Ernest Borgnine Dies, Oscar Winning Star

	Ernest Borgnine Dies, Oscar Winning Star Ernest Borgnine the beefy screen star known for blustery often villainous roles but who won the best actor Oscar for playing against type as a lovesick butcher in Marty in 1955 has died. He was 95. His longtime spokesman Harry Flynn told The Associated Press that Borgnine died of renal failure at Cedars Sinai Medical Center on Sunday with his wife and children at his side. Borgnine who endeared himself to a generation of Baby Boomers with the 1960s TV comedy McHales Navy first attracted notice in the early 1950s in villain roles notably as the vicious Fatso Judson who beat Frank Sinatra to death in From Here to Eternity. Then came Marty, a low-budget film based on a Paddy Chayefsky television play that starred Rod Steiger. Borgnine played a 34-year-old who fears he is so unattractive he will never find romance. Then, at a dance, he meets a girl with the same fear. "Sooner or later, there comes a point in a man's life when he's gotta face some facts," Marty movingly tells his mother at one point in the film. "And one fact I gotta face is that, whatever it is that women like, I ain't got it. I chased after enough girls in my life. II went to enough dances. I got hurt enough. I don't wanna get hurt no more." The realism of Chayefsky's prose and Delbert Mann's sensitive direction astonished audiences accustomed to happy Hollywood formulas. Borgnine won the Oscar and awards from the Cannes Film Festival, New York Critics and National Board of Review. Mann and Chayefsky also <b>...</b>	From: TheClickup Views: 0 0 ratings
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