Alan Alda Overview:

Actor, Alan Alda, was born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo on Jan 28, 1936 in New York City, NY. As of December 2025, Alan Alda was 89 years old.

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Although Alda was nominated for one Oscar, he never won a competitive Academy Award.

Academy Awards

YearAwardFilm nameRoleResult
2004Best Supporting ActorThe AviatorSenator Ralph Owen BrewsterNominated
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Alda was inducted into the TV Hall of Fame .

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A New Life (1988, )

on Apr 23, 2012 From The Stop Button

Alda opens A New Life likes it?s going to juxtapose he and Ann-Margret?s lives immediately follow their divorce. For a while, it does. Alda?s got Hal Linden as a sidekick, Ann-Margret?s got Mary Kay Place. It?s all very even. She?s going back to school, he?s trying to figure out how to date. The beg... Read full article


The Four Seasons (1981, )

on Jul 14, 2010 From The Stop Button

I didn’t read anything about The Four Seasons before watching it–I didn’t even know it was Carol Burnett in a dramatic role (she’s fantastic)–and if I had, maybe I would have had some idea where Alda was taking the film. Because he doesn’t take it where I was expe... Read full article


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Alan Alda Facts
To show the horrors of war in a television sit-com, Alda had it written into his contract that one scene of every episode must take place in the operating room while surgery occured.

Best known by the public for his starring role as Chief of Surgery - Dr. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce on "M*A*S*H" (1972).

Before his 2003 emergency surgery in Chile, the surgeon tried to explain the procedure he was about to perform in layman's terms. Alda confidently asserted that the operation is called an end-to-end anastomosis. The stunned surgeon asked how he knew that. Alda replied that he had done the procedure numerous times on "M*A*S*H" (1972).

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