Jack Albertson
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.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.064 |
| Birthday | 1907-06-16 |
| Place of Birth | Malden, Massachusetts, USA |
| Also Known As | Harold Albertson, |
1971
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
7.479/3675
When eccentric candy man Willy Wonka promises a lifetime supply of sweets and a tour of his chocolate factory to five lucky kids, penniless Charlie Bu...
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
1972
The Poseidon Adventure
7.104/905
When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.
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The Poseidon Adventure
1975
Mitzi & 100 Guys
0/0
Mitzi Gaynor in a song and dance hour with an all-male, star-studded ensemble featuring her main guests Michael Landon (Little House on the Prairie) a...
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Mitzi & 100 Guys
1981
The Fox and the Hound
7.1/3273
When a feisty little fox named Tod is adopted into a farm family, he quickly becomes friends with a fun and adorable hound puppy named Copper. Life is...
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The Fox and the Hound
1981
Dead & Buried
6.4/294
After a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses appear to be coming back to life and living norm...
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Dead & Buried
1947
Miracle on 34th Street
7.4/765
Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy's following his performance in the Thanksgivin...
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Miracle on 34th Street
1963
Days of Wine and Roses
7.5/193
An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.
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Days of Wine and Roses
1965
How to Murder Your Wife
6.3/128
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How to Murder Your Wife
1961
Lover Come Back
7/151
Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each dislike each other’s methods. After he steals a client out...
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Lover Come Back
1972
Pickup on 101
3.5/2
An elderly wanderer, a sexy young girl running away from home and a folk singer looking for stardom hitch-hike their way cross-country, trying to get...
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Pickup on 101
1956
The Harder They Fall
7.1/138
Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Tor...
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The Harder They Fall
1967
The Flim-Flam Man
7/21
A veritable master of the trade, con man Mordecai Jones has taken part in his fair share of scams. When he happens upon a young army deserter, Curley,...
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The Flim-Flam Man
1969
Justine
4.1/11
In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewarden, the British consular officer, with Justine,...
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Justine
1964
Kissin' Cousins
4.7/37
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Kissin' Cousins
1962
Period of Adjustment
5.7/19
A newlywed couple on their honeymoon visit friends who are having marital problems of their own.
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Period of Adjustment
1958
Teacher's Pet
6.8/91
A rugged city editor poses as a journalism student and flirts with the professor.
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Teacher's Pet
1957
Man of a Thousand Faces
6.7/39
The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney (1883-1930), the man of a thousand faces; bear...
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Man of a Thousand Faces
1957
Monkey on My Back
6.4/5
The painfully true story of welterweight boxing champion Barney Ross is detailed in Monkey on My Back. Cameron Mitchell stars as Ross, whose meteoric...
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Monkey on My Back
1954
Top Banana
5/3
Jerry Biffle is the star of the Blendo Soap Program. He has been invited to participate in an autograph-signing party for his new book at an important...
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Top Banana
1962
Convicts 4
5.4/5
After his death sentence is commuted to life in prison, John Resko is transferred from Sing-Sing to Dannemora where, with the help of a humane prison...
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Convicts 4
1956
The Unguarded Moment
6.2/12
A high-school music teacher is the victim of a student who writes indecent notes and assaults women.
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The Unguarded Moment
1970
Rabbit, Run
3.5/4
Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom comes home one day from his dead-end job to find his pregnant wife Janice asleep, splayed in front of the TV, highball glass i...
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Rabbit, Run
1969
Changes
5/2
It's the late sixties, a time of peace signs, free love and revolution; and Kent like others of his generation, is looking for a meaning to his life....
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Changes
1968
The Subject Was Roses
6.2/18
When Timmy Cleary, comes home from soldiering, he's greeted by the open but strained arms of his two parents, John and Nettie. Once considered sickly...
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The Subject Was Roses
1968
How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
5.8/13
Wealthy playboy David Sloane wrongly believes good girl Carol Corman is his best friend's mistress.
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How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
1971
Congratulations, It's a Boy!
6/1
A bachelor's life is interrupted by the appearance of a teenager who claims to be his son.
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Congratulations, It's a Boy!
1959
Never Steal Anything Small
8/4
Director Charles Lederer's 1959 musical stars James Cagney as an unscrupulous longshoreman who'll resort to every dirty trick in the book to win his u...
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Never Steal Anything Small
1938
Next Time I Marry
6.8/6
Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." Her late father was afraid a foreign gigolo would s...
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Next Time I Marry
1956
Over-Exposed
5.1/16
This titillating bit of pulp sensationalism was the last in a string of "B" films that Cleo Moore starred in at Columbia. Moore plays Lila Crane, an a...
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Over-Exposed
1978
The Comedy Company
0/0
An ex-comedian fights to keep a failing nightclub alive as a showcase for aspiring young comics.
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The Comedy Company
1940
Strike Up the Band
6.2/23
Jimmy and Mary get a group of kids together to play in a school orchestra. A huge contest between schools is coming up and they have a hard time raisi...
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Strike Up the Band
1982
Terror at Alcatraz
0/0
Tom and Dick Smothers play Bones Howard and Ryan Fitzgerald, a TV cameraman and intrepid reporter, respectively, involved in the race to find the buri...
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Terror at Alcatraz
1959
The Shaggy Dog
6.1/91
Through an ancient spell, a boy changes into a sheepdog and back again. It seems to happen at inopportune times and the spell can only be broken by an...
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The Shaggy Dog
1968
Pat Neal Is Back
7/1
This short focuses on Patricia Neal's return to motion pictures three years after she suffered a near-fatal stroke. We see her and the cast and crew a...
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Pat Neal Is Back
1962
Who's Got the Action?
5.2/11
A lawyer begins to win after his wife secretly becomes his bookie to save their money.
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Who's Got the Action?
1982
My Body, My Child
9/1
A woman must choose between having an abortion or giving birth to a deformed child.
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My Body, My Child
1960
The Slowest Gun in the West
2/1
The town of Primrose, Arizona is beset by outlaws, so the towns people hire Fletcher Bissell III (A.K.A. The Silver Dollar Kid) as their new sheriff....
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The Slowest Gun in the West
2023
Gone Before His Time: Freddie Prinze Sr.
0/0
A deep dive into the short yet impactful life of the trailblazing Latino comic whose son also went on to a career of much acclaim.
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Gone Before His Time: Freddie Prinze Sr.
1957
Don't Go Near the Water
5.1/16
Madison Avenue-trained Navy men handle public relations on a South Pacific island during World War II.
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Don't Go Near the Water
1971
Montserrat
0/0
The story is set during the South American Wars of Independence. Simón Bolivar, the liberator, has escaped from Spanish custody with the aid of an ide...
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Montserrat
1964
A Tiger Walks
5.7/13
A tiger escapes from a circus truck as it passes by a small town, and hides itself in the surrounding woods. This throws the town into a panic and eve...
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A Tiger Walks
1955
Bring Your Smile Along
6/3
Nancy Willows (Constance Towers), pretty blonde high school teacher, writes song lyrics which spark the careers of struggling young pianist-composer M...
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Bring Your Smile Along
1964
Roustabout
5.9/51
After a singer loses his job at a coffee shop, he finds employment at a struggling carnival, but his attempted romance with a teenager leads to fricti...
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Roustabout
1963
The Sword in the Stone
7.2/3872
Wart is a young boy who aspires to be a knight's squire. On a hunting trip he falls in on Merlin, a powerful but amnesiac wizard who has plans for him...
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The Sword in the Stone
1956
The Eddy Duchin Story
6.152/33
The life story of the famous pianist and band-leader of the 1930s and 1940s.
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The Eddy Duchin Story
1963
Son of Flubber
5.9/65
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Son of Flubber
1971
The Late Liz
0/0
Religion changes a woman's attitude towards alcohol.
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The Late Liz
1979
Valentine
0/0
A feisty widow falls in love with a zestful widower in a retirement community, much to the disapproval of her married daughter.
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Valentine
1976
Joys
4/0
Over fifty of the greatest living comedians are called to a party at Bob Hope's house, where each of them is systematically killed (and their bodies t...
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Joys
1971
Once Upon a Dead Man
7/2
The wife of a San Francisco police commissioner drags him into a charity auction theft, which leads to a murder.
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Once Upon a Dead Man
1981
Charlie and the Great Balloon Chase
0/0
Charlie Bartlett is a retired railroad worker whose dream of crossing the country in a hot air balloon is encouraged by his grandson Morris O'Neill, w...
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Charlie and the Great Balloon Chase
1971
Lock, Stock and Barrel
0/0
A young frontier couple elope, are chased by the girl's father and brothers, join up with an escaped convict and get mixed up with a charlatan preache...
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Lock, Stock and Barrel
1980
Marriage Is Alive and Well
0/0
A talented wedding photographer, at a crossroads with his own marriage, reflects on tales of past clients and the hope, adversity and romance that hol...
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Marriage Is Alive and Well
1964
The Patsy
6.2/52
When a star comedian dies, his comedy team decides to train a 'nobody' to play the Star in a big TV show (a Patsy). But the man chosen, bellboy Stanle...
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The Patsy
1970
Squeeze a Flower
0/0
When greed threatens the livelihood of an Italian monastery, a monk flees with the formula for their special liquor.
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Squeeze a Flower
1976
NBC: The First Fifty Years
0/0
A celebration of 50 years of NBC broadcasting in radio and television, since first going on the airwaves on 15 November 1926.
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NBC: The First Fifty Years
1969
The Monk
7.5/2
Underworld attorney Leo Barnes hires Gus Monk to safeguard a valuable envelope containing information on a mobster. Monk refuses — until he meets Mrs....
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The Monk
1956
You Can't Run Away from It
4.7/7
A reporter stumbles on a runaway heiress whose story could salvage his career.
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You Can't Run Away from It
1970
A Clear and Present Danger
0/0
The son of a U.S. Senator takes on the cause of clean air when a friend dies of emphysema.
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A Clear and Present Danger
1983
Grandpa, Will You Run with Me?
0/0
A celebration of how the very young and the very old appreciate and enjoy each other via sketches and variety performances.
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Grandpa, Will You Run with Me?
1954
All I Need Is a Conference!
0/0
American Industrial Film produced by General Electric. A businessman tries to get everyone he needs together to address an issue.
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All I Need Is a Conference!
1978
Mickey's 50
0/0
"Mickey's 50" is a 90-minute special that aired on The Wonderful World of Disney on November 19, 1978. The special was made to commemorate the 50th bi...
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