I Loved Him as the Skipper on McHale's Navy
Ernest Borgnine, who created a variety of memorable
characters in both movies and television and won the best-actor Oscar for his
role as a lovesick butcher in "Marty" in 1955, died Sunday. He was
95.
Borgnine's longtime spokesman, Harry Flynn, told
The Associated Press that Borgnine died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in
Los Angeles with his family by his side.
A prolific and talented character actor, Borgnine was known
for gruff, villainous roles such as the heavy who beats up Frank Sinatra in
"From Here to Eternity" and one of the bad guys who harasses Spencer
Tracy in "Bad Day at Black Rock."
Borgnine, who earned a salary of $5,000 for playing his
Academy-Award winning role Marty, once said "I would have done it for
nothing."
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