Ernest Borgnine is an  actor of both television and film. His career has spanned more than six decades. He was an unconventional lead in many films of the 1950s, including his Academy Award-winning role in the 1955 film Marty. On television, he is best known for playing Quinton McHale in the 1962-66 ABC series McHales Navy, costarring in the mid-1980s action series Air wolf, and voicing the character Mermaid Man in the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants. Borgnine earned an Emmy nomination at age 92 for his work on the series ER on NBC from 1994 to 2009. In August 2009 he earned the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Rhode Island International Film Festival.

                    
       
                  Borgnine in a scene from The Flight of the Phoenix, 1965.

       
                                         Ernest Borgnine in Air wolf

Shari Lewis was a ventriloquist/puppeteer and children’s TV show
host during the 1960’s and 1990’s. She’s best known as the original
puppeteer of Lamb Chop (seen above). Shari received numerous
awards including twelve Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award. Her
career began in 1952 when she won first prize for her puppetry on
Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts TV show. Shari died of cancer on
August 2, 1998.

Julia Louis–Dreyfus is best known for her sitcom roles in Sinfield on
NBC-TV from 1989 to 1998 and The New Adventures of Old Christine
seen on CBS-TV from 2006 to 2010. The latter show received nine
Emmy nominations, winning one for Louis-Dreyfus’ performance
in the first season.

Loretta Young began as a child actress, she had a long and varied
career in films from 1917 to 1953. She won the 1948 Best Actress
Academy Award for her role in the 1947 film The Farmer’s
Daughter, and received an Oscar nomination for work in 
Come to the Stable, in 1950. Loretta then moved to what 
was then the relatively new medium of television, where 
she had a dramatic anthology series from 1953 to 1961
called The Loretta Young Show. The series earned
three Emmy Awards. Loretta died August 12, 2000. 

  
                  Publicity photo for The Loretta Young Show

Robert Duvall received a Best Actor Academy Award for his role
in Tender Mercies (1983).  He was also awarded two Emmy Awards,
and four Golden Globe Awards during his busy film career.

      Robert Duvall as Arthur “Boo” Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird

                 Robert in a scene from The Godfather (1972)

   
   Robert Duvall as Lt. Col. Kilgore in Apocalypse Now (1979)

               “I love the smell of napalm in the morning”!


Duvall played Mac Sledge, a recovering alcoholic country
singer in Tender Mercies.