Personal Info
Birth date
1907-06-16 (118 Years)
Day of death
1981-11-25
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Malden, Massachusetts, USA
Also known as
Harold Albertson
Jack Albertson
Biography
Jack Albertson (June 16, 1907 – November 25, 1981) was an American character actor dating to vaudeville. A comedian, dancer, singer, and musician, Albertson is perhaps best known for his roles as Manny Rosen in The Poseidon Adventure (1972), Grandpa Joe in the 1971 version of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Amos Slade in the 1981 animated film "The Fox and the Hound" (1981), and as Ed Brown in the 1974-1978 television sitcom Chico and the Man. For contributions to the television industry, Jack Albertson was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6253 Hollywood Boulevard. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Albertson, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.Ironside
6.8
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When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to the police department. Detective Sergeant Ed Brown and policewoman Eve Whitfield join with him to crack varied and fascinating cases. Ex-con Mark Sanger is employed by the chief as home help but eventually becomes a fully fledged member of the team also. Officer Whitfield leaves after 4 years service, and is replaced by Officer Fran Belding.The Andy Griffith Show
7.633
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The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife, a spinster aunt and housekeeper, Aunt Bee, and a precocious young son, Opie. Local ne'er-do-wells, bumbling pals, and temperamental girlfriends further complicate his life. Andy Griffith stated in a Today Show interview, with respect to the time period of the show: "Well, though we never said it, and though it was shot in the '60s, it had a feeling of the '30s. It was when we were doing it, of a time gone by." The series never placed lower than seventh in the Nielsen ratings and ended its final season at number one. It has been ranked by TV Guide as the 9th-best show in American television history. Though neither Griffith nor the show won awards during its eight-season run, series co-stars Knotts and Bavier accumulated a combined total of six Emmy Awards. The show, a semi-spin-off from an episode of The Danny Thomas Show titled "Danny Meets Andy Griffith", spawned its own spin-off series, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., a sequel series, Mayberry R.F.D., and a reunion telemovie, Return to Mayberry. The show's enduring popularity has generated a good deal of show-related merchandise. Reruns currently air on TV Land, and the complete series is available on DVD. All eight seasons are also now available by streaming video services such as Netflix.Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
5.714
Overview:
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967. The show was hosted by Bob Hope, but it had a variety of formats, including musical, dramatic, and comedy.Dr. Kildare
5.5
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The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.The Mike Douglas Show
5.375
Overview:
The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.The Donna Reed Show
6.2
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Revolves around typical family problems, such as firing a clumsy housekeeper, throwing a retirement bash for a colleague, and finding quality time away from the children.Have Gun, Will Travel
7.427
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Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958. The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel. Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.Marcus Welby, M.D.
6.5
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Marcus Welby, M.D. is an American medical drama television program that aired on ABC from September 23, 1969, to July 29, 1976. It starred Robert Young as a family practitioner with a kind bedside manner and James Brolin as the younger doctor he often worked with, and was produced by David Victor and David J. O'Connell. The pilot, A Matter of Humanities, had aired as an ABC Movie of the Week on March 26, 1969.Charlie's Angels
6.7
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Beautiful, intelligent, and ultra-sophisticated, Charlie's Angels are everything a man could dream of... and way more than they could ever handle! Receiving their orders via speaker phone from their never seen boss, Charlie, the Angels employ their incomparable sleuthing and combat skills, as well as their lethal feminine charm, to crack even the most seemingly insurmountable of cases.I Love Lucy
7.866
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Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.Tony Awards
5.917
Overview:
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre.The Lucy Show
7
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The Lucy Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962–68. It was Lucille Ball's follow-up to I Love Lucy. A significant change in cast and premise for the 1965–66 season divides the program into two distinct eras; aside from Ball, only Gale Gordon, who joined the program for its second season, remained. For the first three seasons, Vivian Vance was the co-star. The earliest scripts were entitled The Lucille Ball Show, but when this title was declined, producers thought of calling the show This Is Lucy or The New Adventures of Lucy, before deciding on the title The Lucy Show. Ball won consecutive Emmy Awards as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the series' final two seasons, 1966–67 and 1967–68.Daniel Boone
6.867
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Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10, 1970 on NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20th Century Fox Television. Ed Ames co-starred as Mingo, Boone's Cherokee friend, for the first four seasons of the series. Albert Salmi portrayed Boone's companion Yadkin in season one only. Dallas McKennon portrayed innkeeper Cincinnatus. Country Western singer-actor Jimmy Dean was a featured actor as Josh Clements during the 1968–1970 seasons. Actor and former NFL football player Rosey Grier made regular appearances as Gabe Cooper in the 1969 to 1970 season. The show was broadcast "in living color" beginning in fall 1965, the second season, and was shot entirely in California and Kanab, Utah.Matinee Theater
5
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Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1955 to 1958. The series, which ran daily in the afternoon, was frequently live. It was produced by Albert McCleery, Darrell Ross, George Cahan and Frank Price with executive producer George Lowther. McCleery had previously produced the live series Cameo Theatre which introduced to television the concept of theater-in-the-round, TV plays staged with minimal sets. Jim Buckley of the Pewter Plough Playhouse recalled: When Al McCleery got back to the States, he originated a most ambitious theatrical TV series for NBC called Matinee Theater: to televise five different stage plays per week live, airing around noon in order to promote color TV to the American housewife as she labored over her ironing. Al was the producer. He hired five directors and five art directors. Richard Bennett, one of our first early presidents of the Pewter Plough Corporation, was one of the directors and I was one of the art directors and, as soon as we were through televising one play, we had lunch and then met to plan next week’s show. That was over 50 years ago, and I’m trying to think; I believe the TV art director is his own set decorator —yes, of course! It had to be, since one of McCleery’s chief claims to favor with the producers was his elimination of the setting per se and simply decorating the scene with a minimum of props. It took a bit of ingenuity.Gunsmoke
6.558
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Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.Honest Trailers
6.609
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Trailers that tell you the TRUTH about your favorite movies and TV shows: Honest Trailers. These are the hilarious trailers the producers don't want you to see...The 20th Century Fox Hour
5.429
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The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this series were restored, remastered and shown on the Fox Movie Channel in 2002 under the title Hour of Stars. The season one episode Overnight Haul, starring Richard Conte and Lizabeth Scott, was released in Australia as a feature film.Alias Smith and Jones
6.9
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Alias Smith and Jones is an American Western series that originally aired on ABC from 1971 to 1973. It stars Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes and Ben Murphy as Jedediah "Kid" Curry, a pair of cousin outlaws trying to reform. The governor offers them a conditional amnesty, as he wants to keep the pact under wraps for political reasons. The condition is that they will still be wanted— until the governor can claim they have reformed and warrant clemency.The Twilight Zone
8.452
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An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.Love, American Style
6.056
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An anthology comedy series featuring a line up of different celebrity guest stars appearing in anywhere from one, two, three, and four short stories or vignettes within an hour about versions of love and romance.The Big Valley
6.074
Overview:
The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969. The show stars Barbara Stanwyck, as the widow of a wealthy nineteenth century California rancher. It was created by A.I. Bezzerides and Louis F. Edelman, and produced by Levy-Gardner-Laven for Four Star Television.The Dick Van Dyke Show
7.48
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The Dick Van Dyke Show centers around the work and home life of television comedy writer Rob Petrie. The plots generally revolve around problems at work, where Rob got into various comedic jams with fellow writers Buddy Sorrell, Sally Rogers and producer Mel Cooley.The Colgate Comedy Hour
6.8
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The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many notable comedians and entertainers of the era, including Eddie Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen, Donald O'Connor, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Ben Blue, Robert Paige, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Broadway dancer Wayne Lamb and Spike Jones and His City Slickers.Night Gallery
7.797
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Rod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a macabre museum. A chilling work of art serves as the connective link between the stories.Chico and the Man
5.8
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Chico and the Man is an American sitcom which ran on NBC for four seasons, from September 13, 1974, to July 21, 1978. It stars Jack Albertson as Ed Brown, the cantankerous owner of a run down garage in an East Los Angeles barrio, and Freddie Prinze as Chico Rodriguez, an upbeat, optimistic Chicano young man who comes in looking for a job. It was the first U.S. television series set in a Mexican-American neighborhood.The Defenders
6.2
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The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, civil rights demonstrators, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, and a physician charged in a mercy killing.The Ed Sullivan Show
6.8
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The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.Run for Your Life
7.2
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Run for Your Life is an American television drama series starring Ben Gazzara as a man with only a short time to live. It ran on NBC from 1965 to 1968. The series was created by Roy Huggins, who had previously explored the "man on the move" concept with The Fugitive.Dinah!
6.667
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Dinah's show premiered 9 September 1974 and continued through to 4 September 1981. She started out the 70's with Dinah's Place which usually featured one guest and was more of a home oriented show about cooking, crafts and occasionally music. This format lasted until May of 1974. When the show came back in October of 1974 the format had changed drastically to a variety talk show which was called Dinah. and went on until 1981. This show was also known as "Dinah and Friends" during the summer of 1976.Acting
2023Gone Before His Time: Freddie Prinze Sr. as Self (archive footage)
2012Honest Trailers (1 Episode) as Grandpa Joe (archive footage)
2002After They Were Famous (1 Episode) as Self (archive footage)
1983Grandpa, Will You Run with Me? as Self - Sketch Performer
1982Terror at Alcatraz as George 'Deacon' Wheeler
1982My Body, My Child as Poppa MacMahon
1981Charlie and the Great Balloon Chase as Charlie Bartlett
1981The Fox and the Hound as Amos Slade (voice)
1981Dead & Buried as William G. Dobbs
1980Marriage Is Alive and Well as Manny Wax
1979Valentine as Pete Ferguson
1979All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman as Self
1978Mickey's 50 as Self
1978Grandpa Goes to Washington (11 Episodes) as Unknown
1978The Comedy Company as Barney Bailey
1976NBC: The First Fifty Years as Unknown
1976Charlie's Angels (2 Episodes) as Edward Jordan
1976The Captain and Tennille (1 Episode) as Self
1976Joys as Self
1976The Sonny and Cher Show (1 Episode) as Unknown
1976Donny & Marie (1 Episode) as Self
1975Mitzi & 100 Guys as Self
1975Cher (1 Episode) as Self
1974Tony Orlando and Dawn (1 Episode) as Self
1974Dinah! (1 Episode) as Self
1974Chico and the Man (88 Episodes) as Ed Brown
1973The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts (1 Episode) as Self
1972The Poseidon Adventure as Manny Rosen
1972The Streets of San Francisco (1 Episode) as Unknown
1972Temperatures Rising (1, 1 Episode) as Senator Farmstick, Senator Farnstock
1972Pickup on 101 as Jedediah Bradley
1971Lock, Stock and Barrel as Brucker
1971Congratulations, It's a Boy! as Al Gaines
1971Once Upon a Dead Man as Chief Andrew Yeakel
1971Doctor Simon Locke (28 Episodes) as Dr. Andrew Sellers
1971The Late Liz as Gordon Rogers
1971Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory as Grandpa Joe
1971Montserrat as Salas Ina
1971Alias Smith and Jones (1 Episode) as Unknown
1970Night Gallery (1 Episode) as Unknown
1970Rabbit, Run as Marty Tothero
1970The Immortal (1 Episode) as Unknown
1970A Clear and Present Danger as Dr. Chanute
1970Squeeze a Flower as Alfredo Brazzi
1970Nanny and the Professor (1 Episode) as Unknown
1969The Monk as Tinker
1969Love, American Style (1 Episode) as Archie
1969Marcus Welby, M.D. (1 Episode) as Mr. Chambers
1969Justine as Cohen
1969Changes as Kent's father / Interviewer
1968The Subject Was Roses as John Cleary
1968Here Come the Brides (1 Episode) as Unknown
1968Land of the Giants (1, 1 Episode) as Inidu, Prof. Kirmus
1968Pat Neal Is Back as Self
1968How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life as Slotkin
1967The Second Hundred Years (1 Episode) as Unknown
1967The Flim-Flam Man as Mr. Packard
1967Ironside (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1966CBS Playhouse (1 Episode) as Unknown
1966Pistols 'n' Petticoats (1 Episode) as Unknown
1966Run, Buddy, Run (1 Episode) as Unknown
1965The Big Valley (1 Episode) as Judge Ben Moore
1965Run for Your Life (1, 2 Episode) as Joe Murray, Harry Krissel
1965How to Murder Your Wife as Dr. Bentley
1964Roustabout as Lou
1964Daniel Boone (1 Episode) as Shem Sweet
1964The Patsy as Theatergoer with Helen
1964A Tiger Walks as Sam Grant
1964Kissin' Cousins as Captain Robert Salbo
1963The Sword in the Stone as Knight in Crowd #1(uncredited)
1963Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1 Episode) as Unknown
1963Glynis (1 Episode) as Unknown
1963The Lieutenant (1 Episode) as Unknown
1963Days of Wine and Roses as Trayner
1963Son of Flubber as Mr. Barley
1962Who's Got the Action? as Officer Hodges
1962Period of Adjustment as Desk Sergeant
1962The Lucy Show (1 Episode) as Herbert
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (3 Episodes) as Self
1962Ensign O'Toole (32 Episodes) as Lieutenant Commander Virgil Stoner
1962Saints and Sinners (1 Episode) as Dr. Felixson
1962Convicts 4 as Teach
1962Room for One More (27 Episodes) as Unknown
1962Little Amy as The Reporter
1961Lover Come Back as Fred
1961The Mike Douglas Show (1 Episode) as Self
1961The Dick Van Dyke Show (1 Episode) as Mr. Eisenbauer
1961Bus Stop (1 Episode) as Unknown
1961Dr. Kildare (1 Episode) as Cary Fain
196187th Precinct (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1961The Defenders (1 Episode) as Roger Bailey Sr.
1961Mister Ed (4 Episodes) as Unknown
1960The Andy Griffith Show (1 Episode) as Bradford J. Taylor
1960Pete and Gladys (3 Episodes) as Unknown
1960The Tab Hunter Show (1 Episode) as Unknown
1960The Slowest Gun in the West as Col. Carl Dexter
1959Startime (1 Episode) as Unknown
1959The Twilight Zone (1, 1 Episode) as Jerry Harlowe, Genie
1959The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (5 Episodes) as Unknown
1959Riverboat (1 Episode) as Sampson J. Binton
1959Tightrope (1 Episode) as Unknown
1959The Shaggy Dog as Reporter (uncredited)
1959Never Steal Anything Small as Sleep-Out Charlie Barnes
1958Yancy Derringer (1 Episode) as Blind Bill
1958The Donna Reed Show (3 Episodes) as Unknown
1958Teacher's Pet as Guide
1958Shirley Temple's Storybook (1 Episode) as Tintac Ping Foo
1957Don't Go Near the Water as Rep. George Jansen
1957The Thin Man (15 Episodes) as Lt. Harry Evans
1957Have Gun, Will Travel (2, 1 Episode) as Unknown, Mayor Whiteside
1957Man of a Thousand Faces as Dr. J. Wilson Shiels
1957Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1 Episode) as Fernando Faillace
1957Monkey on My Back as Sam Pian
1956The Unguarded Moment as Prof
1956The Big Slide as Al St. George
1956You Can't Run Away from It as Third Proprietor
1956Hey, Jeannie! (1 Episode) as Immigration man
1956The Harder They Fall as Pop
1956The Eddy Duchin Story as Piano Tuner (uncredited)
1956Over-Exposed as Les Bauer (uncredited)
1956Tony Awards (1 Episode) as Self - Host
1955Matinee Theater (1 Episode) as Unknown
1955The 20th Century Fox Hour (1 Episode) as Unknown
1955Gunsmoke (1, 1, 1 Episode) as Danny Wilson, Lucius Prince, Moses Darby
1955Bring Your Smile Along as Mr. Jenson
1954December Bride (1 Episode) as Unknown
1954Top Banana as Vic Davis
1954Inner Sanctum (1 Episode) as Unknown
1954All I Need Is a Conference! as Cliff Miller, Shipping
1953General Electric Theater (1 Episode) as Herb
1951I Love Lucy (1 Episode) as Helicopter Dispatcher
1950The Colgate Comedy Hour (4 Episodes) as Self
1948The Ed Sullivan Show (1 Episode) as Self
1948Broadway Jamboree (8 Episodes) as Unknown
1947Miracle on 34th Street as Postal Sorter Al (uncredited)
1940Strike Up the Band as Barker (uncredited)
1938Next Time I Marry as Reporter