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  Green Acres : Edward Albert : tvland.com
Eddie Albert was born Edward Albert Heimberger on April 22, 1908 in Rock Island, Ill. He attended the University of Minnesota, and worked at a variety of jobs (including as a circus trapeze artist) before becoming an actor.
A biography highlight, during WWII Albert served in the United States Navy as a junior officer, and in 1943 he was awarded the Bronze Star with a combat 'V' for rescuing 70 Marines during the battle of Tarawa.
Albert has a bit of Oliver Douglas in him; he was eating health foods long before it became the fashion, planted gardens in the front and back yards of his California home, and would often bring fresh vegetables to the set of Green Acres to hand out to the cast and crew.
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  Eddie Albert - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
Albert also stated that he dropped his last name "Heimberger" not so much out of a desire to have a stage name, but rather because it was almost invariably mangled into "Hamburger".
Albert played the straight man to his co-star Eva Gabor and the rest of the cast in the series about an urban couple who moved to a surreal farming community.
Eddie Albert died of pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease at the age of 99 at his home in the Pacific Palisades area on May 26, 2005.
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 Eddie Albert - Biography - Moviefone
Albert was known for his comedic work during the early years of his career -- his other early major credits included The Boys From Syracuse and Boy Meets Girl on-stage and On Your Toes (1939) onscreen.
The mid-'50s saw Albert finally achieve recognition as a serious actor, first with his Oscar-nominated supporting performance in William Wyler's hit Roman Holiday (1953) and then, three years later, in Robert Aldrich's brutal World War II drama Attack!, in which he gave the performance of a lifetime as a cowardly, psychopathic army officer.
Albert was married for decades to the Mexican-American actress Margo (who died in 1985); their son is the actor Edward Albert.
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 Eddie Albert on SONY BMG Masterworks
Albert had an independent streak that made him unusual among actors of his era -- he actually quit Warner Bros. at one point, preferring to work as a circus performer for eight dollars per day.
The mid-'50s saw Albert finally achieve recognition as a serious actor, first with his Oscar-nominated supporting performance in William Wyler's hit Roman Holiday (1953) and then, three years later, in Robert Aldrich's brutal World War II drama Attack!, in which he gave the performance of a lifetime as a cowardly, psychopathic army officer.
Albert was married for decades to the Mexican-American actress Margo (who died in 1985); their son is the actor Edward Albert.
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 Eddie Albert Current Month TV Schedule
Starring Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor, Pat Buttram, Tom Lester, J Pat O'Malley.
Eleanor Audley, Pat Buttram, Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor.
Rick Lenz, Pat Buttram, Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor.
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 Eddie Albert, 'Green Acres' icon, dead at 99 - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - TV - A&E
Albert not only starred in his own TV series in three different decades -- the '50s, '60s, and '70s -- he hosted two variety shows and a game show in the early '50s and frequently showed up through the years as a guest star in comedy and drama series, as well as variety shows.
Albert was born Edward Albert Heimberger on April 22, 1906, in Rock Island, Ill. When he was a year old, his family moved to Minneapolis, where he developed an interest in show business.
Albert, who also sang at amateur nights, left the university in his junior year and joined a musical trio that performed on a local radio station.
www.boston.com /ae/tv/articles/2005/05/28/eddie_albert_green_acres_icon_dead_at_99?pg=2   (588 words)

  
 Eddie Albert | Obituaries | News | Telegraph
Eddie Albert, the actor who has died at Pacific Palisades, California, aged 99, was the leading man, the comedic foil, the dislikable coward or the bad guy in more than 250 films, from the 1930s to the 1990s.
Albert was born Edward Albert Heimberger on April 22 1906 at Rock Island, Illinois, though when he was a year old the family moved to Minneapolis.
Eddie Albert, who died on May 26, married, in 1945, Maria Marguerita Guadelupe Boldao y Castilla, better known by her stage name, Margo, who died in 1985.
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 Eddie Albert
Eddie was born Edward Albert Heimberger, and is certainly most known as Oliver Wendell Douglas, the lawyer turned farmer on the television series Green Acres, with Eva Gabor.
Eddie was cremated and buried in Westwood Memorial Park, alongside his wife, the Mexican actress Margo.
Albert wrote, produced an even starred in the first live television drama broadcast ever on November 6, 1936, another interesting anecdote you may want to add to his story.
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 The Seattle Times: Television: Eddie Albert, 1906-2005: "Green Acres" star, WWII vet, activist
Eddie Albert, the versatile stage, screen and television actor who starred as the Park Avenue lawyer who sought happiness down on the farm in the popular 1960s sitcom "Green Acres," has died.
Albert is best remembered for "Green Acres," which aired on CBS from 1965 to 1971 and continues to have an afterlife on cable TV.
Albert was born Edward Albert Heimberger on April 22, 1906, in Rock Island, Ill. When he was a year old, his family moved to Minneapolis, where he developed an early interest in show business.
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 USATODAY.com - 'Green Acres' star Eddie Albert dies at 99   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Eddie Albert was a versatile actor who moved smoothly from the Broadway stage to movies, but he found stardom as the constantly befuddled city slicker-turned-farmer in television's Green Acres.
Albert died of pneumonia Thursday at his home in the Pacific Palisades area, in the presence of caregivers including his son Edward, who was holding his hand at the time.
Albert was married to the dancer-actress Margo for 40 years until her death in 1985.
www.usatoday.com /life/people/2005-05-27-albert-obit_x.htm   (976 words)

  
 Spook Central: The Ghostbusters Companion - Ghostbusters Cast & Crew - Eddie Albert
Eddie Albert, the versatile stage, screen and television actor who co-starred as the Park Avenue lawyer who sought happiness down on the farm in the popular 1960s sitcom "Green Acres," has died.
Albert, who scored critically acclaimed dramatic performances on live television in the 1950s, was particularly memorable when he turned his good-guy screen image on its head — as he did playing the sadistic warden in director Robert Aldrich's 1974 comedy-drama "The Longest Yard," starring Burt Reynolds.
Albert returned to Broadway in 1949, singing and dancing as the leading man in the musical "Miss Liberty." It ran for 308 performances before Albert returned to a Hollywood that was being transformed by a new phenomenon called television.
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 Eddie Albert, Character Actor, Dies at 99 - New York Times
Eddie Albert, a film and television actor known for his evocative portrayals of characters who ranged from the avuncular to the befuddled to the monomaniacal, died on Thursday at his home near Pacific Palisades, Calif. He was 99.
Albert fought in the Battle of Tarawa, one of the most notorious battles of the war, and was awarded a Bronze Star.
Albert was married to the actress Margo, née Maria Margarita Guadelupe Teresa Estella Bolado Castilla y O'Donnell, from 1945 until her death in 1985.
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 Eddie Albert Crawford #919
Eddie Albert Crawford was convicted for the murder of his 29-month-old niece, Leslie English.
Eddie Albert Crawford is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Monday, July 19 at 7 PM at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison (death row) in Jackson.
Eddie Albert Crawford, 57, was pronounced dead at 7:49 p.m., 12 minutes after prison officials administered a lethal dose of drugs through his veins.
www.clarkprosecutor.org /html/death/US/crawford919.htm   (5583 words)

  
 Death of Eddie Albert
Eddie Albert was a great actor who I had the privilege of meeting at his home back in the fall of 2002.
Albert a few years before, when he called him and interviewed him on a radio show David used to host.
Albert that I was a preacher and not a professional actor, Mr.
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 Eddie Albert - MovieActors.com
Eddie Albert was born on April 22, 1906 in Rock Island, Illinois.
Eddie Albert was awarded the Bronze Star with a combat 'V' for rescuing 70 Marines during the battle of Tarawa in 1943, one of the bloodiest battles of World War II, and U.S. Marines Corps history.
Eddie Albert also helped to launch the very first "Earth Day" on April 22, 1970, which was his birthday.
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 The Unquiet American: Recollections of Eddie Albert
Albert’s performance in ‘Woman of Sin’ — trivial and derivative though the film — was a landmark of sorts in the evolution of his composite screen image.
The breadth and momentum of Eddie Albert’s multitudinous work on both large and television screens may be seen to have realised a none too familiar democracy among the hierarchies of Hollywood casting: breaching the boundaries between major and minor, lead and character roles; indeed, a loose-jointed iconoclasm.
Albert brings to this role a full measure of that singular strength — that authority (a word so often and carelessly used of actors, that we must pause over it) — that might be observed emerging, more and more articulately, throughout his career.
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 globeandmail.com: Eddie Albert, 99
Albert died of pneumonia Thursday at his home in the Pacific Palisades area, in the presence of caregivers including his son Edward, who was holding his hand at the time.
Eddie Albert, whose lighthearted portrayals made him a favorite in movies and television for more than 50 years, has died at the age of 99.
Albert is survived by a daughter, Maria Albert Zucht, and two granddaughters.
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 EDDIE ALBERT 1906-2005 / Oscar nominee and humanitarian dies / Stage, film, TV actor best known for 'Green Acres'
Albert, who scored critically acclaimed dramatic performances on live television in the 1950s, was particularly memorable when he turned his good- guy screen image on its head -- the way he did playing the sadistic warden in director Robert Aldrich's 1974 comedy-drama "The Longest Yard," starring Burt Reynolds.
Albert, who sang at amateur nights, left the University of Minnesota in his junior year and joined a musical trio that performed on a local radio station.
Albert, who in 1963 served as special world envoy for Meals for Millions -- a philanthropic project providing nutritious, low-cost meals to the underprivileged around the world -- helped initiate the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, and served as a special consultant at the World Hunger Conference in Rome in 1974.
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 Eddie Albert
TV Land will celebrate the life and work of late actor Eddie Albert -- who passed away on Thursday, May 26 in Southern California at the age of 97 -- with a special two hour Green Acres marathon airing on Monday, May 30 beginning at 8pm (ET/PT).
Born in Illinois and raised in Minneapolis, Eddie Albert started his career by working in the circus on the flying trapeze.
Albert was most recognized for his starring role as "Oliver Wendell Douglas" in Green Acres opposite Eva Gabor.
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 Eddie Albert
Eddie Albert, 88, resides in Pacific Palisades, an upscale community in West Los Angeles.
Recently, Albert has taken the time to remember a lot of things that will be the material of his autobiography.
Three years later, Albert had addressed audiences at 60 colleges and universities, and with much support from other organizations, DDT was banned.
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 Eddie Albert | Obituaries | Guardian Unlimited
Now freelance, Albert produced and narrated a series of 16mm educational two-reelers, including sex education films, while appearing in a variety of second-string movie roles, though he got to sing for the first time on screen in Hit Parade (1947).
Aldrich again exploited Albert's dark side in Hustle (1975), in which he was appropriately slimy as a corrupt lawyer involved in a call-girl racket.
But the role Eddie Albert enjoyed most in life, other than as husband to Margo (who died in 1985), and father of the actor Edward Albert and adopted daughter Maria (both of whom survive him), was as a supporter of agronomy around the world to combat hunger.
www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,1495166,00.html   (973 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Eddie Albert, the good neighbor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
The late Eddie Albert had a face you could trust, which made the actor remarkably effective whether playing a friendly neighbor, a frustrated businessman or a cowardly villain.
Albert, 99, who had Alzheimer's disease and died Thursday of pneumonia, is most widely remembered for Oliver Wendell Douglas, the city slicker who longed for simple "farm livin' " in TV's Green Acres (1965-1971).
Albert's performance played against type in another way: He was a real-life World War II Navy hero who earned the Bronze Star for rescuing Marines during the battle of Tarawa in the South Pacific.
www.usatoday.com /life/people/2005-05-30-eddie-albert-dvds_x.htm?POE=LIFISVA   (380 words)

  
 Eddie Albert Biography - Biography.com
Albert took on a paper route at the age of six, and managed to balance working with being a student, performing in school plays, and singing in the church choir.
Despite his growing popularity with moviegoers, Albert was unfulfilled by his film work and severed his contract after several disagreements with studio executives.
Albert remained active in his humanitarian efforts until his death from pneumonia on May 26, 2005 at his home near Pacific Palisades, California.
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 Eddie Albert Photos - Eddie Albert News - Eddie Albert Information
Birth Name Edward Albert Heimberger Height 5' 10" Mini biography A graduate of the University of Minnesota, Eddie Albert was a circus trapeze flier before becoming a stage and radio actor.
Albert was very disappointed that his show, Green Acres was canceled in 1971, because CBS was turning into the "Country Network." (edit)
Albert once stated that Lester was his closest and best friend.
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