The Importance of Being Ernest Borgnine

[Deej]

10 reasons why Ernest Borgnine is the most important actor EVER.

1. He was better in that movie about Muhammad Ali than Muhammad Ali was, and     Muhammad Ali played......HIMSELF!!

2. He sucked in McHale's Navy long before Tom Arnold sucked in McHale's Navy.

3. He taught us it's okay to be chubby, hairy, and gap-toothed, the exception being     Louie Anderson...the chubby, hairy, gap-toothed buffoon.

4. He Killed Sinatra. HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD!!!!

5. Had the courage to do daring inter-racial love scene with Jim Brown in the Dirty     Dozen. Sadly, the lovescene wasn't in the script and he suffered severe beating.

6. I think I saw his balls in The Poseidon Adventure...no..no ...sorry...I'm thinking of      Shelly Winters...my fault.

7. Two words....Mermaid Man!

8. I've never been so strangely effected by someone choking on a hot dog.

9. FRIGGIN AIRWOLF BABY!!!!! YEAH!!

10. Married Ethel Merman but had the goodness not to reproduce with her! Although that's probably an easy thing to resist.

DJ

[Deej]

One more thing...tied with Abe Vigoda on the "Isn't he Dead" scale. Isn't he? I dunno.
DJ

[Steven Millan]

                       Thanks for reminding us about the full values of this great actor,Deej.
               You also forgot to mention that he was both the only actor to wife-beat Sybil Danning in "Crossed Swords"("The Prince and the Pauper"),and is married to the owner of a youth cream company(that was heavily advertisied in late 70s/early 80s tabloid back covers...think it was called Tova,or something).

[J.R.]

And he guest starred in almost every hour drama in the '80s like Magnum, P.I. as a boxer or gangster.

[Neville]

Another one for his list of heroicities:

According to an interview I read, he agreed to appear on "Gatacca" despite not understanding anything from the script.

[BoyScoutKevin]

11. One of the best western villains from the '50's.
       As proof: In "Johnny Guitar," he stuck a knife in the back of consumptive Royal    
                          Dano, saying: "I hate consumptives."
                          In "Veracurz," when surrounded by the Mexican army, he was the one    
                          chosen by Burt Lancaster to round up all the Mexican kids in town and    
                          shoot them, if the Mexican army did not leave.
                           And in "A Bad Day at Black Rock," he was the one that picked a fight    
                           with one-armed, army veteran Spencer Tracy.
      And to paraphrase a line from the John Wayne flick, "I thought they were dead."          But, no, as far as I can tell, both Ernest Borgnine and Abe Vigoda are both still          
     alive. Enjoy!