Eddie Albert
Actor
- Born
- April 22, 1906 · Rock Island, Illinois, USA
- Died
- May 26, 2005 (age 99)
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
Roman Holiday
August 26, 1953
The Longest Day
September 25, 1962
The Longest Yard
August 21, 1974
Dreamscape
August 15, 1984
La Classe américaine
December 31, 1993
Escape to Witch Mountain
March 21, 1975
The Concorde... Airport '79
August 17, 1979
Oklahoma!
October 10, 1955
The Joker is Wild
September 26, 1957
Attack
September 19, 1956
The Lorax
February 14, 1972
The Heartbreak Kid
December 17, 1972
Acting115
- 2022Rat Pack as Self (archive footage)
- 2004Spider-Man vs. Doc Ock as Adam Toomes / Old Vulture (voice)
- 2002Restoring Roman Holiday as Irving Radovich (archive footage)
- 2000Frank Sinatra Memorial as Self
- 1999Television: The First Fifty Years as Self / Oliver Douglas (archive footage)
- 1995The Barefoot Executive as Herbert Gower
- 1993La Classe américaine as The Porter (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1993A Norman Rockwell Christmas as Self
- 1991The Girl From Mars as Dr. Charles Favender