Eddie Albert
Birthday: 1906-04-22
Place of Birth: Rock Island, Illinois, USA
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.
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Roman Holiday
Overwhelmed by her suffocating schedule, touring European princess Ann takes off for a night while i...
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The Longest Yard
A football player-turned-convict organizes a team of inmates to play against a team of prison guards...
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Hustle
The body of teenager Gloria Hollinger is found dead on a Los Angeles beach, and Lt. Phil Gaines is i...
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Dreamscape
In order to diagnose the psychic traumas suffered by his patients, Dr. Paul Novotny gets young Alex ...
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Attack
Battle of the Bulge, World War II, 1944. Lieutenant Costa, an infantry company officer who must esta...
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The Sun Also Rises
A group of disillusioned American expatriate writers live a dissolute, hedonistic lifestyle in 1920'...
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You Gotta Stay Happy
Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face th...
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Out of the Fog
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen ...
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The Longest Day
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the...
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Beyond Witch Mountain
After news of the boy's amazing abilities surfaces, Tony and Tia are sent to go find him knowing tha...
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Captain Newman, M.D.
In 1944, Capt. Josiah J. Newman is the doctor in charge of Ward 7, the neuropsychiatric ward, at an ...
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McQ
Police Lieutenant Lon McQ investigates the killing of his best friend and uncovers corrupt elements ...
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Orders to Kill
A grounded American fighter pilot is switched to espionage on a special job in which he must kill a ...
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I'll Cry Tomorrow
Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and ...
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The Heartbreak Kid
Three days into his Miami honeymoon with needy and unsophisticated Lila, Lenny meets tall, blonde Ke...
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Oklahoma!
In the Oklahoma territory at the turn of the twentieth century, two young cowboys vie with a violent...
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Head Office
In this comic take on big-business wheelings and dealings, an ambitious senator's son moves up the c...
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The Concorde... Airport '79
Aviation disaster-prone Joe Patroni must contend with nuclear missiles, the French Air Force and the...
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The Party's Over
A group of close friends spend their time drinking and partying. When the American fiancé one of the...
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Take This Job and Shove It
A junior executive is ordered to boost output in the hometown brewery where his old friends work....
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The Bachelor Party
Five office friends meet up for a night on the town to celebrate the forthcoming marriage of one of ...
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Escape to Witch Mountain
Tia and Tony are two orphaned youngsters with extraordinary powers. Lucas Deranian poses as their un...
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The Teahouse of the August Moon
In post-WWII Japan, an American captain is brought in to help build a school, but the locals want a ...
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Carrie
In the late 1890s, the ambitious, innocent Carrie arrives in Chicago’s South Side and stays with her...
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The Perfect Marriage
A couple celebrate their tenth anniversary by quarreling their way to divorce court....
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Bombardier
A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U...
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The Lorax
The Once-ler, a ruined industrialist, tells the tale of his rise to wealth and subsequent fall, as h...
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The Devil's Rain
A Satanist cult leader is burnt alive by the local church. He vows to come back to hunt down and ens...
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Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
A nightclub singer uses alcohol in excess to sooth her painful life....
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Brenda Starr
Fearless reporter Brenda Starr needs a big scoop if she wishes to retain her lofty status within the...
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7 Women
In a mission in China in 1935, a group of women are preyed on by Mongolian bandits, led by Warlord c...
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You're in the Navy Now
When Lt. John Harkness is assigned as the new skipper of a submarine chaser equipped with an experim...
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The Gun Runners
Remake of "To Have and Have Not" based on Hemingway short story. Plot reset to early days of Cuban r...
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Madison Avenue
An adman and an adwoman put a dangerous milk tycoon in line for the White House....
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The Roots of Heaven
In French Equatorial Africa, an idealist campaigns to save the African elephant, gaining support fro...
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The Demon Murder Case
A young boy is taken over by demons who force him to commit murder....
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Miracle of the White Stallions
In WWII Austria, Col. Alois Podhajsky must protect his beloved Lipizzaner stallions and make sure th...
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Actors and Sin
Two-part story--the first is about a washed-up Broadway actor and his tough daughter, who is a bigge...
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The Wagons Roll at Night
An escaped circus lion provides the impetus for the meeting of carnival owner Nick Coster and Matt V...
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Who's Got the Action?
A lawyer begins to win after his wife secretly becomes his bookie to save their money....
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The Fuller Brush Girl
A daffy door-to-door saleswoman blunders into a murder investigation....
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On Your Toes
A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer....
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Foolin' Around
A working-class boy falls for a girl from a wealthy family, and must compete for her with a rich boy...
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A Dispatch from Reuters
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news age...
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Beloved Infidel
In the late 1930s, Sheilah Graham’s Hollywood column quickly becomes popular for its biting tone. At...
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The Borrowers
An eight-year-old boy discovers a family of tiny people, only a few inches tall, living beneath the ...
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Four Wives
In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she fa...
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The Border
Frank Cooper, a senior immigration police, remains a daily struggle against mafias operating between...
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A Norman Rockwell Christmas
Could there ever really be a Christmas without Norman Rockwell? For three generations, America's mos...
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Brother Rat
Story of three buddies at the Virginia Military Institute. Cadet Bing Edwards is secretly married an...
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Four Mothers
Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together....
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The Joker is Wild
A Prohibition-era nightclub crooner has his career is cut short when his throat is slashed by a mob ...
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The Great Mr. Nobody
A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit....
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The Girl Rush
When her compulsive-gambler father dies, leaving her with an inheritance that amounts to zip, single...
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The Spiral Staircase
Based on the screenplay by Mel Dinelli, this story revolves around Helen Warren, a beautiful mute gi...
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The Young Doctors
An aging doctor's resentment of his young assistant could lead to tragedy....
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My Love Came Back
Amelia is a gifted violinist who is in danger of quitting the Brissac Academy of Music. Julius arran...
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Ladies' Day
A top baseball pitcher "loses" his pitching skills whenever he falls in love. After marrying a movie...
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Thieves Fall Out
Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's l...
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Promise Him Anything
A young bachelor using a dating service picks a woman whose information card read "Anything goes." W...
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The Two Little Bears
Two little boys use a magic potion to turn themselves into bears....
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Meet Me After the Show
A Broadway star devises a scheme to win back her husband when she suspects he's being unfaithful....
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Brother Rat and a Baby
Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a f...
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Our Mr. Sun
One entry in a series of films produced to make science accessible to the masses—especially children...
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How to Beat the High Cost of Living
In order to beat inflation and subsidize their alimony checks, three suburban housewives plot to ste...
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The Barefoot Executive
A young man working in the mailroom of a television network rises to the top of the company after he...
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The Dude Goes West
Daniel Bone is aiming for success. A Brooklyn gunsmith by trade, he figures the place to be is where...
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Strange Voyage
A group of men go on an expedition seeking sunken treasure, and wind up battling bad weather, rough ...
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The Mouse on the Mayflower
The famous ship called Mayflower is trapped amidst a huge storm. The entire story is narrated by a c...
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Whiffs
Elliott Gould steals Army nerve gas to help him rob banks when he’s kicked out of the military after...
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Trouble in High Timber Country
A proud patriarch battles union organizers and a powerful conglomerate threatening the family-owned ...
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Rat Pack
In the 1950s, a small group of artists monopolized the attention of the cameras and the public. Fran...
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Moving Violation
A young drifter and small-town waitress witness a corrupt sheriff murder his own deputy. Framed for ...
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The Girl From Mars
A young girl who has telekinetic powers also claims to be a visitor from Mars. The girl's father and...
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The Act
Blackmail, a complex heist, and political snakery collide into a complicated caper full of disguises...
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Switch
In this pilot film that led to the series, an ex-con and a retired cop, partners in a private invest...
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Restoring Roman Holiday
Brief documentary on the painstaking process to restore Roman Holiday (1953) for DVD release....
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Hit Parade of 1947
Four young performers form an act and get a job in a nightclub. Before long, one of them gets the id...
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In Like Flynn
Life is one cliff-hanger after another for a bright and beautiful woman and the reluctant young man ...
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The Take
A policeman in New Mexico takes payoff money but still manages to go after a racketeer....
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Time Out of Mind
The son of a wealthy Maine family shocks his relatives by announcing he wants to pursue a career in ...
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See the Man Run
Kidnappers making a ransom demand dial a wrong number and reach a struggling actor instead. He decid...
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Return to Green Acres
Tv movie that reunites most the show's cast members. The Douglases move back to New York. But when H...
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Rendezvous with Annie
A homesick American soldier stationed in England during World War II makes an unauthorized trip to ...
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The Oklahoma City Dolls
Susan Blakey plays Sally Jo Purkey, a factory worker who leads a rebellion among her co-workers for ...
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The Big Picture
Hollywood beckons for recent film school grad Nick Chapman, who is out to capitalize on the momentum...
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Every Girl Should Be Married
Anabel Sims is determined to find the perfect husband. She thinks she's found her man in Madison Bro...
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Treat 'Em Rough
When his father is accused of graft, a former boxer returns home to clear his name....
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Television: The First Fifty Years
Trace the history of television and its impact on American culture with clips, newsreels, and exclus...
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Eagle Squadron
An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in lov...
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Birch Interval
A young girl is sent to live with Amish relatives in post-war Pennsylvania, where her life dramatica...
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An Angel from Texas
A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show....
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Breakdowns of 1941
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1941....
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General Electric Theater: Into the Night
A husband and wife are driving on a trip to Palm Springs. They stop for gas and are kidnapped by a p...
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The Crash of Flight 401
True story recounting the crash of Eastern Airlines, Flight 401, which crashed in the Everglades whi...
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Yes, Giorgio
A famous opera singer, Giorgio Fini, loses his voice during an American tour. He goes to a female th...
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A Connecticut Yankee
A live television presentation of Rodgers and Hart's 1927 stage musical....
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Lady Bodyguard
A.C.Baker, advertising executive for an insurance company, approaches test pilot Terry Moore with a ...
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Yesterday
A young American hockey player, studying in Canada on a hockey scholarship, falls in love while risk...
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Mercy or Murder?
Roswell and Emily Gilbert were married for fifty-one years, but for the eight final years of their m...
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La Classe américaine
George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an ...
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Burning Rage
While coal fires burn beneath a depressed mining town a greedy businessman stops at nothing to buy u...
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Disneyland '59
Walt Disney and Art Linkletter co-host a live celebration of Disneyland's 1959 expansion that consis...
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Turnaround
Magicians grandson and his girlfriend and their friends are victimized by a bike gang of her former ...
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1984
George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting ...
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Evening in Byzantium
While the prestigious Cannes Film Festival goes on around him, American movie producer Jesse Craig s...
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Musical Comedy Tonight III
Sylvia Fine hosts this musical show featuring some great American singing and dancing stars, featuri...
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Rooster
A physically small police psychologist and a physically large insurance detective team up on an arso...
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Frank Sinatra Memorial
Frank Sinatra, the greatest entertainer of the 20th century, is remembered by some of the brightest ...
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Daddy's Girl
A recently widowed Boston newspaper columnist tries to raise his eight-year old daughter with the he...
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Operation Teahouse
This short promotional film provides a behind-the-scenes look at "The Teahouse of the August Moon" (...
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Trumbo
The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies ...
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