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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. Description above from the Wikipedia Eddie Albert, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Roman Holiday
as Irving Radovich
Oklahoma!
as Ali Hakim
The Longest Day
as Col. Thompson
Television: The First Fifty Years
as Self / Oliver Douglas (archive footage)
The Longest Yard
as Warden Hazen
The Concorde... Airport '79
as Eli Sands
The Lorax
as Narrator
Dreamscape
as The President
The Big Picture
as M.C.
The Borrowers
as Pod Clock
