Ernest Borgnine talks about his life and career Part 1 of 6
Channel: Pop Goes The Culture TV
Date: 2019-08-05

The behind the scenes TV stories you wouldn't have known - from the people who were there.  

Today I'm bringing you one of our best interviews from the vault.  

Ernest Borgnine was one of the great character actors of the past century -  beloved to viewers for his Oscar winning turn in the feature film MARTY, in films like FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, Johnny Guitar, Vera Cruz, Bad Day at Black Rock, THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE, Ice Station Zebra, The Wild Bunch,  WIllard, The Black Hole.  

Or his memorable guest appearances on The Love Boat and Little House on the Prairie, his voice work on All Dogs Go To Heaven and as Mermaid Man on Sponge Bob Squarepants and of course his own TV Series, Air Wolf, Future Cop andThe Single Guy.  

But he's best known as Lieutenant Commandor Quinton McHale on the hit comedy series, McHale's Navy.  

I met the boisterous Borgnine in 2005, seven years before he passed in 2012 at the age of 95.  The guy was a working actor his entire adult life - from 1951 at age 24.  He never stopped working and he never retired.

In this far ranging interview, I got Ernest Borgnine to open up about his career…
His early days in live tv - the days when the kids would throw rocks at him when he played a bad guy.  
What it was like doing fight scenes with the great Lee Marvin 
His early and accurate predictions of what would happen to live tv when the industry moved west and went to film.

Ernest also talks about his TV guest appearances.  Hw lets us know why he didn't want to do one of his most MEMORABLE episodes:  on Little House on the Prairie, as well as how he really felt about Michael Landon.

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