Eddie Albert, star of Green Acres, has died at 99

[edbermac]

On MSNBC website...a very funny show that I've been rewatching on TVLand...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8008804/

[PartyPooper]

1. This is so sad.

We'll all miss this wonderful and funny guy.

:-(

:cry:

[Gloria]

2. Oh, that's a shame! RIP, Mr. Albert.....

love you on Green Acres....

[flordehinojos]

3. he also played in ROMAN HOLIDAY with Gregory Peck & Audrey Hepburn.

He was the photographer.

[Desertrose]

4. He had a long life...he'll be missed...

My Dad would've been 96 today!!!!

I miss him ......:hug: Bob

[Rowdyboy]

5. Poor Oliver Wendell Douglas....

He was SOOOO funny

[LibDemAlways]

6. My husband's aunt worked for a while as

a personal secretary to Eddie Albert. She had nothing but kind words for him. RIP.

[brentspeak]

7. He was the warden in the original "Longest Yard"

Did a great job in a rare bad-guy role.

[LibDemAlways]

9. Also played the steely father who came

up against Charles Grodin in The Heartbreak Kid. "You are talking to a brick wall...a very wealthy brick wall."

[fob]

8. Rest In Peace and thank you for all the entertainment. The world is

a better place for your having been in it.

[Roland99]

10. He's off to greener pastures.

R.I.P.

[blitzen]

11. a brilliant "Renaissance man" and pioneering environmentalist

check out A& E Biography of him, Thinking Green

http://store.aetv.com/html/product/index.jhtml?id=18206

He was the original DUer: "From the mid-'40s, the actor had acquired a deep, personal interest in politics, and produced a series of educational films intended to introduce grade-school students to notions of democracy and tolerance. By the '60s, he was also deeply involved in the environmental movement." (New York Times)

[H2O Man]

12. It was a great show.

But how did Mr.Kimble and Mr. Haney get to be the president and vice president?

[bridgit]

13. Green acres is the place for me.

Farm livin' is the life for me.
Land spreadin' out so far and wide.
Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside.

New York is where I'd rather stay.
I get allergic smelling hay.
I just adore a penthouse view.
Dah-ling I love you but give me Park Avenue.

...The chores.
...The stores.
...Fresh air.
...Times Square

You are my wife.
Good bye, city life.
Green Acres we are there.

Eddie Albert

[BentleyJD]

14. I still love

repeats of Green Acres.

I really didn't realize he was 99.
My grandpa lived to be 99. Shame they didn't make it to centenarian (taking Psych. of Aging.)

I don't think a lot of people noticed the subtle satire of Green Acres in its day.
RIP Oliver Wendell Douglas, say Hi to Mr. Heney for me.
take care
tony and dietrich

[hyphenate]

15. I loved him!

And I've been thinking of him a lot lately as well. I knew he was very old, and was amazed at his long life.

He also served as Arbor Day Foundation chairman for years, and was quite prominent on Earth Day. I remember he did a brief cameo in one film (I think it was Soylent Green, but I don't remember exactly), at the very beginning as the president dedicating the last "tree" in the future.

He played very common sensical characters--he always had that hint of patriarch in his many roles, and it suited him well. His wife, Margo, passed on some years ago, and they'd been married for quite a long time.

He lived a very long, productive life, and is one of the more quiet heroes that this world has seen in a very long time.

[Kingshakabobo]

16. I just watched "The Longest Day" this morning.

His character got killed in the end. weird.

RIP Olivaaa

[chaumont58]

17. He was a coxswain in the bloody battle of Tarawa

Unlike chimpie, Mr Albert heard shots fired in anger.

[AlGore-08.com]

19. He got the Bronze Star for rescuing 70 Marines during the battle

He was also a broadway star, he played the lead in a number of important plays of the 1930s



RIP...

[tinfoilinfor2005]

18. He had the most sincere smile

made him very likeable. Now he and Eva can reminisce.

[blondeatlast]

20. Seemed like a truly honorable man. What a sad day.

RIP, Eddie.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

21. RIP, Eddie.

Too bad too many people remember him only for Green Acres. He was a very accomplished actor. But I loved Green Acres myself. What a funny, funny show.

Just this past week in Ireland, my sister-in-law and I were driving down a country road in Co. Down and saw a sign for "Green Acres Guesthouse". I just cracked up and when she asked me why I related the story of Green Acres. Obviously the owner of this guesthouse spent time in America.

May perpetual light shine upon Mr. Albert...