Alan Alda (Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo)
Born: 28 January 1936, Bronx, New York
Born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo, the family uses Alda, a contraction of ALphonso and D'Abruzzo, as their surname for most things, but the birth certificates all use the original name. His father, Robert, was an actor and his mother had been Miss New York. At age seven Alda contracted polio and spent two years restricted to bed, enduring a painful treatment of wrapping his legs in hot blankets and stretching his muscles. He graduated from Archbishop Stepinac High School at White Plains, New York and in 1956 graduated from Fordham College in The Bronx where he was on the staff of the FM station and had the chance to study in Paris. While in Europe he acted in a play in Rome and performed with his father on Dutch TV. He joined the US Army Reserve and spent six months in Korea as a gunnery officer, after the war. He married Arlene Weiss, they have three daughters. His career started as a member of the Compass Players, in 1966 he was nominated for his first Tony Award. His appeared in several movies during the sixties, but real fame came when he won the role of Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce in M*A*S*H which ran from 1972 to 1983. Hawkeye was the only character to appear in all episodes, he wrote or co-wrote 19 of them and directed 32. He was the first person to receive Emmy Awards for writing, directing, and acting in a series. During the eleven seasons Alda's role increased and the show became more dramatic and political. Although his politics could only be described as progressive, he has played both liberal and conservative political parts on screen. Alda has won six Emmy Awards, six Golden Globes, three DGA Awards, an Oscar nomination, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The Quotemaster's household has a complete set of the M*A*S*H episodes and several of his movies on the shelf.
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- After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life. permalink
Alan Alda - Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname. permalink
Alan Alda - At times you have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself. permalink
Alan Alda - Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart. permalink
Alan Alda - commencement speech at Connecticut College (1980) - Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory. permalink
Alan Alda - Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. It is not the previously known. permalink
Alan Alda - commencement speech at Connecticut College (1980) - Be fair with others, but then keep after them until they're fair with you. permalink
Alan Alda - Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once and a while, or the light won't come in. permalink
Alan Alda - commencement speech at Connecticut College (1980) - Don't be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found. It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it. permalink
Alan Alda - commencement speech at Connecticut College (1980) - Don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don't doubt yourself. permalink
Alan Alda - commencement speech at Connecticut College (1980) - During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me. Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn't do it. Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody. permalink
Alan Alda - Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned (2005) - For nearly a quarter of a century three men in this country were anchors in more ways than one. At a time so many things in our country were changing, they were solid. permalink
Alan Alda - Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but then keep after them until they're fair with you. permalink
Alan Alda - Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned (2005) - I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen. permalink
Alan Alda - I love the idea of being out there with little or no net. permalink
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