Alan Alda (1936-) is an Oscar®-nominated American actor, director, screenwriter, comedian and author. Alda is best known for playing Hawkeye Pierce in the television show, M*A*S*H , from 1972 to 1983. His movie career has also been pretty impressive. Alda was voted the 7th biggest movie star in 1981 on their Quigley Annual Poll. His IMDb page shows 66 acting credits since 1958. This page ranks 32 Alan Alda movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, cameos and his movies not released in North America theaters are not included in the rankings.
Alan Alda Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Alan Alda Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
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- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Alan Alda movie received.
- Sort Alan Alda movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Alan Alda’s Adjusted World Wide Box Office Grosses
Alan Alda Possibly Interesting Facts
1. Alphonso Joseph D’Abruzzo was born on January 28, 1936 in the Bronx, New York City. He is the son of actor, Robert Alda.
2. When Alan Alda was seven years old, he contracted polio. To combat the disease, his parents administered a painful treatment regimen developed by Sister Elizabeth Kenny, consisting of applying hot woolen blankets to his limbs and stretching his muscles.
3. In 1972, Alda auditioned for and was selected to play the role of Hawkeye Pierce in the TV adaptation of the 1970 film MASH. He was nominated for 21 Emmy Awards®, and won five. He was the only actor to appear on every episode of the show. That was 251 episodes.
4. Alan Alda commuted from his home in New Jersey to LA every weekend for 11 years while starring in M*A*S*H (1972). His wife and daughters lived in NJ, and he did not want to uproot the family to LA, especially because he did not know how long the show would last.
5. In 2005 Alan Alda became the fifth actor to receive an Oscar®, Emmy® and Tony® nomination in the same calendar year (for The Aviator (2004), The West Wing (1999) and Glengarry Glen Ross, respectively).
6. Roles Alan Alda almost played: Jason Miller’s role in The Exorcist, Roy Scheider’s role in All That Jazz, Robert Vaughn’s role in Superman III and Martin Sheen’s role in the television series The West Wing.
7. Alan Alda has been married one time. He has been married to Arlene Alda since 1957. They have three children.
8. With the exception of taking a course in Theater Games, Alan Alda never studied acting. His degree from Fordham University is in Science. He felt that he was a natural performer and that studying would ruin his gift for being natural.
9. Alan Alda’s tennis playing partners? Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder and Dick Van Patten. Makes you wonder how Alda never appeared in a Brooks’ movie.
10. Check out Alan Alda’s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
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Loved him in Marriage Story. Fingers crossed that he gets a Academy Award nomination. It might be his last chance to do so.
Hey Caroline…I liked him in Marriage Story too…..I would like to see him get a nomination….and they normally give an older star a nomination…last year it was Sam Elliott. I think the fact that Alda has a previous Oscar nomination might be held against him. I hope I am wrong. On the good side…Laura Dern won the Golden Globe for her role in Marriage Story….so maybe the voters will see Alda’s performance as well.
HI BRUCE
Thanks for the feedback on my Alda post.
I wonder if we had come upon the first two Look Who’s Talking movies and had never heard of Mr Gimme More would we have thought that “Mikey” was a star making his debut as the voice of a baby?!
Jacob Haines who played the oldest of the 4 physical Mikeys is of course all grown up now and has 3 children of his own.
Hey Bob…you are welcome. Good information on Jacob Haines. Wow….your return comment is all the way back in 2018.