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Robert Alda: Television
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Over the years, Alda has periodically slipped out of view, only to pop up again when thought gone and forgotten. In "Murder at 1600" (1997), an ill-received political thriller involving murder at the White House, Alda played Alvin Jordan, a benevolent National Security Advisor who helps Wesley Snipes investigate the case when no one else will. As television news anchor Kevin Hollander in "Mad City" (1997), Alda aided Dustin Hoffman's firing from the network after an altercation. He then appeared as literary agent Sidney Miller in the Jennifer Aniston romantic comedy "The Object of My Affection" (1998), directed by Nicholas Hytner. After playing Mel Gibson's boss in the box office hit "What Women Want" (2000), Alda shined opposite Leonard DiCaprio in "The Aviator" (2004), Martin Scorcese's epic biography about Howard Hughes (DiCaprio). Alda played Ralph Owen Brewster, the bough-and-sold chairman of a Senate committee dedicated to publicly ruining the maverick airline tycoon.
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The advent of television brings back vaudeville, as emceed by Robert Alda (who ... sings "Be There My Love"). Acts like the Hoosier Hot Shots, Sandy and His Seals, Hector and His Pals, The Four Dandies and Twirl, Whirl and a Girl resurrect that great entertainment medium of the past.
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After college, Alda acted at the Cleveland Playhouse on a Ford Foundation grant. On his return to New York, he appeared on Broadway, off-Broadway and on television. He later acquired improvisational training with "Second City" in New York and "Compass" at Hyannisport. That background in political and social satire led to his work as a regular on television's "That Was the Week That Was."
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