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However, Alan Alda pushed to keep him on the series, knowing how dependent Christopher was on needing steady work to help raise his autistic son. Alda went as far as writing an episode to incorporate Christopher's real-life illness into Mulcahy, helping to convince producers to keep him on the show.
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Sep 16, 2022 · The heart of the series was Alan Alda, who played the acerbic and devoted surgeon Hawkeye Pierce throughout the show’s more than 250 episodes and also wrote and directed dozens of them. The...
May 4, 2021 · Born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo on January 28, 1936, in New York City, Alda is best known for his role as Hawkeye Pierce on the long-running television series M*A*S*H. He is the son of actor...
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Sep 2, 2022 · Native New Yorker Alan Alda was in the Army Reserves at Fort Benning, Georgia, shortly after the Korean War. As irreverent surgeon Capt. Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce on M*A*S*H, he was ...
Sep 17, 2022 · Alan Alda is reflecting on one of the most emotional scenes to ever air on M*A*S*H. The Golden Globe winner, 86, recalled the unexpected death of Colonel Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson) as a...
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Alda wished to make season 10 (1981–1982) M*A*S*H ' s last, but was persuaded by CBS to produce a slightly shortened 11th season, coupled with a farewell movie finale, at the request of CBS. In the end, season 11 had 15 episodes (although six had been filmed during season 10 and held over) and a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 -hour movie, which was treated as ...
Sep 22, 2023 · Alan Alda was actually one reason the show resisted the easy comedy of life during wartime. In many ways, he became the face of the show at its "most preachy," as some critics claimed of the show...