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Alan Alda is a Actor, Director and Scriptwriter American born on 28 january 1936 at New York City (USA)

Alan Alda

Alan Alda
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Birth name Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo
Nationality USA
Birth 28 january 1936 (88 years) at New York City (USA)

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 Captain 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 as U.S. Senator Owen Brewster, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. For 14 years, he served as the host of Scientific American Frontiers, a television show that explored cutting-edge advances in science and technology. He is currently a Visiting Professor at Stony Brook University and a founder and member of the advisory board of the university's Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science and the Future of Life Institute. He serves on the board of the World Science Festival and is a judge for Math-O-Vision.

Biography

Son père, Robert Alda (né Alphonso Giuseppe Giovanni Roberto D'Abruzzo), était un acteur qui a eu du succès et qui a fait profiter du cinéma burlesque et du vaudeville à son fils. Sa mère, Joan Browne, a été couronnée Miss New York dans un concours de beauté.

À l'âge de 7 ans, il a contracté la poliomyélite qui l'a alité pour une période de deux ans, pendant laquelle il recevait des traitements. En 1956, il a reçu son diplôme de baccalauréat de l'Université de Fordham. Lors de sa première année d'étude à cette université, il a étudié en Europe où il a joué dans une pièce à Rome et à Amsterdam à la télévision avec son père. Après sa graduation, en 1957, il a rejoint la réserve militaire et fait un séjour de six mois en Corée, comme officier d'artillerie. L'année suivante, il se marie avec Arlene Weiss , avec qui il aura trois enfants du nom de Eve, Elizabeth et Beatrice.

En 1950, il commence sa carrière comme membre du Compass Players , une société de revue des comédies.

Il a passé onze années dans M*A*S*H, avec laquelle il a remporté cinq prix Emmy Awards, écrit (ou coécrit) vingt épisodes, et dirigé trente épisodes. Au cours de sa carrière, il a été nommé pour les Emmy Awards 29 fois et deux fois pour les Tony Awards, et a remporté sept prix choix du public, six prix Golden Globe et trois prix de la Director's Guild of America.

Il a fait une apparition dans au moins deux publicités télévisées, qui impliquaient l'industrie informatique, avec Atari en premier et plus tard, avec l'aide de toute la production de M*A*S*H, une publicité pour la gamme de produits PS/2 d'IBM.

Grâce à sa grande part dans le succès de l'émission M*A*S*H, Alda avait dorénavant une plate-forme pour parler de politique, et s'est fait entendre comme supporteur actif pour l'égalité des droits pour les femmes. Il était considéré comme un croque-mitaine par certains conservateurs politiques.

Alan Alda a aussi mis en scène le personnage Richard Feynman, physicien nobelliste, dans la pièce QED . Cette production est presque centrée sur ce personnage avec une portion mineure pour un autre personnage. L'écriture vient de Peter Parnells , mais la production et l'inspiration pour la pièce de théâtre sont d'Alan Alda.

En 2005-2006, il a joué le rôle du sénateur Arnold Vinick dans les dernières saisons de la série À la Maison-Blanche.

Best films

What Women Want (2000)
(Actor)
The Aviator (2004)
(Actor)
Bridge of Spies (2015)
(Actor)
The Four Seasons (1981)
(Actor)
California Suite (1978)
(Actor)
Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
(Actor)

Usually with

Woody Allen
Woody Allen
(3 films)
Rod Lurie
Rod Lurie
(2 films)
Frank Tidy
Frank Tidy
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Alan Alda (38 films)

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Scriptwriter

Sweet Liberty, 1h46
Directed by Alan Alda
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Alan Alda, Michael Caine, Michelle Pfeiffer, Bob Hoskins, Lillian Gish, Saul Rubinek
Roles Writer
Rating57% 2.8994952.8994952.8994952.8994952.899495
College history professor Michael Burgess (Alan Alda) is about to have his fact-based historical novel about The American Revolution turned into a Hollywood motion picture being filmed in the North Carolina town where he lives.
Goodbye, Farewell and Amen, 2h15
Directed by Alan Alda
Genres Drama, War, Comedy
Actors Alan Alda, Rosalind Chao, Loretta Swit, Harry Morgan, David Ogden Stiers, Kellye Nakahara
Roles Writer
Rating87% 4.39594.39594.39594.39594.3959
During the final days of the Korean War, Hawkeye Pierce has suffered a nervous breakdown and is being treated by Dr. Sidney Freedman in a mental hospital. The breakdown was triggered by a series of repressed memories stemming from the aftermath of an outing most of the 4077th staff had at a beach near Incheon. Sidney is trying to get Hawkeye to release the repressed memories, which are causing Hawkeye to remember things incorrectly. The first memory Hawkeye is repressing involves the trip home on one of the 4077th buses. Initially the scene is jaunty, with a drunk Hawkeye calling for a bottle of whiskey to be passed to someone who "can't wait" to drink it. Eventually, Sidney draws the memory out of Hawkeye slowly. First he discovers that the person in question was a soldier who needed the bottle. Then, it is revealed that the bottle was not containing whiskey but plasma and the soldier was severely wounded. Hawkeye was attending to the soldier and was frustrated that his fellow staff members were not responding quickly enough to the injured soldier, hence why he said "this guy can't wait".
The Four Seasons, 1h47
Directed by Alan Alda
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Alan Alda, Carol Burnett, Len Cariou, Sandy Dennis, Rita Moreno, Jack Weston
Roles Writer
Rating67% 3.3962953.3962953.3962953.3962953.396295
The story revolves around three married couples living in New York City who take vacations together during each of the seasons. After this pattern has been established, Nick leaves his wife of 21 years, Anne, during the Spring trip to the cabin, for a much younger woman, Ginny. He then proceeds to bring Ginny on the Summer, Fall, and Winter vacation trips. This causes the other two couples to be uncomfortable, feeling as if they have betrayed their good friend Anne.
The Seduction of Joe Tynan, 1h47
Directed by Jerry Schatzberg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Barbara Harris, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn, Melvyn Douglas, Alan Alda, Charles Kimbrough
Roles Writer
Rating60% 3.0489753.0489753.0489753.0489753.048975
Respected liberal Senator Joe Tynan is asked to lead the opposition to a Supreme Court appointment and he finds himself struggling with his own morality and the corruption surrounding him. He falls for a lovely lady attorney and has an affair that jeopardizes his marriage, and possibly, his career.