Alan Alda is an actor, director, screenwriter, and author. A six-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner, he is best known for his starring roles as Captain Hawkeye Pierce in the TV series
M*A*S*H
and Arnold Vinick in
The West Wing
, and his supporting role in the 2004 film
The Aviator
, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award.
Alan Alda is an actor, director, screenwriter, and author. A six-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner, he is best known for his starring roles as Captain Hawkeye Pierce in the TV series
M*A*S*H
and Arnold Vinick in
The West Wing
, and his supporting role in the 2004 film
The Aviator
, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award.
He is currently a Visiting Professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Journalism and a member of the advisory board of The Center for Communicating Science and the Future of Life Institute. He serves on the board of the World Science Festival and is a judge for Math-O-Vision.
Alan Alda was inducted into the Television Academy
Hall of Fame
in 1994.