Alan Alda

American actor

Photo by: Moody College of Communication from Austin, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Born:January 28, 1936

Age:90

Zodiac Sign:Aquarius

Born in:Manhattan, United States

Languages:English

Writer Actor Screenwriter Director Comedian Film Actor Film Director Television Director Television Actor

Links

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Famous For

Movies & TV

The AviatorBridge of SpiesERWhat Women WantMarriage Story

Books

Goodbye, Farewell and AmenKdybych ti rozuměl, tvářil bych se takhle?: má dobrodružství v umění a vědě navazování kontaktů a komunikaceIf I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?

Awards

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2021)NAS Public Welfare Medal (2016)James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry (2014)John Willis Award for Lifetime Achievement (2013)Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (2006)

Alan Alda

American actor

Biography

Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo (born January 28, 1936), known professionally as Alan Alda (), is an American actor and filmmaker. In a career spanning seven decades on both stage and screen, he is best known for portraying Captain Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce in the CBS wartime comedy drama M*A*S*H (1972–1983), where he also wrote and directed numerous episodes of the series. His accolades, including six Emmy Awards and six Golden Globe Awards, as well as nominations for an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, a Grammy Award, and four Tony Awards. After starring in the films Same Time, Next Year (1978), California Suite (1978), and The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979), Alda made his directorial debut with The Four Seasons (1981). Alda was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Owen Brewster in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator (2004). Other notable film roles include Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993), Everyone Says I Love You (1996), Flirting with Disaster (1996), Tower Heist (2011), Bridge of Spies (2015), and Marriage Story (2019). Alda won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his role as Senator Arnold Vinick in the NBC series The West Wing. Other Emmy-nominated roles include in And the Band Played On in 1993, ER in 2000, 30 Rock in 2009, and The Blacklist in 2015. He also had recurring roles in The Big C (2011–2013), Horace and Pete (2016), Ray Donovan (2018–2020), and The Good Fight (2018–2019). Alda is also known for his roles on Broadway, acting in Purlie Victorious (1961) and receiving three Tony Award nominations for his performances in The Apple Tree (1967), Jake's Women (1992), and Glengarry Glen Ross (2005). In 2008 he received a Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording nomination for Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself. In 2019, Alda received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. He hosts the podcast Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda and previously hosted Science Clear+Vivid.

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Quotes

“The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.”

— as interviewed on NPR's Here & Now, "A Conversation with Alan Alda", September 13, 2007.

“My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six.”

— in his memoir Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned, Random House, 2005, ISBN 1400064090.

“… life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there.”

— from Alan Alda's graduation speech, 1980.

Quotes sourced from the Wikiquote article "Alan Alda", available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.

Photos

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Title: Alan Alda [Today Show, New York] Creator(s): Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer Date Created/Published: [August 1979] Medium: 1 photograph : color transparency ; 35mm (slide format) Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-gtfy-00067 (digital file from original) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. For information see "Bernard Gotfryd," (https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/res.592.gotf) Access Advisory: Please use digital image: original slide is kept in cold storage for preservation. Call Number: LC-GB05- 67 [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Notes: Title based on information from slide mount and other caption information provided by the photographer. Photo agency: Newsweek. Gift; Bernard Gotfryd; 2004; (DLC/PP-2004:032). Subjects: United States--New York (State)--New York. Actors Personalities Format: Slides--Color--1970-1980. Part of: Bernard Gotfryd photograph collection (Library of Congress) Bookmark This Record: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2020729608/

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Cropped version of plenary speaker Alan Alda discussing science communication, which he teaches at Stony Brook University, to a packed house on 15 February at the AAAS 2014 annual meeting.

Cropped photograph of Alan Alda (born January 28, 1936), an American actor, director and screenwriter. his photo was taken on December 14, 2008 during a Question & Answer session following a screening of the movie "Nothing But the Truth" in Morristown, New Jersey.