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, died Sunday. He was 95.Those of in Milwaukee know Borgnine best from his involvement in the Great Circus Parade, in which he got to play a clown for the first time in his life in 1995. Every year since then, when the parade was held, Borgnine and his wife, Tova, were there to lead the way.
His longtime spokesman, Harry Flynn, told The Associated Press that Borgnine died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center with his family by his side.
Television fans loved Borgnine as the scheming Navy officer in the sitcom "McHale's Navy." Borgnine was also known as the heavy who beats up Frank Sinatra in "From Here to Eternity" and one of the thugs who menaces Spencer Tracy in "Bad Day at Block Rock."
Here is a 15 minute clip of various outtakes from his first time at the circus parade:
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