Eddie Albert
Actor
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
Trumbo
as Irving Radovich in Roman Holiday (archive footage) (uncredited) 2015
The Longest Day
as Col. Thompson 1962
The Longest Yard
as Warden Hazen 1974
Dreamscape
as The President 1984
La Classe américaine
as The Porter (archive footage) (uncredited) 1993
Escape to Witch Mountain
as Jason O'Day 1975
The Concorde... Airport '79
as Eli Sands 1979
Oklahoma!
as Ali Hakim 1955
The Joker is Wild
as Austin Mack 1957
The Lorax
as Narrator 1972
Attack
as Erskine Cooney 1956
McQ
as Kosterman 1974
The Heartbreak Kid
as Duane Corcoran 1972
The Big Picture
as M.C. 1989
The Devil's Rain
as Dr. Sam Richards 1975
7 Women
as Charles Pether 1965