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Eddie Albert
Born
Edward Albert Heimberger

(1906-04-22)April 22, 1906
Rock Island, Illinois, U.S.
DiedMay 26, 2005(2005-05-26) (aged 99)
Pacific Palisades, California, U.S.
Cause of deathPneumonia
Resting placeWestwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, Los Angeles, California
Alma materUniversity of Minnesota
Occupation(s)Actor, singer, humanitarian, activist
Years active1933–97
Spouse(s)
​
(m. 1945⁠–⁠1985)​

(her death)
ChildrenEdward Albert
Maria Albert
Parent(s)Frank Daniel-Heimberge
Julia Jones
Military career
AllegianceUnited States of America
Service / branchUnited States Navy
Years of service1942–45
RankLieutenant
Battles / warsBattle of Tarawa
AwardsBronze Star Medal

Edward Albert Heimberger (April 22, 1906 – May 26, 2005), known professionally as Eddie Albert, was an American actor and activist. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1954 for his performance in Roman Holiday, and in 1973 for The Heartbreak Kid.

Other well-known screen roles of his include Bing Edwards in the Brother Rat films, traveling salesman Ali Hakim in the musical Oklahoma!, and the sadistic prison warden in 1974's The Longest Yard. He starred as Oliver Wendell Douglas in the 1960s television situation comedy Green Acres and as Frank MacBride in the 1970s crime drama Switch. He also had a recurring role as Carlton Travis on Falcon Crest, opposite Jane Wyman.

Early life

Edward Albert Heimberger was born in Rock Island, Illinois, on April 22, 1906, the oldest of the five children of Frank Daniel Heimberger, a realtor, and his wife Julia Jones.[1] 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 name 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.

Career

When he graduated, he 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, since it invariably was mispronounced as Hamburger. 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]

Albert and Grace Bradt applying makeup for their first TV appearance, November 1936.

Performing regularly on early television, Albert wrote and performed in the first teleplay, 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). Hosted by Betty Goodwin, The Love Nest starred Albert, Hildegarde, The Ink Spots, Ed Wynn, and actress Grace Brandt. Before this time television productions were adaptations of stage plays.[5]

In 1938, he 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]

Military

Prior to World War II, and before his film career, Albert had toured Mexico as a clown and high-wire artist with the Escalante Brothers Circus, but secretly worked for U.S. Army intelligence, photographing German U-boats in Mexican harbors.[7] 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 pilot of a U.S. Coast Guard landing craft, he rescued 47 Marines who were stranded offshore (and supervised the rescue of 30 others), while under heavy enemy machine-gun fire.[8]

As character actor

From 1948 on, Albert guest-starred in nearly ninety television series.[9] 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.

In 1959, Albert was cast as businessman Dan Simpson in the episode "The Unwilling" of the NBC western series Riverboat. In the story line, 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, as Darius, and John M. Picard is uncredited as a river pirate.[10]

On stage

The 1950s also saw a return to Broadway for Albert, including roles in Miss Liberty (1949–1950) and The Seven Year Itch (1952–1955). 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, reprising the Harold Hill role in The Music Man in 1966 and playing Alfred P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady in 1968.

Eddie Albert in I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955)

1950s and 1960s film career

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 Oscar 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), opposite Gregory Peck.

Television series

Leave It to Larry

Albert's first television series was Leave It to Larry, a CBS sitcom that aired in the 1952-1953 season, with Albert as Larry Tucker, a shoe salesman who lives with his young family in the home of his father-in-law and employer, played by Ed Begley. He guest starred on various series, including ABC's The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom as well as the Westinghouse Studio One series (CBS, 1953–54), playing Winston Smith in the first TV adaptation of 1984, by William Templeton.

The Eddie Albert Show

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, saying, "Mr. Albert with the help of Miss Hanley, conducts an interview, talks a little, sings a little and looks all-thumbs a lot."[11]

Saturday Night Revue

Beginning June 12, 1954, Albert was host of Saturday Night Revue, which replaced Your Show of Shows on NBC. The 9-10:30 p.m. (Eastern Time) program also featured Ben Blue and Alan Young and the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra.[12]

Guest appearances

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 entitled "Eleven Days to Zero."

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.

Green Acres

In 1965, Albert was approached by producer Paul Henning to star in a new sitcom for CBS called Green Acres. His character, Oliver Wendell Douglas, was a lawyer who left the city to enjoy a simple life as a farmer. Co-starring on the show was Eva Gabor as his urbanite, spoiled wife. The show was an immediate hit, achieving fifth place in the ratings in its first season.

Switch

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 adventure/crime drama 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 canceled after 70 episodes.

Television specials

Eddie Albert appears in a number of television specials. His first was the 1956 made-for-television NBC documentary Our Mr. Sun, a Bell Telephone-produced color special.[13] Directed by Frank Capra, it blends live action and animation. Albert appears with Dr. Frank Baxter, who appears in several other Bell Telephone science specials.

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 and is now available as a Warners Archive DVD. The host sequences and the narration, all included on the DVD, 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).[14]

In 1968, he voiced Myles Standish in the Rankin/Bass Animated TV special The Mouse on the Mayflower.

Later work

In 1971, Albert guest-starred in a Season 1 Columbo episode called Columbo: Dead Weight with special guest star Suzanne Pleshette as a retired US Marine Corps Major General from the Korean War who shot his adjunct to cover up a Quid pro quo contracting 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 Co$t of Living (1980), Yesterday (1981), Take This Job and Shove It (1981), Goliath Awaits (1981 television film), Rooster (1982 television film), and Yes, Giorgio (1982), and as the US President in Dreamscape (1984). His final feature film role was a cameo appearance in The Big Picture (1989).

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 soap opera Falcon Crest. He also guest-starred on an episode of the '80s 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 ABC daytime soap opera General Hospital as Jack Boland, and also made a guest appearance on the Golden Girls spin-off The Golden Palace the same year.

Hollywood blacklist

Eddie Albert's wife, the Mexican actress Margo, was well known in Hollywood for her far-left political leanings.[15] Though not herself a Communist, Margo was well-acquainted with several members of the American Communist Party.[16] As a result, in 1950, Albert's name was published in Red Channels, an anti-Communist pamphlet that sought to expose purported Communist influence within the entertainment industry.[17][18]

By 1951, those identified in Red Channels were blacklisted across much or all of the movie and broadcast industries unless and until they cleared their names, the customary requirement being that they testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).

Additional hearings in 1951-52 generated the bulk of the blacklist, which was then used by the industry on both coasts to control who was hired. In addition, the 1950 publication Red Channels listed 151 suspects, and hearings on a smaller scale continued through the decade. Friendly witnesses included actors Lloyd Bridges, Lee J. Cobb, Gary Cooper, Robert Montgomery, Ronald Reagan, and Robert Taylor; studio heads Walt Disney, Louis B. Mayer, and Jack Wagner; and director Elia Kazan (whose compliance generated controversy over honoring him in the 1990s). Among the hundreds named were Eddie Albert, Richard Attenborough, Lucille Ball (who testified but satisfied the committee without naming others), Will Geer, Charlie Chaplin, Howard da Silva, Lee Grant, Lillian Hellman, Kim Hunter, Norman Lloyd, Arthur Miller, Zero Mostel, Dorothy Parker, Paul Robeson, and Lionel Stander. The results were devastating for many on the list. Some changed careers while others left the United States or, if screenwriters, worked under pseudonyms and used "fronts" to sell their scripts.[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. ~ Eddie Albert, quoted in Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography[19]

Albert's son spoke of his parents' blacklisting in an interview published in December 1972, crediting Albert's 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.[20]

While Albert's career survived the blacklist, his wife, Margo, had extreme difficulty finding work.[21]

Activism and interests

Albert was active in social and environmental causes, especially from the 1970s onward. 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.[22] He narrated and starred in a 1970 film promoting the views of Weyerhaeuser, a major international forestry products concern.[23]

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

Albert was national chairman for the Boy Scouts of America's conservation program and founded the Eddie Albert World Trees Foundation. 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".[29]

Albert was also a director of the U.S. Council on Refugees[30][31] and participated in the creation of Earth Day and spoke at its inaugural ceremony in 1970.[24]

Personal life

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 (4,000 square meters) 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. Eddie Albert was left handed.

Last years and death

Eddie Albert's grave

Albert suffered from Alzheimer's disease in his last years.[32][33][34] His son put his acting career aside to care for his father. Despite his illness, Albert exercised regularly until shortly before his death. Eddie Albert died of pneumonia on May 26, 2005 at the age of 99 at his home in Pacific Palisades. He was interred at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, next to his late wife and close to his Green Acres co-star Eva Gabor.

Albert's son, Edward Jr. (1951–2006), was an actor, musician, singer, and linguist/dialectician.[35] Edward Jr. died at age 55, one year after his father. He had been suffering from lung cancer for 18 months.

For contributions to the television industry, Eddie Albert was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6441 Hollywood Boulevard.[36]

Filmography

Film
Year Film Role Notes
1938 Brother Rat 'Bing' Edwards
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 The Great Mr. Nobody Robert 'Dreamy' Smith
1941 Four Mothers Clinton Forrest, Jr.
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 aka 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 Hit Parade of 1947 Kip Walker
1947 Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman Steve Nelson
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
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 Actor's and Sin Orlando Higgens (segment "Woman of Sin")
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
1963 Combat Phil episode Doughboy
1965 The Party's Over Ben
1966 7 Women Charles Pether - Mission Teacher
1971 Columbo: Dead Weight Major Gen Martin Hollister opposite Suzanne Plechette
1972 The Heartbreak Kid Mr. Corcoran
1974 McQ Kosterman
1974 The Take Chief Berrigan
1974 The Longest Yard Warden Hazen
1975 Escape to Witch Mountain
1975 The Devil's Rain
1975 Whiffs
1975 Hustle
1976 Moving Violation
1977 Birch Interval
1978 Crash
1979 Border Cop
1979 The Concorde ... Airport '79
1980 How to Beat the High Co$t of Living
1980 Foolin' Around
1981 Yesterday
1981 Take This Job and Shove It
1981 Goliath Awaits television film
1982 The Act
1982 Yes, Giorgio
1984 Dreamscape
1985 Stitches
1985 Head Office
1987 Turnaround
1989 Brenda Starr
1989 The Big Picture Cameo
1989 thirtysomething
1990 Return to Green Acres
1993 General Hospital
1994 Headless! short subject
1994 Death Valley Memories narrator documentary

References

  1. ^ Eddie Albert profile at FilmReference.com
  2. ^ "'Green Acres' star Eddie Albert dies at 99". Associated Press. May 28, 2005. Retrieved May 1, 2010.
  3. ^ The 1926 Centralian yearbook for Minneapolis Central High School
  4. ^ a b Holley, Joe (28 May 2005). "Eddie Albert, Star of 'Green Acres,' Dies at 99". The Washington Post. Retrieved 17 June 2015. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  5. ^ Gary R Edgerton, The Columbia History of American Television, Columbia University Press, 2007, p. 53; ISBN 978-0-231-12164-4
  6. ^ Nugent, Frank S. (21 October 1939). "Mirele Efros (1938) THE SCREEN; 'On Your Toes,' From the Rodgers and Hart Library, Opens at the Strand--'Mirele Efros' at Cameo At the Cameo At the 86th St. Garden Theatre At the 48th Street Theatre At the Modern Playhouse". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 June 2015. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  7. ^ >"Organic Eddie", Grand Times, 1996
  8. ^ Profile of Albert's WWII exploits
  9. ^ "Eddie Albert". IMDb. Retrieved 2010-07-20.
  10. ^ ""The Unwilling", Riverboat, October 11, 1959". Internet Movie Data Base. Retrieved February 20, 2013.
  11. ^ "In Review: The Eddie Albert Show" (PDF). Broadcasting. March 9, 1953. p. 14. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
  12. ^ "In Review: Saturday Night Revue" (PDF). Broadcasting. June 21, 1954. p. 14. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
  13. ^ Our Mr. Sun, a Bell Telephone TV special starring Eddie Albert
  14. ^ Der Nußknacker at IMDb
  15. ^ Colacello, Bob. Ronnie and Nancy: Their Path to the White House--1911 to 1980 Grand Central Publishing, 2004
  16. ^ Lawrence, Greg. Dance with Demons: The Life Jerome Robbins Penguin, 2001
  17. ^ Walker, William T. McCarthyism and the Red Scare: A Reference Guide pp. 24-25 ABC-CLIO, 2011
  18. ^ a b DiMare, Philip C. Movies in American History: An Encyclopedia, Volume 1 p. 973 ABC-CLIO, 2011
  19. ^ Price, Victoria. Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography. Open Road Media, 2014 [1]
  20. ^ Brown, Gene. The New York Times Encyclopedia of Film: 1972-1974 Time Books, 1984
  21. ^ Price, Victoria. Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography Open Road Media, 2014 [2]
  22. ^ Playground Daily News (Fort Walton Beach, Florida), March 20, 1970.
  23. ^ Williams, Ted. The Insightful Sportsman, Camden, Maine: Down East Books, 1996
  24. ^ a b c Congressional Record, July 18, 2005, Section 22
  25. ^ McKee, Brent (2005-05-28). "I Am A Child Of Television: Eddie Albert 1906-2005". Childoftv.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2010-07-20.
  26. ^ Excerpts of documentary about African malnutrition at Google Video
  27. ^ Pacific Palisades Post, June 2, 2005
  28. ^ Walters, Charles. "The Last Word", Acres USA, July 2005, Vol. 35, No. 7
  29. ^ Los Angeles Times, May 27, 2005.
  30. ^ Staff. "Hot Off The Press!". AVS Forum. Retrieved 2010-07-20.
  31. ^ "Eddie and Margo Albert Marriage Profile". Marriage.about.com. Retrieved 2010-07-20.
  32. ^ McLellan, Dennis (28 May 2005). "Eddie Albert, 99; Versatile Stage and Screen Actor Best Known for Role in 'Green Acres'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 30 August 2015. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  33. ^ Holley, Joe (28 May 2005). "Eddie Albert, Star of 'Green Acres,' Dies at 99". The Washington Post. Retrieved 30 August 2015. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  34. ^ McLellan, Dennis (28 May 2005). "Eddie Albert, 1906-2005: "Green Acres" star, WWII vet, activist". The Settle Times. Retrieved 30 August 2015. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  35. ^ "Edward Albert" profile at Internet Accuracy Project. "Edward Albert was also a photographer, sculptor, singer/songwriter, musician (guitar), and a linguist/dialectician who was fluent in French, Spanish, Portuguese and Mandarin Chinese."
  36. ^ "Hollywood Walk of Fame database". HWOF.com.

Further reading

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