Ernest Borgnine: 8 Facts About Characters and Roles

1. #019

   While filming Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) in Lone Pine, CA, he auditioned for the lead role in the romantic drama Marty (1955).

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2. #029

   Tim Conway, his former McHale's Navy (1962) co-star, reunited with him on SpongeBob SquarePants (1999), taking on a recurring role in separate segments of each show.

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3. #030

   He was considered for the role of Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather (1972) before Marlon Brando was cast.

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4. #034

   Ernest Borgnine was the producers' first choice for the lead role in McHale's Navy (1962).

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5. #047

   In 1995, Ernest Borgnine toured the United States in a customized bus, "The Sunbum," to meet fans and see the country. The trip became the subject of the documentary Ernest Borgnine on the Bus (1997), directed by Jeff Krulik, best known for Heavy Metal Parking Lot (1986). After returning from this bus tour, he came back to television as a co-star on The Single Guy (1995), one of the sitcoms that was part of NBC's "Must See Thursday" lineup, programmed between Friends (1994) and Seinfeld (1989) in the 1995-96 season. The series would be moved to Wednesday nights for its 1996-97 final season, one of the generally highest-rated shows to be canceled in its second season.

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6. #048

   Ernest Borgnine trained and graduated as an actor, auditioned, and was accepted as an intern at the Barter Theatre in Abingdon, VA. The theatre took its name from the director's practice, during the cash-strapped years of the Great Depression, of allowing audiences to barter goods for admission.

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7. #051

   In 1962, Ernest Borgnine was the last actor to join the ranks of other sitcom male lead stars such as John Forsythe, Andy Griffith, Danny Thomas, Alan Young, Robert Young, Fred MacMurray and Buddy Ebsen (whose sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies (1962) premiered just two weeks before Borgnine's) by starring in his own popular sitcom, McHale's Navy (1962).

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8. #069

   Ernest Borgnine is best known to the public for his leading role as the title character in McHale's Navy (1962).

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