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)

2004

Spider-Man vs. Doc Ock as Adam Toomes / Old Vulture (voice)

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

Okavango as Uncle Bill Scofield
La Classe américaine as The Porter (archive footage) (uncredited)
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

The Big Picture as M.C.
Brenda Starr as Police Chief Maloney

1988

War and Remembrance as Breckinridge Long

1987

thirtysomething as Charlie Weston
Turnaround as Theo Aitken
Mercy or Murder? as Joe Varon

1986

Dress Gray as Judge Hand

1985

The Twilight Zone as Roger Leeds
The Ray Bradbury Theater as Jonathan Hughes
Head Office as Pete Helmes
Stitches as Dean Bradley
Musical Comedy Tonight III as Self
In Like Flynn as Bill White

1984

Murder, She Wrote as Jackson Lane
Highway to Heaven as Sen. Fritz McCorkindale
Dreamscape as The President
The Act as Harry Kruger
Burning Rage as Will Larson

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 as Judge Elliott Morris Taylor
Goliath Awaits as Adm. Wiley Sloan
Peter and Paul as Festus
Take This Job and Shove It as Samuel Ellison
The Oklahoma City Dolls as Coach Homer Sixx

1980

Beulah Land as Felix Kendrick
Foolin' Around as Daggett
How to Beat the High Cost of Living as Max
Siegfried and Roy - Superstars Of Magic as Self - Host
Trouble in High Timber Country as Carroll Yeager
The Border as Moffat
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

Switch as Frank MacBride
The Devil’s Rain as Dr. Sam Richards
Escape to Witch Mountain as Jason O'Day
Hustle as Leo Sellers
Switch as Frank MacBride
Whiffs as Colonel Lockyer
Promise Him Anything as Pop

1974

The Longest Yard as Warden Hazen
McQ as Kosterman
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin as Diplomat Benjamin Franklin
The Take as Chief Berrigan

1973

The American Film Institute Salute to ... as Self
The Borrowers as Pod Clock
See the Man Run as Dr. Thomas Spencer
Daddy's Girl as Bob Randall

1972

The Heartbreak Kid as Duane Corcoran
The Lorax as Narrator
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

McCloud as Roy Erickson

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
Kraft Suspense Theatre as Dr. Bert Andrews
The Danny Kaye Show as Self
Mr. Novak as Charlie O'Rourke
The Lieutenant as Rodney Cameron O'Rourke
The Greatest Show on Earth as Frank Land
Captain Newman, M.D. as Col. Norval Algate Bliss
Miracle of the White Stallions as Rider Otto

1962

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
The Merv Griffin Show as Self
The Beverly Hillbillies as Oliver Wendell Douglas
The Virginian as Cal Kroeger
Combat! as Phil
The Longest Day as Col. Thompson
Sam Benedict as Lewis Wiley
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 as Gene Billstrom
The New Breed as Walter Cowley
The DuPont Show of the Week as Frank Foster
Madison Avenue as Harvey Holt Ames
The Young Doctors as Dr. Charles Dornberger
The Two Little Bears as Harry Davis
The Spiral Staircase as Albert Warren

1959

Rawhide as Taylor Dickson
Laramie
Startime as Self – Host
Riverboat as Dan Simpson
Beloved Infidel as Bob Carter
Disneyland '59 as Self

1958

Naked City as Earl Johannis
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse as Joe Minelli
The Roots of Heaven as Abe Fields
The Gun Runners as Hanagan
Orders to Kill as Maj. MacMahon

1957

Wagon Train as John Darro
Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
The Sun Also Rises as Bill Gorton
The Joker is Wild as Austin Mack
The Teahouse of the August Moon as Captain McLean

1956

Tony Awards as Self - Host
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Bide Turley
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show as Self
Attack as Erskine Cooney
Our Mr. Sun as The Fiction Writer
Operation Teahouse as Self

1955

MGM Parade
Oklahoma! as Ali Hakim
I'll Cry Tomorrow as Burt McGuire
The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater as R.J. Banning
The Girl Rush as Elliot Atterbury
General Electric Theater: Into the Night as Paul Mattson
A Connecticut Yankee as Martin Barret

1954

Climax! as Gabe Douglas
Studio 57 as Jim Hammond
The Wonderful World of Disney as Jason O'Day
Sherwood Anderson's I'm A Fool
Can We Immunize Against Prejudice?

1953

The Oscars as Self
Roman Holiday as Irving Radovich
The Motorola Television Hour
Letter to Loretta as Lionel Kent
Revlon Mirror Theatre
Medallion Theatre
General Electric Theater as Narrator
1984 as Winston
The Bachelor Party as Charlie

1952

Carrie as Charles Drouet
Leave It to Larry as Larry Tucker
Actors and Sin as Orlando Higgens (segment Woman of Sin)

1951

Goodyear Television Playhouse
You're in the Navy Now as Lt. Bill Barron
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Meet Me After the Show as Chris Leeds

1950

Robert Montgomery Presents as Jesse
What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest
The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
Your Show of Shows
Danger
The Fuller Brush Girl as Humphrey Briggs

1949

1948

The Philco Television Playhouse as Charlie
Studio One as Winston Smith
The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
The Ford Theatre Hour
You Gotta Stay Happy as Bullets Baker
Every Girl Should Be Married as Harry Proctor / 'Old' Joe (uncredited)
The Dude Goes West as Daniel Bone

1947

Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman as Steve Nelson
Time Out of Mind as Jake Bullard
The Perfect Marriage as Gil Cummins
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
Lady Bodyguard as Terry Moore
Ladies' Day as Wacky Waters

1942

Eagle Squadron as Leckie
Treat 'Em Rough as Bill Kingsford aka The Panama Kid

1941

Four Mothers as Dr. Clint Forrest, Jr.
Out of the Fog as George Watkins
The Wagons Roll at Night as Matt Varney
Breakdowns of 1941 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Great Mr. Nobody as Robert 'Dreamy' Smith
Thieves Fall Out as Edward 'Eddie' Barnes

1940

My Love Came Back as Dusty Rhodes
Brother Rat and a Baby as Bing Edwards
A Dispatch from Reuters as Max Wagner
An Angel from Texas as Peter Coleman

1939

Four Wives as Dr. Clinton Forrest, Jr.
On Your Toes as Phil Dolan Jr.

1938

Brother Rat as 'Bing' Edwards