Eddie Albert passed away
 

This makes me very sad. He was the first celebrity I ever saw in person.

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'Green Acres' star Eddie Albert dies
Friday, May 27, 2005 Posted: 7:53 PM EDT (2353 GMT)

Actor Eddie Albert, who starred in TV's 'Green Acres' is dead at age 99.

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Eddie Albert, the actor best known as the constantly befuddled city slicker-turned-farmer in television's "Green Acres," has died. He was 99.

Albert died of pneumonia Thursday at his home in the Pacific Palisades area, in the presence of caregivers including his son Edward, who was holding his hand at the time.

"He died so beautifully and so gracefully that literally this morning I don't feel grief, I don't feel loss," Edward Albert told The Associated Press.

Albert achieved his greatest fame on "Green Acres" as Oliver Douglas, a New York lawyer who settles in a rural town with his glamorous wife, played by Eva Gabor, and finds himself perplexed by the antics of a host of eccentrics, including a pig named Arnold Ziffel.

He was nominated for Academy Awards as supporting actor in "Roman Holiday" (1953) and "The Heartbreak Kid" (1972).

The actor moved smoothly from the Broadway stage to movies to television. Besides the 1965-1971 run in "Green Acres," he costarred on TV with Robert Wagner in "Switch" from 1975 to 1978 and was a semi-regular on "Falcon Crest" in 1988.

He was a tireless conservationist, crusading for endangered species, healthful food, cleanup of Santa Monica Bay pollution and other causes.



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How sad......i use to love green acres growing up and would watch it time and time again on nick at night. that is pretty amazing he made it to 99 yrs old.

Another little-known fact of Eddie Albert: he was a landing craft officer shuttling supplies between ship and shore under heavy Japanese gunfire at the batte of Tarawa in WWII?

How come very little is known about this? He only recently revealed it in a documentary, secondly, he was then known as LCDR Edward Albert Heimberger, USNR - his real name.

:( I love Green Acres - it's a really funny show. Eddie Albert was the perfect straight man for the series.
(my friends used to say I would be just like Eva Gabor if I lived in the country. I'm such a city girl.)