Acting

Eddie Albert

Born 1906-04-22 · Rock Island, Illinois, USA

Died 2005-05-26

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.

Credits

Newest first

Rat Pack
as Self (archive footage)
2022
Spider-Man vs. Doc Ock
as Adam Toomes / Old Vulture (voice)
2004
Restoring Roman Holiday
as Irving Radovich (archive footage)
2002
Frank Sinatra Memorial
as Self
2000
Television: The First Fifty Years
as Self / Oliver Douglas (archive footage)
1999
The Barefoot Executive
as Herbert Gower
1995
Spider-Man
as Adrian Toomes / Old Vulture (voice)
1994
La Classe américaine
as The Porter (archive footage) (uncredited)
1993
A Norman Rockwell Christmas
as Self
1993
Okavango
as Uncle Bill Scofield
1993
The Golden Palace
as Bill Douglas
1992
The Girl From Mars
as Dr. Charles Favender
1991
Return to Green Acres
as Oliver Wendell Douglas
1990
The Big Picture
as M.C.
1989
Brenda Starr
as Police Chief Maloney
1989
War and Remembrance
as Breckinridge Long
1988
thirtysomething
as Charlie Weston
1987
Turnaround
as Theo Aitken
1987
Mercy or Murder?
as Joe Varon
1987
Dress Gray
as Judge Hand
1986
Musical Comedy Tonight III
as Self
1985
The Twilight Zone
as Roger Leeds
1985
Stitches
as Dean Bradley
1985
In Like Flynn
as Bill White
1985
Head Office
as Pete Helmes
1985
The Ray Bradbury Theater
as Jonathan Hughes
1985
Murder, She Wrote
as Jackson Lane
1984
Burning Rage
as Will Larson
1984
Highway to Heaven
as Sen. Fritz McCorkindale
1984
Dreamscape
as The President
1984
The Act
as Harry Kruger
1984
The Demon Murder Case
as Father Dietrich
1983
Yes, Giorgio
as Henry Pollack
1982
Hotel
as MacDonald 'Mack' Erickson
1982
Rooster
as Rev. Harlan Barnum
1982
Beyond Witch Mountain
as Jason O'Day
1982
Falcon Crest
as Carlton Travis
1981
Simon & Simon
as Judge Elliott Morris Taylor
1981
Goliath Awaits
as Adm. Wiley Sloan
1981
Take This Job and Shove It
as Samuel Ellison
1981
Peter and Paul
as Festus
1981
The Oklahoma City Dolls
as Coach Homer Sixx
1981
Foolin' Around
as Daggett
1980
Beulah Land
as Felix Kendrick
1980
The Border
as Moffat
1980
How to Beat the High Cost of Living
as Max
1980
Trouble in High Timber Country
as Carroll Yeager
1980
Yesterday
as Bart Kramer
1980
Siegfried and Roy - Superstars Of Magic
as Self - Host
1980
The Concorde... Airport '79
as Eli Sands
1979
The Word
as Ogden Towery
1978
The Crash of Flight 401
as Capt. Dunn
1978
Evening in Byzantium
as Brian Murphy
1978
The Love Boat
as Dean Burton Lockwood
1977
Moving Violation
as Alex Warren
1976
Birch Interval
as Pa Strawacher
1976
Hustle
as Leo Sellers
1975
Whiffs
as Colonel Lockyer
1975
Switch
as Frank MacBride
1975
The Devil’s Rain
as Dr. Sam Richards
1975
Promise Him Anything
as Pop
1975
Escape to Witch Mountain
as Jason O'Day
1975
Switch
as Frank MacBride
1975
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
as Diplomat Benjamin Franklin
1974
The Longest Yard
as Warden Hazen
1974
The Take
as Chief Berrigan
1974
McQ
as Kosterman
1974
The Borrowers
as Pod Clock
1973
Daddy's Girl
as Bob Randall
1973
See the Man Run
as Dr. Thomas Spencer
1973
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as Self
1973
The Heartbreak Kid
as Duane Corcoran
1972
Kung Fu
as Dr. George Baxter
1972
Fireball Forward
as Col. Douglas Graham
1972
The Lorax
as Narrator
1972
Columbo
as Martin Hollister
1971
Great Performances
as Self
1971
The Pet Set
as Self
1971
McCloud
as Roy Erickson
1970
The Johnny Cash Show
as Self
1969