Accomplished screen actor Ernest Borgnine is set to receive a lifetime achievement award from the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) next year, the organizers have announced.

The 93-year-old won an Oscar for his role in the 1955 film Marty, and has appeared in more htan 200 movies during his long career.

SAG president Ken Howard said that Borgnine still had “boundless energy” and boasted an “impressive body of work.”

He will get the award at the ceremony in Hollywood on January 30 of next year.

Borgnine got a recent nomination from the Emmys last year for his guest starring role in the final episode of medical drama ER.

His career has gone over six decades on the small and big screen, but started on the stage after World War II.

A career turning point was Borgnine's performance as a bullying police officer in 1953's From Here to Eternity, followed by his Academy Award for Marty two years later.

He also got a BAFTA and Golden Globe for his role as Marty Piletty, a lonely butcher who lives with his mother in the Bronx.

It wold be 52 years before the actor, son of Italian immigrants, collected a second Golden Globe nomination for sentimental TV movie A Grandpa For Christmas.

His newest film, Red, which stars Helen Mirren and Morgan Freeman, is due to come out in October.

Mr Howard said, "Whether portraying brutish villains, sympathetic everymen, complex leaders or hapless heroes, Ernest Borgnine has brought a boundless energy which, at 93, is still a hallmark of his remarkably busy life and career.

"It is with that same joyous spirit that we salute his impressive body of work and his steadfast generosity."

Former SAG lifetime achievement award recipients include Julie Andrews and Clint Eastwood.

Last year's honor was given to Golden Girl Betty White.