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
- 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
- In Like Flynn as Bill White
- Musical Comedy Tonight III as Self
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
- Beyond Witch Mountain as Jason O'Day
- Rooster as Rev. Harlan Barnum
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
- How to Beat the High Cost of Living as Max
- Foolin' Around as Daggett
- Siegfried and Roy - Superstars Of Magic as Self - Host
- The Border as Moffat
- Yesterday as Bart Kramer
- Trouble in High Timber Country as Carroll Yeager
1979
- The Concorde... Airport '79 as Eli Sands
1978
- The Word as Ogden Towery
- Evening in Byzantium as Brian Murphy
- 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
- Hustle as Leo Sellers
- Escape to Witch Mountain as Jason O'Day
- The Devil’s Rain as Dr. Sam Richards
- Whiffs as Colonel Lockyer
- Switch as Frank MacBride
- Promise Him Anything as Pop
1974
- The Longest Yard as Warden Hazen
- The Lives of Benjamin Franklin as Diplomat Benjamin Franklin
- McQ as Kosterman
- The Take as Chief Berrigan
1973
- The American Film Institute Salute to ... as Self
- See the Man Run as Dr. Thomas Spencer
- The Borrowers as Pod Clock
- Daddy's Girl as Bob Randall
1972
- The Lorax as Narrator
- Kung Fu as Dr. George Baxter
- The Heartbreak Kid as Duane Corcoran
- Fireball Forward as Col. Douglas Graham
1971
- Columbo as Martin Hollister
- Great Performances as Self
- The Pet Set as Self
1970
- McCloud as Roy Erickson
1969
- The Johnny Cash Show as Self
1968
- Here's Lucy as Eddie Albert
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- 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
- The Outer Limits as Andy Thorne
- Burke's Law as Arthur J. Poindexter
- Kraft Suspense Theatre as Dr. Bert Andrews
- Mr. Novak as Charlie O'Rourke
- The Greatest Show on Earth as Frank Land
- The Lieutenant as Rodney Cameron O'Rourke
- The Danny Kaye Show as Self
- 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 Virginian as Cal Kroeger
- The Beverly Hillbillies as Oliver Wendell Douglas
- 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
- Ben Casey as Gene Billstrom
- Dr. Kildare as Dr. Norman French
- 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 Spiral Staircase as Albert Warren
- The Two Little Bears as Harry Davis
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 Gun Runners as Hanagan
- The Roots of Heaven as Abe Fields
- 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 Teahouse of the August Moon as Captain McLean
- The Joker is Wild as Austin Mack
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Bide Turley
- Tony Awards as Self - Host
- The Dinah Shore Chevy Show as Self
- Attack as Erskine Cooney
- Operation Teahouse as Self
- Our Mr. Sun as The Fiction Writer
1955
- MGM Parade
- Oklahoma! as Ali Hakim
- The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater as R.J. Banning
- I'll Cry Tomorrow as Burt McGuire
- The Girl Rush as Elliot Atterbury
- A Connecticut Yankee as Martin Barret
- General Electric Theater: Into the Night as Paul Mattson
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
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- Roman Holiday as Irving Radovich
- Letter to Loretta as Lionel Kent
- Revlon Mirror Theatre
- General Electric Theater as Narrator
- Medallion Theatre
- The Motorola Television Hour
- 1984 as Winston
- The Bachelor Party as Charlie
1952
- Carrie as Charles Drouet
- Actors and Sin as Orlando Higgens (segment Woman of Sin)
1951
- Goodyear Television Playhouse
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
- You're in the Navy Now as Lt. Bill Barron
- Meet Me After the Show as Chris Leeds
1950
- Robert Montgomery Presents as Jesse
- The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
- What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest
- Danger
- Your Show of Shows
- 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
- 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
- Hit Parade of 1947 as Kip Walker
- Time Out of Mind as Jake Bullard
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
- Out of the Fog as George Watkins
- Four Mothers as Dr. Clint Forrest, Jr.
- Breakdowns of 1941 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Great Mr. Nobody as Robert 'Dreamy' Smith
- The Wagons Roll at Night as Matt Varney
- Thieves Fall Out as Edward 'Eddie' Barnes
1940
- An Angel from Texas as Peter Coleman
- Brother Rat and a Baby as Bing Edwards
- My Love Came Back as Dusty Rhodes
- A Dispatch from Reuters as Max Wagner
1939
- Four Wives as Dr. Clinton Forrest, Jr.
- On Your Toes as Phil Dolan Jr.
1938
- Brother Rat as 'Bing' Edwards