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Director, Screenwriter, Actor, Teleplay By Born: January 28, 1936 in New York City, NY Biography:The son of actor "Robert Alda", "Alan Alda" grew up around vaudeville and burlesque comedians, soaking up as many jokes and routines as was humanly possible. "Robert Alda" hoped that his son would become a doctor, but the boy's urge to perform won out. After graduating from Fordham University, Alda first acted at the Cleveland Playhouse, and then put his computer-like retention of comedy bits to good use as an improvisational performer with Chicago's Second City and an ensemble player on the satirical TV weekly That Was the Week That Was. Alda's first film was "Gone Are the Days" in 1963, adapted from the "Ossie Davis" play in which Alda had appeared on Broadway. (Among the actor's many subsequent stage credits were the original productions of The Apple Tree and The Owl and the Pussycat.)
Most of Alda's films were critical successes but financial disappointments. He portrayed "George Plimpton" in... Full Biography
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