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Alan Alda: Roles
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Alan Alda was born into show business. His father was a well-known stage, film and vaudeville actor, and young "Allie" was out on stage himself by age nine. His autobiography... is more about his evolution into a happy, well-adjusted human being than about the many character roles that have made him one of America's favorite actors. Alda calls his book Never Have Your Dog Stuffed.
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Through the '80's Alda wrote, directed and starred in a series of sophisticated comedies in the Woody Allen mode: The Four Seasons, Sweet Liberty, A New Life and Betsy's Wedding. Rather than becoming the next Woody Allen, Alda settled for working with the original Woody in Crimes and Misdemeanors (He's a hoot as a self-absorbed sitcom producer with the mantra "If it bends, it's funny!"), Manhattan Murder Mystery and Everyone Says I Love You. He's ... shown off his intelligence and versatility in a series of character roles, including Ben Stiller's LSD-dealing Dad in David O. Russell's Flirting With Disaster and as National Security Advisor Alvin Jordan inthe political thriller Murder At 1600.
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Alda made his Hollywood acting debut as a supporting player in Gone Are The Days, a 1963 film version of the highly successflul Broadway play Purlie! Victorious which co-starred veteran black actors Ruby Dee and her husband, the late Ossie Davis. Other film roles would follow, such as his portrayal of the now late author, humorist and actor George Plimpton in film Paper Lion (1968), The Extraordinary Seaman (1969), and The Mephisto Waltz (1971).
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Alda�s first motion-picture part came in "Gone Are the Days," in which he recreated his stage role from "Purlie Victorious." He later appeared in "The Moonshine War," "Jenny," "The Mephisto Waltz," and "Paper Lion."
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