Eddie Albert

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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.

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2022
Rat Pack
Movie Self (archive footage)
2004
Spider-Man vs. Doc Ock
Movie Adam Toomes / Old Vulture (voice)
2002
Restoring Roman Holiday
Movie Irving Radovich (archive footage)
2000
Frank Sinatra Memorial
Movie Self
1999
Television: The First Fifty Years
Movie Self / Oliver Douglas (archive footage)
1995
The Barefoot Executive
Movie Herbert Gower
1994
Spider-Man
TV show Adrian Toomes / Old Vulture (voice)
1993
La Classe américaine
Movie The Porter (archive footage) (uncredited)
1993
A Norman Rockwell Christmas
Movie Self
1993
Okavango
TV show Uncle Bill Scofield
1992
The Golden Palace
TV show Bill Douglas
1991
The Girl From Mars
Movie Dr. Charles Favender
1990
Return to Green Acres
Movie Oliver Wendell Douglas
1989
The Big Picture
Movie M.C.
1989
Brenda Starr
Movie Police Chief Maloney
1988
War and Remembrance
TV show Breckinridge Long