He made his Hollywood acting debut as a supporting player in Gone are the Days! – a film version of the Broadway play Purlie Victorious, which co-starred Ruby Dee and her husband, Ossie Davis.
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Īlda was part of the cast, along with David Frost, Henry Morgan and Buck Henry, of the American television version of That Was The Week That Was, which ran as a series from Januto May 1965. He was nominated for the Tony Award as Best Actor in a Musical for that role.Īlda said he became a Mainer in 1957 when he played at the Kennebunkport Playhouse. In 1966, he starred in the musical The Apple Tree on Broadway, with Barbara Harris. He continued to play Felix the "Owl" for the 1964-65 Broadway season. In the November 1964 world premiere at the ANTA Playhouse of the stage version of The Owl and The Pussycat, he played Felix the "Owl" opposite the "Pussycat" which was played by actress/singer Diana Sands. In 1958 Alda appeared as Carlyle Thompson III on The Phil Silvers Show in the episode titled "Bilko the Art Lover". He later became a member of the improvisational group Second City in Chicago He joined the acting company at the Cleveland Play House during the 1958–1959 season as part of a grant from the Ford Foundation, appearing in productions such as To Dorothy a Son, Heaven Come Wednesday, Monique, and Job. Īlda's half-brother Antony Alda was born in 1956 and also became an actor.Īlda began his career in the 1950s, as a member of the Compass Players, an improvisational, comedy revue directed by Paul Sills. In a 2013 interview, Alda joked that he was actually in charge of a mess tent. A member of the ROTC, he entered the United States Army Reserve and served for a year at Fort Benning, then six months as a gunnery officer in Korea. In 1956, Alda received his Bachelor of Arts degree. During Alda's junior year, he studied in Paris, acted in a play in Rome, and performed with his father on television in Amsterdam. He studied English at Fordham University in the Bronx, where he was a student staff member of its FM radio station, WFUV. Alda attended Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains, New York. To combat the disease, his parents administered a painful treatment regimen developed by Sister Elizabeth Kenny, consisting of applying hot woollen blankets to his limbs and stretching his muscles. When Alda was seven years old, he contracted polio. His adopted surname, Alda, is a portmanteau of the first parts of his first and last names. His father was of Italian descent and his mother was of Irish ancestry. His father Robert Alda (born Alfonso Giuseppe Giovanni Roberto D'Abruzzo) was an actor and singer, and his mother Joan Browne was a homemaker and former beauty-pageant winner. Alda spent his childhood with his parents travelling around the United States in support of his father's job as a performer in burlesque theatres. Īlda was born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo on January 28, 1936, in the Bronx, New York City. In 2019, Alda received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. Alda has also received three Tony Award nominations for his Broadway performances in The Apple Tree (1967), Jake's Women (1992), and Glengarry Glen Ross (2005). He is also known as Uncle Pete in the Peabody Award–winning tragicomedy web series Horace and Pete. In 2004, Alda was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Aviator.
Other appearances include Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), Flirting with Disaster (1996), the Cold War drama film Bridge of Spies (2015), and Marriage Story (2019). He received critical acclaim for his appearances in films such as Same Time, Next Year (1978) alongside Ellen Burstyn and for his directorial debut film The Four Seasons (1981). He is known for recurring roles on television series, such as The West Wing and 30 Rock.
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).
Six Emmy Awards and six Golden Globe AwardsĪlan Alda ( / ˈ ɑː l d ə/ born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo January 28, 1936) is an American actor and comedian.
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