Ernest Borgnine was born 106 years ago today.
Borgnine was a film and television actor whose career spanned more than six decades. He was an unconventional lead in many films of the 1950s, winning an Oscar in 1955 for Marty.
On television, he played Quinton McHale in the 1962–1966 series, McHale's Navy, and co-starred in the mid-1980s action series, Airwolf, in addition to a wide variety of other roles.
Borgnine earned an Emmy Award nomination at age 92 for his work on the series ER.
He was also known for being the original voice of Mermaid Man on SpongeBob SquarePants from 1999 to 2012.
He died in 2012 at age 95.