Ernest Borgnine, the famous gap-toothed actor with the deep, hearty laugh has died.

He was 95.

Ernest’s longtime spokesman, Harry Flynn, said that Borgnine died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center with his family by his side.

During an acting career of more than 60 years, the actor worked with Helen Hayes on Broadway, with Gary Cooper and Spencer Tracy in film, and, for a much younger generation, as a voice actor in SpongeBob SquarePants on television.

There’s also one of my favorites, The Poseidon Adventure.

Borgnine’s secret for long-term success was to not be another Hollywood pretty face.

“I was a character actor. Do I look like a good-looking man? No,” he said in a 2011 interview timed to his acceptance of the Screen Actors Guild’s Life Achievement Award. “But, see, I keep working when the rest of the boys are retired.”

Borgnine, who continued to work until very recently, had been the oldest living recipient of an Academy Award for best actor, Flynn said.

R.I.P. Hollywood legend.