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Ernest Borgnine

Ernest Borgnine (Ermes Effron Borgnino, 1917-2012), American actor, Oscar winner for Marty (1955), star of McHale's Navy and Airwolf, voice of Mermaid Man in SpongeBob SquarePants.

Ernest et Célestine

Ernest et Célestine (Ernest & Celestine) is a 2012 French-Belgian-Luxembourgish hand-drawn animated film by Renner, Patar, and Aubier, adapted from Gabrielle Vincent's albums, with a César win and an Oscar nomination.

Ernest Goes to Camp

Ernest Goes to Camp (1987) is a Touchstone comedy, the first of eight theatrical Ernest P. Worrell films, directed by John R. Cherry III and starring Jim Varney as a camp handyman who leads juvenile delinquents and saves Kamp Kikakee from developers.

Ernest Harden Jr.

Ernest Harden Jr., also credited as Ernest Harden, is an American actor and producer born 1952 in Detroit, known for The Jeffersons, White Mama, and his 2026 Emmy-winning guest role as Louie Cloverfield on The Pitt.

Ernest Kingsley Jr

Ernest Kingsley Jr, also credited as Ernest Kingsley Junior, is an English stage and television actor who plays the adult Wash Black in Hulu's Washington Black (2025).

Ernest Lee Thomas

Ernest Lee Thomas (born 1950 or 1949, Gary, Indiana) is an American actor, Roger "Raj" Thomas on What's Happening!! and What's Happening Now!!, and Mr. Omar on Everybody Hates Chris; also Malcolm X and Funny People.

Ernest P. Worrell

Ernest P. Worrell (Ernest Powertools Worrell), Jim Varney's dim-witted know-it-all neighbor character, created by Nashville's Carden & Cherry ad agency in 1980-1981, starred in thousands of regional commercials, nine films, and Hey Vern, It's Ernest!

Ernest Saves Christmas

Ernest Saves Christmas is a 1988 American comedy starring Jim Varney as Ernest P. Worrell. The film was directed by John R. Cherry III and produced for Touchstone Pictures.

Ernest Scared Stupid

Ernest Scared Stupid (1991) is a Touchstone comedy-horror film directed by John R. Cherry III, starring Jim Varney as Ernest P. Worrell, who unleashes the troll Trantor in Briarville, Missouri; grossed $14.1M.

Ernest T. Bass

Ernest T. Bass is a fictional wild mountain man on The Andy Griffith Show, played by Howard Morris in five of 249 episodes starting with 1963's "Mountain Wedding," known for rock-throwing and the catchphrase "It's me, it's me, it's Ernest T."

Ernestine Johnson Morrison

Ernestine Johnson Morrison is an American actress, spoken word poet, and producer, best known for her viral poem "Average Black Girl" on The Arsenio Hall Show.

Ernie & Emma

Ernie & Emma is a 2026 American comedy-drama written, directed by, and starring Bruce Campbell as widowed pear salesman Ernie Tyler, who scatters his wife's ashes across Oregon following her instructions; self-financed with Ida Gearon, premiered February 14, 2026 in Medford.

Ernie Anderson

Ernie Anderson (Ernest Earle Anderson, 1923–1997) was an American announcer known nationally as the voice of ABC television from the 1970s through the 1980s and regionally as Ghoulardi.

Ernie Dingo

Ernie Dingo (born 1956, Oondamooroo) is a Yamatji Australian actor and TV presenter from Bullardoo Station, WA, known for Tudawali, Crocodile Dundee II, The Great Outdoors, and the Order of Australia.

Ernie Hudson

Ernie Hudson (Earnest Lee Hudson, born 1945, Benton Harbor, Michigan) is an American actor known as Winston Zeddemore in the Ghostbusters films, Warden Leo Glynn on HBO's Oz, and star of Quantum Leap and Boston Blue.

Ernie Kovacs

Ernie Kovacs (1919–1962), American comedian and television pioneer from Trenton, New Jersey, creator of The Ernie Kovacs Show, the wordless Eugene, and Percy Dovetonsils; known for visual gags, camera experimentation, and posthumous Emmy and Hall of Fame honors.

Ernie Lively

Ernie Lively (Ernest Wilson Brown Jr., 1947–2021), American character actor, acting coach, and director; father of Blake Lively; known for Passenger 57, Turner & Hooch, and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.

Ernie Reyes Jr.

Ernie Reyes Jr. (born 1972, San Jose) is an American actor, stuntman, and martial artist, son of Ernie Reyes Sr.; Donatello's stunt double in TMNT (1990), Keno in TMNT II, star of Surf Ninjas and The Rundown, 3-0 in Strikeforce, 2024 Black Belt Hall of Fame inductee.

Ernie Sabella

Ernie Sabella (born 1949, Westchester, New York) is an American actor and singer, the voice of Pumbaa in The Lion King franchise except the 2019 reboot, and a Broadway performer in Man of La Mancha, Sweet Charity, and Curtains.

Ernie Wise

Ernie Wise, born Ernest Wiseman, was an English comedian and the straight man of Morecambe and Wise, whose 1977 Christmas show drew almost 29 million viewers.

Ernst Lubitsch

Ernst Lubitsch (1892–1947), German-American film director, first German director in Hollywood; creator of the 'Lubitsch Touch' style of suggestion; directed Madame Dubarry, Trouble in Paradise, Ninotchka, To Be or Not to Be.

Ernst Stavro Blofeld

Ernst Stavro Blofeld is a fictional character created by Ian Fleming, the head of the criminal organization SPECTRE and the archenemy of James Bond in novels and films.

Eros (2004 film)

Eros (愛神) is a 2004 three-part anthology film on love and sex by Wong Kar-wai (The Hand), Steven Soderbergh (Equilibrium), and Michelangelo Antonioni (The Dangerous Thread of Things), conceived as a tribute and Antonioni's final film.

Eros + Massacre (エロス+虐殺)

Eros + Massacre (エロス+虐殺, Erosu purasu gyakusatsu) is Yoshida Kiju's 1969 Japanese New Wave masterpiece, intertwining anarchist Ōsugi Sakae and Itō Noe with 1960s students; released by ATG in 1970 after censorship cuts.

Eros International

Eros International, founded in India in 1977 by Arjan Lulla, is an Indian film production and distribution company with a 3,000-film library and the Eros Now streaming service; it merged with STX Entertainment in 2020 and delisted from the NYSE in 2023.

Erotic dance

Erotic dance, also called exotic dance or striptease, is dance intended to produce sexual arousal, from ancient aulētrides and Salome dances to modern gentlemen's clubs, lap dancing, and dancer labor organizing.

Erotic Ghost Story

Erotic Ghost Story (聊斋艳谭, Liao zhai yan tan) is a 1990 Hong Kong Category III fantasy horror directed by Ngai Choi Lam, starring Amy Yip, about three fox spirits seduced by the Wu Tung demon; it spawned sequels.

Erotic Stories

Erotic Stories is an eight-part 2023 Australian SBS anthology drama series by Lingo Pictures about sex and intimacy among diverse characters, directed by Madeleine Gottlieb and Leticia Cáceres, premiering 26 October 2023.

Erotic thriller

The erotic thriller, also called erotic thriller film, is a film subgenre in which erotic desire fuels suspense, flourishing in American cinema from the early 1980s to the late 1990s.

Errementari

Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil is a 2017 Basque-language Spanish folk-horror film directed by Paul Urkijo Alijo, adapted from the folktale Patxi Errementaria, about a blacksmith who tortures a captive demon until orphan Usue frees it.