To my mother, he was Ernie. Oscar winner Ernest Borgnine is dead at age 95. After my mother graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, she joined the Barter Theatre, a traveling troupe of actors based in Virginia. Ernie drove the bus.
Click the picture to enlarge, and you’ll see that’s not Borgnine. But it’s the Barter Theatre bus.
Where did you get the photo of Ernie on the bus??! You know, of course, that Mom decided it was “too noisy” on the bus, so she, John Vivyan, and Teddy M. rented a car and went to the various tours in THAT!