Jack Albertson

Info

Role

Actor

Date of birth

06/16/1907

Date of death

11/25/1981

Place of birth

Malden, Massachusetts, USA

Jack Albertson

Biography

A former song-and-dance man and veteran of vaudeville, burlesque and Broadway, Jack Albertson is best known to audiences as "The Man" in the TV series Chico and the Man (1974), for which he won an Emmy. In 1968 Albertson, the brother of actress Mabel Albertson, won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in The Subject Was Roses (1968), a part which also won him the Tony award during its Broadway run.