Eddie Albert (born Edward Albert Heimberger) was an American actor and humanitarian. He was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor; the first nomination came in 1954 for his performance in Roman Holiday, and the second 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 sadistic prison warden in 1974's The Longest Yard. He starred as Oliver Wendell Douglas in the 1960s television sitcom Green Acres and as Frank MacBride in the 1970s crime drama Switch.
Known For
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Cast Credits
Spider-Man (1994)
Guest starring as Adrian Toomes / Old Vulture
(2 episodes)
- Episode 4x05: Chapter V - Partners (May 3, 1997)
- Episode 2x13: Chapter XIII - Shriek of the Vulture (Feb 17, 1996)
Time Trax (1993)
Guest starring as Noah
- Episode 1x10: Treasure of the Ages (Mar 31, 1993) [Special Guest Star]
The Golden Palace (1992)
Guest starring as Bill Douglas
- Episode 1x17: Say Goodbye, Rose (Feb 12, 1993)
The Twilight Zone (1985)
Guest starring as Roger Simpson Leeds
- Episode 3x05: Dream Me a Life (Oct 22, 1988)
Murder, She Wrote (1984)
Guest starring as Jackson Lane
- Episode 4x22: The Body Politic (May 8, 1988)
Simon & Simon (1981)
Guest starring as Judge Elliott Morris Taylor
- Episode 2x14: Pirate's Key (2) (Jan 20, 1983)
The Fall Guy (1981)
Guest starring as John Cramer
- Episode 1x01: The Fall Guy (Nov 4, 1981) [Special Guest Star]
The Love Boat (1977)
Guest starring as Dean Burton Lockwood
(2 episodes)
- Episode 6x19: Isaac's Aegean Affair / The Captain and the Kid / Poor Rich Man / The Dean and the Flunkee (2) (Feb 5, 1983)
- Episode 6x18: Isaac's Aegean Affair / The Captain and the Kid / Poor Rich Man / The Dean and the Flunkee (1) (Feb 5, 1983)
Switch (1975)
Starring as Frank MacBride
(69 episodes)
- Episode 3x21: Formula for Murder (Aug 20, 1978)
- Episode 3x20: The Siege at the Bouziki Bar (Aug 13, 1978)
- Episode 3x19: Three Blond Mice (Aug 6, 1978)
- Episode 3x18: Mexican Standoff (Jul 30, 1978)
- Episode 3x17: Play-Off (Jul 23, 1978)
- Episode 3x16: Stolen Island (aka Death Island) (Jul 16, 1978)
- Episode 3x15: Blue Crusaders Reunion (Jul 9, 1978)
- Episode 3x14: Coronado Circle (Jul 2, 1978)
- Episode 3x13: The Cage (Jun 25, 1978)
- Episode 3x12: Who Killed Lila Craig? (Jan 16, 1978)
- Episode 3x11: The Tong (Jan 9, 1978)
- Episode 3x10: Dangerous Curves (Jan 2, 1978)
- Episode 3x09: Thirty Thousand Witnesses (Dec 26, 1977)
- Episode 3x08: Lady of the Deep (Dec 19, 1977)
- Episode 3x07: Go for Broke (Dec 12, 1977)
- Episode 3x06: Dancer (Dec 5, 1977)
- Episode 3x05: Legend of the Macunas (2) (Oct 21, 1977)
- Episode 3x04: Legend of the Macunas (1) (Oct 21, 1977)
- Episode 3x03: Fade Out (Oct 14, 1977)
- Episode 3x02: Downshift (Sep 30, 1977)
- Episode 3x01: Net Loss (Sep 23, 1977)
- Episode 2x24: Heritage of Death (Apr 3, 1977)
- Episode 2x23: Two on the Run (Mar 27, 1977)
- Episode 2x22: Three for the Money (Mar 13, 1977)
- Episode 2x21: The Hemline Heist (Feb 27, 1977)
- Episode 2x20: Eden's Gate (Feb 20, 1977)
- Episode 2x19: The Four Horsemen (Feb 13, 1977)
- Episode 2x18: Butterfly Mourning (Feb 6, 1977)
- Episode 2x17: Camera Angles (Jan 30, 1977)
- Episode 2x16: Eyewitness (Jan 23, 1977)
- Episode 2x15: The Snitch (Jan 16, 1977)
- Episode 2x14: Portraits of Death (Jan 4, 1977)
- Episode 2x13: The Hundred Thousand Ruble Rumble (Dec 21, 1976)
- Episode 2x12: Maggie's Hero (Dec 14, 1976)
- Episode 2x11: Switch Hitter (Dec 7, 1976)
- Episode 2x10: The Lady from Liechtenstein (2) (Nov 30, 1976)
- Episode 2x09: The Lady from Liechtenstein (1) (Nov 23, 1976)
- Episode 2x08: Gaffing the Skim (Nov 16, 1976)
- Episode 2x07: Quicker Than the Eye (Nov 9, 1976)
- Episode 2x06: Whatever Happened to Carol Harmony? (Oct 26, 1976)
- Episode 2x05: The Things That Belong to Mickey Costello (Oct 19, 1976)
- Episode 2x04: The Argonaut Special (Oct 12, 1976)
- Episode 2x03: Fleece of Snow (Oct 5, 1976)
- Episode 2x02: The Twelfth Commandment (Sep 28, 1976)
- Episode 2x01: The Pirates of Tin Pan Alley (Sep 21, 1976)
- Episode 1x24: Death Squad (Apr 6, 1976)
- Episode 1x23: Round Up the Usual Suspects (Mar 23, 1976)
- Episode 1x22: The Girl on the Golden Strip (Mar 16, 1976)
- Episode 1x21: The Case of the Purloined Case (Mar 2, 1976)
- Episode 1x20: Big Deal in Paradise (Feb 24, 1976)
- Episode 1x19: Before the Holocaust (Feb 17, 1976)
- Episode 1x18: One of Our Zeppelins Is Missing (Feb 10, 1976)
- Episode 1x17: Come Die with Me (Jan 27, 1976)
- Episode 1x16: Ain't Nobody Here Named Barney (Jan 13, 1976)
- Episode 1x15: The Walking Bomb (Jan 6, 1976)
- Episode 1x14: Mistresses, Murder and Millions (Dec 23, 1975)
- Episode 1x13: Through the Past Deadly (Dec 16, 1975)
- Episode 1x12: The Cold War Con (Dec 9, 1975)
- Episode 1x11: Death By Resurrection (Dec 2, 1975)
- Episode 1x10: Kiss of Death (Nov 25, 1975)
- Episode 1x09: The Cruise Ship Murders (Nov 11, 1975)
- Episode 1x08: The Body at the Bottom (Nov 4, 1975)
- Episode 1x07: Death Heist (Oct 21, 1975)
- Episode 1x06: The Man Who Couldn't Lose (Oct 14, 1975)
- Episode 1x05: The Deadly Missiles Caper (Oct 7, 1975)
- Episode 1x04: Stung from Beyond (Sep 30, 1975)
- Episode 1x03: The Old Diamond Game (Sep 23, 1975)
- Episode 1x02: The Late Show Murders (Sep 16, 1975)
- Episode 1x01: The James Caan Con (Sep 9, 1975)
The $10,000 Pyramid (1973)
Guest starring as Eddie Albert
- Episode 1x18: August 15-17; 20-21, 1973 (Aug 15, 1973)
Kung Fu (1972)
Guest starring as Dr. George Baxter
(2 episodes)
- Episode 3x02: Blood of the Dragon (2) (Sep 14, 1974)
- Episode 3x01: Blood of the Dragon (1) (Sep 14, 1974)
Columbo (1968)
Guest starring as Major General Martin J. Hollister
- Episode 1971-10-27: Dead Weight (Oct 27, 1971)
The Carol Burnett Show (1967)
Guest starring as Eddie Albert
- Episode 1x03: with Jonathan Winters, Eddie Albert (Sep 25, 1967)
Green Acres (1965)
Starring as Oliver Wendell Douglas
(109 episodes)
- Episode 6x25: Hawaiian Honeymoon (Mar 16, 1971)
- Episode 6x24: Lisa the Psychologist (Mar 9, 1971)
- Episode 6x23: The Hole in the Porch (Mar 2, 1971)
- Episode 6x22: The Carpenter's Ball (Feb 23, 1971)
- Episode 6x21: A Girl for Drobny (Feb 16, 1971)
- Episode 6x20: King Oliver I (Feb 9, 1971)
- Episode 6x19: The Spot Remover (Feb 2, 1971)
- Episode 6x18: Star Witness (Jan 26, 1971)
- Episode 6x17: The Wedding Deal (Jan 19, 1971)
- Episode 6x16: Son of Drobny (Jan 12, 1971)
- Episode 6x14: The Engagement Ring (Dec 29, 1970)
- Episode 6x03: Jealousy (Sep 29, 1970)
- Episode 5x22: The Picnic (Mar 7, 1970)
- Episode 5x10: Oliver's Schoolgirl Crush (Nov 29, 1969)
- Episode 5x05: You and Your Big Shrunken Head (Oct 25, 1969)
- Episode 4x15: The Marital Vacation (Jan 15, 1969)
- Episode 4x01: Guess Who's Not Going to the Luau? (Sep 25, 1968)
- Episode 3x30: A Star Named Arnold is Born (2) (Apr 10, 1968)
- Episode 3x29: A Star Named Arnold is Born (1) (Apr 3, 1968)
- Episode 3x28: Instant Family (Mar 27, 1968)
- Episode 3x27: The Rutabaga Story (Mar 20, 1968)
- Episode 3x26: The Hungarian Curse (Mar 13, 1968)
- Episode 3x25: Oliver's Jaded Past (Mar 6, 1968)
- Episode 3x24: Our Son, the Barber (Feb 28, 1968)
- Episode 3x23: The Spring Festival (Feb 21, 1968)
- Episode 3x22: My Mother the Countess (Feb 14, 1968)
- Episode 3x21: Flight to Nowhere (Feb 7, 1968)
- Episode 3x20: Arnold Ziffel, Boy Hero (Jan 31, 1968)
- Episode 3x19: How to Succeed in Television Without Really Trying (Jan 24, 1968)
- Episode 3x18: Home is Where You Run Away From (Jan 10, 1968)
- Episode 3x17: Not Guilty (Jan 3, 1968)
- Episode 3x16: Eb Returns (Dec 27, 1967)
- Episode 3x15: No Trespassing (Dec 20, 1967)
- Episode 3x14: Alf and Ralph Break Up (Dec 13, 1967)
- Episode 3x13: Haney's New Image (Nov 29, 1967)
- Episode 3x12: Jealousy, English Style (Nov 22, 1967)
- Episode 3x11: Won't You Come Home, Arnold Ziffel? (Nov 15, 1967)
- Episode 3x10: Das Lumpen (Nov 8, 1967)
- Episode 3x09: The Thing (Nov 1, 1967)
- Episode 3x08: Eb Elopes (Oct 25, 1967)
- Episode 3x07: Don't Count Your Tomatoes Before They're Picked (Oct 18, 1967)
- Episode 3x06: A Kind Word for the President (Oct 11, 1967)
- Episode 3x05: Oliver Takes Over the Phone Company (Oct 4, 1967)
- Episode 3x04: Oliver vs. the Phone Company (Sep 27, 1967)
- Episode 3x03: Love Comes to Arnold Ziffel (Sep 20, 1967)
- Episode 3x02: Lisa's Jam Session (Sep 13, 1967)
- Episode 3x01: The Man for the Job (Sep 6, 1967)
- Episode 2x30: Music to Milk By (Apr 26, 1967)
- Episode 2x29: Who's Lisa? (Apr 19, 1967)
- Episode 2x28: The Vulgar Ring Story (Apr 12, 1967)
- Episode 2x27: Kimball Gets Fired (Mar 29, 1967)
- Episode 2x26: Getting Even with Haney (Mar 22, 1967)
- Episode 2x25: The Saucer Season (Mar 15, 1967)
- Episode 2x24: Lisa's Vegetable Garden (Mar 8, 1967)
- Episode 2x23: The Beverly Hillbillies (Mar 1, 1967)
- Episode 2x22: Never Start Talking Unless Your Voice Comes Out (Feb 22, 1967)
- Episode 2x21: The Computer Age (Feb 15, 1967)
- Episode 2x20: Never Take Your Wife to a Convention (Feb 8, 1967)
- Episode 2x19: It's Human to Be Humane (Feb 1, 1967)
- Episode 2x18: Exodus to Bleedwell (Jan 25, 1967)
- Episode 2x17: It's So Peaceful in the Country (Jan 18, 1967)
- Episode 2x16: His Honor (Jan 11, 1967)
- Episode 2x15: School Days (Jan 4, 1967)
- Episode 2x14: Never Trust a Little Old Lady (Dec 28, 1966)
- Episode 2x13: An Old Fashioned Christmas (Dec 21, 1966)
- Episode 2x12: A Square is Not Round (Dec 14, 1966)
- Episode 2x11: A Home Isn't Built in a Day (Nov 30, 1966)
- Episode 2x10: You Ought to Be in Pictures (Nov 23, 1966)
- Episode 2x09: The Hooterville Image (Nov 16, 1966)
- Episode 2x08: Eb Discovers the Birds and the Bees (Nov 9, 1966)
- Episode 2x07: The Good Old Days (Nov 2, 1966)
- Episode 2x06: One of Our Assemblymen is Missing (Oct 26, 1966)
- Episode 2x05: The Ugly Duckling (Oct 19, 1966)
- Episode 2x04: How to See South America By Bus (Oct 5, 1966)
- Episode 2x03: I Didn't Raise My Pig to Be a Soldier (Sep 28, 1966)
- Episode 2x02: Water, Water Everywhere (Sep 21, 1966)
- Episode 2x01: Wings Over Hooterville (Sep 14, 1966)
- Episode 1x32: Uncle Ollie (Jun 1, 1966)
- Episode 1x31: Culture (May 25, 1966)
- Episode 1x30: The Rains Came (May 18, 1966)
- Episode 1x29: Horse? What Horse? (May 11, 1966)
- Episode 1x28: Send a Boy to College (May 4, 1966)
- Episode 1x27: Never Look a Gift Tractor in the Mouth (Apr 27, 1966)
- Episode 1x26: The Ballad of Molly Turgis (Apr 6, 1966)
- Episode 1x25: Double Drick (Mar 23, 1966)
- Episode 1x24: The Deputy (Mar 16, 1966)
- Episode 1x23: A Pig in a Poke (Mar 9, 1966)
- Episode 1x22: The Day of Decision (Feb 23, 1966)
- Episode 1x21: What's in a Name? (Feb 16, 1966)
- Episode 1x20: The Price of Apples (Feb 9, 1966)
- Episode 1x19: Sprained Ankle, Country Style (Feb 2, 1966)
- Episode 1x18: Lisa Bakes a Cake (Jan 26, 1966)
- Episode 1x17: I Didn't Raise My Husband to Be a Fireman (Jan 19, 1966)
- Episode 1x16: Give Me Land, Lots of Land (Jan 5, 1966)
- Episode 1x15: How to Enlarge a Bedroom (Dec 29, 1965)
- Episode 1x14: What Happened in Scranton? (Dec 22, 1965)
- Episode 1x13: The Wedding Anniversary (Dec 15, 1965)
- Episode 1x12: Lisa Has a Calf (Dec 8, 1965)
- Episode 1x11: Parity Begins at Home (Nov 24, 1965)
- Episode 1x10: Don't Call Us, We'll Call You (Nov 17, 1965)
- Episode 1x09: You Can't Plug in a 2 with a 6 (Nov 10, 1965)
- Episode 1x08: Lisa, the Helpmate (Nov 3, 1965)
- Episode 1x07: Neighborliness (Oct 27, 1965)
- Episode 1x06: Furniture, Furniture, Who's Got the Furniture? (Oct 20, 1965)
- Episode 1x05: My Husband, the Rooster Renter (Oct 13, 1965)
- Episode 1x04: The Best Laid Plans (Oct 6, 1965)
- Episode 1x03: The Decorator (Sep 29, 1965)
- Episode 1x02: Lisa's First Day on the Farm (Sep 22, 1965)
- Episode 1x01: Oliver Buys a Farm (Sep 15, 1965)
Irwin Allen's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964)
Guest starring as Dr. Fred Wilson
- Episode 1x01: Eleven Days to Zero (Sep 14, 1964)
Petticoat Junction (1963)
Guest starring as Oliver Wendell Douglas
(12 episodes)
- Episode 6x04: The Valley Has a Baby (Oct 26, 1968)
- Episode 3x29: Kate Bradley, Peacemaker (Apr 5, 1966)
- Episode 3x19: Yogurt, Anyone? (Jan 25, 1966)
- Episode 3x13: Uncle Joe Plays Post Office (Dec 14, 1965)
- Episode 3x10: Betty Jo Goes to New York (Nov 23, 1965)
- Episode 3x08: Hooterville A-Go-Go (Nov 9, 1965)
- Episode 3x07: A Doctor in the House (Nov 2, 1965)
- Episode 3x06: Bobbie Jo's Sorority (Oct 26, 1965)
- Episode 3x05: Joe Carson, General Contractor (Oct 12, 1965)
- Episode 3x04: The Good Luck Ring (Oct 5, 1965)
- Episode 3x03: The Dog Turns Playboy (Sep 28, 1965)
- Episode 3x02: The Baffling Raffle (Sep 21, 1965)
The Lieutenant (1963)
Guest starring as Rodney Cameron O'Rourke
- Episode 1x15: O'Rourke (Jan 4, 1964)
The Beverly Hillbillies (1962)
Guest starring as Oliver Wendell Douglas
- Episode 7x10: The Thanksgiving Spirit (Nov 27, 1968)
Wagon Train (1957)
Guest starring as John Darro
- Episode 1x08: The John Darro Story (Nov 6, 1957) [Special Guest Star]
Tony Awards (1957)
Guest starring as Presenter
- Episode 1973-03-25: The 27th Annual Tony Awards (Mar 25, 1973)
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1956)
Guest starring as Jed Wiley
- Episode 2x12: A Gun for My Bride (Dec 27, 1957)
The Loretta Young Show (1953)
Guest starring as Max Asher
- Episode 6x09: The Last Witness (Nov 30, 1958)
Guest starring as Lionel Kent
- Episode 1x22: Act of Faith (Feb 14, 1954)
Guest starring as Tiger Tipton
- Episode 1x25: The Count of Ten (Mar 14, 1954)
Oscars (1953)
Guest starring as Eddie Albert
(4 episodes)
- Episode 1977-03-28: The 49th Annual Academy Awards (Mar 28, 1977)
- Episode 1973-03-27: The 45th Annual Academy Awards (Mar 27, 1973)
- Episode 1962-04-09: The 34th Annual Academy Awards (Apr 9, 1962)
- Episode 1959-04-06: The 31st Annual Academy Awards (Apr 6, 1959)
Robert Montgomery Presents (1950)
Guest starring as Jesse
- Episode 7x10: The World to Nothing (Nov 7, 1955)