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Alan Alda Biography

(1936–)

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Films
1981 The Four Seasons
1985 Sweet Liberty

1988 A New Life
1990 Crimes and Misdemeanours
1995 Canadian Bacon
1997 Everyone Says I Love You
1997 Mad City
1998 The Object of My Affection
2000 What Women Want
2004 The Aviator
Television
1972–83 M*A*S*H*
1999 ER
2004–6 The West Wing

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Actor and director, born on January 28, 1936 in New York City, USA. Alan Alda is best known for his role as Hawkeye Pierce on the long-running television series M*A*S*H. Alda made his Broadway debut in Only in America (1959), and his film debut in Gone Are the Days (1963), but it was his extensive involvement in the television series M*A*S*H (1972–83) that earned him his greatest popularity. He was nominated over 20 times and won numerous awards for the series (including five Emmys), which provided a showcase for his talents as a socially conscious writer, director, and performer.

Alda is also known for his acerbic sense of humor which is demonstrated in such films as The Four Seasons (1981), Sweet Liberty (1985), and A New Life (1988). Later films include Crimes and Misdemeanors (1990), Canadian Bacon (1995), What Women Want (2000), and The Aviator (2004, Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination). In 2004 he joined the cast of the television political drama series The West Wing in the role of a Republican Senator named Arnold Vinick (1999–2006), for which he won an Emmy for best supporting actor in 2006.