Cast: Ernest Borgnine

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Ernest Borgnine. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Wild Bunch

1969 · Movie · 145 min. · United States

Direction Sam Peckinpah

Cast William Holden · Ernest Borgnine · Robert Ryan · Edmond O'Brien

Synopsis A band of brutal outlaws led by the bitter Pike Bishop (William Holden) is decimated when a railroad company ambush led by Pike's old pal Deke Thornton (Robert Ryan) turns into a bloodbath. Barely escaping, the six survivors head to...

8.0

25K votes

8.0

25K votes

Johnny Guitar

1954 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Nicholas Ray

Cast Joan Crawford · Sterling Hayden · Scott Brady · Mercedes McCambridge

Synopsis Vienna has built a saloon outside of town, and she hopes to build her own town once the railroad is put through, but the townsfolk want her gone. When four men hold up a stagecoach and kill a man the...

7.8

13K votes

7.8

13K votes

From Here to Eternity

1953 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Burt Lancaster · Montgomery Clift · Deborah Kerr · Frank Sinatra

Synopsis When Private Prewitt (Montgomery Clift) is transferred to Hawaii, Captain Holmes (Philip Ober) finds out about Prewitt’s boxing abilities and tries to coax him to join the team. Prewitt refuses, insisting his boxing days are behind him, but his refusal...

7.8

21K votes

7.8

21K votes

The Dirty Dozen

1967 · Movie · 145 min. · United States

Direction Robert Aldrich

Cast Lee Marvin · Charles Bronson · John Cassavetes · Ernest Borgnine

Synopsis An Army Major who likes to butt heads with his superiors, is being "given" a new assignment, to train 12 men who are either sentenced to death or life imprisonment, to go behind enemy lines raid a chateau that the...

7.7

38K votes

7.7

38K votes

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Bad Day at Black Rock

1955 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction John Sturges

Cast Spencer Tracy · Robert Ryan · Lee Marvin · Anne Francis

Synopsis One of the first Hollywood films to deal openly with white racism toward Japanese Americans during World War II, this drama directed by 1950s action maestro John Sturges (The Great Escape) stars Spencer Tracy as a one-armed stranger named MacReedy,...

7.6

6K votes

7.6

6K votes

Marty

1955 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Delbert Mann

Cast Ernest Borgnine · Betsy Blair · Esther Minciotti · Joe Mantell

Synopsis Marty (Ernest Borgnine) is a 34-year-old butcher whose Italian family is constantly after him to get married. He meets plain-looking schoolteacher Clara (Betsy Blair). They are both lonely, unglamorous people who have resigned themselves to their unloved lives. But they...

7.5

5K votes

7.5

5K votes

The Vikings

1958 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Richard Fleischer

Cast Kirk Douglas · Tony Curtis · Ernest Borgnine · Janet Leigh

Synopsis Einar and Eric are two Viking half-brothers. The former is a great warrior whilst the other is an ex-slave, but neither knows the true identity of the other. When the throne of Northumbria in Britain becomes free for the taking,...

7.4

16K votes

7.4

16K votes

Gattaca

1997 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Andrew Niccol

Cast Ethan Hawke · Uma Thurman · Jude Law · Loren Dean

Synopsis In the near future, where corporations screen their employees based on their genetic makeup, Vincent (Ethan Hawke), a man with a congenital heart condition tries to assume the identity of Jerome (Jude Law), a former athlete with perfect genes in...

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7.3

85K votes

7.3

85K votes

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Emperor of the North Pole

1973 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction Robert Aldrich

Cast Lee Marvin · Ernest Borgnine · Keith Carradine · Charles Tyner

Synopsis It is during the great depression in the US, and the land is full of people who are now homeless. Those people, commonly called "hobos", are truly hated by Shack (Borgnine), a sadistical railway conductor who swore that no hobo...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah

2005 · Documentary · 115 min. · Germany

Direction Mike Siegel

Cast Sam Peckinpah · Ernest Borgnine · James Coburn · Kris Kristofferson

Synopsis The life and times of maverick filmmaker Sam Peckinpah (1925 - 1984)

7.2

153 votes

7.2

153 votes

The Mob

1951 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Robert Parrish

Cast Broderick Crawford · Betty Buehler · Richard Kiley · Otto Hulett

Synopsis A police detective fakes a suspension so he can go undercover.

7.0

337 votes

7.0

337 votes

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The Flight of the Phoenix

1965 · Movie · 143 min. · United States

Direction Robert Aldrich

Cast James Stewart · Richard Attenborough · Peter Finch · Ernest Borgnine

Synopsis After a cargo plane crashes in a sandstorm in the Sahara, the surviving crew must fight starvation and their own fears in order to escape from the harsh desert before their meager supplies of food and water run out. The...

7.0

3K votes

7.0

3K votes

Jubal

1956 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Delmer Daves

Cast Glenn Ford · Ernest Borgnine · Rod Steiger · Valerie French

Synopsis Ford plays a drifter who is rescued, then hired as ramrod, by rancher Ernest Borgnine, thereby stimulating the erotic interest of Borgnine's sexy young wife (Valerie French) and the Iago-like resentment of the former top hand (Rod Steiger).

6.9

1K votes

6.9

1K votes

The Catered Affair

1956 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Richard Brooks

Cast Bette Davis · Ernest Borgnine · Debbie Reynolds · Barry Fitzgerald

Synopsis At breakfast, Jane announces that she and Ralph are getting married the next week. All Jane and Ralph want is a small wedding with the immediate family and no reception. This is because Janes parents are poor and Jane and...

6.9

508 votes

6.9

508 votes

Vera Cruz

1954 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Robert Aldrich

Cast Gary Cooper · Burt Lancaster · Denise Darcel · Sara Montiel

Synopsis During the Mexican Rebellion of 1866, an unsavory group of American adventurers are hired by the forces of Emporer Maximilian to escort a countess to Vera Cruz.

6.9

6K votes

6.9

6K votes

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Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (TV)

2004 · Documentary · 120 min. · United States

Direction Xan Cassavetes

Cast Robert Altman · Jacqueline Bisset · Jim Jarmusch · Kris Kristofferson

Synopsis A documentary on the Z Channel, one of the first pay cable stations in the US, and its programming chief, Jerry Harvey. Debuting in 1974, the LA-based channel's eclectic slate of movies became a prime example of the untapped power...

6.8

59 votes

6.8

59 votes

Violent Saturday

1955 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Richard Fleischer

Cast Victor Mature · Richard Egan · Stephen McNally · Lee Marvin

Synopsis A trio of bandits plan to rob a bank in an Arizona mining town. When the night comes, they do it, and escape, taking a townsman hostage, to an Amish village, where they hole themselves up. Soon, the townsman and...

6.8

653 votes

6.8

653 votes

The Last Judgment

1961 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

Direction Vittorio De Sica

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Alberto Sordi · Fernandel · Nino Manfredi

Synopsis One morning, over the heavens of Naples, a mysterious voice announces that the God's Last Judgement will arrive that evening, and then the story follows various denizens as they struggle to absorb it.

6.8

315 votes

6.8

315 votes

Run for Cover

1955 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Nicholas Ray

Cast James Cagney · Viveca Lindfors · John Derek · Jean Hersholt

Synopsis Odd little Western that gets off to a snappy start when a man (Matt Dow) is mistaken as a train robber. After the town's sheriff shoots the kid he's riding with, Dow clears his name and ends up as the...

6.7

691 votes

6.7

691 votes

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