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

Irving Radovich

Roman Holiday

Warden Hazen

The Longest Yard

Leo Sellers

Hustle

The President

Dreamscape

Erskine Cooney

Attack

Bill Gorton

The Sun Also Rises

Bullets Baker

You Gotta Stay Happy

George Watkins

Out of the Fog

Col. Thompson

The Longest Day

Jason O'Day

Beyond Witch Mountain

Col. Norval Algate Bliss

Captain Newman, M.D.

Kosterman

McQ

Maj. MacMahon

Orders to Kill

Burt McGuire

I'll Cry Tomorrow

Duane Corcoran

The Heartbreak Kid

Ali Hakim

Oklahoma!

Pete Helmes

Head Office

Eli Sands

The Concorde... Airport '79

Ben Morgan

The Party's Over

Samuel Ellison

Take This Job and Shove It

Charlie

The Bachelor Party

Jason O'Day

Escape to Witch Mountain

Captain McLean

The Teahouse of the August Moon

Charles Drouet

Carrie

Gil Cummins

The Perfect Marriage

Tom Hughes

Bombardier

Narrator

The Lorax

Dr. Sam Richards

The Devil's Rain

Steve Nelson

Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman

Police Chief Maloney

Brenda Starr

Charles Pether

7 Women

Lt. Bill Barron

You're in the Navy Now

Hanagan

The Gun Runners

Harvey Holt Ames

Madison Avenue

Dean Bradley

Stitches

Abe Fields

The Roots of Heaven

Father Dietrich

The Demon Murder Case

Rider Otto

Miracle of the White Stallions

Orlando Higgens (segment Woman of Sin)

Actors and Sin

Matt Varney

The Wagons Roll at Night

Clint Morgan

Who's Got the Action?

Humphrey Briggs

The Fuller Brush Girl

Phil Dolan Jr.

On Your Toes

Daggett

Foolin' Around

Max Wagner

A Dispatch from Reuters

Bob Carter

Beloved Infidel

Pod Clock

The Borrowers

Dr. Clinton Forrest, Jr.

Four Wives

Moffat

Border Cop

Self

A Norman Rockwell Christmas

'Bing' Edwards

Brother Rat

Dr. Clint Forrest, Jr.

Four Mothers

Austin Mack

The Joker is Wild

Robert 'Dreamy' Smith

The Great Mr. Nobody

Elliot Atterbury

The Girl Rush

Albert Warren

The Spiral Staircase

Dr. Charles Dornberger

The Young Doctors

Dusty Rhodes

My Love Came Back

Wacky Waters

Ladies' Day

Edward 'Eddie' Barnes

Thieves Fall Out

Pop

Promise Him Anything

Harry Davis

The Two Little Bears

Chris Leeds

Meet Me After the Show

Bing Edwards

Brother Rat and a Baby

The Fiction Writer

Our Mr. Sun

Max

How to Beat the High Cost of Living

Herbert Gower

The Barefoot Executive

Daniel Bone

The Dude Goes West

Chris Thompson

Strange Voyage

Capt. Standish (voice)

The Mouse on the Mayflower

Colonel Lockyer

Whiffs

Carroll Yeager

Trouble in High Timber Country

Self (archive footage)

Rat Pack

Alex Warren

Moving Violation

Dr. Charles Favender

The Girl From Mars

Harry Kruger

The Act

Frank MacBride

Switch

Irving Radovich (archive footage)

Restoring Roman Holiday

Kip Walker

Hit Parade of 1947

Bill White

In Like Flynn

Chief Berrigan

The Take

Jake Bullard

Time Out of Mind

Dr. Thomas Spencer

See the Man Run

Oliver Wendell Douglas

Return to Green Acres

Jeffrey Dolan

Rendezvous with Annie

Coach Homer Sixx

The Oklahoma City Dolls

M.C.

The Big Picture

Harry Proctor / 'Old' Joe (uncredited)

Every Girl Should Be Married

Bill Kingsford aka The Panama Kid

Treat 'Em Rough

Self / Oliver Douglas (archive footage)

Television: The First Fifty Years

Leckie

Eagle Squadron

Pa Strawacher

Birch Interval

Peter Coleman

An Angel from Texas

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Breakdowns of 1941

Paul Mattson

General Electric Theater: Into the Night

Capt. Dunn

The Crash of Flight 401

Henry Pollack

Yes, Giorgio

Martin Barret

A Connecticut Yankee

Terry Moore

Lady Bodyguard

Bart Kramer

Yesterday

Joe Varon

Mercy or Murder?

The Porter (archive footage) (uncredited)

La Classe américaine

Col. Douglas Graham

Fireball Forward

Will Larson

Burning Rage

Self

Disneyland '59

Theo Aitken

Turnaround

Winston

1984

Brian Murphy

Evening in Byzantium

Self

Musical Comedy Tonight III

Rev. Harlan Barnum

Rooster

Self

Frank Sinatra Memorial

Bob Randall

Daddy's Girl

Self

Operation Teahouse

Irving Radovich in Roman Holiday (archive footage) (uncredited)

Trumbo

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

114

Gender

Male

Birthday

1906-04-22

Place of Birth

Rock Island, Illinois, USA

Also Known As

Edward Albert Heimberger