Alan Alda

Alan Alda (/ˈɑːldə/; born Alphonso Joseph D\'Abruzzo; January 28, 1936) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, comedian and author. A six-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner, he played Hawkeye Pierce in the war television series M*A*S*H (1972–1983). He has also appeared on television programs such as Scientific American Frontiers, The West Wing, and 30 Rock, and in films such as Same Time, Next Year (1978) and Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989). He also experienced success as a director with 1981\'s The Four Seasons. In 2004, Alda was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in The Aviator.\n', '

Alda was born Alphonso Joseph D\'Abruzzo on January 28, 1936 in the Bronx, New York City, and had a peripatetic childhood, as his parents traveled around the United States in support of his father\'s job as a performer in burlesque theatres. His father Robert Alda…