Eddie Albert
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1906-04-22
Day of Death
2005-05-26 (99 years old)
Place of Birth
Rock Island, Illinois, U.S.
Eddie Albert
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
Acting
(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
(1993)
La Classe américaine
as The Porter (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1993)
A Norman Rockwell Christmas
as Self
(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.
(1989)
Brenda Starr
as Police Chief Maloney
(1987)
Mercy or Murder?
as Joe Varon
(1987)
Turnaround
as Theo Aitken
(1985)
Stitches
as Dean Bradley
(1985)
(1985)
Head Office
as Pete Helmes
(1985)
In Like Flynn
as Bill White
(1984)
Burning Rage
as Will Larson
(1984)
Dreamscape
as The President
(1984)
The Act
as Harry Kruger
(1983)
The Demon Murder Case
as Father Dietrich
(1982)
Beyond Witch Mountain
as Jason O'Day
(1982)
Rooster
as Rev. Harlan Barnum
(1982)
Yes, Giorgio
as Henry Pollack
(1981)
The Oklahoma City Dolls
as Coach Homer Sixx
(1981)
Take This Job and Shove It
as Samuel Ellison
(1980)
The Border
as Moffat
(1980)
Yesterday
as Bart Kramer
(1980)
Trouble in High Timber Country
as Carroll Yeager
(1980)
(1980)
Foolin' Around
as Daggett
(1979)
The Concorde... Airport '79
as Eli Sands
(1978)
Evening in Byzantium
as Brian Murphy
(1978)
The Crash of Flight 401
as Capt. Dunn
(1976)
Moving Violation
as Alex Warren
(1976)
Birch Interval
as Pa Strawacher
(1975)
Hustle
as Leo Sellers
(1975)
Promise Him Anything
as Pop
(1975)
Escape to Witch Mountain
as Jason O'Day
(1975)
Whiffs
as Colonel Lockyer
(1975)
The Devil's Rain
as Dr. Sam Richards
(1975)
Switch
as Frank MacBride
(1974)
The Longest Yard
as Warden Hazen
(1974)
The Take
as Chief Berrigan
(1974)
McQ
as Kosterman
(1973)
The Borrowers
as Pod Clock
(1973)
See the Man Run
as Dr. Thomas Spencer
(1973)
Daddy's Girl
as Bob Randall
(1972)
Fireball Forward
as Col. Douglas Graham
(1972)
The Heartbreak Kid
as Duane Corcoran
(1972)
The Lorax
as Narrator
(1968)
The Mouse on the Mayflower
as Capt. Standish (voice)
(1965)
The Party's Over
as Ben Morgan
(1965)
7 Women
as Charles Pether
(1964)
The Nutcracker
as Self - Host / Narrator (U.S. version)
(1963)
Captain Newman, M.D.
as Col. Norval Algate Bliss
(1963)
Miracle of the White Stallions
as Rider Otto
(1962)
The Longest Day
as Col. Thompson
(1962)
Who's Got the Action?
as Clint Morgan
(1961)
Madison Avenue
as Harvey Holt Ames
(1961)
The Two Little Bears
as Harry Davis
(1961)
The Young Doctors
as Dr. Charles Dornberger
(1961)
The Spiral Staircase
as Albert Warren
(1959)
Disneyland '59
as Self
(1959)
Beloved Infidel
as Bob Carter
(1958)
The Gun Runners
as Hanagan
(1958)
The Roots of Heaven
as Abe Fields
(1958)
Orders to Kill
as Maj. MacMahon
(1957)
The Teahouse of the August Moon
as Captain McLean
(1957)
The Joker is Wild
as Austin Mack
(1957)
The Sun Also Rises
as Bill Gorton
(1956)
Our Mr. Sun
as The Fiction Writer
(1956)
Attack
as Erskine Cooney
(1956)
Operation Teahouse
as Self
(1955)
A Connecticut Yankee
as Martin Barret
(1955)
Oklahoma!
as Ali Hakim
(1955)
I'll Cry Tomorrow
as Burt McGuire
(1955)
The Girl Rush
as Elliot Atterbury
(1955)
General Electric Theater: Into the Night
as Paul Mattson
(1953)
Roman Holiday
as Irving Radovich
(1953)
1984
as Winston
(1953)
The Bachelor Party
as Charlie
(1952)
Actors and Sin
as Orlando Higgens (segment Woman of Sin)
(1952)
Carrie
as Charles Drouet
(1951)
Meet Me After the Show
as Chris Leeds
(1951)
You're in the Navy Now
as Lt. Bill Barron
(1950)
The Fuller Brush Girl
as Humphrey Briggs
(1948)
Every Girl Should Be Married
as Harry Proctor / 'Old' Joe (uncredited)
(1948)
You Gotta Stay Happy
as Bullets Baker
(1948)
The Dude Goes West
as Daniel Bone
(1947)
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
as Steve Nelson
(1947)
The Perfect Marriage
as Gil Cummins
(1947)
Time Out of Mind
as Jake Bullard
(1947)
Hit Parade of 1947
as Kip Walker
(1946)
Strange Voyage
as Chris Thompson
(1946)
Rendezvous with Annie
as Jeffrey Dolan
(1943)
Bombardier
as Tom Hughes
(1943)
Lady Bodyguard
as Terry Moore
(1943)
Ladies' Day
as Wacky Waters
(1942)
Eagle Squadron
as Leckie
(1942)
Treat 'Em Rough
as Bill Kingsford aka The Panama Kid
(1941)
Four Mothers
as Dr. Clint Forrest, Jr.
(1941)
Thieves Fall Out
as Edward 'Eddie' Barnes
(1941)
The Great Mr. Nobody
as Robert 'Dreamy' Smith
(1941)
The Wagons Roll at Night
as Matt Varney
(1941)
Out of the Fog
as George Watkins
(1941)
Breakdowns of 1941
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1940)
A Dispatch from Reuters
as Max Wagner
(1940)
My Love Came Back
as Dusty Rhodes
(1940)
An Angel from Texas
as Peter Coleman
(1940)
Brother Rat and a Baby
as Bing Edwards
(1939)
Four Wives
as Dr. Clinton Forrest, Jr.
(1939)
On Your Toes
as Phil Dolan Jr.
(1938)
Brother Rat
as 'Bing' Edwards