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 Die Zwei von der Tankstelle (1974), for which he won an Emmy. In 1968 Albertson, the
brother of actress Mabel Albertson, won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in
Rosen für die Lady (1968), a part which also won him the Tony award during its Broadway
run.
