Eddie Albert, Character Actor, Dies at 99

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Eddie Albert, Character Actor, Dies at 99



By MARGALIT FOX
Published: May 28, 2005
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.




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Eddie Albert in the 1960's as a lawyer turned farmer on "Green Acres."

Filmography: Eddie Albert

Forum: Television
The cause was pneumonia, his son, the actor Edward Albert Jr., told The Associated Press.

Mr. Albert, who was variously a singer, spy, sex educator, trapeze artist and circus clown, was best known as a character actor who specialized in light comedy. But he also tackled more serious roles, notably that of the sadistic prison warden in Robert Aldrich's film "The Longest Yard" (1974). A remake of the movie, starring Adam Sandler and Chris Rock, opened in theaters yesterday.

To television viewers, Mr. Albert was best known as the cosmopolitan lawyer Oliver Wendell Douglas, who with his jewel-encrusted wife (Eva Gabor) sets up hapless shop as a farmer on "Green Acres." In later years he appeared on "Falcon Crest," "General Hospital" and other shows.




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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/28/arts/television/28albe.html

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1. A wonderful man in so many ways -

his hispanic wife Margo, dancer, was red-baited in the 50's and Frank Sinatra sent guards to their NYC wedding which was threatened by McCarthy anticommunist fruitcakes -

He starred with Errol Flynn who regarded him as a true professional ... and also played in Our Mr. Sun, a Bell Telephone educational film from the 50's that advanced educational film and tv and taught science to schoolkids ..

Wife Margo was instrumental in starting Self Help Graphics in east LA, an institution that created high artistic standards and advanced the aspirations of artists in the hispanic community - (bigger story on this)... a major interest of EA's for his entire life ..

he was a wonderful person, warm, genial, generous, at ninety someone you would be thrilled to spend an evening with (as my wife and i were lucky enough to on the night Bill Clinton was re-elected) ..

a wonderful man, Eddie Albert, may generations be inspired by your example -

peace - but never give up the struggle -

che de vera

[murielm99]

2. Thank you for sharing your memories of him.

eom

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[izzie]

4. My but I have seen him in movies and TV for ever.

I think hew has always been around.

[MADem]

5. Awww, Green Acres was the place to be!!!!

Farm living is the life for me!
Land spreading out so far and wide!
Keep Manhattan, just gimme that countryside!

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6. locking

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