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Alan Alda is recognized internationally as an actor, writer and director. He's won six Emmys and six Golden Globes and has the distinction of being nominated for an Oscar, a Tony and an Emmy and publishing a best-selling book all in the same year. The son of distinguished actor Robert Alda, the New York City native began acting at age 16.
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Alan Alda was born in New York City, the son of another distinguished actor, the late Robert Alda. His introduction to the theater came at the age of 16 in summer stock at Barnesville, Pennsylvania. During his junior year at Fordham University, he studied in Europe where he performed on stage in Rome and on television in Amsterdam with his father.
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Alan Alda has ... played Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman in the play QED, which has 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 he has been a guest star five times on ER, playing Dr. Kerry Weaver's mentor, Gabriel Lawrence. During the later episodes, it was revealed that Dr. Lawrence was suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer's. Alda also had a co-starring role as Dr. Robert Gallo in the 1993 TV movie And the Band Played On.
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Barely twenty-one years old himself, [Robert] Alda had very little to offer his new son [Alan Alda] other than love and a roof over his head. He continued to work in the Catskills and around New York City, but nothing sensational was happening, although he never missed a chance to better himself. He wanted more than burlesque. During the summertime when work was slow, he would play in stock--which was becoming more important on the Borscht Circuit. In 1937, he [Robert Alda] had the distinction of being one of the first performers on television.
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Few actors are beloved as much — for as long — as Alan Alda. The son of Robert Alda, an old-time Hollywood star, Alda began acting as a teen and found work on the small and big screens in his twenties. But it wasn't until he signed on to seminal sitcomM*A*S*H that he became a household name, eventually winning Emmys for acting, writing and directing. In real life, Alda is a private family man who makes his home in New Jersey, far from Tinseltown. After two decades spent mainly acting in and occasionally directing films, Alda returned to series TV in 2004 as a Republican senator on The West Wing, a political in-joke, since in reality, he is a staunch liberal. The next year, at age 69, Alda scored an entertainment hat trick when he was nominated for an Oscar, an Emmy and a Tony.
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Alda was born in New York City, the son of the distinguished actor, Robert Alda. He began acting in the theater at the age of 16 in summer stock in Barnesville, Pennsylvania. During his junior year at Fordham University, he studied in Europe where he performed on the stage in Rome and on television in Amsterdam with his father. After college, he acted at the Cleveland Playhouse on a Ford Foundation grant. On his return to New York, he was seen on Broadway, off-Broadway and on television. He later acquired improvisational training with Second City in New York and Compass at Hyannisport.
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