Eddie Albert
Born: 1906-04-22 in Rock Island, Illinois, USA
Died: 2005-05-26
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2022
- Rat Pack as Self (archive footage)
2002
- Restoring Roman Holiday as Irving Radovich (archive footage)
2000
- Frank Sinatra Memorial as Self
1999
- Television: The First Fifty Years as Self / Oliver Douglas (archive footage)
1995
- The Barefoot Executive as Herbert Gower
1994
- Spider-Man as Adrian Toomes / Old Vulture (voice)
1993
- La Classe américaine as The Porter (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Okavango
- A Norman Rockwell Christmas as Self
1992
- The Golden Palace as Bill Douglas
1991
- The Girl From Mars as Dr. Charles Favender
1990
- Return to Green Acres as Oliver Wendell Douglas
1989
- Brenda Starr as Police Chief Maloney
- The Big Picture as M.C.
1987
- thirtysomething
- Turnaround as Theo Aitken
- Mercy or Murder? as Joe Varon
1986
- Dress Gray as Judge Hand
1985
- The Twilight Zone
- The Ray Bradbury Theater as Jonathan Hughes
- Stitches as Dean Bradley
- Head Office as Pete Helmes
- Musical Comedy Tonight III as Self
- In Like Flynn as Bill White
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Jackson Lane
- Dreamscape as The President
- Burning Rage as Will Larson
- The Act as Harry Kruger
1983
- The Demon Murder Case as Father Dietrich
1982
- Hotel as MacDonald 'Mack' Erickson
- Yes, Giorgio as Henry Pollack
- Rooster as Rev. Harlan Barnum
- Beyond Witch Mountain as Jason O'Day
1981
- Falcon Crest as Carlton Travis
- Simon & Simon
- Goliath Awaits as Adm. Wiley Sloan
- Peter and Paul as Festus
- The Oklahoma City Dolls as Coach Homer Sixx
- Take This Job and Shove It as Samuel Ellison
1980
- How to Beat the High Cost of Living as Max
- The Border as Moffat
- Foolin' Around as Daggett
- Trouble in High Timber Country as Carroll Yeager
- Beulah Land as Felix Kendrick
- Siegfried and Roy - Superstars Of Magic
- Yesterday as Bart Kramer
1979
- The Concorde... Airport '79 as Eli Sands
1978
- The Word as Ogden Towery
- Evening in Byzantium as Brian Murphy
- The Crash of Flight 401 as Capt. Dunn
1977
- The Love Boat as Dean Burton Lockwood
1976
- Moving Violation as Alex Warren
- Birch Interval as Pa Strawacher
1975
- Hustle as Leo Sellers
- Switch as Frank MacBride
- The Devil's Rain as Dr. Sam Richards
- Whiffs as Colonel Lockyer
- Escape to Witch Mountain as Jason O'Day
- Switch as Frank MacBride
- Promise Him Anything as Pop
1974
- The Take as Chief Berrigan
- McQ as Kosterman
- The Longest Yard as Warden Hazen
- The Lives of Benjamin Franklin as Diplomat Benjamin Franklin
1973
- The Borrowers as Pod Clock
- The American Film Institute Salute to ... as Self
- See the Man Run as Dr. Thomas Spencer
- Daddy's Girl as Bob Randall
1972
- The Lorax as Narrator
- The Heartbreak Kid as Duane Corcoran
- Fireball Forward as Col. Douglas Graham
- Kung Fu as Dr. George Baxter
1971
- Columbo as Martin Hollister
- Great Performances as Self
- The Pet Set as Self
1970
1969
- The Johnny Cash Show as Self
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- Here's Lucy as Eddie Albert
- The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show as Self - Guest
- The Mouse on the Mayflower as Capt. Standish (voice)
1967
- The Carol Burnett Show as Self - Guest
- The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour as Self
1965
- Green Acres as Oliver Wendell Douglas
- 7 Women as Charles Pether
- The Party's Over as Ben Morgan
1964
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea as Dr. Fred Wilson
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Brother Love
- The Rogues as Gregg Roberts
1963
- Petticoat Junction as Oliver Douglas
- Burke's Law as Arthur J. Poindexter
- The Outer Limits as Andy Thorne
- The Danny Kaye Show as Self
- Kraft Suspense Theatre as Dr. Bert Andrews
- Mr. Novak as Charlie O'Rourke
- The Lieutenant
- The Greatest Show on Earth as Frank Land
- Miracle of the White Stallions as Rider Otto
- Captain Newman, M.D. as Col. Norval Algate Bliss
1962
- The Beverly Hillbillies
- The Virginian as Cal Kroeger
- Combat! as Phil
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- Sam Benedict as Lewis Wiley
- The Longest Day as Col. Thompson
- Who's Got the Action? as Clint Morgan
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self - Co-Host
- Dr. Kildare as Dr. Norman French
- Ben Casey
- Madison Avenue as Harvey Holt Ames
- The New Breed as Walter Cowley
- The Two Little Bears as Harry Davis
- The Young Doctors as Dr. Charles Dornberger
- The DuPont Show of the Week as Frank Foster
- The Spiral Staircase as Albert Warren
1959
- Rawhide as Taylor Dickson
- Laramie
- Beloved Infidel as Bob Carter
- Riverboat as Dan Simpson
- Startime
- Disneyland '59 as Self
1958
- Naked City as Earl Johannis
- Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
- Orders to Kill as Maj. MacMahon
- The Roots of Heaven as Abe Fields
- The Gun Runners as Hanagan
1957
- Wagon Train as John Darro
- Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
- The Sun Also Rises as Bill Gorton
- The Teahouse of the August Moon as Captain McLean
- The Joker is Wild as Austin Mack
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Co-Host /Presenter
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Bide Turley
- The Dinah Shore Chevy Show as Self
- Operation Teahouse as Self
- Attack as Erskine Cooney
- Our Mr. Sun as The Fiction Writer
1955
- Oklahoma! as Ali Hakim
- A Connecticut Yankee as Martin Barret
- I'll Cry Tomorrow as Burt McGuire
- The Girl Rush as Elliot Atterbury
- General Electric Theater: Into the Night as Paul Mattson
1954
- Climax! as Gabe Douglas
- The Wonderful World of Disney as Jason O'Day
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- Roman Holiday as Irving Radovich
- Letter to Loretta as Lionel Kent
- 1984 as Winston
- General Electric Theater as Narrator
- Medallion Theatre
- The Motorola Television Hour
- The Bachelor Party as Charlie
1952
- Carrie as Charles Drouet
- Actors and Sin as Orlando Higgens (segment Woman of Sin)
1951
- Goodyear Television Playhouse
- You're in the Navy Now as Lt. Bill Barron
- Meet Me After the Show as Chris Leeds
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1950
- Robert Montgomery Presents as Jesse
- What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest
- The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
- Your Show of Shows
- The Fuller Brush Girl as Humphrey Briggs
1949
1948
- Studio One as Winston Smith
- The Philco Television Playhouse as Charlie
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Every Girl Should Be Married as Harry Proctor / 'Old' Joe (uncredited)
- You Gotta Stay Happy as Bullets Baker
- The Dude Goes West as Daniel Bone
1947
- Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman as Steve Nelson
- The Perfect Marriage as Gil Cummins
- Time Out of Mind as Jake Bullard
- Hit Parade of 1947 as Kip Walker
1946
- Rendezvous with Annie as Jeffrey Dolan
- Strange Voyage as Chris Thompson
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter
1943
- Bombardier as Tom Hughes
- Ladies' Day as Wacky Waters
- Lady Bodyguard as Terry Moore
1942
- Eagle Squadron as Leckie
- Treat 'Em Rough as Bill Kingsford aka The Panama Kid
1941
- Four Mothers as Dr. Clint Forrest, Jr.
- The Great Mr. Nobody as Robert 'Dreamy' Smith
- The Wagons Roll at Night as Matt Varney
- Out of the Fog as George Watkins
- Thieves Fall Out as Edward 'Eddie' Barnes
- Breakdowns of 1941 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1940
- A Dispatch from Reuters as Max Wagner
- My Love Came Back as Dusty Rhodes
- An Angel from Texas as Peter Coleman
- Brother Rat and a Baby as Bing Edwards
1939
- Four Wives as Dr. Clinton Forrest, Jr.
- On Your Toes as Phil Dolan Jr.
1938
- Brother Rat as 'Bing' Edwards