ACTOR
Eddie Albert
- Known for
- The Longest Day (1962), The Longest Yard (1974), Dreamscape (1984), Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)
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Eddie Albert is an actor best known for The Longest Day, The Longest Yard and Dreamscape.
46 Interesting Facts About Eddie Albert
- #002
Eddie Albert was recruited by the United States government and took recreational sailing trips in Mexican waters. What he was actually doing was gathering reportable information about Nazi and Japanese activity in and around two Mexican regions on Mexico's Baja California peninsula (since 1953 the Mexican states of Baja California and Baja California Sur). As part of the same effort, he joined a Mexican circus owned by the Escalante Brothers as a clown and a trapeze flyer, gathering intelligence for the U.S. government as he traveled with the circus.
- #003
Eddie Albert was deeply disappointed when Green Acres was cancelled at the end of its sixth season because of the notorious "rural purge" in American television network programming, particularly at CBS. The rural purge was a wave of widespread series cancellations that began in 1969 and lasted until 1972, driven by the inclusion of new statistical demographic characteristics by the ratings agency Nielsen and by sponsors alarmed over the older, "more countrified" audiences of the cancelled shows. Nearly all of the cancelled series were popular rural-themed shows that still had a similarly skewed rural audience, and the cancellations came at the end of the 1970-1971 television season. The purge also swept up three country comedies produced by Paul Henning: The Beverly Hillbillies (1962), Petticoat Junction (1963) and Green Acres (1965).
- #007
Eddie Albert attended the funeral of his former Green Acres (1965) co-star Eva Gabor after her death on July 4, 1995.
- #009
Eddie Albert met the young, then-unknown actress Shirley Jones on the set of Oklahoma! (1955), where the two began a friendship that lasted until Albert's death in 2005.
- #010
Eddie Albert was an avid agriculturist and turned his front yard into a cornfield and his back yard into a vegetable garden.
- #011
Eddie Albert served in the Naval Reserve during World War II and fought in the Battle of Tarawa. After rescuing 47 stranded Marines while serving as an officer of the U.S. Naval Reserve in command of a landing craft, he was awarded the Bronze Star with Combat "V" for his courage. He also later oversaw the rescue of 30 more Marines as part of one of his many trips back and forth to the landing zone.
- #015
Three of the surviving cast members of Green Acres (1965) attended Eddie Albert's funeral on May 26, 2005. His co-star Tom Lester was not there, though Albert had once said Lester was his closest and best friend.
- #016
Eddie Albert was buried at Westwood Memorial in Los Angeles, California, not far from his Green Acres (1965) co-star Eva Gabor.
- #017
Eddie Albert was a spokesman for the National Arbor Day Foundation from 1985 to 1993.
- #020
Eddie Albert taught his Green Acres (1965) co-star Tom Lester about healthy eating, just as Albert himself practiced it.
- #022
Eddie Albert remained good friends with Robert Wagner during and after Switch (1975).
- #024
While filming John Huston's The Roots of Heaven (1958) in Africa, Albert met the legendary actor, humanitarian and philosopher Dr. Albert Schweitzer.
- #025
Eddie Albert played Oliver Wendell Douglas alongside Eva Gabor as Lisa Douglas in three shows: The Beverly Hillbillies (1962), Petticoat Junction (1963) and Green Acres (1965).
- #027
In 1936 Eddie Albert wrote the first original drama for television, and he also wrote dozens of short scripts for RCA.
- #029
Eddie Albert's close friends included 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, Gregory Peck and Pat Buttram.
- #030
Just 8 days after his 90th birthday, Eddie Albert attended MTV's TV Land launch party alongside Steve Allen, Sid Caesar, Kent McCord, Barbara Eden and Dick Van Dyke. [30 April 1996].
- #031
Before becoming a successful actor, Eddie Albert also worked as a soda jerk and sang in a pop group.
- #033
During World War II, Eddie Albert served in the OSS under Hank Fine, attached to Military Intelligence.
- #034
Albert's wife, Margo, died in 1985, just five months before the couple's 40th wedding anniversary.
- #035
Eddie Albert remained good friends with Tom Lester during and after Green Acres (1965).
- #036
Eddie Albert sang in a church choir.
- #037
After his guest-starring role on Extreme Ghostbusters (1997), Eddie Albert retired from acting at the age of 91.
- #038
Eddie Albert won the role of Oliver Wendell Douglas on Green Acres (1965) because he knew producer/creator Paul Henning, who hired him.
- #039
Eddie Albert was a classmate of actress Ann Sothern (Minneapolis Central High School, 1926), who was then known as Harriette Lake.
- #040
Eddie Albert met Jane Wyman on the set of Brother Rat (1938), where the two began a lifelong friendship that lasted until Albert's death in 2005. He would later appear opposite her in a recurring role on Falcon Crest (1981).
- #041
Before becoming an actor, Eddie Albert was a successful singer.
- #042
In the early 1950s, Eddie Albert also hosted a game show and two variety shows.
- #044
Eddie Albert was buried beside his wife, Margo, at Westwood Memorial Park in Los Angeles, California. His Green Acres (1965) co-star Eva Gabor is buried nearby.
- #045
Eddie Albert worked with Shirley Jones on one film and on episodes of both of their series: Oklahoma! (1955), The Love Boat (1977) and a two-part episode of Murder, She Wrote (1984).
- #047
Eddie Albert appeared on the front cover of TV Guide five times.
- #049
Eddie Albert guest-starred in the first episode of The Fall Guy (1981).
- #050
Eddie Albert was also a popular lecture speaker on the subject of birds.
- #053
Eddie Albert is best remembered by the public for his role as the big-city lawyer who turns farmer, Oliver Wendell Douglas, on Green Acres (1965).
- #056
In 1946, Eddie Albert served as the Producer in Charge of Eddie Albert Productions.
- #059
In 1933 Eddie Albert moved to New York, where he hosted the popular radio program The Honeymooners - Grace and Eddie Show for three years.
- #061
In the 1980s Eddie Albert was a spokesman for Beltone Products.
- #062
Eddie Albert's house had previously belonged to silent star Billie Dove.
- #063
Eddie Albert was also a good friend of Morgan Fairchild and Gregory Peck.
- #066
Twelve years after his death, Eddie Albert's former Pacific Palisades home was put up for sale at $19.5 million. [October 23, 2017].
- #067
From 1945 to 1952 Eddie Albert produced fourteen educational two-reel series on 16 mm. Two sex education films aimed at pre-adolescent children, "Human Beginnings" and "Human Growth," were still in use nearly forty years later. Albert also produced industrial documentaries.
- #068
Eddie Albert was an active Democrat.
- #070
Although he played a cowardly officer effectively in the film "Attack!", Eddie Albert was in fact a highly decorated soldier during World War II.
- #071
Eddie Albert grew up in the same city as Ann Sothern.
- #073
Before Robert Wagner and Sharon Gless appeared with Eddie Albert in Switch (1975), both had been lifelong fans of his while growing up.
- #076
Eddie Albert joined the Drama Department in high school.
- #078
He is mentioned as one of Ouspenskaya's acting students in the film Hollywood's She-Wolf: The Story of Maria Ouspenskaya (2024).
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