Eddie Albert
Department: 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.
Known For
Roman Holiday
1953
The Longest Yard
1974
Hustle
1975
Dreamscape
1984
Attack
1956
The Sun Also Rises
1957
You Gotta Stay Happy
1948
Out of the Fog
1941
The Longest Day
1962
Beyond Witch Mountain
1982
Captain Newman, M.D.
1963
McQ
1974
Orders to Kill
1958
I'll Cry Tomorrow
1955
The Heartbreak Kid
1972
Oklahoma!
1955
Head Office
1985
The Concorde... Airport '79
1979
The Party's Over
1965
Take This Job and Shove It
1981
The Bachelor Party
1953
Escape to Witch Mountain
1975
The Teahouse of the August Moon
1957
Carrie
1952
The Perfect Marriage
1947
Bombardier
1943
The Lorax
1972
The Devil’s Rain
1975
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
1947
Brenda Starr
1989
7 Women
1965
You're in the Navy Now
1951
The Gun Runners
1958
Madison Avenue
1961
Stitches
1985
The Roots of Heaven
1958
The Demon Murder Case
1983
Miracle of the White Stallions
1963
Actors and Sin
1952
The Wagons Roll at Night
1941
Who's Got the Action?
1962
The Fuller Brush Girl
1950
On Your Toes
1939
Foolin' Around
1980
A Dispatch from Reuters
1940
Beloved Infidel
1959
The Borrowers
1973
Four Wives
1939
The Border
1980
A Norman Rockwell Christmas
1993
Brother Rat
1938
Four Mothers
1941
The Joker is Wild
1957
The Great Mr. Nobody
1941
The Girl Rush
1955
The Spiral Staircase
1961
The Young Doctors
1961
My Love Came Back
1940
Ladies' Day
1943
Thieves Fall Out
1941
Promise Him Anything
1975
The Two Little Bears
1961
Meet Me After the Show
1951
Brother Rat and a Baby
1940
Our Mr. Sun
1956
How to Beat the High Cost of Living
1980
The Barefoot Executive
1995
The Dude Goes West
1948
Strange Voyage
1946
The Mouse on the Mayflower
1968
Whiffs
1975
Trouble in High Timber Country
1980
Rat Pack
2022
Moving Violation
1976
The Girl From Mars
1991
The Act
1984
Switch
1975
Restoring Roman Holiday
2002
Hit Parade of 1947
1947
In Like Flynn
1985
The Take
1974
Time Out of Mind
1947
See the Man Run
1973
Return to Green Acres
1990
Rendezvous with Annie
1946
The Oklahoma City Dolls
1981
The Big Picture
1989
Every Girl Should Be Married
1948
Treat 'Em Rough
1942
Television: The First Fifty Years
1999
Eagle Squadron
1942
Birch Interval
1976
An Angel from Texas
1940
Breakdowns of 1941
1941
General Electric Theater: Into the Night
1955
The Crash of Flight 401
1978
Yes, Giorgio
1982
A Connecticut Yankee
1955
Lady Bodyguard
1943
Yesterday
1980
Mercy or Murder?
1987
La Classe américaine
1993
Fireball Forward
1972
Burning Rage
1984
Disneyland '59
1959
Turnaround
1987
1984
1953
Evening in Byzantium
1978
Musical Comedy Tonight III
1985
Rooster
1982
Frank Sinatra Memorial
2000
Daddy's Girl
1973
Operation Teahouse
1956
Sherwood Anderson's I'm A Fool
1954
Falcon Crest
1981
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Spider-Man
1994
Burke's Law
1963
Here's Lucy
1968
thirtysomething
1987
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963
Simon & Simon
1981
The Twilight Zone
1985
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
Petticoat Junction
1963
Naked City
1958
The Rogues
1964
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
The Golden Palace
1992
Studio One
1948
Combat!
1962
General Electric Theater
1953
The Ray Bradbury Theater
1985
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
Rawhide
1959
Switch
1975
The Virginian
1962
The Johnny Cash Show
1969
McCloud
1970
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Your Show of Shows
1950
Goodyear Television Playhouse
1951
Climax!
1954
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
Ben Casey
1961
Laramie
1959
Mr. Novak
1963
Riverboat
1959
The New Breed
1961
Suspense
1949
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
The Lieutenant
1963
Lights Out
1949
The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show
1968
Dr. Kildare
1961
The Outer Limits
1963
The Oscars
1953
Okavango
1993
Letter to Loretta
1953
Siegfried and Roy - Superstars Of Magic
1980
Green Acres
1965
Startime
1959
The DuPont Show of the Week
1961
Letter to Loretta
1953
General Electric Theater
1953
General Electric Theater
1953
Letter to Loretta
1953
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
Goliath Awaits
1981
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
Columbo
1971
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Peter and Paul
1981
The Word
1978
Beulah Land
1980
Dress Gray
1986
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
1974
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
What's My Line?
1950
Studio One
1948
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
Climax!
1954
Climax!
1954
The Carol Burnett Show
1967
Suspense
1949
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
Kung Fu
1972
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
The Pet Set
1971
Great Performances
1971
The Danny Kaye Show
1963
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Medallion Theatre
1953
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
1967
Hotel
1982
The Love Boat
1977
Wagon Train
1957
The Greatest Show on Earth
1963
The Motorola Television Hour
1953
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
1964
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
Sam Benedict
1962
Highway to Heaven
1984
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater
1955
Studio 57
1954
Revlon Mirror Theatre
1953
Danger
1950
The Ford Theatre Hour
1948
MGM Parade
1955
MGM Parade
1955
Tony Awards
1956
Tony Awards
1956
Tony Awards
1956