Eddie Albert Net Worth
Eddie Albert Net Worth is
$20 Million
Eddie Albert Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
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. | Full Name | Eddie Albert |
| Date Of Birth | April 22, 1906, Rock Island, Illinois, United States |
| Died | May 26, 2005, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Place Of Birth | Rock Island, Illinois, USA |
| Height | 5' 11" (1.8 m) |
| Profession | Actor, Soundtrack, Producer |
| Education | University of Minnesota |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Margo (m. 1945–1985) |
| Children | Edward Albert, Maria Albert Zucht |
| Parents | Julia Jones, Frank Daniel Heimberger |
| Awards | Bronze Star Medal, National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| Nominations | Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor, TV Land Favorite "Fish Out of Water" Award |
| Movies | Roman Holiday, The Longest Day, The Heartbreak Kid, Escape to Witch Mountain, The Longest Yard, The Teahouse of the August Moon, I'll Cry Tomorrow, Dreamscape, Return to Green Acres, The Sun Also Rises, Oklahoma!, The Devil's Rain, Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman, The Gun Runners, McQ, The Concorde .... |
| TV Shows | Green Acres, Switch, Peter and Paul, Goliath Awaits, Dress Gray, Leave It to Larry, The Dr. Seuss Show, Benjamin Franklin, The Word (US) |
| Star Sign | Taurus |
| # | Trademark |
|---|---|
| 1 | Always spoke about environmental causes. |
| 2 | The role of Oliver Wendell Douglas on Green Acres (1965). |
| 3 | His gruff voice |
| # | Quote |
|---|---|
| 1 | [on reviving "Room Service" with son Edward] Comedy is the most difficult thing to play, and I wanted to give Edward a lesson in doing farce. |
| 2 | Because I couldn't get work in pictures, I put a club act together with my wife and it caught on pretty well. Finally, Ed Sullivan invited us to appear on Toast of the Town. |
| 3 | [on his popularity while playing the seventy-something Frank MacBride on Switch]: What else is there? It can't be the plots. They're the same as for every other detective show on the air. |
| 4 | My real concentration is the development of bluegreen algae. It is an organic substance which he says will act as a fertilizer and allow farming with only a small amount of water. |
| 5 | [Of Robert Wagner's Switch (1975) character]: Pete is a ex-con man, a man who lives against the law. He knows a fellow who can get into the safe at midnight. Mac doesn't want to know about that, but Pete gets the information and he's in no position to complain. |
| 6 | [In 1976]: You have to recognize that some of these shows are mainly for diversion and laughs, and not wear out your welcome or take advantage of their courtesy. But I get a couple of points in there. If I talk for five minutes about gardens for children, I can make it entertaining and at the same time, hopefully do some good. And this has become my bag. |
| 7 | [In 1975]: People don't know how good vegetables taste, until they grow their own, and it's also very comforting to know you can still provide for yourself in this day and age. |
| 8 | [on starring in Switch (1975)]: The power of television is so great that I know it's making an impression. But it's difficult to say which impression it is. If you ask me if television and newspapers are creating an attitude of apathy. I'd have to say yes there, too. People are just so surfeited. |
| 9 | [Who asked and answered London's question in 1969]: You remember London's story, 'To Build a Fire'? He wrote it in that cabin. Another man and I started to walk the 18 miles from the cabin to Henderson's Creek. It was about 32 below, but it began growing colder. I remembered how London wrote about testing the temperature - if your spit exploded on the ice, it was 50 below; if it exploded in midair, it was 75 below. That story haunted me as we walked. It was about a miner who stepped in an alkaline stream and got his foot wet and desperately tried to build a fire before the foot froze. A lot of London's writing was hurried and awkward, but this was beautifully written - sheer poetry. |
| 10 | [Of his interest lying with ecology]: I've been a conservationist all my life, but in the last four years, times have changed, and the problem is not so much conservation as it is human survival. |
| 11 | I've always had it. I have a little garden where I grow vegetables. And I always wanted to own a small piece of land, near the woods - not to make a buck, but to watch things grow. |
| 12 | [on turning 82 in 1988]: I'm happy to be alive. I've had three pieces of cake otherwise I'm looking after my health. |
| 13 | [In 1987]: I said I shouldn't really discuss that, because if we really did, she'd faint. But I said, 'The lady of the house here, she lets me sleep with her.' And she kind of went, 'umph mumph' and left. |
| 14 | [In 1966]: You can't just push a button and turn on a blaze of family happiness, you must feel close all the time, every day. |
| 15 | [In 1965]: I'm allergic to monotony, not to work. |
| 16 | [While having a recurring role as Oliver Wendell Douglas on Petticoat Junction (1963), he continues to play the same character on its spin-off show, Green Acres (1965)]: But that doesn't mean that the work must be monotonous. Monotony is within one's self. Certainly Thoreau didn't find it monotonous in his little shed at Walden Pond. |
| 17 | Mankind must survive, the extinction of our national forestry, birds and fish must be stopped. For without it, we face total disaster. We must try to clean up this country's air and water system. |
| 18 | Our priority today, as I see it, is not just conservation, but survival. Not the moon or Mars or even Vietnam, but keeping ourselves alive! |
| 19 | [About Green Acres (1965)]: The show is a comment on how insane our society is. The writing was very light and very weird, but it had a profound base under it that none of us knew. Come to think of it, neither did we. |
| 20 | [on Green Acres (1965)]: The comedy is like "Pickwick Papers", or "Gulliver's Travels", or Voltaire. It's so far out that it becomes truth, deep truth. |
| 21 | [In a personal journal he has written]: By the time I leave this Earth, I hope to have improved our relationships here and now, so that in the next generation my son, daughter and friends have my shoulders on which to stand, so it's easier to make their contribution. |
| 22 | [When asked about doing newspapers at an early age, and missed some of the people he kept in contact]: You throw a paper on the porch, but you don't sit down and have a talk...and that's where the real education comes from. And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable. It's a little late to find that out. |
| 23 | [on his post-war career]: I took everything they could throw at me, pictures like The Dude Goes West (1948) and The Fuller Brush Girl (1950). I worked myself back up, but I never wanted to be a star. I was aiming to play the star's best friend. |
| 24 | [on why he accepted the role on Green Acres (1965)]: Everyone gets tired of the rat race. Everyone would like to chuck it all and grow some carrots. It's basic. Sign me. I knew it would be successful. Had to be. It's about the atavistic urge, and people have been getting a charge out of that ever since Aristophanes wrote about the plebes and the city folk. |
| 25 | What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment. |
| 26 | I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people. |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | Was left-handed. |
| 2 | On Green Acres (1965), his character owned a farm, in real-life, he embarked on a non-profit organization for inner-city children from all over the country, to give them a unique opportunity to live and work together for a week at a time on a real farm in the heart of the countryside. |
| 3 | He served in the Naval Reserve during World War II and fought in the Battle of Tarawa and he was awarded the Bronze Star with a Combat "V" for valor after rescuing 47 stranded Marines as the pilot of a Coast Guard landing craft. |
| 4 | His home was previously owned by silent star Billie Dove. |
| 5 | From 1945 through 1952 he produced a series of fourteen educational two-reelers in 16mm. Two sex-education films directed to pre-teens, "Human Beginnings" and "Human Growth," were still in use almost forty years later. Albert also produced industrial documentaries. |
| 6 | Albert had a successful night club act in the mid-50s, playing Vegas, Miami, and New York's Waldorf-Astoria. |
| 7 | Was an enthusiastic agronomist and turned his front yard into a cornfield and his backyard into a vegetable garden. |
| 8 | Worked with Shirley Jones in 1 movie and on episodes of both shows: Oklahoma! (1955), a 2 part episode of The Love Boat (1977) and Murder, She Wrote (1984). |
| 9 | Attended the funeral of his former Green Acres (1965) co-star, Eva Gabor, when the actress passed away on July 4, 1995. |
| 10 | Just 8 days after his 90th birthday, he, alongside Steve Allen, Sid Caesar, Kent McCord, Barbara Eden and Dick Van Dyke, attended the MTV's Launch Party for TV Land. [30 April 1996]. |
| 11 | Moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, with his family, when Eddie was age 1. |
| 12 | Resided in Pacific Palisades, California. His house was a Spanish-style house on an acre of land with a cornfield in the front yard. |
| 13 | His father, Frank Daniel Heimberger, died in 1970. His father lived to be 96. |
| 14 | Albert narrated and starred in a 1970 film promoting the views of Weyerhaeuser, a major international forestry products concern. |
| 15 | Met Oscar Hammerstein in 1939, starring in the Broadway smash, On Your Toes, adapted for the screen, and later starred in Oklahoma! (1955). |
| 16 | Served as National Chairman for the Boy Scouts of America's Conservation Program. |
| 17 | His Green Acres (1965) co-star, Eva Gabor, who played his wife in the series, was thirteen years younger than Albert. |
| 18 | Was also a popular conference speaker about birds. |
| 19 | The films he didn't like were: Roman Holiday (1953) and The Heartbreak Kid (1972), despite earning two Oscar Nominations for his performances. |
| 20 | Was a spokesperson for Beltone Products in the 1980s. |
| 21 | Prior to becoming a successful actor, he was a successful singer. |
| 22 | Met a young, unfamiliar actress Shirley Jones on the set of Oklahoma! (1955), where the two began a lifelong friendship, from 1955 until Albert's own death in 2005. |
| 23 | While filming John Huston's The Roots of Heaven (1958) in Africa, Albert met legendary actor, humanitarian and philosopher Dr. Albert Schweitzer. |
| 24 | His ex-Switch (1975) co-star, Sharon Gless, co-starred with Albert, in Crash (1978). |
| 25 | Sang in the church choir. |
| 26 | Began acting at a very early age. |
| 27 | Met Buddy Ebsen on the set of Attack (1956), where the two began a lifelong friendship, from 1956, until Ebsen's own death in 2003. |
| 28 | Buried alongside his wife Margo at Westwood Memorial in Los Angeles, California. His Green Acres (1965) co-star, Eva Gabor, is buried nearby. |
| 29 | Appeared on the front cover of TV Guide five times. |
| 30 | Acting mentors and friends of Tom Lester, Robert Wagner and Sharon Gless. |
| 31 | Served as director of the U.S. Council on Refugees. |
| 32 | Guest starred on the first episode of The Fall Guy (1981). |
| 33 | Eddie Albert passed away on May 26, 2005. Just 1 day after his death, the remake of his 1974 movie The Longest Yard (2005) was released, which Burt Reynolds also appeared in this movie. |
| 34 | Mother was a housewife. |
| 35 | His paternal grandfather, Jacob Henry Heimberger, was of German descent, and his paternal grandmother, Mary L. Frillman, was a German immigrant, from Lübeck. |
| 36 | In 1933, he traveled to New York City, where he co-hosted on the popular radio show, The Honeymooners - Grace and Eddie Show, which ran for three years. |
| 37 | Met Jane Wyman on the set of Brother Rat (1938), where the two began a lifelong friendship, from 1938, until Albert's own death in 2005. He would also have a recurring role opposite her on Falcon Crest (1981). |
| 38 | After his guest-starring role on Extreme Ghostbusters (1997), he retired from acting at age 91. |
| 39 | In 1946, he served as Executive Producer of Eddie Albert Productions. |
| 40 | Played Oliver Wendell Douglas, along with Eva Gabor as Lisa Douglas, on three shows: The Beverly Hillbillies (1962), Petticoat Junction (1963) and Green Acres (1965). |
| 41 | Was also good friends with Morgan Fairchild and Gregory Peck. |
| 42 | Won the role of Oliver Wendell Douglas on Green Acres (1965), because he knew and was hired by producer/creator Paul Henning. |
| 43 | Was raised in the same city as Ann Sothern. |
| 44 | Taught his Green Acres (1965) co-star, Tom Lester, to eat healthily, just like Albert himself did. |
| 45 | Was an active Democrat. |
| 46 | He was very disappointed when Green Acres was canceled at the end of the sixth season, due to the infamous "rural purge" of American television network programming (particularly on CBS). The "rural purge" was widespread series cancellations, beginning in 1969 and lasting until 1972, and due to the inclusion of new statistical demographics from television ratings agency Neilsen, and sponsors alarmed by the older, "more countrified" audiences for the shows canceled. Of the cancellations, almost all were still popular rural-themed shows with similarly skewed rural audiences, and took place at the end of the 1970-1971 television season. Included in the purge were all three of Paul Henning produced country comedies, The Beverly Hillbillies (1962), Petticoat Junction (1963), and Green Acres (1965). |
| 47 | Remained good friends with Robert Wagner during and after Switch (1975). |
| 48 | Remained good friends with Tom Lester during and after Green Acres (1965). |
| 49 | Before he was a successful actor, he was also a soda jerk and a singer in a pop band. |
| 50 | Met his future wife, Margo, while on leave of duty. They were married in December 1945, after Eddie's discharge from the U.S. Navy. |
| 51 | His wife, Margo, died in 1985, just five months before the couple's 40th wedding anniversary. |
| 52 | Was a huge fan of Falcon Crest (1981) that starred his old friend Jane Wyman, and had a recurring role in 1987. |
| 53 | Was a spokesperson for the National Arbor Day Foundation from 1985 to 1993. |
| 54 | Founder of City Children's Farms, a program for involving inner-city children in farming, and the Eddie Albert Trees Foundation. |
| 55 | In high school, he joined the Drama Department. |
| 56 | Born at 11:30 am, central time zone. |
| 57 | Graduated from Central High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1924. |
| 58 | To hide the fact that he was born out of wedlock, his mother altered his birth certificate to read 1908. However, his son, Edward Albert, confirmed Eddie Sr. was actually born in 1906. |
| 59 | While in elementary school, during World War I, he was taunted as "the enemy" by his classmates, due to his Germanic surname of Heimberger (later dropped, for professional reasons, in favor of his given middle name, Albert). |
| 60 | When his son Edward Albert was 18, he and his father sailed to Anacapa Island, part of Channel Islands National Park, located about 11 miles off the coast of Ventura County, California, to examine the effects of DDT on the pelican population. |
| 61 | Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume 7, 2003-2005, pages 5-7. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2007. |
| 62 | Best remembered by the public for his starring role as the big-city lawyer turned farmer Oliver Wendell Douglas in Green Acres (1965). |
| 63 | Before he was a successful actor, he almost did everything at an early age, from working as a newspaper boy to that of an insurance salesman. |
| 64 | Began his career as a contract player for Warner Bros. in 1936. |
| 65 | He had 12 hobbies: jogging, swimming, golfing, world travel, organic gardening, sculpting, beekeeping, wine making, sailing, boating, reading and playing guitar. |
| 66 | Three of the surviving cast members of Green Acres (1965) attended his funeral, on 26 May 2005, co-star, Tom Lester was not present. Albert once stated Lester was his closest and best friend. |
| 67 | His future Switch (1975) co-star, Robert Wagner, had seen him in the movie Brother Rat (1938) at the time of its release. He said that even though he was only eight years old, he was impressed by Albert's talent. |
| 68 | His son, Edward Albert, died just over a year after his father, from lung cancer. |
| 69 | Was very good friends with: Shirley Jones, Marsha Hunt, Ernest Borgnine, Vincent Price, Eve Arden, Jane Wyman, Lorenzo Lamas, Loretta Young, Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Eva Gabor, Frank Cady, Charlie Callas, Bernie Kopell, John Qualen, Errol Flynn, John McIntire, Robert Fuller, Angie Dickinson, Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Aaron Spelling, Paul Henning, Leif Erickson, Burt Reynolds, Nanette Fabray, Gordon Jump, Audrey Hepburn, Mary Grace Canfield, Edgar Buchanan, Lucille Ball, Bea Benaderet, Denver Pyle, John Wayne, Norman Lloyd, Jane Greer, June Lockhart, Robert Hutton, Ann Sothern, Ronald Reagan, William Bryant, Mickey Rooney, Beverly Garland and Gregory Peck. |
| 70 | Classmate (Minneapolis Central High School, 1926) of actress Ann Sothern, then known as Harriette Lake. |
| 71 | He wrote the first original drama for television in 1936 as well as writing dozens of small scripts for RCA. |
| 72 | Grandfather of Thais Albert. |
| 73 | Buried not too far from his Green Acres (1965) co-star Eva Gabor at Westwood Memorial in Los Angeles, California. |
| 74 | Turned down the lead series roles in My Three Sons (1960) and Mister Ed (1958) in order to actively pursue his movie career. |
| 75 | His real name was Eddie Albert Heimberger. He changed his name early on while he was singing on radio with a trio. It seems the announcer kept introducing him as "Eddie Hamburger" so he dropped his last name and adopted his middle name as his last. |
| 76 | Also presided over a game show and two variety shows in the early 1950s. |
| 77 | Hired by the United States government, he went on what appeared to be pleasure sailing expeditions in Mexican waters. What he was actually doing was gathering reportable information on Nazi and Japanese activities in and around the two Mexican territories on the Baja California peninsula of Mexico (since 1953, the Mexican states of Baja California and Baja California Sur). As part of the same effort, he also joined a Mexican circus act, owned by the Escalante Brothers, as a clown and "flyer" in a trapeze act, and while touring with the circus, gathered intelligence for the U.S. government. |
| 78 | Attended the University of Minnesota where he studied drama and helped pay tuition by managing film theaters and emceeing weekly stage shows. At Minneota he joined a song, dance, and patter group with Herb Nelson and Grace Bradt. |
| 79 | His father was a Minnesota real estate agent. |
| 80 | His son, Edward Albert, was his primary caregiver during his last years battling Alzheimer's Disease. Eddie was physically healthy and physically active up to just one month before his death at age 99. |
| 81 | An avid environmentalist, he shared his concerns on TV on the The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) and Today (1952) shows and lectured everywhere from high schools and industrial conventions. He produced films to aid in campaigns against pollution. He also helped to launch the very first "Earth Day" on April 22, 1970, his birthday. |
| 82 | He and his wife Margo, a Mexican actress/singer, whom he married after the war, had a nightclub act. |
| 83 | Father-in-law of actress Katherine Woodville. |
| 84 | Was an active participant in the battle of Tarawa (Nov. 1943), one of the bloodiest battles of World War II and in the history of the U.S. Marine Corps. Albert was credited with rescuing up to 70 wounded Marines while under enemy fire. He was awarded the Bronze Star with a combat "V". He did not speak about this publicly until it was mentioned in several television documentaries about the battle in the 1990s. Took a landing craft from the ships to the shore, and back, over 20 times to bring back wounded Marines from the shore. Had given up his acting career to enlist and went through OCS to become an officer. |
| 85 | Served in the United States Navy during WWII |
| 86 | Father of actor Edward Albert and Maria Albert Zucht. Two granddaughters. |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Outer Limits | 1964 | TV Series | Andy Thorne |
| Mr. Novak | 1964 | TV Series | Charlie O'Rourke |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | 1964 | TV Series | Dr. Fred Wilson |
| The Lieutenant | 1964 | TV Series | Rodney Cameron O'Rourke |
| The Nutcracker | 1964 | TV Movie | Host / narrator (U.S.version) |
| Dr. Kildare | 1963 | TV Series | Dr. Norman French |
| Captain Newman, M.D. | 1963 | Col. Norval Algate Bliss | |
| Combat! | 1963 | TV Series | Phil |
| The Greatest Show on Earth | 1963 | TV Series | Frank Land |
| The Eleventh Hour | 1963 | TV Series | Ken Downer |
| General Hospital | 1963 | TV Series | Jack Boland #1 (1993) |
| Miracle of the White Stallions | 1963 | Rider Otto | |
| Sam Benedict | 1963 | TV Series | Lewis Wiley |
| Wide Country | 1963 | TV Series | Duke Donovan |
| The DuPont Show of the Week | 1963 | TV Series | Frank Foster |
| Naked City | 1963 | TV Series | Earl Johannis |
| Who's Got the Action? | 1962 | Clint Morgan | |
| Wagon Train | 1957-1962 | TV Series | Kurt Davos / John Darro |
| The Virginian | 1962 | TV Series | Cal Kroeger |
| The United States Steel Hour | 1953-1962 | TV Series | Jordan Blake / Sam Stover |
| Winter Journey | 1962 | TV Movie | Frank Elgin, an actor |
| The Longest Day | 1962 | Col. Thompson | |
| Kraft Mystery Theater | 1962 | TV Series | Joe Minelli |
| Alcoa Premiere | 1962 | TV Series | Mark Evans |
| The New Breed | 1962 | TV Series | Walter Cowley |
| Ben Casey | 1962 | TV Series | Gene Billstrom |
| Tales of Wells Fargo | 1961 | TV Series | Bonzo Croydon |
| Frontier Circus | 1961 | TV Series | Dr. Payton Jordan |
| The Two Little Bears | 1961 | Harry Davis | |
| Theatre '62 | 1961 | TV Series | |
| The Spiral Staircase | 1961 | TV Movie | Albert Warren |
| The Young Doctors | 1961 | Dr, Charles Dornberger | |
| General Electric Theater | 1954-1961 | TV Series | Louie Schmidt / Paul Mattson / Narrator |
| Madison Avenue | 1961 | Harvey Holt Ames | |
| Sunday Showcase | 1960 | TV Series | Guest |
| Playhouse 90 | 1959 | TV Series | Oliver Erwenter / Leroy Dawson |
| Beloved Infidel | 1959 | Bob Carter | |
| The Ballad of Louie the Louse | 1959 | TV Movie | Paul Hughes |
| Riverboat | 1959 | TV Series | Dan Simpson |
| Laramie | 1959 | TV Series | Roany Bishop |
| The David Niven Show | 1959 | TV Series | Adam Winter |
| Your Hit Parade | 1959 | TV Series | |
| Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse | 1958 | TV Series | Joe Minelli |
| The Loretta Young Show | 1954-1958 | TV Series | Max Asher / Tiger Tipton / Lionel Kent |
| Zane Grey Theater | 1956-1958 | TV Series | Jess Matson / Jed Wiley / Sam Barlow / ... |
| Schlitz Playhouse | 1952-1958 | TV Series | Sheldon Black / Randy Smith |
| Goodyear Theatre | 1958 | TV Series | Calvin Lazarus |
| The Roots of Heaven | 1958 | Abe Fields | |
| The Gun Runners | 1958 | Hanagan | |
| Orders to Kill | 1958 | Major MacMahon | |
| Studio 57 | 1958 | TV Series | Jim Hammond |
| Climax! | 1956-1957 | TV Series | David Adams / Barney Kanda / Gabe Douglas |
| The Joker Is Wild | 1957 | Austin Mack | |
| The Sun Also Rises | 1957 | Bill Gorton | |
| The Teahouse of the August Moon | 1956 | Capt. McLean | |
| Our Mr. Sun | 1956 | TV Movie | The Fiction Writer |
| Attack | 1956 | Capt. Erskine Cooney | |
| The Alcoa Hour | 1956 | TV Series | Ralph Grimes |
| Goodyear Playhouse | 1953-1956 | TV Series | Ted / Narrator |
| The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse | 1953-1956 | TV Series | Charlie |
| I'll Cry Tomorrow | 1955 | Burt McGuire | |
| Robert Montgomery Presents | 1955 | TV Series | Jesse |
| The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater | 1955 | TV Series | R.J. Banning |
| Oklahoma! | 1955 | Ali Hakim | |
| The Girl Rush | 1955 | Elliot Atterbury | |
| Front Row Center | 1955 | TV Series | Dr. Jack Davidson |
| TV Reader's Digest | 1955 | TV Series | Joey White |
| The Chocolate Soldier | 1955 | TV Movie | Bumerli |
| A Connecticut Yankee | 1955 | TV Movie | Martin Barret |
| Medallion Theatre | 1954 | TV Series | |
| Season's Greetings | 1953 | TV Movie | |
| The Motorola Television Hour | 1953 | TV Series | |
| The Philip Morris Playhouse | 1953 | TV Series | |
| Studio One in Hollywood | 1951-1953 | TV Series | John Peter Zenger / Winston Smith |
| Roman Holiday | 1953 | Irving Radovich | |
| Nothing But the Best | 1953 | TV Series | Host |
| The Revlon Mirror Theater | 1953 | TV Series | |
| Danger | 1953 | TV Series | |
| Suspense | 1949-1953 | TV Series | Danny Maguire |
| The Plymouth Playhouse | 1953 | TV Series | |
| Leave It to Larry | 1952 | TV Series | Larry Tucker |
| Carrie | 1952 | Charles Drouet | |
| Actor's and Sin | 1952 | Orlando Higgens (segment "Woman of Sin") | |
| Somerset Maugham TV Theatre | 1951 | TV Series | |
| Lights Out | 1951 | TV Series | |
| Meet Me After the Show | 1951 | Chris Leeds | |
| You're in the Navy Now | 1951 | Lt. Bill Barron | |
| The Fuller Brush Girl | 1950 | Humphrey Briggs | |
| The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre | 1948 | TV Series | |
| Every Girl Should Be Married | 1948 | Harry Proctor / 'Old' Joe (uncredited) | |
| The Ford Theatre Hour | 1948 | TV Series | |
| You Gotta Stay Happy | 1948 | Bullets Baker | |
| The Dude Goes West | 1948 | Daniel Bone | |
| Unconquered | 1947 | Barker (scenes deleted) | |
| Time Out of Mind | 1947 | Jake Bullard | |
| Hit Parade of 1947 | 1947 | Kip Walker | |
| Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman | 1947 | Steve Nelson | |
| The Perfect Marriage | 1947 | Gil Cummins | |
| Rendezvous with Annie | 1946 | Cpl. Jeffrey Dolan | |
| Strange Voyage | 1946 | Chris Thompson | |
| Bombardier | 1943 | Tom Hughes | |
| Ladies' Day | 1943 | Wacky Waters | |
| Lady Bodyguard | 1943 | Terry Moore | |
| Eagle Squadron | 1942 | Leckie | |
| Treat 'Em Rough | 1942 | Bill Kingsford aka The Panama Kid | |
| Out of the Fog | 1941 | George Watkins | |
| Thieves Fall Out | 1941 | Eddie Barnes | |
| The Wagons Roll at Night | 1941 | Matt Varney | |
| The Great Mr. Nobody | 1941 | Robert 'Dreamy' Smith | |
| Four Mothers | 1941 | Clint Forrest | |
| A Dispatch from Reuter's | 1940 | Max Wagner | |
| My Love Came Back | 1940 | Dusty Rhodes | |
| An Angel from Texas | 1940 | Peter Coleman | |
| Brother Rat and a Baby | 1940 | 'Bing' Edwards | |
| Four Wives | 1939 | Dr. Clinton Forrest, Jr. | |
| On Your Toes | 1939 | Phil Dolan Jr. | |
| Brother Rat | 1938 | 'Bing' Edwards | |
| NBC/RCA Experimental Television Demonstration for the Press | 1936 | TV Movie | The Love Nest |
| California | 1997 | TV Series | Ben McKay |
| Extreme Ghostbusters | 1997 | TV Series | Ben - Museum Curator |
| Spider-Man | 1996-1997 | TV Series | Adrian Toomes Old Vulture Vulture |
| The Barefoot Executive | 1995 | TV Movie | Herbert Gower |
| Death Valley Memories | 1994 | Narrator | |
| Headless! | 1994 | Short | Sheriff George |
| Time Trax | 1993 | TV Series | Noah |
| The Golden Palace | 1993 | TV Series | Bill Douglas |
| Okavango: The Wild Frontier | 1993 | TV Series | Uncle Bill Scofield / Uncle Bill |
| The Girl from Mars | 1991 | TV Movie | Dr. Charles Favender |
| The Ray Bradbury Theater | 1990 | TV Series | Jonathan Hughes |
| Return to Green Acres | 1990 | TV Movie | Oliver Wendell Douglas |
| Los Angeles History Project | 1989 | TV Series | Narrator |
| Brenda Starr | 1989 | Police Chief Maloney | |
| Thirtysomething | 1989 | TV Series | Charlie Weston |
| The Big Picture | 1989 | M.C. (as Eddie Albert Sr.) | |
| War and Remembrance | 1988 | TV Mini-Series | Breckinridge Long |
| The Twilight Zone | 1988 | TV Series | Roger Leads |
| Murder, She Wrote | 1988 | TV Series | Jackson Lane |
| Falcon Crest | 1987 | TV Series | Carlton Travis |
| Turnaround | 1987 | Theo | |
| Mercy or Murder? | 1987 | TV Movie | Joe Varon |
| Highway to Heaven | 1986 | TV Series | Senator Fritz McCorkindale |
| Dress Gray | 1986 | TV Mini-Series | Judge Hand |
| Head Office | 1985 | Pete Helmes | |
| Stitches | 1985 | Dean Bradley | |
| Hotel | 1985 | TV Series | MacDonald 'Mack' Erickson |
| In Like Flynn | 1985 | TV Movie | Bill White |
| Burning Rage | 1984 | TV Movie | Will Larson |
| Dreamscape | 1984 | The President | |
| The Act | 1984 | Harry Kruger | |
| The Demon Murder Case | 1983 | TV Movie | Father Dietrich |
| The Love Boat | 1983 | TV Series | Dean Burton Lockwood |
| Simon & Simon | 1983 | TV Series | Judge Elliott Morris Taylor |
| Yes, Giorgio | 1982 | Henry Pollack | |
| Rooster | 1982 | TV Movie | Rev. Harlan Barnum |
| Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color | 1982 | TV Series | Jason O'Day |
| Goliath Awaits | 1981 | TV Movie | Adm. Wiley Sloan |
| The Fall Guy | 1981 | TV Series | John Cramer |
| Take This Job and Shove It | 1981 | Samuel Ellison | |
| Peter and Paul | 1981 | TV Movie | Festus |
| Yesterday | 1981 | Bart Kramer | |
| The Oklahoma City Dolls | 1981 | TV Movie | Coach Homer Sixx |
| Living in Paradise | 1981 | TV Movie | Vincent Slattery |
| Foolin' Around | 1980 | Daggett | |
| Beulah Land | 1980 | TV Mini-Series | Felix Kendrick |
| Border Cop | 1980 | Moffat | |
| How to Beat the High Co$t of Living | 1980 | Max | |
| Trouble in High Timber Country | 1980 | TV Movie | Carroll Yeager |
| The Concorde... Airport '79 | 1979 | Eli Sands | |
| The Word | 1978 | TV Mini-Series | Ogden Towery |
| Crash | 1978 | TV Movie | Capt. Dunn |
| Evening in Byzantium | 1978 | TV Movie | Brian Murphy |
| Switch | 1975-1978 | TV Series | Frank MacBride |
| Moving Violation | 1976 | Alex Warren | |
| Birch Interval | 1976 | Pa Strawacher | |
| Hustle | 1975 | Leo Sellers | |
| Whiffs | 1975 | Colonel Lockyer | |
| The Devil's Rain | 1975 | Dr. Sam Richards | |
| Promise Him Anything | 1975 | TV Movie | Pop |
| Escape to Witch Mountain | 1975 | Jason O'Day | |
| The Lives of Benjamin Franklin | 1974-1975 | TV Mini-Series | Benjamin Franklin |
| Kung Fu | 1974 | TV Series | Dr. George Baxter |
| The Longest Yard | 1974 | Warden Hazen | |
| The Take | 1974 | Chief Berrigan | |
| McQ | 1974 | Kosterman | |
| The Borrowers | 1973 | TV Movie | Pod Clock |
| Here's Lucy | 1973 | TV Series | Eddie Albert |
| Daddy's Girl | 1973 | TV Movie | Bob Randall |
| McCloud | 1972 | TV Series | Roy Erickson |
| The Heartbreak Kid | 1972 | Mr. Corcoran | |
| Fireball Forward | 1972 | TV Movie | Col. Douglas Graham |
| The Lorax | 1972 | TV Short | Narrator (voice) |
| See the Man Run | 1971 | TV Movie | Dr. Thomas Spencer |
| Columbo | 1971 | TV Series | Maj. Gen. Martin J. Hollister |
| Green Acres | 1965-1971 | TV Series | Oliver Wendell Douglas / Charlie Foster / Calvin Whittaker / ... |
| Li'l Abner | 1971 | TV Movie | |
| Howdy | 1970 | TV Movie | |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | 1968 | TV Series | Oliver Wendell Douglas |
| Mouse on the Mayflower | 1968 | TV Movie | Capt. Standish (voice) |
| Petticoat Junction | 1965-1968 | TV Series | Oliver Wendell Douglas |
| 7 Women | 1966 | Charles Pether - Mission Teacher | |
| The Party's Over | 1965 | Ben | |
| The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | 1965 | TV Series | Brother Love |
| Burke's Law | 1965 | TV Series | Arthur J. Poindexter |
| The Rogues | 1965 | TV Series | Gregg Roberts |
| Kraft Suspense Theatre | 1964 | TV Series | Dr. Bert Andrews |
| Rawhide | 1964 | TV Series | Taylor Dickson |
| The Reporter | 1964 | TV Series | Paul Pollard |
Soundtrack
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 to 1 | 2010 | TV Series documentary performer - 1 episode | |
| Son in Law | 1993 | performer: "Green Acres Theme" | |
| The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air | 1991 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| Living in Paradise | 1981 | TV Movie performer: "That's The Way I Am" | |
| Switch | 1977 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| The Johnny Cash Show | 1969 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| The Dean Martin Show | 1966 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| The Danny Kaye Show | 1965 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| Green Acres | 1965 | TV Series performer: "Green Acres" | |
| Miracle of the White Stallions | 1963 | performer: "Just Say Auf Wiedersehen" 1963 | |
| The Garry Moore Show | 1958 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| The Ride Back | 1957 | performer: "The Ride Back" | |
| I'll Cry Tomorrow | 1955 | "Sing You Sinners", "When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along", "Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe" / performer: "The Vagabond King Waltz" | |
| The Girl Rush | 1955 | performer: "Birmin'ham | |
| A Connecticut Yankee | 1955 | TV Movie performer: "My Heart Stood Still", "Thou Swell", "Can't You Do a Friend a Favor?", "You Always Love the Same Girl", "Finale" | |
| Season's Greetings | 1953 | TV Movie performer: "September Song" | |
| The Ed Sullivan Show | 1949 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman | 1947 | "Life Can Be Beautiful" 1947 / performer: "Life Can Be Beautiful" 1947, "A Cowboy's Never Lonesome" 1947, "Lonely Little Ranch House" 1947, "When Love is Young" 1937 uncredited | |
| The Great Mr. Nobody | 1941 | "The Oceana Roll" 1911, "Bridal Chorus Here Comes the Bride" 1850, uncredited | |
| On Your Toes | 1939 | performer: "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" 1936 - uncredited |
Producer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Human Beginnings | 1946 | Short producer | |
| Human Growth | 1946 | Documentary short producer |
Writer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| NBC/RCA Experimental Television Demonstration for the Press | 1936 | TV Movie segment "The Love Nest" |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Until They Are Home | 2012 | Documentary | Himself |
| War Stories with Oliver North | 2006 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The Desilu Story | 2003 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Remembering 'Roman Holiday' | 2002 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| Hollywood Greats | 2001 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Great Performances | 1998-1999 | TV Series | Himself / Himself - Interviewee |
| Television: The First Fifty Years | 1999 | Video documentary | Himself - Interviewee / Oliver Wendell Douglas |
| E! True Hollywood Story | 1998 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Intimate Portrait | 1998 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Victory in the Pacific | 1995 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Legend of the Beverly Hillbillies | 1993 | TV Special documentary | Oliver Wendell Douglas |
| The Jackie Thomas Show | 1993 | TV Series | Himself |
| Vicki! | 1992 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| One on One with John Tesh | 1992 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Kirk Douglas | 1991 | TV Special documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| The 43th Annual Directors Guild Awards | 1991 | TV Special | Himself |
| The 19th Annual Nosotros Golden Eagle Awards | 1989 | TV Special | Himself |
| Christmas with the Stars: An International Earthquake Benefit | 1989 | TV Movie | Himself |
| AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Jack Lemmon | 1988 | TV Special documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| The18th Annual Nosotros Golden Eagle Awards | 1988 | TV Special | Himself |
| Musical Comedy Tonight III | 1985 | TV Movie | Himself |
| The 1st TV Academy Hall of Fame | 1984 | Himself | |
| Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade | 1983 | TV Special | Himself |
| Working in the Theatre | 1983 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Parade of Stars | 1983 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Your Choice for the Film Awards | 1983 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter |
| Juke Box Saturday Night | 1983 | TV Movie | Himself |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 1982 | TV Special | Himself |
| Siegfried and Roy | 1980 | TV Special | Himself - Host |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 1978 | TV Movie | Himself |
| The Mike Douglas Show | 1964-1978 | TV Series | Himself - Actor / Himself - Co-Host |
| Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Jimmy Stewart | 1978 | TV Special | Himself |
| AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Henry Fonda | 1978 | TV Special documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| CBS Galaxy | 1977 | TV Special | Himself - Guest |
| Paul Anka ... Music My Way | 1977 | TV Special | Himself - Cameo |
| AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Bette Davis | 1977 | TV Special documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years | 1976 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The 30th Annual Tony Awards | 1976 | TV Special | Himself - Co-Host & Presenter |
| AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to William Wyler | 1976 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The 45th Annual Academy Awards | 1973 | TV Special | Himself - Nominee & Presenter |
| This Is Your Life | 1972 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Dean Martin Show | 1966-1971 | TV Series | Himself |
| The David Frost Show | 1971 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| The Pet Set | 1971 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The Val Doonican Show | 1971 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Dick Cavett Show | 1970 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| The Merv Griffin Show | 1970 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Joey Bishop Show | 1969 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Ed Sullivan Show | 1949-1969 | TV Series | Himself - Singer / Himself - Guest / Himself / ... |
| The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1969 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| The Ed Nelson Show | 1969 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Johnny Cash Show | 1969 | TV Series | Himself - Singer |
| The Carol Burnett Show | 1967-1968 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show | 1968 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| The Pat Boone Show | 1968 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour | 1967 | TV Series | Himself |
| Our Place | 1967 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Danny Kaye Show | 1965-1966 | TV Series | Himself |
| Password All-Stars | 1966 | TV Series | Himself - Celebrity Contestant |
| Hippodrome | 1966 | TV Series | Himself - Host |
| What's My Line? | 1966 | TV Series | Himself - Mystery Guest |
| The Secret to the Sixties | 1965 | Short | Himself |
| The Hollywood Palace | 1964 | TV Series | Himself - Singer |
| The 34th Annual Academy Awards | 1962 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter |
| The Writers Guild Awards | 1962 | TV Special | Himself - Performer |
| Here's Hollywood | 1961 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Chevy Show | 1961 | TV Series | Himself - Special Guest |
| The Dinah Shore Chevy Show | 1961 | TV Series | Himself |
| Person to Person | 1960 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Guest |
| The Jack Paar Tonight Show | 1959-1960 | TV Series | Himself - Guest Host / Himself |
| The 14th Annual Tony Awards | 1960 | TV Special | Himself - Host |
| Startime | 1960 | TV Series | Himself - Host |
| Disneyland '59 | 1959 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The 31st Annual Academy Awards | 1959 | TV Special | Himself - Co-Presenter: Art Direction-Set Decoration Awards |
| The Arthur Murray Party | 1955-1959 | TV Series | Himself - Actor |
| The Garry Moore Show | 1958 | TV Series | Himself |
| This Is Your Life | 1958 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Patrice Munsel Show | 1957-1958 | TV Series | Himself |
| Operation Teahouse | 1956 | Documentary short | Himself |
| The Colgate Comedy Hour | 1955 | TV Series | Himself - Actor |
| The Name's the Same | 1955 | TV Series | Himself - Contestant |
| The Saturday Night Revue | 1954 | TV Series | Himself / Himself - Host / Emcee |
| Your Show of Shows | 1953-1954 | TV Series | Himself - Guest Performer |
| I've Got a Secret | 1953 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Excursion | 1953 | TV Series documentary | The Duke |
| On Your Account | 1953 | TV Series | Occasional Host (1953-56) |
| The Eddie Albert Show | 1952 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue | 1949 | TV Series | Himself |
| Screen Snapshots Series 23, No. 1: Hollywood in Uniform | 1943 | Documentary short | Himself |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Before the Flood | 2016 | Documentary | The Fiction Writer |
| Trumbo | 2015 | Irving Radovich in Roman Holiday (uncredited) | |
| The Sixties | 2014 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself / Oliver Wendell Douglas |
| Edición Especial Coleccionista | 2010 | TV Series | Commander Moffat |
| CMT: The Greatest - 20 Greatest Country Comedy Shows | 2006 | TV Special | Oliver Douglas |
| The 78th Annual Academy Awards | 2006 | TV Special | Himself - Memorial sequence |
| 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards | 2006 | TV Special | Himself - In Memoriam |
| The 57th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | 2005 | TV Special | Himself - In Memoriam |
| NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt | 2005 | TV Series | Himself |
| Doing Time on 'The Longest Yard' | 2005 | Video short | Warden Hazen |
| Restoring Roman Holiday | 2002 | Video documentary short | |
| The Kid Stays in the Picture | 2002 | Documentary | Himself |
| The Walt Disney Comedy and Magic Revue | 1985 | Video short | Jason |
| Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color | 1965-1980 | TV Series | Rider Otto / Jason O'Day |
| Hollywood Without Make-Up | 1963 | Documentary | Himself |
| Frontier Justice | 1958-1959 | TV Series | Sam Barlow / Bide Turley |
| MGM Parade | 1955 | TV Series | Burt McGuire |
| Breakdowns of 1941 | 1941 | Short | Himself (uncredited) |
Won Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | NSFC Award | National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA | Best Supporting Actor | The Heartbreak Kid (1972) |
| 1960 | Star on the Walk of Fame | Walk of Fame | Television | On 8 February 1960. At 6441 Hollywood Blvd. |
Nominated Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | TV Land Award | TV Land Awards | Favorite "Fish Out of Water" | Green Acres (1965) |
| 1975 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture | The Longest Yard (1974) |
| 1973 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | The Heartbreak Kid (1972) |
| 1957 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Supporting Actor | The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956) |
| 1954 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Roman Holiday (1953) |
| 1954 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Foreign Actor | Roman Holiday (1953) |
2nd Place Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | NYFCC Award | New York Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Supporting Actor | The Heartbreak Kid (1972) |
Known for movies
The Longest Day (1962)
as Col. Thompson
Roman Holiday (1953)
as Irving Radovich
General Hospital (1963)
as Jack Boland #1 (1993)
Switch (1975-1978)
as Frank MacBride