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Alan Alda Biography

Actor

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Name at birth: Alphonso D'Abruzzo

Alan Alda is best known for his 11 years playing cheeky surgeon Hawkeye Pierce on TV's M*A*S*H (1972-83). He won five Emmy Awards for the show, including wins for acting, directing and writing. Alda also has appeared on the Broadway stage and in dozens of movies, and is known as a strong supporter of women's rights. He is also the longtime host of the PBS series Scientific American Frontiers. His feature films include: California Suite (1978, with Jane Fonda); The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979, with Meryl Streep); Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989, by Woody Allen); Flirting with Disaster (1996, with Mary Tyler Moore); and Martin Scorsese's The Aviator (2004), for which he received an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actor.

Extra credit: Alda originated the role of physicist Richard Feynman in the 2001 play QED... Alda is the son of stage and screen actor Robert Alda.

Other M*A*S*H-related actors include McLean Stevenson (Col. Blake), Gary Burghoff (Radar O'Reilly) and Loretta Swit ('Hot Lips' Houlihan)... Alda joins Randolph Mantooth in our loop on Hunky Docs.

Four Good Links

AlanAlda.com

His official site has merchandise (books) and a personal photo gallery

Alan Alda Filmography

The straight dope on his career, from the IMDB

Frontiers: Alan Alda

Chatty Alda info from the PBS show he hosts

Alan Alda Interview

From 2007, a brief chat with The A.V. Club from The Onion

Vital Stats

Birth

28 January 1936
(age 74)

Birthplace

New York, New York

Death

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Best Known As

Hawkeye Pierce on TV's M*A*S*H