Alan Alda
| Alan Alda | |
|---|---|
 Alda in December 2008 | |
| Born |
Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo January 28, 1936 New York City, United States |
| Residence | Los Angeles, California |
| Alma mater | Fordham University |
| Occupation | Actor, author, activist, director, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1958–present |
| Home town | Chicago, Illinois |
| Television |
M*A*S*H The West Wing ER 30 Rock The Big C |
| Religion | None |
| Spouse(s) | Arlene Alda (1957–present) |
| Children |
Beatrice Alda Eve Alda Elizabeth Alda[1] |
| Parent(s) |
Robert Alda Joan Browne |
| Awards | Six Emmy Awards, Golden Globe Award |
Alan Alda (born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo; January 28, 1936) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. A six-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner, he is best known for his starring roles as Hawkeye Pierce in the TV series M*A*S*H and Arnold Vinick in The West Wing, and his supporting role in the 2004 film The Aviator, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Journalism and a member of the advisory board of The Center for Communicating Science[2] and the Future of Life Institute.[3] He serves on the board of the World Science Festival and is a judge for Math-O-Vision.
Family and early life
Alda was born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo on January 28, 1936, in New York City, and had a peripatetic childhood as his parents traveled around the United States in support of his father's job as a performer in burlesque theatres.[4] His father, Robert Alda (born Alphonso Giuseppe Giovanni Roberto D'Abruzzo), was an actor and singer, and his mother, Joan Browne, was a homemaker and former beauty pageant winner.[5] His father was of Italian descent and his mother was of Irish ancestry.[6] His adopted surname, "Alda," is a portmanteau of ALphonso and D'Abruzzo.
When Alda was seven years old, he contracted poliomyelitis. To combat the disease, his parents administered a painful treatment regimen developed by Sister Elizabeth Kenny that consisted of applying hot woollen blankets to his limbs and stretching his muscles.[7] Alda attended Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains, New York.[8] In 1956, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Fordham College of Fordham University in the Bronx, where he was a student staff member of its FM radio station, WFUV. Alda's half-brother, Antony Alda, was born that year (1956) and would also become an actor.
During Alda's young junior year, he studied in Paris, acted in a play in Rome, and performed with his father on television in Amsterdam. In college, he was a member of the ROTC, and after graduation, he served for a year at Fort Benning, and then six months in the U.S. Army Reserve.[9][10]
In 1956, while attending Fordham University, he met Arlene Weiss, who was attending Hunter College. They bonded at a mutual friend's dinner party; when a rum cake accidentally fell onto the kitchen floor, they were the only two guests who did not hesitate to eat it.[11] A year after his graduation, they were married. They have three daughters: Eve, Elizabeth, and Beatrice. Two of his eight grandchildren are aspiring actors.
The Aldas have been longtime residents of Leonia, New Jersey.[12] Alda frequented Sol & Sol Deli on Palisade Avenue in the nearby town of Englewood, New Jersey—a fact mirrored in his character's daydream about eating whitefish from the establishment, in an episode of M*A*S*H in which Hawkeye sustains a head injury.[13]
Career
Early acting
Alda began his career in the 1950s, as a member of the Compass Players comedy revue. In the November 1964 world premiere at the ANTA Playhouse of the stage version of The Owl and The Pussycat, he played Felix the "Owl" opposite the "Pussycat" which was played by black actress/singer Diana Sands.[14] He continued to play Felix the "Owl" for the 1964-5 Broadway season.[15][16] In 1966, he starred in the musical The Apple Tree on Broadway; he was nominated for the Tony Award as Best Actor in a Musical for that role.
Although from away, Alan Alda says he became a Mainer in 1957 when he played at the Kennebunkport Playhouse.[17]
Alda made his Hollywood acting debut as a supporting player in Gone are the Days! – a film version of the highly successful Broadway play Purlie Victorious, which co-starred veteran actors Ruby Dee and her husband, Ossie Davis. Other film roles would follow, such as his portrayal of author, humorist, and actor George Plimpton in the film Paper Lion (1968),[8] as well as The Extraordinary Seaman (1969), and the occult-murder-suspense thriller The Mephisto Waltz, with actress Jacqueline Bisset. During this time, Alda frequently appeared as a panelist on the 1968 revival of What's My Line?. He also appeared as a panelist on I've Got a Secret during its 1972 syndication revival.
M*A*S*H series (1972–83)
In early 1972, Alda auditioned for and was selected to play the role of "Hawkeye Pierce" in the TV adaptation of the 1970 film MASH.[8] He was nominated for 21 Emmy Awards, and won five. He took part in writing 19 episodes, including the finale, and directed 32, including the finale. When he won his first Emmy Award for writing, he was so happy that he performed a cartwheel before running up to the stage to accept the award. He was also the first person to win Emmy Awards for acting, writing, and directing for the same series. Richard Hooker, who wrote the novel on which M*A*S*H was based, did not like Alda's portrayal of Hawkeye Pierce (Hooker, a Republican, had based Hawkeye on himself, whereas Alda and the show's writers took the character in a more liberal direction). Alda also directed the show's 1983 2½-hour series finale "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen", which remains the single most-watched episode of any American broadcast network television series.[8] Alda is the only series regular to appear in all 251 episodes.[18]
Alda commuted from Los Angeles to his home in New Jersey every weekend for 11 years while starring in M*A*S*H.[19] His wife and daughters lived in New Jersey, and he did not want to move his family to Los Angeles, especially because he did not know how long the show would last.
Alan Alda, father Robert Alda, and half-brother Antony Alda appeared together in an episode of M*A*S*H, "Lend a Hand", during season 8. Robert had previously appeared in "The Consultant" in season 3.
During the first five seasons of the series, the tone of M*A*S*H was largely that of a traditional "service comedy", in the vein of shows like McHale's Navy. However, as the original writers gradually left the series, Alda gained increasing control, and by the final seasons had become a producer and creative consultant. Under his watch, M*A*S*H retained its comedic foundation, but gradually assumed a somewhat more serious tone, openly addressing political issues. As a result, the 11 years of M*A*S*H are generally split into two eras: the Larry Gelbart/Gene Reynolds "comedy" years (1972–1979), and the Alan Alda "dramatic" years (1979–1983).
For the first three seasons, Alda and his co-stars Wayne Rogers and McLean Stevenson worked well together, but later, tensions increased, particularly as Alda's role grew in popularity. Rogers and Stevenson both left the show at the end of the third season.[20] At the beginning of the fourth season, Alda and the producers decided to find a replacement actor to play the surrogate parent role formerly taken by Colonel Blake. They eventually found veteran actor and fan of the series, Harry Morgan, who would star as Colonel Sherman T. Potter, becoming another of the show's protagonists.[21] Mike Farrell was also introduced as Alda's co-star BJ Hunnicutt.
In his 1981 autobiography, Jackie Cooper (who directed several early episodes) wrote that Alda concealed a lot of hostility beneath the surface, and that the two of them barely spoke to each other by the time Cooper’s directing of M*A*S*H ended.[22]
During his M*A*S*H years, Alda made several game-show appearances, most notably in The $10,000 Pyramid and as a frequent panelist on What's My Line? and To Tell the Truth.
His favorite episodes of M*A*S*H are "Dear Sigmund" and "In Love and War".[23]
In 1996, Alda was ranked #41 on TV Guide's "50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time".[24]
Writing and directing credits
The following is a list of M*A*S*H episodes written and/or directed by Alda.
| Season | Episode | Credit |
|---|---|---|
| One | Episode 19: "The Long John Flap" | Written |
| Two | Episode 5: "Dr. Pierce and Mr. Hyde" | Written with Robert Klane |
| Episode 23: "Mail Call" | Directed | |
| Three | Episode 16: "Bulletin Board" | Directed |
| Four | Episode 4: "The Late Captain Pierce" | Directed |
| Episode 7: "Dear Mildred" | Directed | |
| Episode 8: "The Kids" | Directed | |
| Episode 16: "Dear Ma" | Directed | |
| Five | Episode 2: "Margaret's Engagement" | Directed |
| Episode 7: "Dear Sigmund" | Written and directed | |
| Episode 12: "Exorcism" | Directed | |
| Episode 19: "Hepatitis" | Written and directed | |
| Six | Episode 2: "Fallen Idol" | Written and directed |
| Episode 4: "War of Nerves" | Written and directed | |
| Episode 7: "In Love and War" | Written and directed | |
| Episode 12: "Comrades in Arms, Part 1" | Written; directed with Burt Metcalfe | |
| Episode 13: "Comrades in Arms, Part 2" | Written; directed with Burt Metcalfe | |
| Seven | Episode 5: "The Billfold Syndrome" | Directed |
| Episode 8: "Major Ego" | Directed | |
| Episode 14: "Dear Sis" | Written and directed | |
| Episode 16: "Inga" | Written and directed | |
| Episode 25: "The Party" | Written with Burt Metcalfe | |
| Eight | Episode 3: "Guerilla My Dreams" | Directed |
| Episode 11: "Life Time" | Written with Walter D. Dishell, M.D.; directed | |
| Episode 15: "Yessir, That's Our Baby" | Directed | |
| Episode 20: "Lend a Hand" | Written and directed | |
| Episode 22: "Dreams" | Teleplay; story with James Jay Rubinfier; directed | |
| Nine | Episode 4: "Father's Day" | Directed |
| Episode 12: "Depressing News" | Directed | |
| Episode 15: "Bottoms Up" | Directed | |
| Episode 20: "The Life You Save" | Written with John Rappaport; directed | |
| Ten | Episode 6: "Communication Breakdown" | directed |
| Episode 10: "Follies of the Living - Concerns of the Dead" | Written and directed | |
| Episode 16: "Where There's a Will, There's a War" | Directed | |
| Eleven | Episode 1: "Hey, Look Me Over" | Written with Karen Hall |
| Episode 16: "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen" | Written with Burt Metcalfe, John Rappaport, Dan Wilcox, Thad Mumford, Elias Davis, David Pollock and Karen Hall; directed |
Post-M*A*S*H
Alda's prominence in the enormously successful M*A*S*H gave him a platform to speak out on political topics, and he has been a strong and vocal supporter of women's rights and the feminist movement.[8] He co-chaired, with former First Lady Betty Ford, the Equal Rights Amendment Countdown campaign. In 1976, The Boston Globe dubbed him "the quintessential Honorary Woman: a feminist icon" for his activism on behalf of the Equal Rights Amendment.[25]
Alda played Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman in the play QED, which had only one other character. Although Peter Parnell wrote the play, Alda both produced and inspired it. Alda has also appeared frequently in the films of Woody Allen, and was a guest star five times on ER, playing Dr. Kerry Weaver's mentor, Gabriel Lawrence. During the later episodes, Dr. Lawrence was revealed to be suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer's disease. Alda also had a co-starring role as Dr. Robert Gallo in the 1993 TV movie And the Band Played On.
During M*A*S*H's run and continuing through the 1980s, Alda embarked on a successful career as a writer and director, with the ensemble dramedy The Four Seasons being perhaps his most notable hit. Betsy's Wedding is his last directing credit to date. After M*A*S*H, Alda took on a series of roles that either parodied or directly contradicted his "nice guy" image.[8]
Later work
In 1993, he co-starred with Woody Allen (also the director), Diane Keaton, and Anjelica Huston in the comedy/mystery Manhattan Murder Mystery. The four play a quartet of amateur crime solvers who become entangled in a murder plot possibly perpetrated by Keaton and Allen's neighbor. Alda's character is Ted, a playwright secretly in love with Keaton's character Carol, but who eventually falls for Huston's character Marcia.
From the fall season of 1993 until the show ended in 2005, Alda was the host for Scientific American Frontiers, which began on PBS in 1990.[26]
In 1995, he starred as the President of the United States in Michael Moore's political satire/comedy film Canadian Bacon. Around this time, rumors circulated that Alda was considering running for the United States Senate in New Jersey, but he denied this. In 1996, Alda played Henry Ford in Camping With Henry and Tom, based on the book by Mark St. Germain and appeared in the comedy film Flirting with Disaster.
Beginning in 2004, Alda was a regular cast member on the NBC program The West Wing, portraying Republican U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Arnold Vinick, until the show's conclusion in May 2006. He made his premiere in the sixth season's eighth episode, "In The Room", and was added to the opening credits with the 13th episode, "King Corn." In August 2006, Alda won an Emmy for his portrayal of Arnold Vinick in the final season of The West Wing. Alda had been a serious candidate, along with Sidney Poitier, for the role of President Josiah Bartlet before Martin Sheen was ultimately cast in the role.
In 2004, Alda portrayed conservative Maine Senator Owen Brewster in Martin Scorsese's Academy Award-winning film The Aviator, in which he co-starred with Leonardo DiCaprio.
Throughout his career, Alda has received 31 Emmy Award nominations and two Tony Award nominations, and has won seven People's Choice Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, and three Directors Guild of America awards. However, it was not until 2005, after a long acting career, that Alda received his first Academy Award nomination, for his role in The Aviator.
Alda also wrote several of the stories and poems that appeared in Marlo Thomas's television show Free to Be... You and Me.
Alda starred in the original Broadway production of the play 'Art', which opened on March 1, 1998, at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. The play won the Tony Award for best original play.
Alda also had a part in the 2000 romantic comedy What Women Want, as the CEO of the advertising firm where the main characters worked.
In the spring of 2005, Alda starred as Shelly Levene in the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, for which he received a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Play. Throughout 2009 and 2010, he appeared in three episodes of 30 Rock as Milton Greene, the biological father of Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin). In January 2010, Alda hosted The Human Spark, a three-part series originally broadcast on PBS discussing the nature of human uniqueness and recent studies on the human brain.
In 2011, Alda was scheduled to guest star on Law & Order: LA, portraying former police and naval officer John Winters, the father of the former main character Rex Winters. It is unknown whether he filmed his role before the series was redesigned and Rex Winters written off.
After the release of the movie Tower Heist, Alda was devastated when on December 7, 2011, he lost his idol and decades-long friend Harry Morgan from M*A*S*H. Upon Morgan's death, Alda released a statement referring to a M*A*S*H reunion event two years before: "We had just a wonderful time reminiscing. That was the last time I saw Harry."[27]
Alda returned to Broadway in November 2014, playing the role of Andrew Makepeace in the revival of Love Letters at the Brooks Atkinson Theater alongside with Candice Bergen.[28]
Charitable work and other interests
Alda has done extensive charity work. He helped narrate a 2005 St. Jude's Children's Hospital produced one-hour special TV show Fighting for Life.[29] He and his wife, Arlene, are also close friends of Marlo Thomas, who is very active in fund-raising for the hospital her father founded. The special featured Ben Bowen as one of six patients being treated for childhood cancer at Saint Jude. Alda and Marlo Thomas had also worked together in the early 70s on a critically acclaimed children's album entitled Free to Be You and Me, which featured Alda, Thomas and a number of other well-known character actors. This project remains one of the earliest public signs of his support of women's rights.
In 2005, Alda published his first round of memoirs, Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: and Other Things I've Learned.[19] Among other stories, he recalls his intestines becoming strangulated while on location in La Serena, Chile for his PBS show Scientific American Frontiers, during which he mildly surprised a young doctor with his understanding of medical procedures, which he had learned from M*A*S*H. He also talks about his mother's battle with schizophrenia. The title comes from an incident in his childhood, when Alda was distraught about his dog dying and his well-meaning father had the animal stuffed. Alda was horrified by the results, and took from this that sometimes we have to accept things as they are, rather than desperately and fruitlessly trying to change them.
In 2006, Alda contributed his voice to a part in the audio book of Max Brooks' World War Z. In this book, he voiced Arthur Sinclair Jr., the director of the United States Government's fictional "Department of Strategic Resources (DeStRes)".
His second memoir, Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself, weaves together advice from public speeches he has given with personal recollections about his life and beliefs.
Alda also has an avid interest in cosmology, and participated in BBC coverage of the opening of the Large Hadron Collider, at CERN, Geneva, in September 2008.[30]
After years of interviews, Alda helped inspire the creation of the Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University in 2009. He remains on the advisory board as of 2013.[31] He was named an Honorary Fellow by the Society for Technical Communication in 2014 for his work with the Center for Communicating Science and the annual Flame Challenge.[32] He is also on the advisory board of the Future of Life Institute.[3]
Alda has been a feminist activist for many years.[25] He co-chaired, with former First Lady Betty Ford, the Equal Rights Amendment Countdown campaign. In 1976, The Boston Globe dubbed him "the quintessential Honorary Woman: a feminist icon" for his activism on behalf of the Equal Rights Amendment.[25]
Religious views
In Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself, Alda describes how as a teen he was raised as a Roman Catholic and eventually he realized he had begun thinking like an agnostic or atheist:
For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff. One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back. Not that I lost the urge to pray. Occasionally, even after I stopped believing, I might send off a quick memo to the Master of the Universe, usually on a matter needing urgent attention, like Oh, God, don’t let us crash. These were automatic expulsions of words, brief SOS messages from the base of my brain. They were similar to the short prayers that were admired by the church in my Catholic boyhood, which they called “ejaculations.” I always liked the idea that you could shorten your time in purgatory with each ejaculation; what boy wouldn’t find that a comforting idea? But my effort to keep the plane in the air by talking to God didn’t mean I suddenly was overcome with belief, only that I was scared. Whether I’d wake up in heaven someday or not, whatever meaning I found would have to occur first on this end of eternity.
Speaking further on agnosticism, Alda goes on to say:
I still don't like the word agnostic. It's too fancy. I'm simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people. Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I'd said in a book I wrote that I wasn't a believer. I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel. This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people's holding beliefs other than their own?
Alda made these comments in an interview for the 2008 question section of the Edge Foundation website.[33]
His most famous character, Dr. Benjamin "Hawkeye" Pierce on M*A*S*H, was reputed to be agnostic, but he often was shown attending Sunday services and maintained a close friendship with the camp's chaplain, Fr. Francis Mulcahy. A tenth-season episode depicted Hawkeye serving at the front and fearfully writing his will, where he left five cents to the Father, explaining, "I know you are a spiritual man and material things mean little to you, but I leave you one other thing: my everlasting respect."
Awards and nominations
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Awards
- Emmy Award for "Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series" in 2006, for his portrayal of Senator & Presidential candidate Arnold Vinick in The West Wing
- Emmy Award for "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series" in 1980 for M*A*S*H
- Emmy Award for "Outstanding Writing in a Comedy or Comedy-Variety or Music Series" in 1979 for M*A*S*H: Inga
- Emmy Award for "Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series" in 1977 for M*A*S*H: "Dear Sigmund"
- Emmy Award for "Actor of the Year – Series" in 1974 for M*A*S*H
- Emmy Award for "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series" in 1974 for M*A*S*H
- Golden Globe Award for "Best Performance by an Actor in a TV-Series - Musical/Comedy" in 1983 for M*A*S*H
- Golden Globe Award for "Best Performance by an Actor in a TV-Series - Musical/Comedy" in 1982 for M*A*S*H
- Golden Globe Award for "Best Performance by an Actor in a TV-Series - Musical/Comedy" in 1981 for M*A*S*H
- Golden Globe Award for "Best TV Actor - Musical/Comedy" in 1980 for M*A*S*H
- Golden Globe Award for "Best TV Actor - Musical/Comedy" in 1976 for M*A*S*H
- Golden Globe Award for "Best TV Actor - Musical/Comedy" in 1975 for M*A*S*H
- Directors Guild of America Award for "Outstanding Directorial - Comedy Series" in 1983 for M*A*S*H: Where There's a Will, There's a War
- Directors Guild of America Award for "Outstanding Directorial - Comedy Series" in 1982 for M*A*S*H: The Life You Save
- Directors Guild of America Award for "Outstanding Directorial - Comedy Series" in 1977 for M*A*S*H: "Dear Sigmund"
- Induction into the Television Hall of Fame in 1994 [34][35]
- Drama Desk Award for "Outstanding Ensemble Performance" in 2005 for Glengarry Glen Ross.
- Became Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006[36]
Nominations
- The audiobook version of Things I Overheard While Talking To Myself was nominated for a 2008 Grammy Award in the category of Best Spoken Word Album.
- Alda received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Senator Ralph Owen Brewster in Martin Scorsese's film The Aviator.
Filmography
Film
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | The Phil Silvers Show | Carlyle Thomson III | Episode: "Bilko the Art Lover" |
| 1962 | Naked City | Young Poet | Episode: "Hold for Gloria Christmas" |
| 1963 | The Doctors and the Nurses | Dr. John Griffin | 2 episodes |
| 1963 | Route 66 | Dr. Glazer | Episode: "Soda Pop and Paper Flags" |
| 1963 | East Side/West Side | Freddie Wilcox | Episode: "The Sinner" |
| 1965 | The Trials of O'Brien | Nick Staphos | Episode: "Picture Me a Murder" |
| 1967 | Coronet Blue | Clay | Episode: "Six Months to Mars" |
| 1968 | Premiere | Frank St. John | Episode: "Higher and Higher" |
| 1972–1983 | M*A*S*H | Captain Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce | 251 episodes Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy (1975–76, 1980–83) People's Choice Award for Favorite Male Television Performer (1975, 1979–82) Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (1974, 1982) Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy (1973–74, 1977–79) Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series (1975–76, 1978–83) Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (1973, 1975–81, 1983) Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series (1977-1978, 1982) |
| 1973–1975 | The New $25,000 Pyramid | Himself | 7 episodes |
| 1974 | The Carol Burnett Show | Himself | Episode: "#8.13" |
| 1993–2007 | Scientific American Frontiers | Himself | 81 episodes |
| 1999 | ER | Dr. Gabriel Lawrence | 5 episodes Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series |
| 2004–2006 | The West Wing | Senator Arnold Vinick | 28 episodes Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series Nominated—Television Critics Association Award for Individual Achievement in Drama |
| 2005 | Getaway | Himself | Episode: "Found" |
| 2009–2011 | 30 Rock | Milton Greene | 3 episodes Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series |
| 2011–2013 | The Big C | Dr. Atticus Sherman | 6 episodes |
| 2012 | The Human Spark | Himself | PBS |
| 2013 | Brains on Trial with Alan Alda | Himself | PBS |
| 2013-2014 | The Blacklist | Alan Fitch | 5 episodes |
Stage
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | Only in America | Telephone Man | |
| 1961–1962 | Purlie Victorious | Charlie Cotchpiee | |
| 1964 | Fair Game for Lovers | Benny | |
| 1964 | Cafe Crown | Dr. Irving Gilbert | |
| 1964–1965 | The Owl and the Pussycat | F. Sherman | |
| 1966–1967 | The Apple Tree | Various | Nominated—Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical |
| 1992 | Jake's Women | Jake | Nominated—Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play |
| 1998–1999 | Art | Marc | |
| 2001–2002 | QED | Richard Feynman | |
| 2003 | The Play What I Wrote | Replacement | |
| 2005 | Glengarry Glen Ross | Shelly Levene | Nominated—Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play |
Bibliography
- Alda, Alan (2006). Never Have Your Dog Stuffed. London: Hutchinson. ISBN 978-0-09-179652-5. OCLC 64931144.
- — (2007). Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-1-4000-6617-9. OCLC 122309367.
See also
References
- ↑ "Alan Alda: Biography". Retrieved 13 October 2013.
- ↑ "Alan Alda Joins SOJ Faculty". December 14, 2010. SUNY Stony Brook School of Journalism. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Who We Are, Future of Life Institute, retrieved 2014-04-20
- ↑ Alan Alda, interviewed by Jian Ghomeshi, CBC Radio, March 28, 2013. In response to Ghomeshi's comment that Alda had grown up in the Bronx, Alda said, "No I didn't but I can tell you're a Wikipedia reader."
- ↑ Alda, Alan. "Alan Alda TV Legends Interview, Part I (13:25-14:30)". Archive of American Television. Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
- ↑ Berk, Philip (December 11, 1998). "A question of roots". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved December 10, 2007.
- ↑ Smiley, Tavis (December 2, 2004). "Alan Alda". PBS. Retrieved May 2, 2007.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 Stated on Inside the Actors Studio , 2000
- ↑ Delach, Brian (May 6, 2013). "Alan Alda Gets Personal About Life After MASH". NBC Connecticut.
- ↑ "Military People : Alan Alda". militaryhub.com.
After graduation, Alda joined the U.S. Army Reserve and served a six-month tour of duty in Korea.
- ↑ Brady, Lois Smith (February 13, 2015). "State of the Unions: There's Always Room for Rum Cake". The New York Times. Retrieved March 12, 2015.
- ↑ Kolbert, Elizabeth (May 18, 1994). "At Lunch With: Alan Alda; Hawkeye Turns Mean, Sensitively". The New York Times. Retrieved November 24, 2007.
Ever since M*A*S*H, Alda has split his time between the East Coast, where he has houses in the Hamptons and Leonia, New Jersey, and the West, where he owns a home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles.
- ↑ Kingergan, Ashley (Sep 27, 2010). "Noted Englewood deli closes after 60-plus years". The Record. Retrieved September 27, 2010.
Perhaps the greatest tribute to the deli came from the 1970s television show M*A*S*H. Hawkeye, one of the main characters in M*A*S*H*, daydreams about whitefish from Sol & Sol after sustaining a head injury.
- ↑ "Strange Bedfellows"
- ↑ The Owl and the Pussycat on IBDB
- ↑ The Owl and the Pussycat 1964 fall selection playbill cover
- ↑ Alan Alda, interviewed by Diane Russell, Portland Magazine, Feb/March 2014. "Alda Ego"
- ↑ "Hawkeye Trivia and Quotes". Tv.com. Retrieved 2011-05-17.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Alda, Alan (2006). Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: and Other Things I've Learned. New York: Random House. ISBN 1-4000-6409-0.
- ↑ "Mclean Stevenson, 'Mash' Star". The Seattle Times. February 17, 1996.
- ↑ Stassel, Stephanie (December 7, 2011). "Harry Morgan dies at 96; star of TV's 'MASH'". Los Angeles Times.
- ↑ Jackie Cooper, Please Don’t Shoot My Dog, Page 290, William Morrow & Company, 1981
- ↑ M*A*S*H: The Martinis & Medicine Collection - Special Features: Disc 1 - "My Favorite MASH"
- ↑ "Special Collectors' Issue: 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time". TV Guide (December 14–20). 1996.
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 "Alda, Alan: U.S. Actor". The Museum of Broadcast Communications.
- ↑ Alan Alda, on season 4 of Scientific American Frontiers.
- ↑ "Harry Morgan, 1915-2011: Actor most remembered as Col. Potter of 'M*A*S*H'". The Toledo Blade. December 8, 2011. Retrieved April 3, 2014.
- ↑ Broadway.com: "Candice Bergen & Alan Alda Step into A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters on Broadway"
- ↑ Saint Jude Children's Hospital, Web Editor (December 1, 2005). "Saint Jude TV – Fighting For Life". Saint Jude Web Site. Archived from the original on March 16, 2007. Retrieved April 11, 2007.
- ↑ "Big Bang Day: Physics Rocks". BBC Web Site. September 10, 2008. Archived from the original on September 10, 2008. Retrieved September 10, 2008.
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