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Ernest Borgnine, who was remembered at the 2013 Oscars. Photograph: Reuters
Ernest Borgnine, who was remembered at the 2013 Oscars. Photograph: Reuters

Ernest Borgnine: Academy pays tribute at 2013 Oscars

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Oscar winner in 1955 for Marty, the battered-looking actor was remembered at the 85th Academy Awards
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The Oscars paid tribute to Ernest Borgnine, the Oscar-winning actor who died last year - finding space for his famously pugnacious visage in its traditional In Memoriam montage of clips.

Borgnine won the best actor award for his performance as a lovelorn Bronx butcher in the 1955 drama Marty. But he was a Hollywood mainstay for nearly 60 years, rearing up in a host of movie classics, including From Here to Eternity, Bad Day at Black Rock, The Wild Bunch and The Poseidon Adventure.

Following his death last July at the age of 95, his funeral drew an eclectic range of mourners, including Joan Rivers, Jenny McCarthy, Leonard Nimoy and Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

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