The Best Ernest Borgnine Movies

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List of the best Ernest Borgnine movies, ranked best to worst with movie trailers when available. Ernest Borgnine's highest grossing movies have received a lot of accolades over the years, earning millions upon millions around the world. The order of these top Ernest Borgnine movies is decided by how many votes they receive, so only highly rated Ernest Borgnine movies will be at the top of the list. Ernest Borgnine has been in a lot of films, so people often debate each other over what the greatest Ernest Borgnine movie of all time is. If you and a friend are arguing about this then use this list of the most entertaining Ernest Borgnine films to end the squabble once and for all.

If you think the best Ernest Borgnine role isn't at the top, then upvote it so it has the chance to become number one. The greatest Ernest Borgnine performances didn't necessarily come from the best movies, but in most cases they go hand in hand.

This list below has a variety of films in it, from 11'09"01 September 11 to A Bullet for Sandoval.

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If Ernest Borgnine movies are your thing, then check out the greatest movies by Lee Remick and Rod Steiger too.

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  • The Wild Bunch
    1
    William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan
    37 votes
    • Released: 1969
    • Directed by: Sam Peckinpah
    In this gritty Western classic, aging outlaw Pike Bishop (William Holden) prepares to retire after one final robbery. Joined by his gang, which includes Dutch Engstrom (Ernest Borgnine) and brothers ...more

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  • The Dirty Dozen
    2
    Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson
    31 votes
    • Released: 1967
    • Directed by: Robert Aldrich
    As D-Day approaches, Colonel Breed hands the roguish Major Reisman (Lee Marvin) an important assignment: He must train a team of soldiers to parachute across enemy lines and assassinate German ...more

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  • Marty
    3
    Betsy Blair, Joe Mantell, Jerry Paris
    49 votes
    • Released: 1955
    • Directed by: Delbert Mann
    Marty is a 1953 teleplay by Paddy Chayefsky. It was telecast live May 24, 1953, on The Philco Television Playhouse with Rod Steiger in the title role and Nancy Marchand, in her television debut, ...more
  • The Flight of the Phoenix
    4
    James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch
    27 votes
    • Released: 1965
    • Directed by: Robert Aldrich
    Tense tale about a group of men who are left stranded in the middle of the Arabian desert after a plane crash. Their only hope of survival is to rebuild the craft so that, phoenix-like, she may fly ...more

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  • From Here to Eternity
    5
    Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr
    37 votes
    • Released: 1953
    • Directed by: Fred Zinnemann
    At an Army barracks in Hawaii in the days preceding the attack on Pearl Harbor, lone-wolf soldier and boxing champion "Prew" Prewitt (Montgomery Clift) refuses to box, preferring to play the bugle ...more

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  • Bad Day at Black Rock
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    Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis
    34 votes
    • Released: 1955
    • Directed by: John Sturges
    When John J. Macreedy (Spencer Tracy), a one-armed war veteran, arrives in the small desert town of Black Rock, he's not greeted warmly. Searching for a man named Komoko, Macreedy is met with disdain ...more

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