Alan Alda

Alan Alda, born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo, is an American actor, director, screenwriter and author born on January 28, 1936 in New York. He is best known for his portrayal of military surgeon Hawkeye Pierce on M*A*S*H; In recent years, he has also come to the fore with his work in the field of science communication.

From the stage to M*A*S*H

He is the son of actor and singer Robert Alda. He completed his undergraduate studies in English at Fordham University in 1956. At the beginning of his career, he worked in improvisational companies such as Compass Players and Second City. She made her Broadway debut in 1961 in Purlie Victorious, and in 1967 she was nominated for a Tony Award for her role in The Apple Tree.

He played Hawkeye Pierce, who served in a field hospital during the Korean War, in all episodes of M*A*S*H, which started in 1972 and lasted until 1983. He did not remain only as an actor; He wrote the scripts of many episodes and directed dozens of episodes, including the final episode. It was nominated for an Emmy twenty-one times throughout the series' run, winning five of them.

Cinema and science communication

He started directing in cinema in 1981 with The Four Seasons, which he wrote and directed. He appeared in Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors. He received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a senator in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator. He received his sixth Emmy Award for playing Republican presidential candidate Arnold Vinick on The West Wing. He also has six Golden Globe awards.

He presented the Scientific American Frontiers program on television between 1993 and 2005. In 2009, he took part in the establishment of the center named after him at Stony Brook University, which helps scientists convey their work to the public in a more understandable way. This effort was rewarded with the Public Interest Medal of the US National Academy of Sciences in 2016.

He published the books Never Have Your Dog Stuffed and If I Understood You, and hosted the podcast Clear+Vivid. In 2019, he received the Screen Actors Guild's Lifetime Achievement Award.