Alan Alda
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Alan Alda (born January 28, 1936) is an American actor, writer, director and sometime political activist. He began his career in the 1950's as a member of the Compass Players comedy revue. He is most famous for his role of Hawkeye Pierce in the television series M*A*S*H.
He has also appeared in at least two TV commercials. Both of these were in the small computer industry, first for Atari and later, with the rest of the M*A*S*H cast, for IBM's PS/2 product line with MicroChannel architecture.
His father, Robert Alda, was a successful actor.
Alan Alda is the host of the TV show Scientific American Frontiers.
Because of his prominent part in the enormous success of M*A*S*H, Alda had a platform to speak out on political topics, and has been a strong and vocal supporter of equal rights for women. As such, he has been something of a bogeyman for some political conservatives.
Films:
- What Women Want
- Keepers of the Frame
- The Object of My Affection
- Flirting with Disaster
- Mad City
- Murder at 1600
- Everyone Says I Love You
- Canadian Bacon
- Manhattan Murder Mystery
- Whispers in the Dark
- Betsy's Wedding
- Crimes and Misdemeanors
- A New Life
- Sweet Liberty
- The Four Seasons
- The Seduction of Joe Tynan
- Same Time Next Year
- California Suite
- Free to Be You and Me
- To Kill a Clown
- The Mephisto Waltz
- The Manshine War
- The Extraordinary Seaman
- Jenny
- Paper Lion
- Gone Are the Days
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Alan_Alda" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Alda, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
