The two later briefly shared an apartment in the Beachwood Canyon community of Hollywood after Ives moved west the following year. Īlbert 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. Before this time, television productions were adaptations of stage plays. Hosted by Betty Goodwin, The Love Nest starred Albert, Hildegarde, The Ink Spots, Ed Wynn, and actress Grace Bradt. 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). Performing regularly on early television, Albert wrote and performed in the first teleplay, The Love Nest, written for television.
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Albert and Grace Bradt applying makeup for their first TV appearance in November 1936 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.
He had lead roles in Room Service (1937–1938) and The Boys from Syracuse (1938–1939). In the 1930s, Albert performed in Broadway stage productions, including Brother Rat, which opened in 1936. At the show's end, he was offered a film contract by Warner Bros. 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. Albert stopped using his last name professionally, since it invariably was mispronounced as "Hamburger". He then took odd jobs, working as a trapeze performer, an insurance salesman, and a nightclub singer. However, the stock market crash in 1929 left him essentially unemployed. When he graduated, Albert embarked on a business career. Finishing high school in 1926, he entered the University of Minnesota, where he majored in business. His schoolmate Harriet Lake (later known as actress Ann Sothern) graduated in the same class. He studied at Central High School in Minneapolis and joined the drama club. During World War I, his German name led to taunts as "the enemy" by his classmates. Young Edward secured his first job as a newspaper boy when he was only six. When he was one year old, his family moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota. His parents were not married when Albert was born, and his mother altered his birth certificate after her marriage.
His year of birth is often given as 1908, but this is incorrect. Early life Įdward 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. He also had a recurring role as Carlton Travis on Falcon Crest, opposite Jane Wyman.
He starred as Oliver Wendell Douglas in the 1960s television sitcom Green Acres and as Frank MacBride in the 1970s crime drama Switch. 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 was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor the first nomination came in 1954 for his performance in Roman Holiday, and the second in 1973 for The Heartbreak Kid. Edward Albert Heimberger (Ap– May 26, 2005) was an American actor and activist.
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