JPG/614px-Ernest_Borgnine_McHales_Navy_1962.JPG

By: mccrum

mccrum — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 07:36:00 +0000

Is this the space where people are supposed to go and give Ernest Borgnine the “Andy Griffith Treatment” because he was a staunch Conservative? If so, why is it so empty?

For the record: Airwolf=Awesome. Nice work sir, we’ll miss that crazy fun and always recognizable laugh.

By: Joseph Francis

Joseph Francis — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 06:45:00 +0000

He’ll always STOP A#1 from riding to Portland on his watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jn-ZS7g8xs

By: noah django

noah django — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 05:53:00 +0000

We miss you, Mr. Borgnine ;_:

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 05:46:00 +0000

Apparently Marty almost didn’t get made and then almost didn’t get released for a couple years. It forget if it was contractual, or politics, or taxes. It was just a movie about a good haearted guy with an OK job, average looks, and a slightly annoyng mother. It’s not a comedy, and nothing much happens, but you can identify with the characters.

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 05:41:00 +0000

He’ll live forever in Drew and Josh Friedman’s work.

By: steveboyett

steveboyett — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 04:53:00 +0000

If he isn’t remembered for The Wild Bunch, it’s a goddamn shame.

By: Bottle Imp

Bottle Imp — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 04:53:00 +0000

Tragically, my primary memory of him has become his performance in the cripplingly bad Laser Mission. Rest in peace Ernest, you deserved better than Laser Mission (and often got it, I’m really sorry I remember that film).

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 04:19:00 +0000

I loved him in Escape from New York. Thanks for the clip.

By: Stefan Jones

Stefan Jones — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 04:00:00 +0000

Never a star (well, with the notable exception of “Marty”), but a good, hard-working actor who left behind a huge body of fine work.

By: Stephen Marts

Stephen Marts — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 03:55:00 +0000

He’ll always be my Duke of New York A#1.

By: ǝɔʎoſ ʇʇɐW

ǝɔʎoſ ʇʇɐW — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 03:46:00 +0000

And all hopes for an Airwolf sequel were dashed.