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Eddie Albert Eddie Albert started out as a soda jerk, then sang in a 1930's pop trio called Threesome. He first gained notoriety on Broadway in Brother Rat and Room Service. (without the Marx brothers) His Hollywood career started with the film adaptation of Brother Rat with Ronald Reagan, and was interrupted by a stint in the Navy during WWII. Albert was a genuine war hero. A thousand Americans and 4,800 Japanese lives were lost in the bloody battle at Tarawa, a Pacific island, and Albert fought in the first wave of the three day combat. Afterward, he was ordered to salvage usable military equipment off the battlefield, and won his Bronze Star for finding and rescuing wounded men instead. Men who'd been abandoned under heavy fire. He was nominated for Oscars as Gregory Peck's pal with a camera in "Roman Holiday" (1953), and as a deranged military officer in "Attack" with Jack Palance and Lee Marvin. But Eddie Albert will always be remembered for his role as the exasperated Oliver Douglas, lawyer turned farmer, in the TV show "Green Acres".