Though a successful stage and film actor, Alan Alda made his most lasting impact playing Hawkeye Pierce,... (Learn more)
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"Alan is a closet intellectual. He's a bright guy with a an inquiring mind." - Wayne Rogers, "M*A*S*H*" co-star, quoted to TV Guide, Oct. 23, 1999
"I never was as wonderful a person as everybody said I was. It occurred to me a couple of days ago that it's too bad that I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few good people like that." - Alda quoted in The New York Times, May 18, 1994
"I'm very happy I've done something that gives people pleasure still after all these years. Not that they remember: that they still see it. But for me, as a personal experience for me, it's as though it happened to somebody else." - Alda to The New York Times, May 18, 1994
Alda received the Ford Foundation Grant after college graduation which enabled Alda to perform with the Cleveland Playhouse (1958-59).
In 1976, the Boston Globe dubbed him "the quintessential Honorary Woman: a feminist icon" for his activism on behalf of the Equal Rights Amendment.
On Oct. 18, 2003, Alda underwent an emergency appendectomy, a day after checking into he Regional Hospital in La Serena, 300 miles north of the capital of Santiago, complaining of severe abdominal pains.
Received honorary degrees from Fordham University (1978); Drew University (1979); Columbia University (1979); Connecticut University (1980); and Kenyon College (1982).
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