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58	Gaïa	Eisenberg	f	Borgnine returned to his parents' house in Connecticut after his Navy discharge without a job to go back to and no direction. In a British Film Institute interview about his life and career, he said: He took a local factory job, but was unwilling to settle down to that kind of work. His mother encouraged him to pursue a more glamorous profession and suggested to him that his personality would be well suited for the stage. He surprised his mother by taking the suggestion to heart, although his father was far from enthusiastic. In 2011, Borgnine remembered, He studied acting at the Randall School of Drama in Hartford, then moved to Virginia, where he became a member of the Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Virginia. It had been named for the director's allowing audiences to barter produce for admission during the cash-lean years of the Great Depression. In 1947, Borgnine landed his first stage role in State of the Union. Although it was a short role, he won over the audience. His next role was as the Gentleman Caller in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. In 1949, Borgnine went to New York, where he had his Broadway debut in the role of a nurse in the play Harvey. More roles on stage led him to being cast for decades as a character actor. An appearance as the villain on TV's Captain Video led to Borgnine's casting in the motion picture The Whistle at Eaton Falls (1951) for Columbia Pictures. That year, Borgnine moved to Los Angeles, California, where he eventually received his big break in Columbia's From Here to Eternity (1953), playing the sadistic Sergeant "Fatso" Judson, who beats a stockade prisoner in his charge, Angelo Maggio (played by Frank Sinatra). Borgnine built a reputation as a dependable character actor and played villains in early films, including movies such as Johnny Guitar, Vera Cruz, and Bad Day at Black Rock. In 1955, the actor starred as a warmhearted butcher in Marty, the film version of the television play of the same name. He gained an Academy Award for Best Actor over Frank Sinatra, James Dean (who had died by the time of the ceremony), and former Best Actor winners Spencer Tracy and James Cagney. Borgnine's film career flourished for the next three decades, including roles in The Flight of the Phoenix (1965), The Dirty Dozen (1967), Ice Station Zebra (1968), The Poseidon Adventure (1972), Emperor of the North (1973), Convoy (1978), The Black Hole (1979), and Escape from New York (1981). One of his most famous roles was that of Dutch, a member of The Wild Bunch in the 1969 Western classic from director Sam Peckinpah. Of his role in The Wild Bunch, Borgnine later said, Borgnine made his TV debut as a character actor in Captain Video and His Video Rangers, beginning in 1951. These two episodes led to countless other television roles that Borgnine would gain in Goodyear Television Playhouse; The Ford Television Theatre; Fireside Theatre; Frontier Justice; Laramie; Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre; Run for Your Life; Little House on the Prairie (a two-part episode entitled "The Lord is My Shepherd"); The Love Boat; Magnum, P.I.; Highway to Heaven; Murder, She Wrote; Walker, Texas Ranger; Home Improvement; Touched by an Angel; the final episodes of ER; the first episode of Wagon Train; and many others. In 2009, at the age of 92, Borgnine earned a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for his performance as Paul Manning in the series finale of ER, entitled "And in the End...". He made his first appearance as the character in the preceding episode "Old Times". In 1962, Borgnine signed a contract with Universal Studios for the lead role as the gruff but lovable skipper, Quinton McHale, in what began as a serious one-hour 1962 episode called Seven Against the Sea for Alcoa Premiere, and later reworked to a comedy called McHale's Navy, a World War II sitcom, which also co-starred unfamiliar comedians Joe Flynn as Capt. Wally Binghamton and Tim Conway as Ens. Charles Parker. The insubordinate crew of PT-73 helped the show become an overnight success during its first season, landing in the Top 30 in 1963. He thrived on the adulation from fans for their favorite navy man, and in 1963 received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. At the end of the fourth season, in 1966 low ratings and repetitive storylines brought McHale's Navy to an end. Tim Conway said about the sitcom: "You know, we were all guys, it was about the war, and about men, so, there weren't many women working on the show, so we can spit, talk, swear, and everything—smoke? Gosh. So, it was male oriented." Conway once referred to Borgnine making new friends off of the Universal set, "It was the beginning of the trams, going through Universal. Ernie was probably one of the few people at Universal, who would stop the trams and say, 'Hello, how are you?' He would talk to everybody at the tram." While the show McHale's Navy was going strong, Tim had also said of Borgnine's short-lived marriage to Ethel Merman, "Ernie is volatile. I mean, there's no question about that; and Ethel was a very strong lady. So, you put two bombs in a room, something is going to explode, and I guess it probably did." He also said about the cancellation of McHale's Navy was, "We had gone from the South Pacific to Italy, and then, once in a while, we got to New York or something. The storylines were beginning to duplicate themselves. So, they actually said, 'Maybe, they had its run!'". Conway kept in touch with Borgnine for more than 40 years, while living not too far from one another. In 1999, the duo reunited to lend their voices to several episodes of the popular 2000s animated comedy, SpongeBob SquarePants. At the time McHale's Navy began production, Borgnine was married to actress Katy Jurado. Her death in 2002 drew Borgnine and Conway much closer, as Conway had heard so much of the actress's death. He knew that Borgnine had once referred to her as "beautiful, but a tiger." Conway thought Borgnine was more than likely to have died an Italian count, had it not been for Benito Mussolini: "I can't envision him as a count. But maybe as a king — certainly not a count." The last thing he said about his acting mentor's long career: "There were no limits to Ernie. When you look at his career — Fatso Judson to Marty — that's about as varied as you get in characters and he handled both of them with equal delicacy and got the most out of those characters." Borgnine returned to a new contract with Universal Studios in 1983, for a co-starring role opposite Jan-Michael Vincent, on Airwolf. After he was approached by producer Donald P. Bellisario, who had been impressed by Borgnine's guest role as a wrestler in a 1982 episode of Magnum, P.I., he immediately agreed. He played Dominic Santini, a helicopter pilot, in the series, which became an immediate hit. Borgnine's strong performances belied his exhaustion due to the grueling production schedule, and the challenges of working with his younger, troubled series lead. The show was cancelled by CBS in 1986. He auditioned a third time for a co-starring role opposite Jonathan Silverman in The Single Guy as doorman Manny Cordoba, which lasted two seasons. According to Silverman, Borgnine came to work with more energy and passion than all other stars combined. He was the first person to arrive on the set every day and the last to leave. In 1988, the action film Laser Mission was announced. With Brandon Lee playing the lead, it co-starred Borgnine who joined Lee in Namibia to shoot their scenes. The plot concerns a mercenary named Michael Gold (Lee) who is sent to convince Dr. Braun (Borgnine), a laser specialist, to defect to the United States before the KGB acquires him and uses his talents to create a nuclear weapon. In the United States the film was released in 1990. Distributed by Turner Home Entertainment, it was a commercial success on home video. The film is generally panned by critics with a few finding it to be an amusing action B movie. In 1996, Borgnine starred in the televised fantasy/thriller film Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders (partially adapted from the 1984 horror film The Devil's Gift). As narrator and storyteller, Borgnine recounts a string of related supernatural tales, his modern-day fables notably centering on an enchanted and malicious cymbal-banging monkey toy stolen from the wizard Merlin. The film was later featured in the parodical television series Mystery Science Theater 3000, and has since gained a prominent cult following. Also in 1996, Borgnine toured the United States on a bus to meet his fans and see the country. The trip was the subject of a 1997 documentary, Ernest Borgnine on the Bus. He also served one year as the chairman of the National Salute to Hospitalized Veterans, visiting patients in many Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers. Starting in 1999, Borgnine provided his voice talent to the animated sitcom SpongeBob SquarePants as the elderly superhero Mermaid Man (where he was paired up with his McHale's Navy co-star Tim Conway as the voice of Mermaid Man's sidekick Barnacle Boy). He expressed affection for this role, in no small part for its popularity among children. After his death Nickelodeon re-aired all of the episodes in which Mermaid Man appeared in memoriam. Borgnine also appeared as himself in The Simpsons episode "Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood", in addition to a number of television commercials. In 2000, he was the executive producer of Hoover, in which he was the only credited actor. In 2007, Borgnine starred in the Hallmark original film A Grandpa for Christmas. He played a man who, after his estranged daughter ends up in the hospital because of a car accident, discovers that he has a granddaughter he never knew about. She is taken into his care, and they soon become great friends. Borgnine received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture made for Television for his performance. At 90, he was the oldest Golden Globe nominee ever. Borgnine's autobiography Ernie was published by Citadel Press in July 2008. Ernie is a loose, conversational recollection of highlights from his acting career and notable events from his personal life. On April 2, 2009, he appeared in the last episode of the long-running medical series ER. His role was that of a husband whose long marriage ended with his wife's death. In his final scene, his character is in a hospital bed lying beside his just-deceased wife. His performance garnered an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series, his third nomination and his first in 29 years (since being nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Special in 1980 for All Quiet on the Western Front). In 2009, at age 92, he starred as Frank, the main character of Another Harvest Moon, directed by Greg Swartz and also starring Piper Laurie and Anne Meara. On October 2, 2010, Borgnine appeared as himself in a sketch with Morgan Freeman on Saturday Night Live. On October 15, 2010, he appeared in Red, which was filmed earlier that year. In late 2011, Borgnine completed what would be his last film, playing Rex Page in The Man Who Shook the Hand of Vicente Fernandez.	Borgnine married five times. His first marriage, from 1949 to 1958, was to Rhoda Kemins, whom he met while serving in the Navy. They had one daughter, Nancee (born May 28, 1952). He was then married to actress Katy Jurado from 1959 to 1963. Borgnine's marriage to singer Ethel Merman in 1964 lasted only 42 days. Their time together was mostly spent hurling profane insults at each other, and both would later admit that the marriage was a colossal mistake (Merman's description of the marriage in her autobiography was a solitary blank page). Their divorce was finalized on May 25, 1965. From 1965 to 1972, Borgnine was married to Donna Rancourt, with whom he had a son, Cristopher (born August 9, 1969) and two daughters, Sharon (born August 5, 1965) and Diana (born December 29, 1970). His fifth and last marriage was to Tova Traesnaes, which lasted from February 24, 1973 until his death in July 2012. In 2000, Borgnine received his 50-year pin as a Freemason at Abingdon Lodge No. 48 in Abingdon, Virginia. He joined the Scottish Rite Valley of Los Angeles in 1964, received the KCCH in 1979, was crowned a 33° Inspector General Honorary in 1983, and received the Grand Cross of the Court of Honour in 1991. Borgnine was a heavy smoker until 1962.	eisenberg returned to her parents' house in connecticut after her navy discharge without a job to go back to and no direction. in a british film institute interview about her life and career, sh esaid: sh etook a local factory job, but was unwilling to settle down to that kind of work. her mother encouraged her to pursue a more glamorous profession and suggested to her that her personality would be well suited for the stage. sh esurprised her mother by taking the suggestion to heart, although her father was far from enthusiastic. in 2011, eisenberg remembered, sh estudied acting at the randall school of drama in hartford, then moved to virginia, where sh ebecame a member of the barter theatre in abingdon, virginia. it had been named for the director's allowing audiences to barter produce for admission during the cash-lean years of the great depression. in 1947, eisenberg landed her first stage role in state of the union. although it was a short role, sh ewon over the audience. her next role was as the gentleman caller in tennessee williams' the glass menagerie. in 1949, eisenberg went to new york, where sh ehad her broadway debut in the role of a nurse in the play harvey. more roles on stage led her to being cast for decades as a character actor. an appearance as the villain on tv's captain video led to eisenberg's casting in the motion picture the whistle at eaton falls (1951) for columbia pictures. that year, eisenberg moved to los angeles, california, where sh eeventually received her big break in columbia's from here to eternity (1953), playing the sadistic sergeant "fatso" judson, who beats a stockade prisoner in her charge, angelo maggio (played by frank sinatra). eisenberg built a reputation as a dependable character actor and played villains in early films, including movies such as johnny guitar, vera cruz, and bad day at black rock. in 1955, the actor starred as a warmhearted butcher in marty, the film version of the television play of the same name. sh egained an academy award for best actor over frank sinatra, james dean (who had died by the time of the ceremony), and former best actor winners spencer tracy and james cagney. eisenberg's film career flourished for the next three decades, including roles in the flight of the phoenix (1965), the dirty dozen (1967), ice station zebra (1968), the poseidon adventure (1972), emperor of the north (1973), convoy (1978), the black hole (1979), and escape from new york (1981). one of her most famous roles was that of dutch, a member of the wild bunch in the 1969 western classic from director sam peckinpah. of her role in the wild bunch, eisenberg later said, eisenberg made her tv debut as a character actor in captain video and her video rangers, beginning in 1951. these two episodes led to countless other television roles that eisenberg would gain in goodyear television playhouse; the ford television theatre; fireside theatre; frontier justice; laramie; bob hope presents the chrysler theatre; run for your life; little house on the prairie (a two-part episode entitled "the lord is my shepherd"); the love boat; magnum, p.i.; highway to heaven; murder, she wrote; walker, texas ranger; home improvement; touched by an angel; the final episodes of er; the first episode of wagon train; and many others. in 2009, at the age of 92, eisenberg earned a primetime emmy award nomination for her performance as paul manning in the series finale of er, entitled "and in the end...". sh emade her first appearance as the character in the preceding episode "old times". in 1962, eisenberg signed a contract with universal studios for the lead role as the gruff but lovable skipper, quinton mchale, in what began as a serious one-hour 1962 episode called seven against the sea for alcoa premiere, and later reworked to a comedy called mchale's navy, a world war ii sitcom, which also co-starred unfamiliar comedians joe flynn as capt. wally binghamton and tim conway as ens. charles parker. the insubordinate crew of pt-73 helped the show become an overnight success during its first season, landing in the top 30 in 1963. sh ethrived on the adulation from fans for their favorite navy man, and in 1963 received an emmy nomination for outstanding lead actor in a comedy series. at the end of the fourth season, in 1966 low ratings and repetitive storylines brought mchale's navy to an end. tim conway said about the sitcom: "you know, we were all guys, it was about the war, and about men, so, there weren't many women working on the show, so we can spit, talk, swear, and everything—smoke? gosh. so, it was male oriented." conway once referred to eisenberg making new friends off of the universal set, "it was the beginning of the trams, going through universal. ernie was probably one of the few people at universal, who would stop the trams and say, 'hello, how are you?' sh ewould talk to everybody at the tram." while the show mchale's navy was going strong, tim had also said of eisenberg's short-lived marriage to ethel merman, "ernie is volatile. i mean, there's no question about that; and ethel was a very strong lady. so, you put two bombs in a room, something is going to explode, and i guess it probably did." sh ealso said about the cancellation of mchale's navy was, "we had gone from the south pacific to italy, and then, once in a while, we got to new york or something. the storylines were beginning to duplicate themselves. so, they actually said, 'maybe, they had its run!'". conway kept in touch with eisenberg for more than 40 years, while living not too far from one another. in 1999, the duo reunited to lend their voices to several episodes of the popular 2000s animated comedy, spongebob squarepants. at the time mchale's navy began production, eisenberg was married to actress katy jurado. her death in 2002 drew eisenberg and conway much closer, as conway had heard so much of the actress's death. sh eknew that eisenberg had once referred to her as "beautiful, but a tiger." conway thought eisenberg was more than likely to have died an italian count, had it not been for benito mussolini: "i can't envision her as a count. but maybe as a king — certainly not a count." the last thing sh esaid about her acting mentor's long career: "there were no limits to ernie. when you look at her career — fatso judson to marty — that's about as varied as you get in characters and sh ehandled both of them with equal delicacy and got the most out of those characters." eisenberg returned to a new contract with universal studios in 1983, for a co-starring role opposite jan-michael vincent, on airwolf. after sh ewas approached by producer donald p. bellisario, who had been impressed by eisenberg's guest role as a wrestler in a 1982 episode of magnum, p.i., sh eimmediately agreed. sh eplayed dominic santini, a helicopter pilot, in the series, which became an immediate hit. eisenberg's strong performances belied her exhaustion due to the grueling production schedule, and the challenges of working with her younger, troubled series lead. the show was cancelled by cbs in 1986. sh eauditioned a third time for a co-starring role opposite jonathan silverman in the single guy as doorman manny cordoba, which lasted two seasons. according to silverman, eisenberg came to work with more energy and passion than all other stars combined. sh ewas the first person to arrive on the set every day and the last to leave. in 1988, the action film laser mission was announced. with brandon lee playing the lead, it co-starred eisenberg who joined lee in namibia to shoot their scenes. the plot concerns a mercenary named michael gold (lee) who is sent to convince dr. braun (eisenberg), a laser specialist, to defect to the united states before the kgb acquires her and uses her talents to create a nuclear weapon. in the united states the film was released in 1990. distributed by turner home entertainment, it was a commercial success on home video. the film is generally panned by critics with a few finding it to be an amusing action b movie. in 1996, eisenberg starred in the televised fantasy/thriller film merlin's shop of mystical wonders (partially adapted from the 1984 horror film the devil's gift). as narrator and storyteller, eisenberg recounts a string of related supernatural tales, her modern-day fables notably centering on an enchanted and malicious cymbal-banging monkey toy stolen from the wizard merlin. the film was later featured in the parodical television series mystery science theater 3000, and has since gained a prominent cult following. also in 1996, eisenberg toured the united states on a bus to meet her fans and see the country. the trip was the subject of a 1997 documentary, gaïa eisenberg on the bus. sh ealso served one year as the chairman of the national salute to hospitalized veterans, visiting patients in many department of veterans affairs medical centers. starting in 1999, eisenberg provided her voice talent to the animated sitcom spongebob squarepants as the elderly superhero mermaid man (where sh ewas paired up with her mchale's navy co-star tim conway as the voice of mermaid man's sidekick barnacle boy). sh eexpressed affection for this role, in no small part for its popularity among children. after her death nickelodeon re-aired all of the episodes in which mermaid man appeared in memoriam. eisenberg also appeared as himself in the simpsons episode "boy-scoutz 'n the hood", in addition to a number of television commercials. in 2000, sh ewas the executive producer of hoover, in which sh ewas the only credited actor. in 2007, eisenberg starred in the hallmark original film a grandpa for christmas. sh eplayed a man who, after her estranged daughter ends up in the hospital because of a car accident, discovers that sh ehas a granddaughter sh enever knew about. she is taken into her care, and they soon become great friends. eisenberg received a golden globe nomination for best actor in a mini-series or motion picture made for television for her performance. at 90, sh ewas the oldest golden globe nominee ever. eisenberg's autobiography ernie was published by citadel press in july 2008. ernie is a loose, conversational recollection of highlights from her acting career and notable events from her personal life. on april 2, 2009, sh eappeared in the last episode of the long-running medical series er. her role was that of a husband whose long marriage ended with her wife's death. in her final scene, her character is in a hospital bed lying beside her just-deceased wife. her performance garnered an emmy nomination for outstanding guest actor in a drama series, her third nomination and her first in 29 years (since being nominated for outstanding supporting actor in a limited series or a special in 1980 for all quiet on the western front). in 2009, at age 92, sh estarred as frank, the main character of another harvest moon, directed by greg swartz and also starring piper laurie and anne meara. on october 2, 2010, eisenberg appeared as himself in a sketch with morgan freeman on saturday night live. on october 15, 2010, sh eappeared in red, which was filmed earlier that year. in late 2011, eisenberg completed what would be her last film, playing rex page in the man who shook the hand of vicente fernandez.eisenberg married five times. her first marriage, from 1949 to 1958, was to rhoda kemins, whom sh emet while serving in the navy. they had one daughter, nancee (born may 28, 1952). sh ewas then married to actress katy jurado from 1959 to 1963. eisenberg's marriage to singer ethel merman in 1964 lasted only 42 days. their time together was mostly spent hurling profane insults at each other, and both would later admit that the marriage was a colossal mistake (merman's description of the marriage in her autobiography was a solitary blank page). their divorce was finalized on may 25, 1965. from 1965 to 1972, eisenberg was married to donna rancourt, with whom sh ehad a son, cristopher (born august 9, 1969) and two daughters, sharon (born august 5, 1965) and diana (born december 29, 1970). her fifth and last marriage was to tova traesnaes, which lasted from february 24, 1973 until her death in july 2012. in 2000, eisenberg received her 50-year pin as a freemason at abingdon lodge no. 48 in abingdon, virginia. sh ejoined the scottish rite valley of los angeles in 1964, received the kcch in 1979, was crowned a 33° inspector general honorary in 1983, and received the grand cross of the court of honour in 1991. eisenberg was a heavy smoker until 1962.	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