Eddie Albert

Eddie Albert has a TV star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on 6441 Hollywood Blvd. 1996, CD, Bear Family Records BCD 15 984 AH (http://www.bear-family.de/mailorder/showoneproduct.html?lang=&p=BCD+15984)
(contains both single tracks and the singing-merits of Pierre Brice as well). A partial filmography:. 1965, Single, Decca D 19 725. He was one of the first people calling for a ban on DDT and International Earth Day was designated on April 22, partly in honor of his birthday. His son Christopher Barker also became an actor. Albert is also very active in environmental concerns. He died three days after his 54th birthday of a heart attack in New York City.

Albert produced a number of educational films for children and also organized City Children's Farms, a program for creating gardens in inner cities. Barker continued to work in films until his last appearance in 1967's Woman Times Seven. He and his family help support Plaza de la Raza, a center for Hispanic arts and education. He was engaged at the time of his death to actress Karen Kondazian. Albert was active in a number of causes. He married five times:. Albert played the straight man to his co-star Eva Gabor and the rest of the cast in the series about an urban couple who moved to a surreal farming community. In 1966 Barker was awarded with the "Bambi Award" as "Best Foreign Actor" in Germany.

In 1965, Albert took the role of Oliver Wendall Douglas in the television sitcom Green Acres, which ran through 1971. (The co-star in some of Barker's Karl-May-movies, French actor Pierre Brice, also recorded in German language and even managed to get some CDs of his own.). The couple have two children: Edward, an actor like his parents; and Maria, a businesswoman. The tracks are named " Ich bin morgen auf dem Weg zu dir" (I'll be on the way to you tomorrow) and "Mädchen in Samt und Seide" (Girls in Velvet and Silk), the last one is said to have been very much liked by elderly ladies at that time. Albert married actress María Marguerita Guadelupe Boldao y Castilla (better known by her stage name Margo) on December 5, 1945 and they remained together until her death on July 17, 1985. He even recorded a single with the composer of some of the Karl-May-movie-soundtracks, Martin Boettcher, in German language. He was awarded the Bronze Star for his actions during the Battle of Tarawa in 1943, when he rescued a group of wounded Marines from under enemy fire. There he was playing the characters of Old Shatterhand, Kara Ben Nemsi and Dr. Sternau.

Albert served in the United States Navy during World War II as a Lieutenant. There he also starred in two movies based on the Doctor Mabuse-stories (formerly filmed by Fritz Lang) and in 13 movies based on novels by German author Karl May (1842-1912). In 1938, Albert made his film debut in Brother Rat, playing cadet 'Bing' Edwards, a role he had originally performed on the New York stage. In 1957, as he found it harder and harder to find work in American films, Lex moved to Europe and found popularity and starred in over forty European films, especially in Germany. In 1936, Albert became one of the first television actors when he performed live in RCA's first television broadcast, a promotion to their New York City radio stations. During this time he enlisted to fight in World War II and eventually rose to the rank of Major. After graduating from University of Minnesota, Albert pursued a show business career through jobs as a stage actor, nightclub singer and trapeze performer in a Mexican circus. He is best known as the tenth actor to play Tarzan in the movies, and starred in nearly thirty movies in the 1940s and 1950s.

Born as Edward Albert Heimberger in Rock Island, Illinois, Albert spent his early years in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Lex Barker (May 8, 1919 - May 11, 1973) was born Alexander Crichlow Barker, Jr. in Rye, New York. Eddie Albert (born April 22, 1908) is an American actor. Manfred Christ: Von Tarzan bis Old Shatterhand - Lex Barker und seine Filme, Günter Albert Ulmer Verlag, Tuningen, Germany, 1994, 288 pages - ISBN 3924191816. The Barefoot Executive (1995) Albert's appearance in this TV movie was his last performance before he retired. ISBN 3-896-024-442. Return to Green Acres (1990) A TV movie reunion from the series. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, Germany, 2003, 480 pages.

Brenda Starr (1989). Reiner Boller, Christina Böhme: Lex Barker - Die Biografie. Head Office (1985). Winnetou du warst mein Freund
. Dreamscape (1984). Ich bin morgen auf dem Weg zu dir / Mädchen wie Samt und Seide
. The Act (1982). Maria del Carmen Cervera (1965 - 1972) (divorce not valid, marriage ended with his death), who later became the fifth wife of Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza.

Yes, Giorgio (1982). Irene Labhardt (1957 - 1962) (marriage ended at her death). The Border (1979). Lana Turner (8 September 1953 - 22 July 1957) (divorced). The Concorde: Airport '79 (1979). Arlene Dahl (1951 - 1952) (divorced). Switch (1975-1978) TV series where Albert played a private investigator. Constanze Thurlow (1942 - 1950) (divorced).

Whiffs (1975). McQ (1974). The Longest Yard (1974). The Heartbreak Kid (1972) Albert received his second Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor.

Captain Newman, M.D. (1963). The Longest Day (1962). The Young Doctors (1961). The Joker Is Wild (1957).

The Sun Also Rises (1957). The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956). Attack! (1956) one of the first films in which Albert played a villain, he has said this was his favorite performance. I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955).

Oklahoma! (1955). Roman Holiday (1953) Albert was nominated for an Academy Award for best supporting actor. Leave It to Larry (1952) Albert first TV series. Carrie (1952).

Every Girl Should Be Married (1948). The Dude Goes West (1948). Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman (1947). Bombardier (1943).

The Wagons Roll at Night (1941). Four Mothers (1941). A Dispatch From Reuters (1940). On Your Toes (1939).

Four Wives (1939).