Eddie Albert Birthday, Real Name, Age, Weight, Height, Family, Facts, Death Cause, Contact Details, Girlfriend(s), Bio & More

He was an American actor and an activist, He was nominated for best supporting actor in Roman holiday (1954) and the heartbreak kid (1973) for the academy award. He gave his appearance in several movies, and some of his best-known screen roles were, Bing Edwards in the "Brother Rat", Ali Hakim as a traveling salesman in the "Oklahoma" and in 1974 he played the role of a sadistic prison warden in "The Longest Yard".

Early Career

He started his business after graduation but his business collapse after a stock market crash in 1929. He started working as a trapeze performer, an insurance salesman, and a nightclub singer. In 1933, he shifted to New York and get the work in radio and hosted a show "The Honeymooners: Grace and Eddie Show" and was also offered a film by Warner Bros at the end of the show.

On stage

In the 1930's, he worked on Broadway plays like Brother Rat and had a lead role in Room Service (1937-1938) and The Boys from Syracuse (1938-1939). He takes a break from the stage and returns to Broadways in 1950 for performing the role in Miss Liberty (1949-1950) and The Seven Year Itch (1952-1955). He had a lead role in the Broadway production of The Music Man as Professor Harold Hill.

Regional theater

In 1955 He plays Reuben in Marc Blitzstein's Reuben in Boston. He has also worked in The Muny Theater in St. Louis and reprises his role of Harold Hill in The Music Man in 1966 and was Alfred P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady in 1968.

Television

He was one among earliest television actors who perform live in one of RCA's first television broadcasts. He wrote first teleplay, The Love Nest and also had a starring role in it.He also had a lead role in The Boys from Syracuse in 1938.He had a guest-appearance in about 90 television series. Also, work for other roles like 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.In 1959, he works in the episode "The Unwilling" of the NBC Western series Riverboat as businessman Dan Simpson.

Film

In 1938,He got his first film break in the Hollywood version of Brother Rat in which he reprises his role as cadet "Bing" Edwards and in 1939,he had a starring role in On Your Toes. He was Lucille Ball's fiance in The Fuller Brush Girl in 1950,act as Bill Gorton in The Sun Also Rises in 1957.

Military

He was a secret agent of US Army before World War II, and toured Mexico as a clown and high-wire artist with the Escalante Brothers Circus and taken the photographs of German U-boats in Mexican harbors.In 1943,he was discharged from the post of United States Coast Guard and was appointed as a lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Reserve.