Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
April 22, 1906
Place of Birth:
Rock Island, Illinois, USA
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Eddie Albert
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
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Rat Pack | Self (archive footage) |
| 2015 | Trumbo | Irving Radovich in Roman Holiday (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2002 | Restoring Roman Holiday | Irving Radovich (archive footage) |
| 2000 | Frank Sinatra Memorial | Self |
| 1999 | Television: The First Fifty Years | Self / Oliver Douglas (archive footage) |
| 1995 | The Barefoot Executive | Herbert Gower |
| 1993 | A Norman Rockwell Christmas | Self |
| 1993 | La Classe américaine | The Porter (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1991 | The Girl From Mars | Dr. Charles Favender |
| 1990 | Return to Green Acres | Oliver Wendell Douglas |
| 1989 | Brenda Starr | Police Chief Maloney |
| 1989 | The Big Picture | M.C. |
| 1987 | Mercy or Murder? | Joe Varon |
| 1987 | Turnaround | Theo Aitken |
| 1985 | Head Office | Pete Helmes |
| 1985 | Stitches | Dean Bradley |
| 1985 | In Like Flynn | Bill White |
| 1985 | Musical Comedy Tonight III | Self |
| 1984 | Dreamscape | The President |
| 1984 | The Act | Harry Kruger |
| 1984 | Burning Rage | Will Larson |
| 1983 | The Demon Murder Case | Father Dietrich |
| 1982 | Beyond Witch Mountain | Jason O'Day |
| 1982 | Yes, Giorgio | Henry Pollack |
| 1982 | Rooster | Rev. Harlan Barnum |
| 1981 | Take This Job and Shove It | Samuel Ellison |
| 1981 | The Oklahoma City Dolls | Coach Homer Sixx |
| 1980 | Foolin' Around | Daggett |
| 1980 | The Border | Moffat |
| 1980 | How to Beat the High Cost of Living | Max |
| 1980 | Trouble in High Timber Country | Carroll Yeager |
| 1980 | Yesterday | Bart Kramer |
| 1979 | The Concorde... Airport '79 | Eli Sands |
| 1978 | The Crash of Flight 401 | Capt. Dunn |
| 1978 | Evening in Byzantium | Brian Murphy |
| 1976 | Moving Violation | Alex Warren |
| 1976 | Birch Interval | Pa Strawacher |
| 1975 | Hustle | Leo Sellers |
| 1975 | Escape to Witch Mountain | Jason O'Day |
| 1975 | The Devil's Rain | Dr. Sam Richards |
| 1975 | Promise Him Anything | Pop |
| 1975 | Whiffs | Colonel Lockyer |
| 1975 | Switch | Frank MacBride |
| 1974 | The Longest Yard | Warden Hazen |
| 1974 | McQ | Kosterman |
| 1974 | The Take | Chief Berrigan |
| 1973 | The Borrowers | Pod Clock |
| 1973 | See the Man Run | Dr. Thomas Spencer |
| 1973 | Daddy's Girl | Bob Randall |
| 1972 | The Heartbreak Kid | Duane Corcoran |
| 1972 | The Lorax | Narrator |
| 1972 | Fireball Forward | Col. Douglas Graham |
| 1968 | The Mouse on the Mayflower | Capt. Standish (voice) |
| 1965 | The Party's Over | Ben Morgan |
| 1965 | 7 Women | Charles Pether |
| 1963 | Captain Newman, M.D. | Col. Norval Algate Bliss |
| 1963 | Miracle of the White Stallions | Rider Otto |
| 1962 | The Longest Day | Col. Thompson |
| 1962 | Who's Got the Action? | Clint Morgan |
| 1961 | Madison Avenue | Harvey Holt Ames |
| 1961 | The Spiral Staircase | Albert Warren |
| 1961 | The Young Doctors | Dr. Charles Dornberger |
| 1961 | The Two Little Bears | Harry Davis |
| 1959 | Beloved Infidel | Bob Carter |
| 1959 | Disneyland '59 | Self |
| 1958 | Orders to Kill | Maj. MacMahon |
| 1958 | The Gun Runners | Hanagan |
| 1958 | The Roots of Heaven | Abe Fields |
| 1957 | The Sun Also Rises | Bill Gorton |
| 1957 | The Teahouse of the August Moon | Captain McLean |
| 1957 | The Joker is Wild | Austin Mack |
| 1956 | Attack | Erskine Cooney |
| 1956 | Our Mr. Sun | The Fiction Writer |
| 1956 | Operation Teahouse | Self |
| 1955 | I'll Cry Tomorrow | Burt McGuire |
| 1955 | Oklahoma! | Ali Hakim |
| 1955 | The Girl Rush | Elliot Atterbury |
| 1955 | General Electric Theater: Into the Night | Paul Mattson |
| 1955 | A Connecticut Yankee | Martin Barret |
| 1953 | Roman Holiday | Irving Radovich |
| 1953 | The Bachelor Party | Charlie |
| 1953 | 1984 | Winston |
| 1952 | Carrie | Charles Drouet |
| 1952 | Actors and Sin | Orlando Higgens (segment Woman of Sin) |
| 1951 | You're in the Navy Now | Lt. Bill Barron |
| 1951 | Meet Me After the Show | Chris Leeds |
| 1950 | The Fuller Brush Girl | Humphrey Briggs |
| 1948 | You Gotta Stay Happy | Bullets Baker |
| 1948 | The Dude Goes West | Daniel Bone |
| 1948 | Every Girl Should Be Married | Harry Proctor / 'Old' Joe (uncredited) |
| 1947 | The Perfect Marriage | Gil Cummins |
| 1947 | Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman | Steve Nelson |
| 1947 | Hit Parade of 1947 | Kip Walker |
| 1947 | Time Out of Mind | Jake Bullard |
| 1946 | Strange Voyage | Chris Thompson |
| 1946 | Rendezvous with Annie | Jeffrey Dolan |
| 1943 | Bombardier | Tom Hughes |
| 1943 | Ladies' Day | Wacky Waters |
| 1943 | Lady Bodyguard | Terry Moore |
| 1942 | Treat 'Em Rough | Bill Kingsford aka The Panama Kid |
| 1942 | Eagle Squadron | Leckie |
| 1941 | Out of the Fog | George Watkins |
| 1941 | The Wagons Roll at Night | Matt Varney |
| 1941 | Four Mothers | Dr. Clint Forrest, Jr. |
| 1941 | The Great Mr. Nobody | Robert 'Dreamy' Smith |
| 1941 | Thieves Fall Out | Edward 'Eddie' Barnes |
| 1941 | Breakdowns of 1941 | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1940 | A Dispatch from Reuters | Max Wagner |
| 1940 | My Love Came Back | Dusty Rhodes |
| 1940 | Brother Rat and a Baby | Bing Edwards |
| 1940 | An Angel from Texas | Peter Coleman |
| 1939 | On Your Toes | Phil Dolan Jr. |
| 1939 | Four Wives | Dr. Clinton Forrest, Jr. |
| 1938 | Brother Rat | 'Bing' Edwards |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Spider-Man | Adrian Toomes / Old Vulture (voice) |
| 1993 | Okavango | Uncle Bill Scofield |
| 1992 | The Golden Palace | Bill Douglas |
| 1987 | thirtysomething | Charlie Weston |
| 1986 | Dress Gray | Judge Hand |
| 1985 | The Twilight Zone | Roger Leeds |
| 1985 | The Ray Bradbury Theater | Jonathan Hughes |
| 1984 | Murder, She Wrote | Jackson Lane |
| 1984 | Highway to Heaven | Sen. Fritz McCorkindale |
| 1982 | Hotel | MacDonald 'Mack' Erickson |
| 1981 | Falcon Crest | Carlton Travis |
| 1981 | Simon & Simon | Judge Elliott Morris Taylor |
| 1981 | Goliath Awaits | Adm. Wiley Sloan |
| 1981 | Peter and Paul | Festus |
| 1980 | Siegfried and Roy - Superstars Of Magic | Self - Host |
| 1980 | Beulah Land | Felix Kendrick |
| 1978 | The Word | Ogden Towery |
| 1977 | The Love Boat | Dean Burton Lockwood |
| 1975 | Switch | Frank MacBride |
| 1974 | The Lives of Benjamin Franklin | Diplomat Benjamin Franklin |
| 1973 | The American Film Institute Salute to ... | Self |
| 1972 | Kung Fu | Dr. George Baxter |
| 1971 | Columbo | Martin Hollister |
| 1971 | The Pet Set | Self |
| 1971 | Great Performances | Self |
| 1970 | McCloud | Roy Erickson |
| 1969 | The Johnny Cash Show | Self |
| 1968 | Here's Lucy | Eddie Albert |
| 1968 | The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show | Self - Guest |
| 1968 | The Dick Cavett Show | Self - Guest |
| 1967 | The Carol Burnett Show | Self - Guest |
| 1967 | The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour | Self |
| 1965 | Green Acres | Oliver Wendell Douglas |
| 1964 | The Rogues | Gregg Roberts |
| 1964 | Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | Dr. Fred Wilson |
| 1964 | The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | Brother Love |
| 1963 | Burke's Law | Arthur J. Poindexter |
| 1963 | Kraft Suspense Theatre | Dr. Bert Andrews |
| 1963 | Petticoat Junction | Oliver Douglas |
| 1963 | Mr. Novak | Charlie O'Rourke |
| 1963 | The Lieutenant | Rodney Cameron O'Rourke |
| 1963 | The Outer Limits | Andy Thorne |
| 1963 | The Danny Kaye Show | Self |
| 1963 | The Greatest Show on Earth | Frank Land |
| 1962 | The Beverly Hillbillies | Oliver Wendell Douglas |
| 1962 | The Merv Griffin Show | Self |
| 1962 | Combat! | Phil |
| 1962 | The Virginian | Cal Kroeger |
| 1962 | Sam Benedict | Lewis Wiley |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Self |
| 1961 | Ben Casey | Gene Billstrom |
| 1961 | The New Breed | Walter Cowley |
| 1961 | Dr. Kildare | Dr. Norman French |
| 1961 | The DuPont Show of the Week | Frank Foster |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show | Self - Co-Host |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show | Self |
| 1959 | Rawhide | Taylor Dickson |
| 1959 | Laramie | |
| 1959 | Riverboat | Dan Simpson |
| 1959 | Startime | |
| 1958 | Naked City | Earl Johannis |
| 1958 | Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse | Joe Minelli |
| 1957 | Tonight Starring Jack Paar | Self |
| 1957 | Tonight Starring Jack Paar | Self - Guest Host |
| 1957 | Wagon Train | John Darro |
| 1956 | The Dinah Shore Chevy Show | Self |
| 1956 | Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre | Bide Turley |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Co-Host /Presenter |
| 1956 | Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre | Jed Wiley |
| 1956 | Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre | Jess Matson |
| 1956 | Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre | Sam Barlow |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Host |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Presenter |
| 1954 | Climax! | Gabe Douglas |
| 1954 | The Wonderful World of Disney | Jason O'Day |
| 1954 | Climax! | Barney Kanda |
| 1954 | Climax! | David Adams |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater | Narrator |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self |
| 1953 | Letter to Loretta | Lionel Kent |
| 1953 | Letter to Loretta | Max Asher |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater | Paul Mattson |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater | Louie Schmidt |
| 1953 | Letter to Loretta | Tiger Tipton |
| 1953 | Medallion Theatre | |
| 1953 | The Motorola Television Hour | |
| 1951 | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars | |
| 1951 | Goodyear Television Playhouse | |
| 1951 | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars | Randy Smith |
| 1951 | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars | Bill Carter |
| 1951 | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars | Sheldon Black |
| 1950 | The Colgate Comedy Hour | Self |
| 1950 | Your Show of Shows | |
| 1950 | Robert Montgomery Presents | Jesse |
| 1950 | What's My Line? | Self - Mystery Guest |
| 1949 | Suspense | |
| 1949 | Lights Out | |
| 1949 | Suspense | Danny Maguire |
| 1948 | Studio One | Winston Smith |
| 1948 | The Philco Television Playhouse | Charlie |
| 1948 | The Ed Sullivan Show | Self |
| 1948 | Studio One | John Peter Zenger |
| 1948 | The Philco Television Playhouse | |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Presenter |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Host |