![]() And in fact, he ended up using his middle name as his last name because he was tired of being called “Hamburger.” What’s more, his original last name was Heimberger, so when the US joined the Allies during World War I, he was called the enemy. His childhood was not without incident his birthdate is often listed incorrectly, because his mother had his birth certificate changed to cover up that he was illegitimate. He basically acted for a full lifetime and then some. On the movie end, he started in the Reagan-Wyman Brother Rat in 1938 and finished out as the narrator of Death Valley Memories in 1994. He was in one of those experimental TV broadcasts in 1936, and his last TV roles were sixty years later, including on the great animated Spider-Man show of my youth. He was even still acting almost to the end. He led a busy activist life, and in fact he still exercised even after his Alzheimer’s diagnosis and lived to be 99, which is pretty impressive all the way around. He helped produce sex ed films in the ’40s. He was a dedicated conservationist, personally examining the effects of DDT on pelican populations. Albert had been a hero at Tarawa-he rescued 47 Marines and helped rescue thirty more-and that let him keep his career, but his wife Margo’s seems to have never recovered. Though apparently, he hated the movie, which I don’t get.Īctually, like Trumbo, Albert came up against the blacklist. ![]() Part of that is the delightful Dalton Trumbo script, but it’s also Albert’s performance, which I don’t think gets talked about often enough. He takes a lesser role, one that is kind of the definition of supporting, and steals any number of scenes from Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn. On the other hand, I don’t much like Green Acres, and the performance of Eddie Albert’s that I talk about most is his performance in Roman Holiday, so I suppose there’s that. I think one of the losses of syndication is that we don’t talk as much about fine actors whose best works were on TV decades ago. ![]()
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