Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo more commonly Alan Alda (born January 28 1936 in New York) is an actor, writer, director and sometimes American political activist. He is best known for his role as Hawkeye Pierce in the television series M * A * S * H and as host of Scientific American Fontier, a television program.
His father, Robert Alda (born Alphonso Giuseppe Giovanni Roberto D'Abruzzo), was an actor who has been successful and gave cinema burlesque and vaudeville to his son. His mother, Joan Brown, was crowned Miss New York in a beauty contest.
At the age of 7, he contracted polio and was bedridden for two years, during which he received treatment. In 1956 he received his bachelor's degree from Fordham University. During its first year of study at this university, he studied in Europe where he played in a room in Rome and Amsterdam on television with his father. After his graduation in 1957, he joined the military reserve and a six-month stay in Korea as an officer of artillery. The following year he married Arlene Weiss, with whom he gives birth to three children named Eve, Elizabeth and Beatrice.
In 1950 he began his career as a member of the Compass Players, a comedy review.
He spent eleven years in M * A * S * H, with whom he won five awards Emmy Awards, writing (or co-authored) twenty episodes, and directed thirty episodes. During his career he was nominated for Emmy Awards 29 times and twice for Tony Awards, and won seven awards public's choice, six Golden Globes and three awards of the Director's Guild of America.
He made an appearance in at least two television advertisements, which involved the computer industry, first with Atari and later with the help of the entire production of M * A * S * H, an advertisement for the range of products PS / 2 IBM.
Thanks to its large share in the success of the show M * A * S * H, Alda was now a platform to talk about politics, and was heard as active supporter for equal rights for women . He was regarded as a bogeyman by some conservative politicians.
Alan Alda has also created the character Richard Feynman, a physicist Nobel, in the play QED. This production is almost centered on this character with a minor for another character. The writing came from Peter Parnell, but production and inspiration for the play comes from Alan Alda.
Filmography
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1955: Secret File, U.S.A. (TV series)
1963: Gone Are the Days! : Charlie Cotchipee
1966: Where's Everett (TV): Arnold Barker
1968: Paper Lion: George Plimpton
1969: The Extraordinary Seaman: Lt. (jg) Morton Krim
1970: Jenny: Delano
1970: The War of the bootleggers (The Moonshine War): John W. (His) Martin
1971: Story Theater (TV series)
1971: Satan, my love (The Mephisto Waltz): Myles Clarkson
1972: The Glass House (TV): Jonathan Paige
1972: To Kill a Clown: Maj. Evelyn Ritchie
1972: Playmates (TV): Marshall Barnett
1972: M.A.S.H. ( "M * A * S * H") (TV series): Captain Benjamin Franklin Pierce (Hawkeye) (1972-1983) (VF 1st voice: Philippe Oguz - 2nd voice: Philippe Peythieu)
1973: Is not It Shocking? (TV): Sheriff Dan Barnes
1974: Free to Be ... You & Me (TV): Various characters (voice)
1974: 6 Rms Riv Vu (TV): Paul Friedman
1977: Kill Me If You Can (TV): Caryl W. Chessman
1978: Same Time, Next Year: George Peters
1978: Hotel California (California Suite): Visitors from New York - Bill Warren
1979: The Seduction of Joe Tynan: Joe Tynan
1981: The Four Seasons: Jack Burroughs
1983: M * A * S * H: Goodbye, Farewell and Amen (TV): Captain Benjamin Franklin Pierce (Hawkeye)
1986: Sweet Liberty: Michael Burgess
1988: A New Life: Steve
1989: Crimes (Crimes and Misdemeanors): Lester
1990: Betsy's Wedding: Eddie Hopper
1992: Intimate Confessions (Whispers in the Dark): Leo Green
1993: Murder mystery in Manhattan (Manhattan Murder Mystery): Ted
1993: The Soldiers of hope (And the Band Played On) (TV): Dr. Robert Gallo
1994: White Mile (TV): Dan Cutler
1995: Canadian Bacon: United States President
1996: Jake's Women (TV): Jake
1996: Conversation with Embrouilles (Flirting with Disaster): Richard Schlichting
1996: Everyone says I love you (Everyone Says I Love You): Bob Dandridge
1997: Murder at the White House (Murder at 1600): Alvin Jordan, National Security Adviser
1997: Mad City: Kevin Hollander
1998: The Object of My Affection (The Object of My Affection): Sidney Miller
2000: What women want (What Women Want): Dan Wanamaker
2001: Club Land (TV): Willie Walters
2001: The Killing Yard (TV): Ernie Goodman
2004: The Aviator: Senator Ralph Owen Brewster
2004: At the White House (The West Wing) (TV series): Senator Arnold Vinick (VF: Pierre Dourlens)
