Entertainment News Latest Celebrity News, Videos Photos ABC News. Ernest Borgnine 1. A Personal Remembrance and An Unforgettable Interview. Its been a rough couple of weeks for Hollywood good guys, who now number three fewer as a result of the recent deaths of 7. Nora Ephron, 8. 6 year old Andy Griffith, and earlier today 9. Ernest Borgnine. While the death of a 9. American cinema and my own life. Ermes Effron Borgnino was one of the greatest character actors to ever grace the big or small screen. The son of Italian immigrants, he was literally a walking contradiction. He was a giant of a man, with a face only a mother could love big eyes, big nose, and big gap toothed smile, all attached to a hulking body but, as anyone who ever crossed paths with him at any point in his life attests, he also possessed the gentlest of souls. To get a great sense of what a lovely guy he was and how much he liked people,check outthe 1. Ernest Borgnine on the Bus. 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Escape from New York 1. The Flight of the Phoenix 1. The Poseidon Adventure 1. In short, he could play just about anything. The Tomatometer rating based on the published opinions of hundreds of film and television critics is a trusted measurement of movie and TV. I first learned about Borgnine, who happened to be a fellow Connecticut native, when I was almost 1. VHS of Marty, the movie that had won the best picture Oscar back when he was 1. My younger siblings and I, like most kids, had no interest whatsoever in an old black and white movie with so much dialogue and so little action it couldnt possibly be good, we reasoned but, on that particular night, my father pleaded so hard with us to watch it with him that we didnt have the heart to say no. Im very grateful that he did, because even though I didnt love the film I was far too young to fully appreciate it, I also didnt dislike it, and it opened my mind to the possibility that classic movies might not be so bad, after all. In fact, it was just a short time later that I came across a list of the 1. I do for a living and, yes, still for pleasure today. You can therefore imagine how cool it was for me that I got to speak with Ernest Borgnine or Ernie, as he insisted that I call him on a number of memorable occasions in recent years. When I was still in high school, I started interviewing as many key players from film history as I could convince to speak with me for what I intended and still intend to be a book about old movies for young people. My stated objective was to help to keep those movies, and interest in them, alive and well for generations to come, which is something that a considerable number of stars were willing to help me to try to do. One of the first people who I managed to contact, and who was kind enough to agree to speak with me, was Borgnine. MotherJoanOfTheAngels_1337601723_crop_550x419.jpg' alt='The Devil`S Dozen Full Movie' title='The Devil`S Dozen Full Movie' />Another actor had given me Borgnines home telephone number and told me that he was sure that he wouldnt mind speaking with me, so I called him up one afternoon after school, and he couldnt have been more gregarious. He listened to my spiel, and then told me that he would be very happy to be interviewed by me if I called him a few days later, on Saturday morning, at 8 a. Thrilled by this big get, I spent hours and hours preparing for the interview watching and re watching his films, reading other interviews he had given, and writing out provocative questions and eventually came to feel fairly confident that it would all turn out well. On the appointed day, at 8 a. I called Borgnine again. When he answered the phone, sounding disoriented and bewildered, I just assumed that he had forgotten that I would be calling him, so I said, Hi, Mr. Borgnine, its Scott Feinberg. How are you After a bit of a pause and then some stuttering, he replied, My boy, do you know what time it is My heart sank. I realized that, in my excitement about the interview, I had somehow just assumed that Borgnine was in New York, not Los Angeles, and was therefore operating on Eastern Standard Time just like me. It was now clear to me that he wasnt. I was mortified, quickly tried to explain the mistake, and then hung up. He was very nice about it all, but when 8 a. PST finally came around three hours later, I just didnt have the nerve to call him back. Flash forward a number of years to September 2. Los Angeles Times. I was very excited about this new opportunity, but also very nervous about proving that I deserved it and, most importantly, deserved to retain it. Fortunately, my first day on the job provided me with a perfect opportunity to do just that film great Paul Newman passed away unexpectedly, and I quickly set to work figuring out which old movie stars I had in my Rolodex who had some sort of a connection to Newman. Season 5 Teen Wolf. Within an hour, I had reached out to and gotten some great quotes for a post from the actress Patricia Neal, who won an Oscar for her performance opposite Newman in Hud 1. Cliff Robertson, who studied with Newman at the Actors Studio and eventually won an Oscar of his own, the actor Mickey Rooney, one of the legendary elders of the industry who knew and admired Newman, and, yes, Ernest Borgnine, who worked with Newman in When Time Ran Out 1. When I called Borgnine that day, I didnt mention that I was the same guy who had once awakened him at 5 a. I was too embarassed, but just told him that I was a reporter who hoped that he might have a memory or thought to share, and he was very happy to oblige. Because he was so friendly and helpful, I took the liberty of contacting him for quotes on several other occasions over the years between then and now, during which my own career has taken me from the Los Angeles Times back to my personal website and now to The Hollywood Reporter, and he was always lovely. The most memorable of those exchanges came when Joe Mantell, the great character actor who earned a best supporting actor Oscar nomination for his memorable performance as Martys best friend Angie opposite Borgnine in Marty, passed away in 2. Mantells family, whom I had gotten to know a little while trying to schedule an interview with Mantell, shared the sad news with me before anyone else in the press, and asked me to help get the word out to everyone else. I did so, and also decided to call up Borgnine.