Eddie Albert
Known for Acting · 208 credits
- Born
- 1906-04-22
- Died
- 2005-05-26
- Place of birth
- Rock Island, Illinois, USA
- Also known as
- Edward Albert Heimberger · Eddie Albert Sr. · Eddie Albert Heimberger
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
TV Shows (93)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
Columbo
1971
as Martin Hollister
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self - Co-Host
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Jackson Lane
Falcon Crest
1981
as Carlton Travis
The Love Boat
1977
as Dean Burton Lockwood
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Presenter / Self - Host
Wagon Train
1957
as John Darro
Great Performances
1971
as Self
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
as Jesse
What's My Line?
1950
as Self - Mystery Guest
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self
Climax!
1954
as Gabe Douglas / Barney Kanda / David Adams
The Virginian
1962
as Cal Kroeger
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
as Charlie
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
as Oliver Wendell Douglas
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Host / Self - Presenter / Self - Co-Host / Presenter
Dr. Kildare
1961
as Dr. Norman French
Petticoat Junction
1963
as Oliver Douglas
Simon & Simon
1981
as Judge Elliott Morris Taylor
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
as Bide Turley / Sam Barlow / Jed Wiley / Jess Matson
Ben Casey
1961
as Gene Billstrom
The Carol Burnett Show
1967
as Self - Guest
Hotel
1982
as MacDonald 'Mack' Erickson
Naked City
1958
as Earl Johannis
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest
Combat!
1962
as Phil
Studio One
1948
as Winston Smith / John Peter Zenger
Green Acres
1965
as Oliver Wendell Douglas
The Twilight Zone
1985
as Roger Leeds
Rawhide
1959
as Taylor Dickson
Highway to Heaven
1984
as Sen. Fritz McCorkindale
Spider-Man
1994
as Adrian Toomes / Old Vulture (voice)
Burke's Law
1963
as Arthur J. Poindexter
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self
thirtysomething
1987
as Charlie Weston
The Outer Limits
1963
as Andy Thorne
Here's Lucy
1968
as Eddie Albert
Lights Out
1949
McCloud
1970
as Roy Erickson
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
as Self
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
1964
as Dr. Fred Wilson
Switch
1975
as Frank MacBride
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
as Self / Self - Guest Host
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963
as Dr. Bert Andrews
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
as Brother Love
Laramie
1959
Suspense
1949
as Danny Maguire
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
as Self
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
as Joe Minelli
Danger
1950
Studio 57
1954
as Jim Hammond
Riverboat
1959
as Dan Simpson
The Ray Bradbury Theater
1985
as Jonathan Hughes
Startime
1959
as Self – Host
Mr. Novak
1963
as Charlie O'Rourke
The Danny Kaye Show
1963
as Self
Your Show of Shows
1950
The Rogues
1964
as Gregg Roberts
Movies (115)
Roman Holiday
1953
as Irving Radovich
The Longest Day
1962
as Col. Thompson
Dreamscape
1984
as The President
Escape to Witch Mountain
1975
as Jason O'Day
The Longest Yard
1974
as Warden Hazen
Oklahoma!
1955
as Ali Hakim
The Concorde... Airport '79
1979
as Eli Sands
McQ
1974
as Kosterman
The Act
1984
as Harry Kruger
The Big Picture
1989
as M.C.
Carrie
1952
as Charles Drouet
Rat Pack
2022
as Self (archive footage)
You're in the Navy Now
1951
as Lt. Bill Barron
Eagle Squadron
1942
as Leckie
Attack
1956
as Erskine Cooney
7 Women
1965
as Charles Pether
Hustle
1975
as Leo Sellers
The Lorax
1972
as Narrator
La Classe américaine
1993
as The Porter (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Sun Also Rises
1957
as Bill Gorton
The Border
1980
as Moffat
The Devil’s Rain
1975
as Dr. Sam Richards
Television: The First Fifty Years
1999
as Self / Oliver Douglas (archive footage)
Head Office
1985
as Pete Helmes
Who's Got the Action?
1962
as Clint Morgan
Beloved Infidel
1959
as Bob Carter
Whiffs
1975
as Colonel Lockyer
The Teahouse of the August Moon
1957
as Captain McLean
Madison Avenue
1961
as Harvey Holt Ames
The Fuller Brush Girl
1950
as Humphrey Briggs
Out of the Fog
1941
as George Watkins
Brenda Starr
1989
as Police Chief Maloney
Foolin' Around
1980
as Daggett
Moving Violation
1976
as Alex Warren
The Gun Runners
1958
as Hanagan
Captain Newman, M.D.
1963
as Col. Norval Algate Bliss
The Heartbreak Kid
1972
as Duane Corcoran
Every Girl Should Be Married
1948
as Harry Proctor / 'Old' Joe (uncredited)
The Perfect Marriage
1947
as Gil Cummins
The Party's Over
1965
as Ben Morgan
The Crash of Flight 401
1978
as Capt. Dunn
Brother Rat and a Baby
1940
as Bing Edwards
Yes, Giorgio
1982
as Henry Pollack
The Barefoot Executive
1995
as Herbert Gower
How to Beat the High Cost of Living
1980
as Max
Take This Job and Shove It
1981
as Samuel Ellison
Evening in Byzantium
1978
as Brian Murphy
See the Man Run
1973
as Dr. Thomas Spencer
Time Out of Mind
1947
as Jake Bullard
Miracle of the White Stallions
1963
as Rider Otto
Four Wives
1939
as Dr. Clinton Forrest, Jr.
Orders to Kill
1958
as Maj. MacMahon
The Borrowers
1973
as Pod Clock
The Roots of Heaven
1958
as Abe Fields
Brother Rat
1938
as 'Bing' Edwards
Stitches
1985
as Dean Bradley
The Joker is Wild
1957
as Austin Mack
Bombardier
1943
as Tom Hughes
The Wagons Roll at Night
1941
as Matt Varney
Breakdowns of 1941
1941
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
I'll Cry Tomorrow
1955
as Burt McGuire
A Dispatch from Reuters
1940
as Max Wagner
The Girl Rush
1955
as Elliot Atterbury
You Gotta Stay Happy
1948
as Bullets Baker
My Love Came Back
1940
as Dusty Rhodes
Trouble in High Timber Country
1980
as Carroll Yeager
Fireball Forward
1972
as Col. Douglas Graham
The Demon Murder Case
1983
as Father Dietrich
The Girl From Mars
1991
as Dr. Charles Favender
Four Mothers
1941
as Dr. Clint Forrest, Jr.
Our Mr. Sun
1956
as The Fiction Writer
Ladies' Day
1943
as Wacky Waters
The Mouse on the Mayflower
1968
as Capt. Standish (voice)
On Your Toes
1939
as Phil Dolan Jr.
In Like Flynn
1985
as Bill White
Disneyland '59
1959
as Self
Rooster
1982
as Rev. Harlan Barnum
Yesterday
1980
as Bart Kramer
Turnaround
1987
as Theo Aitken
The Dude Goes West
1948
as Daniel Bone
Operation Teahouse
1956
as Self
General Electric Theater: Into the Night
1955
as Paul Mattson
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
1947
as Steve Nelson
Thieves Fall Out
1941
as Edward 'Eddie' Barnes
The Oklahoma City Dolls
1981
as Coach Homer Sixx
Strange Voyage
1946
as Chris Thompson
Actors and Sin
1952
as Orlando Higgens (segment Woman of Sin)
An Angel from Texas
1940
as Peter Coleman
Beyond Witch Mountain
1982
as Jason O'Day
Return to Green Acres
1990
as Oliver Wendell Douglas
The Spiral Staircase
1961
as Albert Warren
The Bachelor Party
1953
as Charlie
The Young Doctors
1961
as Dr. Charles Dornberger
Rendezvous with Annie
1946
as Jeffrey Dolan
A Connecticut Yankee
1955
as Martin Barret
1984
1953
as Winston
Switch
1975
as Frank MacBride
A Norman Rockwell Christmas
1993
as Self
Burning Rage
1984
as Will Larson
The Take
1974
as Chief Berrigan
Musical Comedy Tonight III
1985
as Self
Frank Sinatra Memorial
2000
as Self
Daddy's Girl
1973
as Bob Randall
Hit Parade of 1947
1947
as Kip Walker
Meet Me After the Show
1951
as Chris Leeds
Birch Interval
1976
as Pa Strawacher
Mercy or Murder?
1987
as Joe Varon
Lady Bodyguard
1943
as Terry Moore
Promise Him Anything
1975
as Pop
The Two Little Bears
1961
as Harry Davis
The Great Mr. Nobody
1941
as Robert 'Dreamy' Smith
Treat 'Em Rough
1942
as Bill Kingsford aka The Panama Kid
Sherwood Anderson's I'm A Fool
1954
Restoring Roman Holiday
2002
as Irving Radovich (archive footage)
Can We Immunize Against Prejudice?
1954
About Eddie Albert
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 co… With 208 credits spanning from 1938 to 2022, Eddie Albert has appeared in 115 films and 93 TV shows.
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Most Popular Eddie Albert Movies
- Roman Holiday (1953) — as Irving Radovich
- The Longest Day (1962) — as Col. Thompson
- Dreamscape (1984) — as The President
- Escape to Witch Mountain (1975) — as Jason O'Day
- The Longest Yard (1974) — as Warden Hazen
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