Eddie Albert

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Eddie Albert , actually Edward Albert Heimberger , (born April 22, 1906 in Rock Island , Illinois , † May 24, 2005 in Pacific Palisades , California ) was an American actor .

Life

Eddie Albert was born as the eldest of five children of the German immigrant family Heimberger. When he was a year old, his family moved to Minneapolis , Minnesota . At the age of six he had to take his first job as a newspaper deliverer. At the age of 14, he enrolled in the acting group in high school. After graduating from school in 1924, he began studying economics at the University of Minnesota . But with the stock market crash in 1929 and the subsequent global economic crisis, there was a lack of jobs in this branch, so that he worked as a singer, circus artist and insurance agent. He got into acting through appearances on the radio and made his theater debut on Broadway in New York in 1933 . His first film appearance followed just three years later.

Albert's grave in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery

During World War II he served in the US Marines corps and took part in the Battle of Tarawa in 1943. He received the Bronze Star Medal for personal bravery in rescuing seventy comrades . As a result, Albert appeared on American television as a contemporary witness in numerous television documentaries about World War II. From 1945 to 1985 he was married to the actress Margo (1917–1985), with whom he also recorded various records . Their son was the actor Edward Albert , who was married to the actress Katherine Woodville . Eddie Albert died of pneumonia in 2005 at the age of 99.

Career

In his long career in film and television , Eddie Albert often embodied the good-natured and reliable friend of the main character, including as a philanthropic doctor alongside Glenn Ford in Das kleine Teehaus , based on the novel The Teahouse of the August Moon by Vern Sneider , and as a photographer and friend of Gregory Peck in A Heart and a Crown ( Roman Holiday , 1953). For the latter portrayal, he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 1954 . In 1972 Albert was nominated again in the same category for his role in Changing Horses on Wedding Night (The Heartbreak Kid) . Occasionally, however, Albert was able to take on rogue roles.

He delivered one of his best performances in 1956 with the portrayal of the ambivalent character , paralyzed with fear, commander Captain Erskine Cooney in the Ardennes 1944 (Attack) by Robert Aldrich , who sent his men (including Jack Palance as Lieutenant Costa) to certain death.

He achieved great popularity through his role as Oliver Wendell Douglas, whom he embodied both from 1965 to 1968 in the series Petticoat Junction and with the lead role in the spin-off Green Acres between 1965 and 1971.

Filmography (selection)

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Commons : Eddie Albert  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Albert, Eddie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heimberger, Edward Albert (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Rock Island , Illinois , United States
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 2005
Place of death Pacific Palisades , California , United States