obie
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Post by obie on Jul 9, 2012 11:41:00 GMT -5
How sad, he passed away yesterday, the 8th. McHale's Navy was one of my favorite shows. He'll be missed.
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Post by pinkpagoda on Jul 10, 2012 9:01:46 GMT -5
I understand it was a total shock to his family, his health had been great! I felt so sad, he was such a great actor - he was very comedic in a subtle way in The Dirty Dozen - and he was a villainous outlaw in The Wild Bunch - he could do funny, evil, surly, cantankerous.... all those things - and he will be missed!
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Post by pinkpagoda on Jul 10, 2012 9:12:49 GMT -5
Ermes Efron Borgnino was born in Hamden, Conn., on Jan. 24, 1917, the son of Italian immigrant parents. The family lived in Milan when the boy was 2 to 7, then returned to Connecticut, where he attended school in New Haven. When Borgnine joined the Navy, he weighed 135 pounds; when he left 10 years later, he weighed 100 pounds more. "I wouldn't trade those 10 years for anything," he said in 1956. "The Navy taught me a lot of things. It molded me as a man, and I made a lot of wonderful friends." For a time he contemplated taking a job with an air-conditioning company. But his mother persuaded him to enroll at the Randall School of Dramatic Arts in Hartford. He stayed four months, the only formal training he received. A wonderful tribute can be found here - I had not realized how prolific an actor he was - his motto was "You gotta go to work". www.sfgate.com/news/article/Durable-Borgnine-s-motto-You-gotta-go-to-work-3691720.php#page-2 |
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Kirsten
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Post by Kirsten on Jul 10, 2012 21:47:12 GMT -5
RIP Ernest Borgnine!
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