Alan Alda

Alan Alda (born January 28, 1936) is an American actor, director and screenwriter. At five and six Emmy Award winner, Golden Globe, he is best known for his role as Hawkeye Pierce in the television series M * A * S * H. During the 1970s and 1980s, he was regarded as the archetypal sympathetic male, although in recent years, he has appeared in roles that the fight against this image. Alda was born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo in the Bronx, New York City. His father, Robert Alda (born Alphonso D'Abruzzo Giovanni Roberto) was an actor and singer, and her mother, Joan Brown, was a former Miss New York. Alda is Italian and Irish. His adopted name, "Alda" is a portmanteau of Alphonse and Abruzzo. When Alda was seven years old, he contracted polio. To fight against the disease, her parents administered a painful treatment plan developed by Sister Elizabeth Kenny, who was to apply warm blankets for its members and stretching his muscles.This allowed him to recover most of the effects of the disease. Later, Archbishop Stepinac assisted Alda High School in White Plains, New York. By 1956, he received his Bachelor of Science in English from Fordham College, Fordham University