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Fox Company is an American infantry unit with a very big problem - its commanding officer. Captain Cooney (Eddie Albert) is incompetent and cowardly, but also protected by powerful politicians back home. Battalion won't move him, and the men endure their weak leadership as best they can. But when Fox is sent into a major battle, Cooney's failures might just be too much for Lieutenant Costa (Jack Palance). Co-starring Lee Marvin, Richard Jaeckel, and Buddy Ebsen.

LOS ANGELES - Eddie Albert, the actor best known as the constantly befuddled city slicker-turned-farmer in television's "Green Acres," has died. He was 99. ADVERTISEMENT Albert died of pneumonia Thursday at his home in the Pacific Palisades area, in the presence of caregivers including his son Edward, who was holding his hand at the time. "He died so beautifully and so gracefully that literally this morning I don't feel grief, I don't feel loss," Edward Albert told The Associated Press. Albert achieved his greatest fame on "Green Acres" as Oliver Douglas, a New York lawyer who settles in a rural...

MSNBC just reported that Eddie Albert, best known for his roles in the TV show "Green Acres" and as the warden in the movie "The Longest Yard" died at his home of pneumonia at age 99.