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 I don`t think I`m proud of anything in acting. Right now in California we gain 40,000 new acres of desert every year, with all the building and the people coming in... housing going up like crazy.
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You can forgive yourself a great deal.
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What`s the most important thing in the world? It`s love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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I was not really as good as I should have been.
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And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.
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I always thought I was a singer, but I really am not.
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[on his post-war career] I took everything they could throw at me, pictures like The Dude Goes West (1948) and The Fuller Brush Girl (1950). I worked myself back up, but I never wanted to be a star. I was aiming to play the star`s best friend.
[on why he accepted the role on "Green Acres" (1965)] Everyone gets tired of the rat race. Everyone would like to chuck it all and grow some carrots. It`s basic. Sign me. I knew it would be successful. Had to be. It`s about the atavistic urge, and people have been getting a charge out of that ever since Aristophanes wrote about the plebes and the city folk.
I don`t really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.
[on "Green Acres" (1965)] The comedy is like "Pickwick Papers", or "Gulliver`s Travels", or Voltaire. It`s so far out that it becomes truth, deep truth.
Trivia
He had 12 hobbies: jogging, swimming, golfing, world travel, organic gardening, sculpting, beekeeping, wine making, sailing, boating, reading and playing guitar.
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His son, Edward Albert Jr., died just over a year after his father, from lung cancer.
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Was very good friends with Jane Wyman, Eva Gabor, Shirley Jones and Gregory Peck.
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He wrote the first original drama for television in 1936 as well as writing dozens of small scripts for RCA.
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Buried not too far from his "Green Acres" (1965) co-star Eva Gabor at Westwood Memorial in Los Angeles, California.
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Turned down the lead series roles in "My Three Sons" (1960) and "Mister Ed" (1961) in order to actively pursue his movie career.
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His real name was Eddie Albert Heimberger. He changed his name early on while he was singing on radio with a trio. It seems the announcer kept introducing him as "Eddie Hamburger" so he dropped his last name and adopted his middle name as his last.
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Also presided over a game show and two variety shows in the early 1950s.
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Attended the University of Minnestoa where he studied drama.
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Father was a real estate agent.
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Son Edward Albert was his primary caregiver during his last years battling with Alzheimer`s disease. Was healthy and physically active a month before his death at age 99.
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He and his wife Margo, a Mexican actress/singer, whom he married after the war, had a nightclub act.
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Because of his his early work with environmental causes and groups, when International Earth Day was created, it was decided it must be held on April 22 because that was his birthday.
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Served in the United States Navy during WWII
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Father of actor Edward Albert and Maria Albert Zucht. Two granddaughters.
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WWII,US Navy. Drove Amtracks in several Pacific invasions. He served in the landings at Saipan in 1943, where he rescued wounded and stranded Marines from the beachhead. At Tarawa, he was wounded and lost most of his hearing and earned the Bronze Star.
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