Edward Albert Heimberger (April 22, 1906 – May 26, 2005) was an American actor and activist best known for Roman Holiday (1953), Green Acres (1965–71), The Heartbreak Kid (1972), and Switch (1975–78).
He was married to actress Margo and they had two children, Edward Albert and Maria Albert.
Albert died in 2005 from pneumonia at the age of 99.
Filmography
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Film roles
- 1938: Brother Rat as 'Bing' Edwards
- 1940: Brother Rat And A Baby as 'Bing' Edwards
- 1939: On Your Toes as Phil Dolan Jr.
- 1939: Four Wives as Dr. Clinton F. Forrest Jr.
- 1940: An Angel From Texas as Peter Coleman
- 1940: My Love Came Back as Dusty Rhodes
- 1940: A Dispatch From Reuters as Max Wagner
- 1941: Four Mothers as Clint Forrest
- 1941: The Great Mr Nobody as Robert 'Dreamy' Smith
- 1941: The Wagons Roll At Night as Matt Varney
- 1941: Thieves Fall Out as Eddie Barnes
- 1941: Out of the Fog as George Watkins
- 1942: Treat Em Rough as Bill Kingsford/The Panama Kid
- 1942: Eagle Squadron as Leckie
- 1943: Lady Bodyguard as Terry Moore
- 1943: Ladies Day as Wacky Waters
- 1943: Bombardier as Tom Hughes
- 1946: Strange Voyage as Chris Thompson
- 1946: Rendezvous With Annie as Cpl. Jeffrey Dolan
- 1946: The Perfect Marriage as Gil Cummins
- 1947: Smash Up The Story Of A Woman as Steve Nelson
- 1947: Hit Parade Of 1947 as Kip Walker
- 1947: Time Out Of Mind as Jake Bullard
- 1947: Unconquered as Barker (Deleted Role)
- 1948: The Dude Goes West as Daniel Bone
- 1948: You Gotta Stay Happy as Bullets Baker
- 1948: Every Girl Should Be Married as Harry Proctor/'Old' Joe (Uncredited Role(
- 1950: The Fuller Brush Girl as Humphrey Briggs
- 1951: Youre In The Navy Now as Lt. Bill Barron
- 1951: Meet Me After The Show as Chris Leeds
- 1952: Actors And Sin as Orlando Higgens
- 1952: Carrie as Charles Drouet
- 1953: Roman Holiday as Irving Radovich
- 1955: A Connecticut Yankee as Martin Barret
- 1955: The Chocolate Soldier as Bumeril
- 1955: The Girl Rush as Elliot Atterbury
- 1955: Oklahoma! as Ali Hakim
- 1955: Ill Cry Tomorrow as Burt McGuire
- 1956: Attack as Capt. Erskine Cooney
- 1956: Our Mr Sun as The Fiction Writer
- 1956: The Teahouse of the August Moon as Capt. McLean
- 1957: The Joker Is Wild as Austin Mack
- 1957: The Sun Also Rises as Bill Gorton
- 1958: Orders To Kill as Maj. MacMahon
- 1958: The Gun Runners as Hanagan
- 1958: The Roots Of Heaven as Abe Fields
- 1959: The Ballad Of Louie The Louse as Paul Hughes
- 1959: Beloved Infidel as Bob Carter
- 1961: Madison Avenue as Harvey Holt Ames
- 1961: The Young Doctors as Dr. Charles Dornberger
- 1961: The Spiral Staircase as Albert Warren
- 1961: The Two Little Bears as Harry Davis
- 1962: The Longest Day as Col. Thompson
- 1962: Winter Journey as Frank Elgin
- 1962: Whos Got The Action as Clint Morgan
- 1963: Miracle Of The White Stallions as Rider Otto
- 1963: Captain Newman MD as Col. Norval Algate Bliss
- 1965: The Partys Over as 'Ben'
- 1965: 7 Women as Charles Pether
- 1971: See The Man Run as Dr. Thomas Spencer
- 1972: Fireball Forward as Col. Douglas Graham
- 1972: The Heartbreak Kid as Mr. Corcoran
- 1973: The Borrowers as Pod Clock
- 1974: Mc Q as Kosterman
- 1974: The Take as Chief Berrigan
- 1974: The Longest Yard as Warden Hazen
- 1975: Escape to Witch Mountain as Jason
- 1975: Promise Him Anything as Pop
- 1975: The Devil's Rain as Dr. Sam Richards
- 1975: Whiffs as Col. Lockyer
- 1975: Hustle as Leo Sellers
- 1976: Birch Interval as Pa Strawacher
- 1976: Moving Violation as Alex Warren
- 1978: Crash as Capt. Dunn
- 1979: The Concorde Airport 79 as Eli Sands
- 1980: Border Cop as Moffat
- 1980: Trouble In High Timber Country as Carroll Yeager
- 1980: How to Beat the High Cost of Living as Max
- 1980: Foolin Around as Daggett
- 1981: The Oklahoma City Dolls as Coach Homer Sixx
- 1981: Yesterday as Bart Kramer
- 1981: Take This Job And Shove It as Samuel Ellison
- 1981: Peter And Paul as Festus
- 1982: Rooster as Rev. Harlan Barnum
- 1982: Yes Giorgio as Henry Pollack
- 1983: The Demon Murder Case as Father Dietrich
- 1983: The Act as Harry Kruger
- 1984: Dreamscape as The President
- 1984: Burning Rage as Will Larson
- 1985: In Like Flynn as Bill White
- 1985: Stitches as Dean Bradley
- 1985: Head Office as Pete Helmes
- 1987: Mercy Or Murder as Joe Varon
- 1987: Turnaround as Theo
- 1989: The Big Picture as M.C.
- 1989: Brenda Starr as Police Chief Maloney
- 1990: Return To Green Acres as Oliver Wendell Douglas
- 1991: The Girl From Mars as Dr. Charles Favender
- 1994: Death Valley Memories as Narrator
- 1995: The Barefoot Executive as Herbert Gower
Television roles
- 1949-1953: Suspense as Danny Maguire (2 episodes)
- 1951: Somerset Maugham TV Theatre as Tom Freeman
- 1951-1953: Studio One as John Peter Zenger/Winston Smith (3 episodes)
- 1952: Leave It To Larry as Larry Tucker
- 1952-1958: Schlitz Playhouse as Sheldon Black/Bill Carter/Randy Smith (4 episodes)
- 1953: Nothing But The Best as Host
- 1953-1956: Goodyear Playhouse as Ted/Narrator (2 episodes)
- 1953-1956: The Philco Television Playhouse as Charlie (2 episodes)
- 1953-1962: The United States Steel Hour as Jordan Blake/Sam Stover (4 episodes)
- 1954-1958: The Loretta Young Show as Max Asher/Tiger Tipton/Lionel Kent (3 episodes)
- 1954-1961: General Electric Theater as Louie Schmidt/Paul Mattson/Narrator (3 episodes)
- 1955: TV Readers Digest as Joey White
- 1955: Front Row Center as Dr. Jack Davidson
- 1955: The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater as R.J. Banning
- 1955: Robert Montgomery Presents as Jesse
- 1956: The Alcoa Hour as Ralph Grimes
- 1956-1957: Climax as David Adams/Barney Kanda/Gabe Douglas (3 episodes)
- 1956-1958: Zane Grey Theatre as Jess Matson/Jed Wiley/Sam Barlow/Bide Turley (4 episodes)
- 1957-1962: Wagon Train as Kurt Davos/John Darro (2 episodes)
- 1958: Studio 57 as Jim Hammond
- 1958: Goodyear Theatre as Calvin Lazarus
- 1958: Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse as Joe Minelli
- 1959: The David Niven Show as Adam Winter
- 1959: Laramie as Roany Bishop
- 1959: Riverboat as Dan Simpson
- 1959: Playhouse 90 as Oliver Erwenter/Leroy Dawson (2 episodes)
- 1960: Sunday Showcase as Guest
- 1961: Theatre 62 as Prof. Warren
- 1961: Frontier Circus as Dr. Payton Jordan
- 1961: Tales Of Wells Fargo as Bonzo Croydon
- 1962: Ben Casey as Gene Billstrom
- 1962: The New Breed as Walter Crowley
- 1962: Alcoa Premiere as Mark Evans
- 1962: The Virginian as Cal Kroeger
- 1963: Naked City as Earl Johannis
- 1963: The Du Pont Show Of The Week as Frank Foster
- 1963: Wide Country as Duke Donovan
- 1963: Sam Benedict as Lewis Wiley
- 1963: The Eleventh Hour as Ken Downer
- 1963: The Greatest Show On Earth as Frank Land
- 1963: Combat as Phil
- 1963: Dr. Kildare as Dr. Norman French
- 1964: The Lieutenant as Rodney Cameron O'Rourke
- 1964: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea as Dr. Fred Wilson
- 1964: Mr Novak as Charlie O'Rourke
- 1964: The Outer Limits as Andy Thorne
- 1964: The Reporter as Paul Pollard
- 1964: Rawhide as Taylor Dickson
- 1964: Kraft Suspense Theatre as Dr. Bert Andrews
- 1965: The Rogues as Gregg Roberts
- 1965: Burke's Law as Arthur J. Poindexter
- 1965: The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Brother Love
- 1965-1968: Petticoat Junction as Oliver Wendell Douglas (12 episodes)
- 1965-1971: Green Acres as Oliver Wendell Douglas/Charlie Foster/Various
- 1968: The Beverly Hillbillies as Oliver Wendell Douglas
- 1968: The Ed Sullivan Show as Dramatic Reader
- 1971: Columbo as Maj. Gen. Martin J. Hollister
- 1972: McCloud as Roy Erickson
- 1973: Heres Lucy as Eddie Albert
- 1974: Kung Fu as Dr. George Baxter
- 1974: The Lives Of Benjamin Franklin as 72-Year-Old Benjamin Franklin
- 1975-1978: Switch as Frank MacBride
- 1978: Evening At Byzantium as Brian Murphy
- 1978: The Word as Ogden Towery
- 1980: Beulah Land as Felix Kendrick
- 1981: The Fall Guy as John Cramer
- 1981: Goliath Awaits as Adm. Wiley Sloan
- 1982: The Magical World Of Disney as Jason O'Day
- 1983: Simon & Simon as Judge Elliott Morris Taylor
- 1983: The Love Boat as Dean Burton Lockwood
- 1985: Hotel as MacDonald 'Mack' Erickson
- 1986: Dress Gray as Judge Hand
- 1986: Highway to Heaven as Sen. Fritz McCorkindale
- 1987: Falcon Crest as Carlton Travis
- 1988: Murder, She Wrote as Jackson Lane
- 1988: The Twilight Zone as Roger Leeds
- 1988: War And Remembrance as Breckinridge Long
- 1989: thirtysomething as Charlie Weston
- 1990: The Ray Bradbury Theater as Jonathan Hughes
- 1993: Golden Palace as Bill Douglas
- 1993: The Jackie Thomas Show as Eddie Albert
- 1993: Time Trax as Noah
- 1993: General Hospital as Jack Boland
- 1993: Okavango The Wild Frontier as Uncle Bill Scofield
- 1996-1997: Spider-Man: The Animated Series as Adrian Toomes/Old Vulture (3 episodes)
- 1997: Extreme Ghostbusters as Old Ben
- 1997: California as Ben McKay
Short film roles
- 1936: NBCRCA Experimental Television Demonstration For The Press as The Love Nest (also writer)
- 1968: Mouse On The Mayflower as Capt. Standish
- 1972: The Lorax as Narrator
- 1981: Living In Paradise as Vincent Slattery
- 1994: Headless as Sheriff George
Producer
- 1946: Human Beginnings (short)
- 1946: Human Growth (short)
