On July 11, 2023, actor D.B. Woodside opened a tweet that had tagged him and looked at two photographs placed side by side. Both were of him. The person who posted them had labeled one as Albert Ezerzer, a Suits crew member who had died nine years earlier, and written that the resemblance was proof that God creates people in pairs.
Woodside replied with eight words: “Ummm. This is me. Both pictures.”
He had, without intending to, become the closest thing the internet had to a photograph of Albert Ezerzer: a correction from an actor who had never met the man.
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Who Was Albert Ezerzer?
Albert Ezerzer was a transportation department crew member who worked on American and Canadian film and television productions for more than two decades. Born on January 31, 1959, in Los Angeles, California, he was not an actor and never appeared on screen. He worked on Suits from its first season in 2011 through the end of Season 3, and died on May 9, 2014, at 55. When Season 4 premiered six weeks later, the episode closed with a full-screen card reading: “In Memory of Albert Ezerzer.” That card is why his name is searched today.
| Born | January 31, 1959 — Los Angeles, California |
| Died | May 9, 2014 — Age 55 |
| Occupation | Transportation Department, Film and Television |
| On Suits | Seasons 1–3, 2011 to 2014 |
| Cause of Death | Widely reported as ruptured aortic aneurysm (not officially confirmed) |
| Tribute | Suits Season 4, Episode 1 — June 11, 2014 |
A Career Spent Out of Frame
Albert’s first known production credit dates to 1993, when he worked as a driver on the TV drama Family Pictures. Over the next two decades, he built a quiet career through the Toronto film and television circuit, which had grown into one of the busiest production markets in North America by the early 2000s.
The job title “transportation department” understates what the work actually involves. On a major production, that department coordinates the movement of lead actors, supporting cast, crew, cameras, and equipment across a city, often between several locations on the same day. A delayed van means a delayed shoot. A missed call time ripples through a schedule that costs thousands of dollars an hour. It is work that demands precision, discretion, and reliability every single day.
Albert’s verified credits across his career include:
- Tart (2001)
- Interstate 60: Episodes of the Road (2002)
- Covert One: The Hades Factor (2006)
- Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning (2008) — personal driver to Shirley MacLaine, credited across 15 episodes
- Stir of Echoes: The Homecoming
- Suits, Seasons 1 through 3 (2011–2014)
Suits filmed almost entirely in Toronto despite being set in New York City. The production worked out of Downsview Park Studios and shot exterior scenes across the downtown core, dressing city streets with yellow cabs and props to pass for Manhattan. Albert’s job ran through all of that, keeping actors like Gabriel Macht and Patrick J. Adams on schedule across long shooting days in a city being continuously dressed up as somewhere else.
He kept his personal life entirely to himself. No interviews on record, no public profiles, no biography. For someone who spent 21 years around well-known faces, he left almost no footprint of his own.
His Death in May 2014
Albert Ezerzer died on May 9, 2014. He was 55 years old.
His death was sudden. He had been working on the Suits production and showed no prior signs of illness. The cause most consistently cited across coverage is a ruptured aortic aneurysm, a condition where the wall of the body’s main artery tears, causing internal bleeding that can be fatal within minutes and frequently strikes without warning.
One fact that most articles skip: no official cause of death was ever publicly confirmed. No family statement, no hospital record, and no formal announcement reached the press. The aortic aneurysm account originates from user-contributed memorial entries and secondary sources. It is the most widely reported explanation, but it has not been formally verified by any official record.
Suits Season 4 was six weeks from its premiere.
Why Suits Dedicated an Episode to a Crew Member
The Season 4 premiere, titled “One-Two-Three Go…”, aired June 11, 2014, on USA Network. Before the credits ran, the screen went black and held one line:
“In Memory of Albert Ezerzer”
On-air tributes in American television are almost always reserved for actors, directors, or composers. A full-screen card for a transportation crew member, shown to a show’s entire audience, is genuinely rare. It reflected something specific about how Albert was regarded by the people he worked with every single day for three years.
The production also made a second, quieter decision: “One-Two-Three Go…” was only the second episode in the entire series to change the background music played during the closing credits. The regular theme was replaced. No announcement was made. Most viewers did not notice.
The morning after the episode aired, a fan on Twitter asked Suits creator Aaron Korsh who Albert Ezerzer was. Korsh responded from his verified account at 3:33 a.m. on June 12, 2014:
“Albert worked in our transpo department & passed away recently. Beloved member of the #Suits family.”
That tweet is the only confirmed public statement about Albert Ezerzer from anyone who actually knew him.
Twelve words.
Albert Ezerzer and D.B. Woodside Are Not the Same Person
When viewers searched for Albert Ezerzer after the tribute, they found no photographs. He had worked entirely off camera for over two decades, no press shots, no headshots, no social media presence.
Into that gap came images of D.B. Woodside, the actor who joined Suits in Season 4 as attorney Jeff Malone. The timing created the association: Albert’s name appeared at the end of the same season in which Woodside made his debut, and because no verified images of Albert existed, websites began attaching Woodside’s photographs to Albert’s name. The confusion spread and stuck.
In June 2023, Twitter user @gboyin_ posted two photographs side by side, labeled one as Albert Ezerzer, and wrote that the resemblance between the two men was remarkable. The post spread widely. Both photographs were of Woodside.
On July 11, 2023, Woodside clarified from his verified account @dbwofficial:
“Ummm. This is me. Both pictures.”
The full breakdown of who each person actually is:
| Albert Ezerzer | D.B. Woodside | |
|---|---|---|
| Born | January 31, 1959 | July 25, 1969 |
| Role | Transportation crew member | Actor |
| On Suits | Seasons 1–3, behind the scenes | Jeff Malone, 16 episodes on screen (2014–2019) |
| Status | Died May 9, 2014 | Alive |
| Other work | Interstate 60, Anne of Green Gables | 24, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Lucifer |
| Shared connection | None | None |
Albert died before Season 4 went into production. Woodside joined the cast in that same season. The two men never worked together.
The tribute Suits gave Albert Ezerzer was genuine. On-screen acknowledgment for a transportation crew member, in front of a full network audience, almost never happens. It was a real reflection of how much he meant to the people around him on that production.
What followed online was a different story.
The internet did not just confuse Albert with D.B. Woodside. It built around him: a named wife with no verifiable record, a physical description sourced from nothing, cast member quotes that no primary source supports, and a death date on several sites that contradicts his IMDb entry. Most of it still sits in search results today.
Albert Ezerzer spent 21 years working deliberately out of sight. He died the same way he had lived: quietly, without a press release, without a public record of anything beyond the jobs he showed up for. The only person who spoke about him on the record, in any confirmed and sourced form, was his employer, in a tweet written in the middle of the night, twelve words long.
His name is widely known now. The man himself remains, in almost every verifiable sense, exactly as private as he always was.
