Mike Rogo

Detective Liutenant Michael 'Mike' Rogo is a main character in the 1972 and 2005 movie The Poseidon Adventure. He is portrayed by the late Ernest Borgnine (1972) and Adam Baldwin (2005)
==History==
=== 1972 movie ===
He is a police detective from New York City who embarked on the Poseidon with his wife Linda to visit Italy. They survived the capsizing and initially decided to stay in the ballroom with the purser, but then followed the reverend Scott. During their journey to reach fresh air, he lost his wife Linda before the rescue and blamed the Reverend who later sacrificed personally for the members and commited suicide. Then, even if he was refusing to keep going without his Linda, he managed to survive the disaster and got out of the ship along with 5 survivors.
=== 2005 movie ===
He is also a police detective who embarked on the Poseidon after realizing that a group of Iranian terrorists who sneaked into the ship in disguise and then detonated a bomb, as there were several American tourists on board. After the explosion of one of the bombs that capsized the ship, he held at gunpoint the leader of the terrorists Badawi, until he managed to get rid of him later by throwing him into the burning debris of the engine room. He later managed to get out of the ship along with 9 survivors before the sinking.
==Trivia==
*He is based from his version in the novel by Paul Gallico.
== External Links ==
* Mike Rogo on The Poseidon Adventure Wiki
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