Eddie Albert

At 99 years old, Eddie Albert has this physical status:

Eddie Albert (born Edward Albert Heimberger, 1906–2005) was an American actor and protester.

He was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and second in 1973 for his role in The Longest Yard.

In the 1970s crime drama Switch, Oliver Wendell Douglas appeared on both in the 1960s television sitcom Green Acres and as Frank MacBride.

In addition, he appeared on Falcon Crest as Carlton Travis, opposite Jane Wyman.

Early life

Edward Albert Heimberger was born in Rock Island, Illinois, the eldest of Frank Daniel Heimberger, a real estate agent, and his partner, Julia Jones, on April 22, 1906. His year of birth is often listed as 1908, but this is incorrect. Albert was not married at the time when he was born, and his mother amended his birth certificate after her marriage.

When he was a year old, his family moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota. Young Edward started his first job as a newspaper boy when he was only six years old. His German name triggered taunts by his peers during World War I, as "the enemy" was feared. He attended Central High School in Minneapolis and joined the drama club. Harriet Lake (later known as actor Ann Sothern) was in the same class as his classmates. He attended the University of Minnesota, where he majored in business after graduating high school in 1926.

Personal life

Margo y O'Donnell, a Mexican actress, was married to Albert. Albert and Margo's son, Edward Jr., was also an actor, and they adopted Maria, Maria, who became her father's business manager. Margo Albert died of brain cancer on July 17, 1985.

The Alberts lived in Pacific Palisades, California, in a Spanish-style house on an acre of land with a cornfield in front. Albert grew organic vegetables in a greenhouse and recalled how his parents had a "liberty garden" at home during World War II.

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Career

Albert began working as a student and began a career in finance. Despite this, he was effectively unemployed following the 1929 stock market crash. He landed in odd jobs, including as a trapeze performer, an insurance salesman, and a nightclub singer. Albert stopped using his last name professionally because it was invariably mispronounced as "Hamburger." In 1933, he moved to New York City, where he co-hosted The Honeymooners – Grace and Eddie Show – which lasted for three years. Warner Bros. had a film deal at the end of the series.

Albert appeared in Broadway stage productions, including Brother Rat, which opened in 1936. He appeared in Room Service (1937–1938) and The Boys from Syracuse (1938-1939). Albert was also one of the first television stars in 1936, a tribute to RCA's first television broadcasts in association with NBC, a promotion for their New York City radio stations.

Albert wrote and performed in the first teleplay, The Love Nest, written for television, on early television. Done live (not shot on film), this performance took place in Studio 3H (now 3K) in Rockefeller Center in New York City and was broadcast on NBC's experimental television station W2XBS (now WNBC-TV). The Love Nest was hosted by Betty Goodwin, and Albert, Hildegarde, The Ink Spots, Ed Wynn, and actress Grace Bradt appeared. Television productions of stage plays were popular before this time.

Albert played Albert in the 1938 Broadway musical The Boys from Syracuse, as well as Burl Ives, who had little involvement in the production. After Ives moved west the following year, the two neighbors briefly shared an apartment in the Beachwood Canyon neighborhood of Hollywood. Albert made his film debut in the Hollywood version of Brother Rat, starring Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman, reprising his Broadway role as cadet "Bing" Edwards. On Your Toes, he starred in On Your Toes, which was adapted for the Broadway smash by Rodgers and Hart, and he's back in the United States next year.

Albert had toured Mexico before World War II as a clown and high wire artist with the Escalante Brothers Circus, but he had secretly worked for US Army intelligence, photographing German U-boats in Mexican harbors. Albert enlisted in the United States Coast Guard in 1942 and was released in 1943 to accept a lieutenant job in the United States. The Naval Reserve of the United States. He was given the Bronze Star with Combat "V" for his service during the invasion of Tarawa in November 1943, when he, as the coxswain of a US Navy landing craft, rescued 47 Marines who were stranded offshore (and assisted the rescue of 30 others), but he was still fighting heavy enemy machine gun fire.

Albert returned to film during the war years, appearing in films including The Great Mr. Nobody, Lady Bodyguard, and Ladies' Day, as well as reuniting with Reagan and Wyman in The Wagons Roll at Night. He returned to leading roles, including 1947's Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman, opposite Susan Hayward, after the war.

Albert was a guest on almost 90 television shows from 1948 to present. On an episode of The Ford Theatre Hour, he made his guest appearance on a Ford Theatre Hour episode. This role culminated in others such as Chevrolet Tele-Theatre, Suspense, Lights Out, Schlitz Playhouse of Actors, Studio One, Philco Television Playhouse, Your Show of Shows, The Alcoa Hour, The Reporter, and the GM Theater in a dramatic film The Eleventh Hour.

In 1959, Albert was cast as businessman Dan Simpson in the NBC Western series Riverboat's episode "The Unwilling." Despite a raid by pirates on the Mississippi River that stole from him $20,000 in merchandise, Dan Simpson attempts to open a general store in the American West. In this episode, Lela Russell plays Lela Russell; Russell Johnson is Darius; and John M. Picard is uncredited as a river pirate.

Albert's 1950s appeared in Miss Liberty (1949–1950) and The Seven Year Itch (1952–1955), as well as his appearances in Miss Liberty (1949-1950) and The Seven Year Itch (1952–1955). In the Broadway production of The Music Man, Albert replaced Robert Preston in the lead role of Professor Harold Hill. Albert has appeared in regional theaters as well. In 1955 in Boston, Reuben Reuben, Reuben, Reuben was played by Marc Blitzstein. He appeared in The Muny Theater in St. Louis, reenacting Harold Hill's appearance in The Music Man in 1966 and portraying Alfred P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady in 1968.

Albert appeared in film roles such as Lucille Ball's fiancé in The Fuller Brush Girl (1950), Bill Gorton in The Sun Also Rises (1957), and a traveling salesman in Carrie (1952). With Roman Holiday (1953), he was nominated for his first award as Best Supporting Actor.

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He appeared in Who's Got the Action (1955) and played a womanizing Persian peddler. (1962) In 1962, he played a lawyer helping his spouse (Dean Martin) cope with a gambling addiction. He played a psychiatrist with a passion for farming in Teahouse of the August Moon (1956). He appeared in many military roles, including The Longest Day (1962), about the Normandy invasion. Albert was given a scary role in the film Attack (1956) as a cowardly, psychotic Army captain whose behavior jeopardizes his company's stability. In Captain Newman, M.D., he was a psychotic United States Army Air Force colonel. Gregory Peck, 1960), opposite Gregory Peck.

He appeared on several television shows, including ABC's The Pat Boone Chevrolet Showroom and the Westinghouse Studio One series (CBS, 1953–54), as Winston Smith in the first TV version of 1984 by William Templeton.

Albert portrayed Larry Tucker on the situation comedy Leave It to Larry, which aired on CBS from October 14, 1952, to December 23, 1952. Tucker was a married man who encountered his father-in-law both at work and at home.

In 1953, Albert began The Eddie Albert Show, his own daytime variety show, on CBS television. Ellen Hanley, a singer, appeared on the programme for the first time. "Mr. Albert with the support of Miss Hanley conducts an interview, chats a little, sings a little, and generally seems to be all-thumbs."

Albert, a producer of Your Show of Shows on NBC, began on June 12, 1954. Ben Blue and Alan Young, as well as the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra, appeared on the 9:00–10:30 pm (Eastern Time) program.

In 1962, Albert appeared on the television western The Virginian as Cal Kroeger. Albert appeared in "Cry of Silence," an episode of the science fiction television series "The Outer Limits," in 1964. Albert, as well as his partner Karen (played by June Havoc), had decided to leave the city and purchase a farm (a recurring theme in Albert's career). They find themselves lost and in the midst of a deserted valley where they have been pounded by a string of tumbleweeds, frogs, and stones. He appeared as a government agent in the pilot episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, "Eleven Days to Zero" back in 1964. In season 7, episode 11 as "The Photographer," by Taylor Dickson, a western photographer, appeared alongside Clint Eastwood (Rowdy Yates).

In the 1964 episode "Visions of Sugar Plums" of the NBC education drama series Mr. Novak starring James Franciscus, Albert was cast as Charlie O'Rourke. In this episode, Bobby Diamond, a former Fury actor, appeared.

Albert was approached by producer Paul Henning in 1965 to appear in a new CBS sitcom called Green Acres. Oliver Wendell Douglas, a lawyer who left the area to live as a gentleman farmer, lived a simple life. Eva Gabor as his urbanite, spoilt wife, Lisa, was co-starring on the program. In its first season, the show was a huge success, achieving fifth position in the ratings. There were six seasons and 170 episodes on the show.

Albert was a guest on The Carol Burnett Show episode number 6 in 1968. In an episode of Carol and Sis, he appeared as Harvey Korman's boss.

Albert left a four-year absence from television and appeared in the famous 1970s adventure/crime drama Switch for CBS as a retired police officer with a former criminal who had been detained. Switch was a hit in its first season. The show had become a more serious and traditional crime drama by late 1976. After the show was cancelled after 70 episodes in 1978, at the end of its third season.

Eddie Albert appeared on a number of television specials. Mr. Sun, a Bell Telephone-produced color special, was his first film release, the 1956 made-for-television NBC documentary Our Mr. Sun, a 1956 made-for-television NBC documentary. It's directed by Frank Capra, and it blends live action with animation. Albert appears with Dr. Frank Baxter, who appears in several other Bell Telephone science specials.

Albert was narrator and host for the telecast of a German-American made-for-television film version of The Nutcracker in 1965, which was rerun several times. The host sequences and the narration were particularly shot for this short film in the United States (it was only an hour long and removed a substantial portion from the Tchaikovsky ballet).

In 1968, Myles Standish appeared in the Rankin/Bass animated TV series The Mouse on the Mayflower.

Albert appeared in a season-one Columbo episode titled "Dead Weight," which also starred Suzanne Pleshette as a veteran US Marine Corps major general and war hero from the Korean War, who murdered his adjutant to cover up an unlawful quid pro quo contracting scheme.

Albert continued his film career in 1972 as an overprotective father in The Heartbreak Kid (1972), and he was nominated for the Best Support Actor award for his role as an overprotective father in The Children's (1972) and gave a moving appearance in 1974's The Longest Yard, portraying Burt Reynolds as an evil prison warden. In the hit Disney film Escape to Witch Mountain in 1975, Albert portrayed the gruff, softhearted Jason O'Day in a more uplifting manner.

Albert appeared in 1980s films as How to Beat the High Cost of Living (1980), Yesterday (1981), Take This Job and Shove It (1981), Rooster (1982 television film), and Yes, Giorgio (1984), and as the US President in Dreamscape (1984). He appeared in The Big Picture (1989), his last film role. He also appeared in several all-star television miniseries, including Evening in Byzantium (1978), The Word (1978), Peter and Paul (1981), War and Remembrance (1988).

In 1982, Albert performed the role of the elderly Altoum in Puccini's Turandot's San Francisco Opera performance.

Albert was reunited in the mid-1980s with longtime friend and co-star Jane Wyman, in a recurring role as the villainous Carlton Travis in the popular 1980s soap opera Falcon Crest. He appeared on an episode of the 1980s television series Highway to Heaven, as well as Murder, She Wrote, and in 1990, he rejoined Eva Gabor for a Return to Green Acres. Jack Boland, a comedian from ABC daytime soap opera GM, also appeared on ABC's morning soap opera The Golden Palace the same year.

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