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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 22, 1906
Died
May 26, 2005
Place of Birth
Rock Island, Illinois, USA
Also Known As
- Edward Albert Heimberger
- Eddie Albert Sr.
- Eddie Albert Heimberger
Eddie Albert
1.3 Popularity
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
9.0
Self (archive footage)
Rat Pack
2022
7.2
Irving Radovich in Roman Holiday (archive footage) (uncredited)
Trumbo
2015
7.0
Irving Radovich (archive footage)
Restoring Roman Holiday
2002
0.0
Self
Frank Sinatra Memorial
2000
🎬
0.0
Self / Oliver Douglas (archive footage)
Television: The First Fifty Years
1999
4.8
Herbert Gower
The Barefoot Executive
1995
8.3
Adrian Toomes / Old Vulture (voice)
Spider-Man
1994
7.6
The Porter (archive footage) (uncredited)
La Classe américaine
1993
0.0
Self
A Norman Rockwell Christmas
1993
🎬
0.0
Uncle Bill Scofield
Okavango
1993
Credits
Rat Pack
as Self (archive footage)
2022
9.0
Trumbo
as Irving Radovich in Roman Holiday (archive footage) (uncredited)
2015
7.2
Restoring Roman Holiday
as Irving Radovich (archive footage)
2002
7.0
Frank Sinatra Memorial
as Self
2000
0.0
🎬
Television: The First Fifty Years
as Self / Oliver Douglas (archive footage)
1999
0.0
The Barefoot Executive
as Herbert Gower
1995
4.8
Spider-Man
as Adrian Toomes / Old Vulture (voice)
1994
8.3
La Classe américaine
as The Porter (archive footage) (uncredited)
1993
7.6
A Norman Rockwell Christmas
as Self
1993
0.0
🎬
Okavango
as Uncle Bill Scofield
1993
0.0
The Golden Palace
as Bill Douglas
1992
6.2
🎬
The Girl From Mars
as Dr. Charles Favender
1991
0.0
Return to Green Acres
as Oliver Wendell Douglas
1990
2.3
The Big Picture
as M.C.
1989
5.8
Brenda Starr
as Police Chief Maloney
1989
4.6
thirtysomething
as Charlie Weston
1987
6.1
Turnaround
as Theo Aitken
1987
0.0
Mercy or Murder?
as Joe Varon
1987
0.0
Dress Gray
as Judge Hand
1986
4.7
Musical Comedy Tonight III
as Self
1985
0.0
The Twilight Zone
as Roger Leeds
1985
7.8
Stitches
as Dean Bradley
1985
2.2
In Like Flynn
as Bill White
1985
0.0
Head Office
as Pete Helmes
1985
5.1
The Ray Bradbury Theater
as Jonathan Hughes
1985
6.8
Murder, She Wrote
as Jackson Lane
1984
7.5
Burning Rage
as Will Larson
1984
2.0
Highway to Heaven
as Sen. Fritz McCorkindale
1984
7.4
Dreamscape
as The President
1984
6.1
The Act
as Harry Kruger
1984
2.4
The Demon Murder Case
as Father Dietrich
1983
5.9
Yes, Giorgio
as Henry Pollack
1982
3.8
Hotel
as MacDonald 'Mack' Erickson
1982
6.8
Rooster
as Rev. Harlan Barnum
1982
2.0
Beyond Witch Mountain
as Jason O'Day
1982
6.9
Falcon Crest
as Carlton Travis
1981
5.5
Simon & Simon
as Judge Elliott Morris Taylor
1981
6.7
Goliath Awaits
as Adm. Wiley Sloan
1981
6.8
Take This Job and Shove It
as Samuel Ellison
1981
5.3
Peter and Paul
as Festus
1981
7.0
The Oklahoma City Dolls
as Coach Homer Sixx
1981
1.0
Foolin' Around
as Daggett
1980
6.0
Beulah Land
as Felix Kendrick
1980
7.0
The Border
as Moffat
1980
5.1
How to Beat the High Cost of Living
as Max
1980
5.0
Trouble in High Timber Country
as Carroll Yeager
1980
0.0
Yesterday
as Bart Kramer
1980
6.0
Siegfried and Roy - Superstars Of Magic
as Self - Host
1980
7.0
The Concorde... Airport '79
as Eli Sands
1979
4.7
The Word
as Ogden Towery
1978
5.0
The Crash of Flight 401
as Capt. Dunn
1978
7.5
Evening in Byzantium
as Brian Murphy
1978
0.0
The Love Boat
as Dean Burton Lockwood
1977
6.3
Moving Violation
as Alex Warren
1976
4.8
Birch Interval
as Pa Strawacher
1976
4.0
Hustle
as Leo Sellers
1975
5.6
Whiffs
as Colonel Lockyer
1975
7.1
Switch
as Frank MacBride
1975
6.7
The Devil's Rain
as Dr. Sam Richards
1975
5.0
Promise Him Anything
as Pop
1975
0.0
Escape to Witch Mountain
as Jason O'Day
1975
6.4
Switch
as Frank MacBride
1975
0.0
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
as Diplomat Benjamin Franklin
1974
0.0
The Longest Yard
as Warden Hazen
1974
6.7
The Take
as Chief Berrigan
1974
6.3
McQ
as Kosterman
1974
6.1
The Borrowers
as Pod Clock
1973
6.0
🎬
Daddy's Girl
as Bob Randall
1973
0.0
See the Man Run
as Dr. Thomas Spencer
1973
8.7
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as Self
1973
6.3
The Heartbreak Kid
as Duane Corcoran
1972
6.5
Kung Fu
as Dr. George Baxter
1972
7.7
Fireball Forward
as Col. Douglas Graham
1972
5.0
The Lorax
as Narrator
1972
7.1
Columbo
as Martin Hollister
1971
8.1
Great Performances
as Self
1971
5.8
The Pet Set
as Self
1971
5.5
McCloud
as Roy Erickson
1970
7.1
The Johnny Cash Show
as Self
1969
6.5
The Mouse on the Mayflower
as Capt. Standish (voice)
1968
6.0
Here's Lucy
as Eddie Albert
1968
6.7
🎬
The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show
as Self - Guest
1968
0.0
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1968
6.8
The Carol Burnett Show
as Self - Guest
1967
7.7
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
as Self
1967
6.9
7 Women
as Charles Pether
1965
6.5
Green Acres
as Oliver Wendell Douglas
1965
7.3
The Party's Over
as Ben Morgan
1965
6.6
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Brother Love
1964
7.1
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
as Dr. Fred Wilson
1964
7.7
The Rogues
as Gregg Roberts
1964
7.2
Captain Newman, M.D.
as Col. Norval Algate Bliss
1963
6.6
Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Dr. Bert Andrews
1963
5.3
The Danny Kaye Show
as Self
1963
6.3
Petticoat Junction
as Oliver Douglas
1963
5.7
Mr. Novak
as Charlie O'Rourke
1963
6.5
Burke's Law
as Arthur J. Poindexter
1963
6.0
🎬
The Greatest Show on Earth
as Frank Land
1963
5.0
The Outer Limits
as Andy Thorne
1963
7.8
The Lieutenant
as Rodney Cameron O'Rourke
1963
6.0
Miracle of the White Stallions
as Rider Otto
1963
5.8
Who's Got the Action?
as Clint Morgan
1962
5.2
Combat!
as Phil
1962
7.7
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1962
6.2
The Beverly Hillbillies
as Oliver Wendell Douglas
1962
6.9
The Longest Day
as Col. Thompson
1962
7.6
The Virginian
as Cal Kroeger
1962
6.4
Sam Benedict
as Lewis Wiley
1962
6.0
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self - Co-Host
1961
5.4
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
The Two Little Bears
as Harry Davis
1961
6.0
The Spiral Staircase
as Albert Warren
1961
6.0
The New Breed
as Walter Cowley
1961
7.0
Ben Casey
as Gene Billstrom
1961
5.6
Dr. Kildare
as Dr. Norman French
1961
5.5
The DuPont Show of the Week
as Frank Foster
1961
6.0
The Young Doctors
as Dr. Charles Dornberger
1961
5.6
Madison Avenue
as Harvey Holt Ames
1961
6.0
Beloved Infidel
as Bob Carter
1959
5.9
Startime
1959
6.0
Laramie
1959
6.6
Riverboat
as Dan Simpson
1959
6.2
Disneyland '59
as Self
1959
6.5
Rawhide
as Taylor Dickson
1959
7.2
The Roots of Heaven
as Abe Fields
1958
6.2
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
as Joe Minelli
1958
5.8
Naked City
as Earl Johannis
1958
5.5
The Gun Runners
as Hanagan
1958
6.0
Orders to Kill
as Maj. MacMahon
1958
7.2
The Joker is Wild
as Austin Mack
1957
8.0
Wagon Train
as John Darro
1957
6.6
The Sun Also Rises
as Bill Gorton
1957
5.7
🎬
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
as Self
1957
7.0
🎬
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
as Self - Guest Host
1957
7.0
The Teahouse of the August Moon
as Captain McLean
1957
6.2
Operation Teahouse
as Self
1956
0.0
Our Mr. Sun
as The Fiction Writer
1956
7.5
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Bide Turley
1956
6.0
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Jed Wiley
1956
6.0
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Jess Matson
1956
6.0
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Sam Barlow
1956
6.0
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
as Self
1956
6.0
Attack
as Erskine Cooney
1956
6.8
Tony Awards
as Self - Co-Host /Presenter
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Host
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
1956
5.9
I'll Cry Tomorrow
as Burt McGuire
1955
6.1
Oklahoma!
as Ali Hakim
1955
6.6
The Girl Rush
as Elliot Atterbury
1955
3.7
General Electric Theater: Into the Night
as Paul Mattson
1955
0.0
A Connecticut Yankee
as Martin Barret
1955
4.0
The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater
as R.J. Banning
1955
0.0
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Jason O'Day
1954
7.8
Climax!
as Gabe Douglas
1954
3.3
Climax!
as Barney Kanda
1954
3.3
Climax!
as David Adams
1954
3.3
Studio 57
as Jim Hammond
1954
0.0
The Motorola Television Hour
1953
0.0
🎬
The Bachelor Party
as Charlie
1953
0.0
1984
as Winston
1953
7.0
Letter to Loretta
as Lionel Kent
1953
6.5
Letter to Loretta
as Max Asher
1953
6.5
Letter to Loretta
as Tiger Tipton
1953
6.5
Roman Holiday
as Irving Radovich
1953
7.9
Medallion Theatre
1953
0.0
Revlon Mirror Theatre
1953
0.0
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
General Electric Theater
as Narrator
1953
6.4
General Electric Theater
as Paul Mattson
1953
6.4
General Electric Theater
as Louie Schmidt
1953
6.4
Carrie
as Charles Drouet
1952
6.4
Actors and Sin
as Orlando Higgens (segment Woman of Sin)
1952
5.2
Goodyear Television Playhouse
1951
5.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Randy Smith
1951
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Bill Carter
1951
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Sheldon Black
1951
7.2
Meet Me After the Show
as Chris Leeds
1951
4.7
You're in the Navy Now
as Lt. Bill Barron
1951
4.4
🎬
Danger
1950
8.0
The Fuller Brush Girl
as Humphrey Briggs
1950
6.0
The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self
1950
6.8
Your Show of Shows
1950
6.3
What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
1950
6.9
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Jesse
1950
5.6
Lights Out
1949
5.8
Suspense
1949
4.9
Suspense
as Danny Maguire
1949
4.9
Every Girl Should Be Married
as Harry Proctor / 'Old' Joe (uncredited)
1948
6.1
Studio One
as Winston Smith
1948
5.0
Studio One
as John Peter Zenger
1948
5.0
You Gotta Stay Happy
as Bullets Baker
1948
6.4
The Ford Theatre Hour
1948
0.0
The Philco Television Playhouse
as Charlie
1948
6.3
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
6.3
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
The Dude Goes West
as Daniel Bone
1948
5.2
Time Out of Mind
as Jake Bullard
1947
5.0
Hit Parade of 1947
as Kip Walker
1947
0.0
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
as Steve Nelson
1947
6.1
The Perfect Marriage
as Gil Cummins
1947
4.0
Rendezvous with Annie
as Jeffrey Dolan
1946
6.0
Strange Voyage
as Chris Thompson
1946
6.0
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Host
1944
7.2
Bombardier
as Tom Hughes
1943
5.6
Ladies' Day
as Wacky Waters
1943
4.3
Lady Bodyguard
as Terry Moore
1943
4.0
Eagle Squadron
as Leckie
1942
5.5
🎬
Treat 'Em Rough
as Bill Kingsford aka The Panama Kid
1942
6.0
Breakdowns of 1941
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1941
7.0
Out of the Fog
as George Watkins
1941
6.2
Thieves Fall Out
as Edward 'Eddie' Barnes
1941
5.5
The Wagons Roll at Night
as Matt Varney
1941
6.5
The Great Mr. Nobody
as Robert 'Dreamy' Smith
1941
5.3
Four Mothers
as Dr. Clint Forrest, Jr.
1941
6.2
A Dispatch from Reuters
as Max Wagner
1940
6.1
My Love Came Back
as Dusty Rhodes
1940
4.6
An Angel from Texas
as Peter Coleman
1940
4.8
Brother Rat and a Baby
as Bing Edwards
1940
5.2
Four Wives
as Dr. Clinton Forrest, Jr.
1939
5.3
On Your Toes
as Phil Dolan Jr.
1939
3.9
Brother Rat
as 'Bing' Edwards
1938
5.0