Biography
Character actor Andy Albin made his feature-film debut playing a farmer in
Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller
North by Northwest (1959). After that, Albin appeared in several more films, including
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960) and
The Cincinnati Kid (1965). Albin also appeared occasionally in such television series as
McHale's Navy and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Before coming to Hollywood, the Russia-born Albin was a vaudeville performer. He broke into that by winning a Charleston contest in Philadelphia and spent most of his stage career performing in music halls throughout Europe during the 1930s. Albin passed away at the Motion Picture & Television Fund Hospital in Woodland Hills, California following a long, undisclosed illness on December 27, 1994. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide