Eddie Albert

Acting • Born 1906-04-22 – Died 2005-05-26

Acting2Rock Island, Illinois, USA

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

223 credits

Roman Holiday

Movie • 1953

Irving Radovich

The Longest Yard

Movie • 1974

Warden Hazen

Hustle

Movie • 1975

Leo Sellers

Dreamscape

Movie • 1984

The President

Attack

Movie • 1956

Erskine Cooney

The Sun Also Rises

Movie • 1957

Bill Gorton

You Gotta Stay Happy

Movie • 1948

Bullets Baker

Out of the Fog

Movie • 1941

George Watkins

The Longest Day

Movie • 1962

Col. Thompson

Beyond Witch Mountain

Movie • 1982

Jason O'Day

Captain Newman, M.D.

Movie • 1963

Col. Norval Algate Bliss

McQ

Movie • 1974

Kosterman

Orders to Kill

Movie • 1958

Maj. MacMahon

I'll Cry Tomorrow

Movie • 1955

Burt McGuire

The Heartbreak Kid

Movie • 1972

Duane Corcoran

Oklahoma!

Movie • 1955

Ali Hakim

Head Office

Movie • 1985

Pete Helmes

The Concorde... Airport '79

Movie • 1979

Eli Sands

The Party's Over

Movie • 1965

Ben Morgan

Take This Job and Shove It

Movie • 1981

Samuel Ellison

The Bachelor Party

Movie • 1953

Charlie

Escape to Witch Mountain

Movie • 1975

Jason O'Day

The Teahouse of the August Moon

Movie • 1957

Captain McLean

Carrie

Movie • 1952

Charles Drouet

The Perfect Marriage

Movie • 1947

Gil Cummins

Bombardier

Movie • 1943

Tom Hughes

The Lorax

Movie • 1972

Narrator

The Devil’s Rain

Movie • 1975

Dr. Sam Richards

Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman

Movie • 1947

Steve Nelson

Brenda Starr

Movie • 1989

Police Chief Maloney

7 Women

Movie • 1965

Charles Pether

You're in the Navy Now

Movie • 1951

Lt. Bill Barron

The Gun Runners

Movie • 1958

Hanagan

Madison Avenue

Movie • 1961

Harvey Holt Ames

Stitches

Movie • 1985

Dean Bradley

The Roots of Heaven

Movie • 1958

Abe Fields

The Demon Murder Case

Movie • 1983

Father Dietrich

Miracle of the White Stallions

Movie • 1963

Rider Otto

Actors and Sin

Movie • 1952

Orlando Higgens (segment Woman of Sin)

The Wagons Roll at Night

Movie • 1941

Matt Varney

Who's Got the Action?

Movie • 1962

Clint Morgan

The Fuller Brush Girl

Movie • 1950

Humphrey Briggs

On Your Toes

Movie • 1939

Phil Dolan Jr.

Foolin' Around

Movie • 1980

Daggett

A Dispatch from Reuters

Movie • 1940

Max Wagner

Beloved Infidel

Movie • 1959

Bob Carter

The Borrowers

Movie • 1973

Pod Clock

Four Wives

Movie • 1939

Dr. Clinton Forrest, Jr.

The Border

Movie • 1980

Moffat

A Norman Rockwell Christmas

Movie • 1993

Self

Brother Rat

Movie • 1938

'Bing' Edwards

Four Mothers

Movie • 1941

Dr. Clint Forrest, Jr.

The Joker is Wild

Movie • 1957

Austin Mack

The Great Mr. Nobody

Movie • 1941

Robert 'Dreamy' Smith

The Girl Rush

Movie • 1955

Elliot Atterbury

The Spiral Staircase

Movie • 1961

Albert Warren

The Young Doctors

Movie • 1961

Dr. Charles Dornberger

My Love Came Back

Movie • 1940

Dusty Rhodes

Ladies' Day

Movie • 1943

Wacky Waters

Thieves Fall Out

Movie • 1941

Edward 'Eddie' Barnes

Promise Him Anything

Movie • 1975

Pop

The Two Little Bears

Movie • 1961

Harry Davis

Meet Me After the Show

Movie • 1951

Chris Leeds

Brother Rat and a Baby

Movie • 1940

Bing Edwards

Our Mr. Sun

Movie • 1956

The Fiction Writer

How to Beat the High Cost of Living

Movie • 1980

Max

The Barefoot Executive

Movie • 1995

Herbert Gower

The Dude Goes West

Movie • 1948

Daniel Bone

Strange Voyage

Movie • 1946

Chris Thompson

The Mouse on the Mayflower

Movie • 1968

Capt. Standish (voice)

Whiffs

Movie • 1975

Colonel Lockyer

Trouble in High Timber Country

Movie • 1980

Carroll Yeager

Rat Pack

Movie • 2022

Self (archive footage)

Moving Violation

Movie • 1976

Alex Warren

The Girl From Mars

Movie • 1991

Dr. Charles Favender

The Act

Movie • 1984

Harry Kruger

Switch

Movie • 1975

Frank MacBride

Restoring Roman Holiday

Movie • 2002

Irving Radovich (archive footage)

Hit Parade of 1947

Movie • 1947

Kip Walker

In Like Flynn

Movie • 1985

Bill White

The Take

Movie • 1974

Chief Berrigan

Time Out of Mind

Movie • 1947

Jake Bullard

See the Man Run

Movie • 1973

Dr. Thomas Spencer

Return to Green Acres

Movie • 1990

Oliver Wendell Douglas

Rendezvous with Annie

Movie • 1946

Jeffrey Dolan

The Oklahoma City Dolls

Movie • 1981

Coach Homer Sixx

The Big Picture

Movie • 1989

M.C.

Every Girl Should Be Married

Movie • 1948

Harry Proctor / 'Old' Joe (uncredited)

Treat 'Em Rough

Movie • 1942

Bill Kingsford aka The Panama Kid

Television: The First Fifty Years

Movie • 1999

Self / Oliver Douglas (archive footage)

Eagle Squadron

Movie • 1942

Leckie

Birch Interval

Movie • 1976

Pa Strawacher

An Angel from Texas

Movie • 1940

Peter Coleman

Breakdowns of 1941

Movie • 1941

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

General Electric Theater: Into the Night

Movie • 1955

Paul Mattson

The Crash of Flight 401

Movie • 1978

Capt. Dunn

Yes, Giorgio

Movie • 1982

Henry Pollack

A Connecticut Yankee

Movie • 1955

Martin Barret

Lady Bodyguard

Movie • 1943

Terry Moore

Yesterday

Movie • 1980

Bart Kramer

Mercy or Murder?

Movie • 1987

Joe Varon

La Classe américaine

Movie • 1993

The Porter (archive footage) (uncredited)

Fireball Forward

Movie • 1972

Col. Douglas Graham

Burning Rage

Movie • 1984

Will Larson

Disneyland '59

Movie • 1959

Self

Turnaround

Movie • 1987

Theo Aitken

1984

Movie • 1953

Winston

Evening in Byzantium

Movie • 1978

Brian Murphy

Musical Comedy Tonight III

Movie • 1985

Self

Rooster

Movie • 1982

Rev. Harlan Barnum

Frank Sinatra Memorial

Movie • 2000

Self

Daddy's Girl

Movie • 1973

Bob Randall

Operation Teahouse

Movie • 1956

Self

Sherwood Anderson's I'm A Fool

Movie • 1954

Falcon Crest

TV • 1981

Carlton Travis

Murder, She Wrote

TV • 1984

Jackson Lane

Spider-Man

TV • 1994

Adrian Toomes / Old Vulture (voice)

Burke's Law

TV • 1963

Arthur J. Poindexter

Here's Lucy

TV • 1968

Eddie Albert

thirtysomething

TV • 1987

Charlie Weston

The Colgate Comedy Hour

TV • 1950

Self

Kraft Suspense Theatre

TV • 1963

Dr. Bert Andrews

Simon & Simon

TV • 1981

Judge Elliott Morris Taylor

The Twilight Zone

TV • 1985

Roger Leeds

The Beverly Hillbillies

TV • 1962

Oliver Wendell Douglas

Petticoat Junction

TV • 1963

Oliver Douglas

Naked City

TV • 1958

Earl Johannis

The Rogues

TV • 1964

Gregg Roberts

The Golden Palace

TV • 1992

Bill Douglas

The Merv Griffin Show

TV • 1962

Self

Studio One

TV • 1948

Winston Smith

Combat!

TV • 1962

Phil

General Electric Theater

TV • 1953

Narrator

The Ray Bradbury Theater

TV • 1985

Jonathan Hughes

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

TV • 1958

Joe Minelli

Rawhide

TV • 1959

Taylor Dickson

Switch

TV • 1975

Frank MacBride

The Virginian

TV • 1962

Cal Kroeger

The Johnny Cash Show

TV • 1969

Self

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

TV • 1951

McCloud

TV • 1970

Roy Erickson

Your Show of Shows

TV • 1950

Goodyear Television Playhouse

TV • 1951

Climax!

TV • 1954

Gabe Douglas

The Philco Television Playhouse

TV • 1948

Charlie

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

TV • 1956

Self

Ben Casey

TV • 1961

Gene Billstrom

Laramie

TV • 1959

Mr. Novak

TV • 1963

Charlie O'Rourke

Riverboat

TV • 1959

Dan Simpson

The New Breed

TV • 1961

Walter Cowley

Suspense

TV • 1949

Robert Montgomery Presents

TV • 1950

Jesse

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

TV • 1956

Bide Turley

The Lieutenant

TV • 1963

Rodney Cameron O'Rourke

Lights Out

TV • 1949

The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show

TV • 1968

Self - Guest

Dr. Kildare

TV • 1961

Dr. Norman French

The Outer Limits

TV • 1963

Andy Thorne

The Oscars

TV • 1953

Self

Okavango

TV • 1993

Uncle Bill Scofield

Letter to Loretta

TV • 1953

Lionel Kent

Siegfried and Roy - Superstars Of Magic

TV • 1980

Self - Host

Green Acres

TV • 1965

Oliver Wendell Douglas

Startime

TV • 1959

The DuPont Show of the Week

TV • 1961

Frank Foster