Alan Alda

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Biography

A five-time Emmy Award-winning, six-time Golden Globe-winning, Academy Award-nominated American actor. He is perhaps most famous for his role as Hawkeye Pierce in the television series M*A*S*H. During... [more]

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Was one of the actors considered to play President Bartlett on "The West Wing" (1999). Alda later landed the role of Sen. Arnold Vinick in 2004 on that series.
Has three daughters: Eve, Elizabeth Alda and Beatrice Alda.

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What I can`t completely understand is most other people`s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies. Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?

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Snapshot

Date of Birth: 28th of January, 1936
Occupation: Actor
Height: 6' 2" (188cm)
Eye Colour: Blue
Hair Colur: Grey
Claim to Fame: M*A*S*H, The West Wing, The Aviator
Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Nationality: United States
Ethnicity: White
Alternative Names:
Capt. Benjamin Franklin (Hawkeye) Pierce