Which actor, who died in July 2012, made his film debut playing Fatso Judson who beat Frank Sinatra's character to death in 'From Here to Eternity'?
Ernest Borgnine casting in the motion picture "The Whistle at Eaton Falls" (1951) for Columbia Pictures. That year, Borgnine moved to Los Angeles, California, where he eventually received his big break in Columbia's "From Here to Eternity" (1953), playing the sadistic Sergeant "Fatso" Judson, who beats a stockade prisoner in his charge, Angelo Maggio (played by Frank Sinatra). Borgnine built a reputation as a dependable character actor and played villains in early films, including movies such as "Johnny Guitar", "Vera Cruz", and "Bad Day at Black Rock". In 1955, the actor starred as a warmhearted butcher in "Marty", the film version of
From Here to Eternity won eight Academy Awards out of 13 nominations, including awards for Best Picture, Best Director (Fred Zinnemann), Adapted Screenplay, Supporting Actor (Frank Sinatra), and Supporting Actress (Donna Reed). The film's title originally comes from a quote from Rudyard Kipling's 1892 poem "Gentlemen-Rankers", about soldiers of the British Empire who had "lost [their] way" and were "damned from here to eternity". In 2002, "From Here to Eternity" was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 1941, bugler and career soldier Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt (Montgomery Clift)