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Sat 25
Touched by an Angel: Legacy — Ernest Borgnine
A college freshman is bullied by his father into joining a fraternity that is known for its dangerous hazing practices.
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Mon 27
Touched by an Angel: The Invitation — Ernest Borgnine
Monica, Tess and Andrew have an important Halloween assignment: to protect a young pregnant woman and her husband from Satan.
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Mon 27
From Here to Eternity — Ernest Borgnine
Adaptation of the James Jones novel about life on a Honolulu Army post just before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Tue 28
Touched by an Angel: Restoration — Ernest Borgnine
Monica and Tess must help a 102-year-old film director and the film student who's obsessed with his work.
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Tue 28
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Wed 29
Touched by an Angel: Finger of God — Ernest Borgnine
A storm chaser, who's about to lose his job, thinks it's miraculous when a series of tornadoes touches down nearby---an event that could revive his career.
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Wed 29
The Dirty Dozen — Ernest Borgnine
WWII thriller about U.S. military prisoners on a suicidal mission in occupied France. Their mission is to take a French castle held by top Nazi officers.
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Wed 29
Escape From New York — Ernest Borgnine
In the future, Manhattan has become an island prison, and when Air Force One crashes into it, mercenary Snake Plissken is given the chance to earn his freedom if he can get the president out alive. He gets unexpected help from a crazy cabbie, as well as a woman who may be as tough as he is.
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Wed 29
The Wild Bunch — Ernest Borgnine
Sam Peckinpah's classic about aging gunmen in 1913 Texas, attempting to survive by any available means.
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Wed 29
Red — Ernest Borgnine
Retired CIA hit man Frank Moses and his former colleagues race to find out why they've been targeted for death by their former organisation and uncover a vast conspiracy implicating some prominent politicians in the process.
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Wed 29
Emperor of the North — Ernest Borgnine
Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine play rough in this yarn about a hobo determined to ride a train watched over by a sadistic railroad guard. Cigaret: Keith Carradine. Cracker: Charles Tyner. Hogger: Malcolm Atterbury. Policeman: Simon Oakland. Gray Cat: Elisha Cook. Filmed in Oregon. Directed by Robert Aldrich.
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Thu 30
Touched by an Angel: The Empty Chair — Ernest Borgnine
A woman and her husband confront their decision 15 years earlier to abort their baby, a course of action they both now regret.
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Thu 30
The Badlanders — Ernest Borgnine
With the help of an explosives expert, two men plan the ingenious robbery of a gold mine shortly after their release from the Yuma Territorial Prison.
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Fri 31
Touched by an Angel: God Bless the Child — Ernest Borgnine
The angels try to educate an angry black girl about the evils of drug use by telling her the story of legendary singer Billie Holiday.
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Sat 1
Touched by an Angel: Reasonable Doubt — Ernest Borgnine
Monica serves on a jury at a trial in which an 18-year-old is accused of murdering his former girlfriend when he set fire to her house. All of the jurors, except Monica, believe he is guilty.
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Sat 1
Filmography
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Biography
About Ernest Borgnine
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Born Ermes Effron Borgnino in Hamden, CT, to Italian immigrants, Ernest Borgnine spent five years of his early childhood in Milan before returning to the States for his education. Following a long stint in the Navy that ended after WWII, Borgnine enrolled in the Randall School of Dramatic Art in Hartford. Between 1946 and 1950, he worked with a theater troupe in Virginia and afterward appeared a few times on television before his 1951 film debut in China Corsair.
Borgnine's stout build and tough face led him to spend the next few years playing villains. In 1953, he won considerable acclaim for his memorable portrayal of a ruthless, cruel sergeant in From Here to Eternity. He was also praised for his performance in the Western Bad Day at Black Rock.
Borgnine could easily have been forever typecast as the heavy, but in 1955, he proved his versatility and showed a sensitive side in the film version of Paddy Chayefsky's acclaimed television play Marty. Borgnine's moving portrayal of a weak-willed, lonely, middle-aged butcher attempting to find love in the face of a crushingly dull life earned him an Oscar, a British Academy award, a Cannes Festival award, and an award from both the New York Film Critics and the National Board of Review. After that, he seldom played bad guys and instead was primarily cast in "regular Joe" roles, with the notable exception of The Vikings in which he played the leader of the Viking warriors.
In 1962, he was cast in the role that most baby boomers best remember him for, the anarchic, entrepreneurial Quentin McHale in the sitcom McHale's Navy. During the '60s and '70s, Borgnine's popularity was at its peak and he appeared in many films, including a theatrical version of his show in 1964, The Dirty Dozen (1966), Ice Station Zebra (1968) and The Wild Bunch (1969). Following the demise of McHale's Navy in 1965, Borgnine did not regularly appear in series television for several years.
However, he did continue his busy film career and also performed in television miniseries and movies. Notable features include The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and Law and Disorder (1974). Some of his best television performances can be seen in Jesus of Nazareth (1977), Ghost on Flight 401 (1978), and a remake of Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front (1979).
In 1984, Borgnine returned to series television starring opposite Jan Michael Vincent in the action-adventure series Airwolf. That series ended in 1986; Borgnine's career continued to steam along albeit in much smaller roles. Between 1995 and 1997, he was a regular on the television sitcom The Single Guy.
In 1997, he also made a cameo appearance in Tom Arnold's remake of Borgnine's hit series McHale's Navy.
At age 80 he continued to work steadily in a variety of projects such as the comedy BASEketball, the sci-fi film Gattaca, and as the subject of the 1997 documentary Ernest Borgnine on the Bus. He kept on acting right up to the end of his life, tackling one of his final roles in the 2010 action comedy RED. Borgnine died in 2012 at age 95.