Eddie Albert
- Acting
- April 22, 1906 · Rock Island, Illinois, USA
- May 26, 2005
Biography
Edward Albert Heimberger (April 22, 1906 - May 26, 2005), known professionally as Eddie Albert, was an American actor and activist. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1954 for his performance in Roman Holiday, and in 1973 for The Heartbreak Kid. Other well-known screen roles of his include Bing Edwards in the Brother Rat films, traveling salesman Ali Hakim in the musical Oklahoma!, and the corrupt prison warden in 1974's The Longest Yard. He starred as Oliver Wendell Douglas in the 1960s television situation comedy Green Acres and as Frank MacBride in the 1970s crime drama Switch. He also had a recurring role as Carlton Travis on Falcon Crest, opposite Jane Wyman.
Known for
Filmography
- Rat Pack · Self
- Spider-Man vs. Doc Ock · Adam Toomes / Old Vulture (Voice)
- Restoring Roman Holiday · Irving Radovich (archive footage)
- Frank Sinatra Memorial · Self
- Television: The First Fifty Years · Self / Oliver Douglas (archive footage)
- The Barefoot Executive · Herbert Gower
- Spider-Man · Adrian Toomes / Old Vulture (Voice)
- La Classe américaine · The Porter (archive footage) (uncredited)
- A Norman Rockwell Christmas · Self
- Okavango · Uncle Bill Scofield
- The Golden Palace · Bill Douglas
- The Girl From Mars · Dr. Charles Favender
- Return to Green Acres · Oliver Wendell Douglas
- The Big Picture · M.C.
- Brenda Starr · Police Chief Maloney
- War and Remembrance · Breckinridge Long
- thirtysomething · Charlie Weston
- Turnaround · Theo Aitken
- Mercy or Murder? · Joe Varon
- Dress Gray · Judge Hand
- Musical Comedy Tonight III · Self
- The Twilight Zone · Roger Leeds
- Stitches · Dean Bradley
- In Like Flynn · Bill White
- Head Office · Pete Helmes
- The Ray Bradbury Theater · Jonathan Hughes
- Murder, She Wrote · Jackson Lane
- Burning Rage · Will Larson
- Highway to Heaven · Sen. Fritz McCorkindale
- Dreamscape · The President
- The Act · Harry Kruger
- The Demon Murder Case · Father Dietrich
- Yes, Giorgio · Henry Pollack
- Hotel · MacDonald 'Mack' Erickson
- Rooster · Rev. Harlan Barnum
- Beyond Witch Mountain · Jason O'Day
- Falcon Crest · Carlton Travis
- Simon & Simon · Judge Elliott Morris Taylor
- Goliath Awaits · Adm. Wiley Sloan
- Take This Job and Shove It · Samuel Ellison
- Peter and Paul · Festus
- The Oklahoma City Dolls · Coach Homer Sixx
- Foolin' Around · Daggett
- Beulah Land · Felix Kendrick
- The Border · Moffat
- How to Beat the High Cost of Living · Max
- Trouble in High Timber Country · Carroll Yeager
- Yesterday · Bart Kramer
- Siegfried and Roy - Superstars Of Magic · Self
- The Concorde... Airport '79 · Eli Sands
- The Word · Ogden Towery
- The Crash of Flight 401 · Capt. Dunn
- Evening in Byzantium · Brian Murphy
- The Love Boat · Dean Burton Lockwood
- Moving Violation · Alex Warren
- Birch Interval · Pa Strawacher
- Hustle · Leo Sellers
- Whiffs · Colonel Lockyer
- Switch · Frank MacBride
- The Devil’s Rain · Dr. Sam Richards
- Promise Him Anything · Pop
- Escape to Witch Mountain · Jason O'Day
- Switch · Frank MacBride
- The Lives of Benjamin Franklin · Diplomat Benjamin Franklin
- The Longest Yard · Warden Hazen
- The Take · Chief Berrigan
- McQ · Kosterman
- The Borrowers · Pod Clock
- Daddy's Girl · Bob Randall
- See the Man Run · Dr. Thomas Spencer
- The American Film Institute Salute to ... · Self
- The Heartbreak Kid · Duane Corcoran
- Kung Fu · Dr. George Baxter
- Fireball Forward · Col. Douglas Graham
- The Lorax · Narrator
- Columbo · Martin Hollister
- Great Performances · Self
- The Pet Set · Self
- McCloud · Roy Erickson
- The Johnny Cash Show · Self