Died On This Date

May 26
Albert, Eddie
b. April 22, 1906 d. May 26, 2005
Actor. Born Edward Albert Heimberger, he is best remembered for his role of lawyer-turned-farmer ‘Oliver Wendell Douglas' on the classic television comedy series "Green Acres". His career began on radio, and appeared on the earliest test for television in 1936. He made his motion picture debut in the military academy comedy "Brother Rat" in 1938, and went on to co-star in "Brother Rat and a Baby" and "Four Wives" in 1939. Cause of death: Pneumonia.

Pollack, Sydney
b. July 1, 1934 d. May 26, 2008
Actor, producer and Academy Award winning motion picture director. He won two Oscars for his work on the 1986 film "Out of Africa." Born in Lafayette, Indiana to a family of Russian Jewish immigrants, his father, David Pollack was a professional boxer who had become a pharmacist, while his mother, Rebecca Miller, was a homemaker. While very young, his parents divorced, and his mother, an alcoholic, died when he was 16. Cause of death: Cancer.