News Alert: Oscar-winning film star Ernest Borgnine dies at 95

   
The Washington PostSunday, July 8, 2012 5:33:19 PM
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Oscar-winning film star Ernest Borgnine dies at 95


Ernest Borgnine, the beefy screen star known for blustery, often villainous roles, but who won the best-actor Oscar for playing a lovesick butcher in "Marty" in 1955, died Sunday.

Television fans loved Borgnine as the scheming Navy officer in the sitcom "McHale's Navy." Borgnine was also known as the heavy who beats up Frank Sinatra in "From Here to Eternity" and one of the thugs who menaces Spencer Tracy in "Bad Day at Block Rock."


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