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Eddie Albert

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Eddie Albert
Albert in 1975
Born
Edward Albert Heimberger

(1906-04-22)April 22, 1906
Rock Island, Illinois, U.S.
DiedMay 26, 2005(2005-05-26) (aged 99)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Resting placePierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary
Alma materUniversity of Minnesota
Occupations
  • Actor
  • singer
  • humanitarian
Years active1933–1997
Spouse
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(m. 1945; died 1985)​
Children2, including Edward Albert
Military career
Allegiance United States
Service / branch United States Coast Guard
United States Navy
Years of service1942–1945
Rank Lieutenant
Battles / warsWorld War II
Awards Bronze Star Medal
Signature

Edward Albert Heimberger (April 22, 1906 – May 26, 2005) was an American actor. He is known for his roles on stage and screen and received nominations for two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, and two Golden Globe Awards.

Albert made his acting debut with the film Brother Rat (1938). He went on to receive two Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nominations for his roles in Roman Holiday (1953), and The Heartbreak Kid (1972).[1] His other notable films roles include in Oklahoma! (1955), The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956), Captain Newman, M.D. (1963), The Longest Yard (1974), and Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)

He starred as Oliver Wendell Douglas in the television sitcom Green Acres from 1965 to 1971 and Return to Green Acres (1990). He also played Frank MacBride in the crime drama series Switch from 1975 to 1978. He also acted in Falcon Crest, The Carol Burnett Show and Columbo.[1]

Early life

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Edward Albert Heimberger was born in Rock Island, Illinois, on April 22, 1906, the eldest of the five children of Frank Daniel Heimberger, a real estate agent, and his wife, Julia Jones.[citation needed] His year of birth is often given as 1908, but this is incorrect. His parents were not married when Albert was born, and his mother altered his birth certificate after her marriage.[2]

When he was one year old, his family moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota. Young Edward secured his first job as a newspaper boy when he was only six. During World War I, his German surname led to taunts as "the enemy" by his classmates. He studied at Central High School in Minneapolis and joined the drama club. His schoolmate Harriet Lake (later known as actress Ann Sothern) graduated in the same class. Finishing high school in 1926,[3] he entered the University of Minnesota, where he majored in business.[citation needed] When he graduated, Albert embarked on a business career. However, the stock market crash in 1929 left him essentially unemployed. He then took odd jobs, working as a trapeze performer, an insurance salesman, and a nightclub singer. Albert stopped using his last name professionally because it invariably was mispronounced as "Hamburger".[citation needed]

Career

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1933–1949: Early roles and military

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Albert and Grace Bradt applying makeup for their first early experimental TV appearance in November 1936

He moved to New York City in 1933, where he co-hosted a radio show, The Honeymooners – Grace and Eddie Show, which ran for three years. At the show's end, he was offered a film contract by Warner Bros.[4] In the 1930s, Albert performed in Broadway stage productions, including Brother Rat, which opened in 1936. He had lead roles in Room Service (1937–1938) and The Boys from Syracuse (1938–1939). In 1936, Albert had also become one of the earliest television actors, performing live in one of RCA's first television broadcasts in association with NBC, a promotion for their New York City radio stations.[4]

Performing regularly on early television, Albert wrote and performed in the first teleplay, titled The Love Nest, written for television. Done live (not recorded on film), this production took place November 6, 1936 and originated in Studio 3H (now 3K) in the GE Building at Rockefeller Center (then called the RCA Building) in New York City and was broadcast over NBC's experimental television station W2XBS (now WNBC-TV). Hosted by Betty Goodwin, The Love Nest starred Albert, Hildegarde, The Ink Spots, Ed Wynn, and actress Grace Bradt. Before this time, television productions were adaptations of stage plays.[5] Albert landed the starring role in the 1938 Broadway musical The Boys from Syracuse, and met Burl Ives, who had a small role in the play. The two later briefly shared an apartment in the Beachwood Canyon community of Hollywood after Ives moved west the following year. Also in 1938, Albert made his feature-film debut in the Hollywood version of Brother Rat with Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman, reprising his Broadway role as cadet "Bing" Edwards. The next year, he starred in On Your Toes, adapted for the screen from the Broadway smash by Rodgers and Hart.[6]

On September 9, 1942, Albert enlisted in the United States Coast Guard and was discharged in 1943 to accept an appointment as a lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Reserve. He was awarded the Bronze Star with Combat "V" for his actions during the invasion of Tarawa in November 1943, when, as the coxswain of a US Navy landing craft, he rescued 47 Marines who were stranded offshore (and supervised the rescue of 30 others), while under heavy enemy machine-gun fire.[7] During the war years, Albert returned to films, starring in ones such as The Great Mr. Nobody, Lady Bodyguard, and Ladies' Day, as well as reuniting with Reagan and Wyman for An Angel from Texas and co-starring with Humphrey Bogart in The Wagons Roll at Night. After the war, he resumed appearing in leading roles, including 1947's Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman, with Susan Hayward. From 1948 on, Albert guest-starred in nearly 90 television series. He made his guest-starring debut on an episode of The Ford Theatre Hour. This part led to other roles such as Chevrolet Tele-Theatre, Suspense, Lights Out, Schlitz Playhouse of Stars, Studio One, Philco Television Playhouse, Your Show of Shows, Front Row Center, The Alcoa Hour, and in dramatic series The Eleventh Hour, The Reporter, and General Electric Theater.

1950–1969: Leading man roles

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Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, and Albert in Roman Holiday (1953)

In his first TV series,[8] Albert portrayed Larry Tucker on the situation comedy Leave It to Larry, which ran from October 14, 1952, until December 23, 1952, on CBS. Tucker was a married man who encountered his father-in-law at work and at home.[9] Albert had his own daytime variety program, The Eddie Albert Show, on CBS television in 1953. Singer Ellen Hanley was a regular on the show. A review in Broadcasting magazine panned the program, writing "Mr. Albert, with the help of Miss Hanley, conducts an interview, talks a little, sings a little, and looks all-thumbs a lot."[10] Beginning June 12, 1954, Albert was host of Saturday Night Revue, which replaced Your Show of Shows on NBC. The 9:00–10:30 pm (Eastern Time) program also featured Ben Blue and Alan Young and the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra.[11]

The 1950s also had a return to Broadway for Albert, including roles in Miss Liberty (1949–1950) and The Seven Year Itch (1952–1955). In 1959, Albert was cast as businessman Dan Simpson in the episode "The Unwilling" of the series Riverboat. In the story, Dan Simpson attempts to open a general store in the American West despite a raid from pirates on the Mississippi River, who stole from him $20,000 in merchandise. Debra Paget is cast in this episode as Lela Russell; Russell Johnson is Darius, and John M. Picard is uncredited as a river pirate. He guest-starred on various series, including ABC's The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom, and the Westinghouse Studio One series (CBS, 1953–54), playing Winston Smith in the first TV adaptation of 1984, by William Templeton.[citation needed]

Barbara Lawrence and Albert in Oklahoma! (1955)

In the 1950s, Albert appeared in film roles such as that of Lucille Ball's fiancé in The Fuller Brush Girl (1950), Bill Gorton in The Sun Also Rises (1957), and a traveling salesman in Carrie (1952). He was nominated for his first Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor with Roman Holiday (1953). In Oklahoma! (1955), he played a womanizing Persian peddler, and in Who's Got the Action? (1962), he portrayed a lawyer helping his partner (Dean Martin) cope with a gambling addiction. In Teahouse of the August Moon (1956), he played a psychiatrist with an enthusiasm for farming. He appeared in several military roles, including The Longest Day (1962), about the Normandy invasion. The film Attack (1956) provided Albert with a dark role as a cowardly, psychotic Army captain whose behavior threatens the safety of his company. In a similar vein, he played a psychotic United States Army Air Force colonel in Captain Newman, M.D. (1963), with Gregory Peck. Albert acted in the 1956 special Our Mr. Sun opposite Dr. Frank Baxter directed by Frank Capra.[12]

In 1960, Albert replaced Robert Preston in the lead role of Professor Harold Hill, in the Broadway production of The Music Man. Albert also performed in regional theater. He created the title role of Marc Blitzstein's Reuben, Reuben in 1955 in Boston. He performed at The Muny Theater in St. Louis, Missouri, reprising the Harold Hill role in The Music Man in 1966 and playing Alfred P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady in 1968. In 1962, Albert appeared as Cal Kroeger on the TV Western The Virginian in the episode titled "Impasse". In 1964, Albert guest-starred in "Cry of Silence", an episode of the science-fiction television series The Outer Limits. Albert played Andy Thorne, who along with his wife Karen (played by June Havoc), had decided to leave the city and buy a farm (a recurring theme in Albert's career). They find themselves lost and in the middle of a deserted valley, where they come under attack by a series of tumbleweeds, frogs, and rocks. Also in 1964, he guest-starred as a government agent in the pilot episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea titled "Eleven Days to Zero". Albert appeared as Taylor Dickson, a western photographer in season seven, episode 11 as “The Photographer” in Rawhide, alongside Clint Eastwood (Rowdy Yates) aired December 11, 1964.

Albert and Eva Gabor on Green Acres

Albert was cast as Charlie O'Rourke in the 1964 episode "Visions of Sugar Plums" of the NBC education drama series, Mr. Novak, starring James Franciscus. Bobby Diamond, formerly of the Fury series, also appeared in this episode. In 1965, Albert was approached by producer Paul Henning to star in a sitcom for CBS titled Green Acres. His character, Oliver Wendell Douglas, was a lawyer who left the city to enjoy a simple life as a gentleman farmer. Co-starring on the show was Eva Gabor as his wife Lisa. The show was an immediate hit, achieving fifth place in the ratings in its first season. The series lasted six seasons with 170 episodes. In 1968, Albert was a guest on The Carol Burnett Show episode six. He played Harvey Korman's boss in an episode of "Carol and Sis", and sang.

1970–1995: Established actor

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After a four-year absence from the small screen, and upon reaching age 69 in 1975, Albert signed a new contract with Universal Television, and starred in the popular 1970s series Switch for CBS as a retired police officer, Frank McBride, who goes to work as a private detective with a former criminal he had once jailed. In its first season, Switch was a hit. By late 1976, the show had become a more serious and traditional crime drama. At the end of its third season in 1978, ratings began to drop, and the show was cancelled after 70 episodes. In 1965, the year that Green Acres premiered, Albert served as host/narrator for the telecast of a German-American made-for-television film version of The Nutcracker, which was rerun several times. The host sequences and the narration were especially filmed for English-language telecasts of this short film (it was only an hour in length, and cut much from the Tchaikovsky ballet).[citation needed] In 1968, he voiced Myles Standish in the Rankin/Bass animated TV special The Mouse on the Mayflower. [citation needed]

In 1971, Albert guest-starred in a season-one Columbo episode titled "Dead Weight" as a highly decorated retired US Marine Corps major general, and combat war hero from the Korean War, who murders his adjutant to cover up an illegal contracting conspiracy scheme. In 1972, Albert resumed his film career and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as an overprotective father in The Heartbreak Kid (1972), and delivered a memorable performance as an evil prison warden in 1974's The Longest Yard. In a lighter vein, Albert portrayed the gruff though soft-hearted Jason O'Day in the successful Disney film Escape to Witch Mountain in 1975.

Albert appeared in such 1980s films as How to Beat the High Cost of Living (1980), Yesterday (1981), Take This Job and Shove It (1981), Rooster (1982 television film), and Yes, Giorgio (1982), and as the US president in Dreamscape (1984). His final film role was a cameo in The Big Picture (1989). He also appeared in many all-star television miniseries, including Evening in Byzantium (1978), The Word (1978), Peter and Paul (1981), Goliath Awaits (1981), and War and Remembrance (1988). In 1982, Albert sang the character role of the elderly Altoum in the San Francisco Opera staging of Puccini's Turandot.[13] In the mid-1980s, Albert was reunited with longtime friend and co-star of the Brother Rat and An Angel from Texas films, Jane Wyman, in a recurring role as the villainous Carlton Travis in the popular 1980s series Falcon Crest. He also guest-starred on an episode of the 1980s television series Highway to Heaven, as well as Murder, She Wrote, and in 1990, he reunited with Eva Gabor for a Return to Green Acres. In 1993, he guest-starred for several episodes on the daytime soap opera General Hospital as Jack Boland, and he made a guest appearance on the Golden Girls spin-off The Golden Palace the same year.

Hollywood blacklist

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Eddie Albert's wife, Mexican actress Margo, was well known in Hollywood for her left-wing political leanings,[14] but she was not a member of the Communist Party.[15] In 1950, Margo and Albert's names were both published in "Red Channels", an anti-Communist pamphlet that sought to expose purported Communist influence within the entertainment industry.[16][17] This was part of a larger trend of blacklisting motion-picture professionals whose known or suspected Communist leanings, unless they testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee to disavow any Communist affiliations.[17]

Albert's son spoke of his parents' blacklisting in an interview published in December 1972, crediting Albert's military service during World War II with ultimately saving his career:

My mom was blacklisted for appearing at an anti-Franco rally; she was branded a Communist, was spat upon in the streets, and had to have a bodyguard. And my dad found himself unemployable at several major studios, just when his career was gathering momentum. During the Second World War, dad joined the Navy and saw action at Tarawa, and because he came back something of a hero, he was able to get work again, but he never got as far as he should have gotten.[18]

Albert later spoke of this period: "Everyone was so full of fear. Many people couldn't support their families, or worse, their lives were ruined and they had to go out and do menial jobs. Some even killed themselves."[19] While Albert's career survived the blacklist, his wife, Margo, had extreme difficulty finding work.[19]

Personal life

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Marriage and family

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Albert married Mexican actress Margo (née María Margarita Guadalupe Teresa Estela Bolado Castilla y O'Donnell) in 1945. Albert and Margo had a son, Edward Jr., also an actor, and adopted a daughter, Maria, who became her father's business manager. Margo Albert died from brain cancer on July 17, 1985. The Alberts lived in Pacific Palisades, California in a Spanish-style house on an acre of land with a cornfield in front. Albert grew organic vegetables in a greenhouse and recalled how his parents had a "liberty garden" at home during World War I.

Albert's son, Edward Jr. (1951–2006), was an actor, musician, singer, and linguist/dialectician.[20] Edward Jr. died at age 55, one year after his father. He had been suffering from lung cancer for 18 months.[citation needed]

Activism and interests

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Albert was active in social and environmental causes, especially from the 1970s onward. In 1970, Albert participated in the creation of Earth Day and spoke at one of its events in that year.[21]

Albert founded the Eddie Albert World Trees Foundation and was national chairman for the Boy Scouts of America's conservation program. He was a trustee of the National Recreation and Park Association and a member of the U.S. Department of Energy's advisory board. TV Guide called him "an ecological Paul Revere".[22]

He was special envoy for Meals for Millions and consultant for the World Hunger Conference.[21] He joined Albert Schweitzer in a documentary about African malnutrition.[23][24] and fought agricultural and industrial pollution, particularly DDT.[21] Albert promoted organic gardening, and founded City Children's Farms for inner-city children,[25] while supporting eco-farming and tree planting.[26] Albert was also a director of the U.S. Council on Refugees.[27][28]

Beginning in the 1940s, Eddie Albert Productions produced films for various US corporations, as well as documentaries such as Human Beginnings (a for-its-time controversial sex-education film) and Human Growth.[29]

In 1971 he starred in an industrial film sponsored and promoted by a major logging and forest products concern called Weyerhaeuser Company.[30][31] which emphasized the Pacific Northwest. Shot partly amid old growth timber and narrated solely by Albert, the film documented industrial methods of handling such trees for market. It also shows re-planted clear cuts and emphasized "the need for advanced lumber production in response to rapidly increasing population," according to the Texas Archive of the Moving Image.[32]

Illness and death

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Albert's grave

Albert was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 1995.[22][4][33] His son put aside his acting career to care for his father. Albert exercised regularly until shortly before his death. Eddie Albert died of pneumonia on May 26, 2005, at the age of 99 in his home in Pacific Palisades, California.[1] He was interred at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, next to his late wife and near his Green Acres co-star Eva Gabor.[citation needed] For contributions to the television industry, Eddie Albert was honored on February 8, 1960, with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6441 Hollywood Boulevard.[34]

Acting credits

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Film

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Film appearances of Eddie Albert
Year Title Role Notes
1938 Brother Rat "Bing" Edwards Film debut
1939 On Your Toes Phil Dolan Jr.
1939 Four Wives Dr. Clinton Forrest Jr.
1940 Brother Rat and a Baby "Bing" Edwards
1940 An Angel from Texas Peter Coleman
1940 My Love Came Back Dusty Rhodes
1940 A Dispatch from Reuter's Max Wagner
1941 Four Mothers Clinton Forrest Jr.
1941 The Great Mr. Nobody Robert "Dreamy" Smith
1941 The Wagons Roll at Night Matt Varney
1941 Thieves Fall Out Eddie Barnes
1941 Out of the Fog George Watkins
1942 Treat 'Em Rough Bill Kingsford / The Panama Kid
1942 Eagle Squadron Leckie
1943 Lady Bodyguard Terry Moore
1943 Ladies' Day Wacky Waters
1943 Bombardier Tom Hughes
1946 Strange Voyage Chris Thompson
1946 Rendezvous with Annie Cpl. Jeffrey Dolan
1947 The Perfect Marriage Gil Cummins
1947 Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman Steve Nelson
1947 Hit Parade of 1947 Kip Walker
1947 Time Out of Mind Jake Bullard
1947 Unconquered Barker Scenes deleted
1948 The Dude Goes West Daniel Bone
1948 You Gotta Stay Happy Bullets Baker
1948 Every Girl Should Be Married Harry Proctor/"Old" Joe Cameo; uncredited
1950 The Fuller Brush Girl Humphrey Briggs
1951 You're in the Navy Now Lt. Bill Baron
1951 Meet Me After the Show Chris Leeds
1952 Actors and Sin Orlando Higgens
1952 Carrie Charles Drouet
1953 Roman Holiday Irving Radovich
1955 The Girl Rush Elliot Atterbury
1955 Oklahoma! Ali Hakim
1955 I'll Cry Tomorrow Burt McGuire
1956 Attack! Capt. Erskine Cooney
1956 The Teahouse of the August Moon Capt. McLean
1957 The Sun Also Rises Bill Gorton
1957 The Joker Is Wild Austin Mack
1958 Orders to Kill Major MacMahon
1958 The Gun Runners Hanagan
1958 The Roots of Heaven Abe Fields
1959 Beloved Infidel Bob Carter
1961 Madison Avenue Harvey Holt Ames
1961 The Young Doctors Dr. Charles Dornberger
1962 The Two Little Bears Harry Davis
1962 The Longest Day Col. Thompson
1962 Who's Got the Action? Clint Morgan
1963 Miracle of the White Stallions Rider Otto
1963 Captain Newman, M.D. Col. Norval Algate Bliss
1965 The Party's Over Ben
1966 7 Women Charles Pether
1972 The Heartbreak Kid Mr. Corcoran
1973 The Borrowers Pod Clock
1974 McQ Kosterman
1974 The Take Chief Berrigan
1974 The Longest Yard Warden Hazen
1975 Escape to Witch Mountain Jason O'Day
1975 The Devil's Rain Dr. Sam Richards
1975 Whiffs Colonel Lockyer
1975 Hustle Leo Sellers
1976 Birch Interval Pa Strawacher
1976 Moving Violation Alex Warren
1979 The Concorde ... Airport '79 Eli Sands
1979 Border Cop Moffat
1980 How to Beat the High Co$t of Living Max
1980 Foolin' Around Daggett
1981 Yesterday Bart Kramer
1981 Take This Job and Shove It Samuel Ellison
1982 Yes, Giorgio Henry Pollack
1984 The Act Harry Kruger
1984 Dreamscape The President
1985 Stitches Dean Bradley
1985 Head Office Pete Helmes
1987 Turnaround Theo
1989 The Big Picture M.C. Cameo
1989 Brenda Starr Police Chief Maloney
1994 Death Valley Memories Narrator Documentary
1994 Headless! Sheriff George Short film

Television

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Television appearances of Eddie Albert
Year Title Role Notes
1952 Leave It To Larry Larry Tucker TV series
1953 Westinghouse Studio One Winston Episode: "1984"
1955 A Connecticut Yankee Martin Barret Television film
1955 The Chocolate Soldier Bumerli Television film
1957–1962 Wagon Train Kurt Davos / Frank Elgin 2 episodes
1959 The Ballad of Louie the Louse Paul Hughes Television film
1961 Wells Fargo Bonzo TV series
1963 General Hospital Jack Boland TV series
1963 Combat! Phil Episode: "Doughboy"
1964 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Dr. Fred Wilson Episode: “11 Days to Zero”
1965–1971 Green Acres Oliver Wendell Douglas Main role; 170 episodes
1968 The Mouse on the Mayflower Capt. Standish Television film
1971 Columbo Major General Martin Hollister Episode: "Dead Weight"
1971 See The Man Run Dr. Thomas Spencer Television film
1972 The Lorax Narrator Animated television special
1975 Promise Him Anything Pop Television film
1975–1978 Switch Frank MacBride Main role; 71 episodes
1978 Evening in Byzantium Brian Murphy Television film
1978 Crash Capt. Dunn Television film
1978 The Word Ogden Towery TV miniseries
1981 The Oklahoma City Dolls Coach Homer Sixx Television film
1981 Peter and Paul Porcius Festus TV miniseries
1981 Goliath Awaits Adm. Wiley Sloan Television film
1982 Beyond Witch Mountain Jason O'Day Television film
1982 Rooster Rev. Harlan Barnum Television film
1983 The Demon Murder Case Father Dietrich Television film
1984 Burning Rage Will Larson Television film
1986 Dress Gray Judge Hand TV miniseries
1986 Highway To Heaven Corky McCorkindale Episode: "Jonathan Smith Goes to Washington"
1987 Mercy Or Murder? Joe Varon Television film
Falcon Crest Carlton Travis 4 episodes
1988 War and Remembrance Breckinridge Long TV miniseries; Part VI
The Twilight Zone Roger Leeds Episode: "Dream Me a Life"
Murder, She Wrote Jackson Lane Episode: "The Body Politic"
1989 Thirtysomething Charlie Weston Episode: "Elliot's Dad"
1990 Return to Green Acres Oliver Wendell Douglas Television film
1991 The Girl From Mars Dr. Charles Favender Television film
1993 Time Trax Noah Episode: "Treasure of the Ages"
1993 General Hospital Jack Boland 2 episodes
The Jackie Thomas Show Eddie Albert Episode: "One Flu Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
The Golden Palace Bill Douglas Episode: "Say Goodbye Rose"
Okavango: The Wild Frontier Uncle Bill 13 episodes
1995 The Barefoot Executive Herbert Gower Television film
1996–1997 Spider-Man Elderly Adrian Toomes/Vulture Voice; 3 episodes
1997 Extreme Ghostbusters Old Ben Voice; Episode: "The Jersey Devil"

Theater

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Theatre credits
Year Title Role Venue Ref.
1936 O Evening Star Ben Martin Empire Theatre, Broadway [35]
1936 Brother Rat Bing Edwards Biltmore Theatre, Broadway [36]
1937 Room Service Leo Davis Cort Theatre, Broadway [37]
1938 The Boys from Syracuse Antipholus of Syracuse Alvin Theatre, Broadway [38]
1949 Miss Liberty Horace Miller Imperial Theatre, Broadway [39]
1952 The Seven Year Itch Richard Sherman (replacement) Fulton Theatre, Broadway [40]
1957 The Music Man Harold Hill (replacement) Majestic Theatre, Broadway [41]
1958 Say, Darling Jack Darling (replacement) ANTA Theatre, Broadway [42]
1976 No Hard Feelings George Bartlett Martin Beck Theatre, Broadway [43]
1983 You Can't Take It With You Martin Vanderhof (replacement) Plymouth Theatre, Broadway [44]

Awards and nominations

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Year Association Category Project Result Ref.
1953 Academy Awards Best Supporting Actor Roman Holiday Nominated [45]
1954 BAFTA Award Best Foreign Actor Nominated [46]
1956 Golden Globe Awards Best Supporting Actor The Teahouse of the August Moon Nominated [47]
1972 Academy Awards Best Supporting Actor The Heartbreak Kid Nominated [48]
1972 National Society of Film Critics Best Supporting Actor Won [49]
1972 New York Film Critics Circle Best Supporting Actor Nominated [50]
1974 Golden Globe Awards Best Supporting Actor The Longest Yard Nominated [51]

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Further reading

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  • Wise, James. Stars in Blue: Movie Actors in America's Sea Services. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1997. ISBN 1557509379 OCLC 36824724
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