Alan Alda Filmography

Nothing But the Truth

Actors: Kate Beckinsale, Matt Dillon, Vera Farmiga, Edie Falco, Alan Alda

Synopsis: Rod Lurie (The Contender) writes and directs this ripped from the headlines tale of a jailed journalist (Kate Beckinsale) that refuses to divulge her source in the case of an outed CIA agent. David Schwimmer plays her husband, with Matt Dillon, Verga Farmiga, Edie Falco and Alan Alda set to Read More

Flash of Genius

Actors: Greg Kinnear, Dermot Mulroney, Lauren Graham, Alan Alda

Synopsis: Greg Kinnear stars in director Marc Abraham's man-against-the-system docudrama Flash of Genius as inventor Robert Kearns, the visionary who developed the modern intermittent windshield wiper. Kearns submitted the invention to each of the big three auto companies, each of which promptly rejected Read More

Resurrecting the Champ

Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Josh Hartnett, Kathryn Morris, Alan Alda, Teri Hatcher

Synopsis: Director and co-screenwriter (along with Chris Gerolmo, Allison Burnett, and Michael Bortman) Rod Lurie tells the uplifting tale of a sports writer who almost lost it all before stumbling into the story of a lifetime in this uplifting sports-themed drama starring Josh Hartnett and Samuel L. Read More

The Aviator

Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly, Alec Baldwin, Alan Alda

Synopsis: Martin Scorsese directed this fast-moving, epic-scale biopic documenting the life and loves one of the most colorful Americans of the 20th century, Howard Hughes. The Aviator follows Hughes (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) as the twentysomething millionaire, having already made a fortune improving Read More

The Killing Yard

Actors: Morris Chestnut, Alan Alda, Rose McGowan, Arthur Holden, Robert Kennedy

Synopsis: Noted filmmaker Euzhan Palcy, who made a name for herself by directing a series of socially minded films about racism and oppression -- including Sugar Cane Alley and A Dry White Season -- continues in the same vein with this gritty courtroom drama about the bloodshed and the coverup of the Attica Read More

Club Land

Actors: Alan Alda, Steven Weber, Brad Garrett

Synopsis: Alan Alda stars in this period drama as Willie Walters, a talent agent booking acts into nightclubs in the 1940s. Willie would like his son Stuey (Steven Webber) to join him in his business, but Stuey isn't so sure that's the path he wants to take in life, and his uncertainty starts to drive Read More

What Women Want

Actors: Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt, Marisa Tomei, Mark Feuerstein, Lauren Holly, Ashley Johnson

Synopsis: A man finds himself getting an unexpected crash course in the psychology of contemporary women in this romantic comedy. Nick Marshall (Mel Gibson) is a successful advertising executive living in Chicago who has long fancied himself a ladies' man, though he has precious little understanding of Read More

ER: Sins of the Fathers

Synopsis: As the battle of wills between Greene (Anthony Edwards) and attending physician Gabe Lawrence (Alan Alda) continues, Lucy (Kellie Martin) cannot help but notice that Lawrence is more forgetful than he should be. Expectant mother Carol (Julianna Margulies) extends a helping hand to Meg (Martha Plimpton Read More

ER: Greene With Envy

Synopsis: Alan Alda makes the first of several guest appearances as crusty attending physician Dr. Gable Lawrence, an old friend and mentor of Kerry Weaver (Laura Innes). Lawrence's pomposities -- to say nothing of his eccentricities -- do nothing toward endearing himself to Greene (Anthony Edwards). Read More

ER: Humpty Dumpty

Synopsis: With this episode, recurring character "Dr. Dave" Malucci (Erik Palladino) becomes a regular. Elsewhere, John Cullum returns as Greene's (Anthony Edwards) cantankerous father, who arrives in Chicago from San Diego -- and promptly gets lost. As Kovac (Goran Visnjic) and Weaver (Laura Innes) try to Read More

Keepers of the Frame

Actors: Alan Alda, Laurence Austin, Stan Brakhage, Jean Picker Firstenberg, Leonard Maltin

Synopsis: It is estimated that 80% of all films released during the silent era have been lost forever, with no prints in existence today (a larger percentage of paintings from the Renaissance have survived), while some films from as little as 15 to 20 years ago have suffered color fading so severe they're Read More

ER: Truth & Consequences

Synopsis: Teenage patients pour into the ER after a suspicious explosion in a high school science class. Lawrence (Alan Alda) becomes erratic and violently angry, leading the staff to wonder if the veteran doctor is functioning at full capacity. Elaine (Rebecca De Mornay) hopes to "connect" with her former Read More

ER: The Peace of Wild Things

Synopsis: By now convinced that her friend Dr. Lawrence (Alan Alda) is in the early stages of Alzheimer's, Weaver (Laura Innes) dolefully conspires with Greene (Anthony Edwards) to force Lawrence to face his problem. A nursing-home fire brings in a multitude of patients and heap of trouble for Carter (Noah Wyle Read More

The Object of My Affection

Actors: Jennifer Aniston, Paul Rudd, Alan Alda, Nigel Hawthorne, John Pankow

Synopsis: Nicholas Hytner (The Crucible) directed this Wendy Wasserstein screenplay, adapted from Stephen McCauley's novel, about the romantic mismatch of a gay man and a young pregnant woman. When literary agent Sidney Miller (Alan Alda) and his wife Constance (Allison Janney) have a dinner party Read More

Mad City

Actors: John Travolta, Dustin Hoffman, Mia Kirshner, Alan Alda, Robert Prosky

Synopsis: Investigative TV journalist Max Brackett (Dustin Hoffman) suffers setbacks and winds up filing routine reports from Madeline, California. Max and his eager intern Laurie (Mia Kirshner) are doing a story at the local Museum of Natural History when a bigger story erupts. The Museum's director, Mrs. Read More

Murder at 1600

Actors: Wesley Snipes, Diane Lane, Daniel Benzali, Dennis Miller, Alan Alda

Synopsis: A police detective finds that looking into a murder is anything but routine when one of the suspects is the President of the United States. When the nude and bloodied corpse of an attractive woman is found in a bathroom at the White House, Harlan Regis (Wesley Snipes), a top detective with the Read More

Everyone Says I Love You

Actors: Alan Alda, Edward Norton, Woody Allen, Drew Barrymore, Goldie Hawn, Gaby Hoffmann, Julia Roberts, Natasha Lyonne

Synopsis: Featuring a soundtrack filled with beloved "standard" songs such as "Just You, Just Me" and "My Baby Just Cares for Me," this musical comedy by Woody Allen concerns a polite and comfortably well-off group of people and their romantic difficulties. DJ (Natasha Lyonne), who narrates the picture, is Read More

Jake's Women

Actors: Alan Alda, Anne Archer, Lolita Davidovich, Julie Kavner, Mira Sorvino

Synopsis: Assembled by the same team responsible for "The Hallmark Hall of Fame", this TV adaptation of Neil Simon's hit play Jake's Woman stars Alan Alda, recreating his Broadway role as Simon-esque writer Jake. Mired in an unhappy marriage with current spouse Maggie (Anne Archer), Jake tries to cope with Read More

Flirting With Disaster

Actors: Ben Stiller, Patricia Arquette, Téa Leoni, Mary Tyler Moore, George Segal, Alan Alda, Lily Tomlin

Synopsis: In this satirical comedy, Mel Coplin (Ben Stiller) has a beautiful wife, Nancy (Patricia Arquette), and a four-month old son, and on the surface his life is good. But something's been troubling him: Mel knows he was adopted, and he can't resolve his issues with the mother who gave him away years Read More

Canadian Bacon

Actors: Alan Alda, John Candy, Rhea Perlman, Kevin Pollak, Rip Torn

Synopsis: In Michael Moore's political satire, the U.S. president (Alan Alda) decides to wage a cold war against Canada in an attempt to reverse his slipping popularity, and, as a result, he drives a small group of incensed Canadians to take matters into their own hands. Alda is the first president in years Read More

White Mile

Actors: Alan Alda, Peter Gallagher, Robert Loggia, Bruce Altman, Dakin Matthews

Synopsis: When a company-sponsored white-water rafting expedition turns into a nightmare, an advertising executive finds himself faced with a moral dilemma and an extremely guilty conscience. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

And the Band Played On

Actors: Richard Gere, Anjelica Huston, Alan Alda, Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin

Synopsis: The late journalist Randy Shilts' best-selling book on the burgeoning AIDS crisis was adapted for cable TV by Arnold Schulman. In 1981, researchers begin discerning a mysterious new disease that apparently affects only homosexual males (or so they thought at that time). Working independently, and Read More

Manhattan Murder Mystery

Actors: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Alan Alda, Anjelica Huston, Jerry Adler

Synopsis: There's a real murder and a real mystery in Woody Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery, but these plot pegs are used mainly to allow Allen to explore modern urban relationships. Allen plays a N.Y.C. book editor, Larry Lipton, married to Carol (Diane Keaton, who replaced Mia Farrow at the last minute Read More

Whispers in the Dark

Actors: Annabella Sciorra, Jamey Sheridan, Anthony LaPaglia, Jill Clayburgh, Deborah Kara Unger, John Leguizamo

Synopsis: When the sadomasochistic sexual fantasies of a Manhattan psychiatrist's disturbed patient begin leaking into the troubled doctor's subconscious, a heated love affair leads to a series of shocking murders in this erotic thriller from Off Limits director Christopher Crowe. The confessions of a Read More

Betsy's Wedding

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Alan Alda, Madeline Kahn, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Anthony LaPaglia

Synopsis: Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper (Molly Ringwald) and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé, Jake Lovell(Dylan Walsh), just want an intimate little wedding reception, but Betsy's father, Eddie (Alan Alda), a Long Island construction contractor, feels so threatened by Jake's rich WASP Read More

Scientific American Frontiers [TV Series]

Actors: Alan Alda

Crimes and Misdemeanors

Actors: Martin Landau, Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Alan Alda, Anjelica Huston, Jerry Orbach, Sam Waterston

Synopsis: Woody Allen spent most of the 1980s and '90s veering between comedy and drama, and he rarely combined the two with greater success than in Crimes and Misdemeanors, in which he weaved together two stories, one deadly serious, one often funny, both ending in sadness. Martin Landau plays Dr. Judah Read More

Blushing Bloopers

Synopsis: See bloopers that would not make it past the network censors. Star Trek, Gunsmoke, Laugh-In, Peyton Place, Happy Days, The Waltons, The Lone Ranger, Mash, The Newlywed Game and many more shows are featured. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

A New Life

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Alan Alda, Ann-Margret, Hal Linden, Veronica Hamel, John Shea

Synopsis: After 20 years of marriage, Steve Giardino (Alan Alda) and his wife Jackie (Ann-Margret) agree to a divorce in this situation comedy. The focus is on both of them as they suffer through matchmaking, blind dates, and their new life as eligible singles. Donna (Mary Kay Place) is Jackie's friend Read More

Sweet Liberty

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Alan Alda, Michael Caine, Michelle Pfeiffer, Bob Hoskins, Lise Hilboldt

Synopsis: Alan Alda wrote, directed, and starred in this satirical film about the corruption of the film industry's approach to history. Alda plays Michael Burgess, a college professor who has written a historical novel about the American Revolution. The book has been turned into a script, and a Hollywood Read More

Lily Tomlin

Actors: Lily Tomlin, Jane Wagner, Peggy Feury

Synopsis: Lily Tomlin is more than a filmed record of the comedienne's stage show The Search for Signs of Life in the Intelligent Universe. The film follows Tomlin and her collaborator Jane Wagner as they put together their production, wandering up hill and down alley in search of comic inspiration. Seldom Read More

M*A*S*H: Goodbye, Farewell & Amen

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Goodbye, Farewell and Amen was the instant-classic final installment of the long-running TV series M*A*S*H. After nearly three bloody years of combat in Korea (and 11 years' worth of TV time!), a truce has been declared and the 4077th is going home. News of the cease-fire affects different people Read More

M*A*S*H: Where There's a Will, There's a War

Crew: Director

Synopsis: En route to an aid station on the frontlines, Hawkeye (Alan Alda) is pinned down by a heavy barrage of enemy gunfire. As the shelling increases, Hawk becomes convinced that his number is finally up. Thus he begins to draw up his last will and testament, bequeathing all sorts of strange and Read More

M*A*S*H: Follies of the Living--Concerns of the Dead

Crew: Director, Teleplay By

Synopsis: M*A*S*H makes its only venture into the paranormal in this episode, in which the ghost of a dead GI adamantly refuses to accept the fact that he is no longer among the living. Dazed and confused, the spirit of Private James Weston (Kario Salem) looks on as the surgeons of the 4077th try to save Read More

M*A*S*H: Hey, Look Me Over

Crew: Teleplay By

Synopsis: In the opening episode of M*A*S*H's 11th and final season, Margaret (Loretta Swit) drives the nurses of the 4077th mercilessly while her own superior officer, the notoriously severe Colonel Buckholtz (Peggy Seury), conducts an inspection. In the process, Margaret learns to fully appreciate the Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 11

Actors: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: As the 11th season of M*A*S*H* got under way in the fall of 1982, everyone involved with the series knew it would be their last (the program had already lasted eight years longer than the actual Korean War!) Looking back, the cast and crew could take pride in the series' many accomplishments, not Read More

M*A*S*H: Depressing News

Crew: Director

Synopsis: 500,000 tongue depressors are mistakenly delivered to the 4077th. Outraged at this spectacular blunder--especially since several more necessary supplies are still missing--Hawkeye (Alan Alda) decides to use the wooden stick to erect a "monument to stupidity." This proves to be a hot scoop for Read More

M*A*S*H: Bottoms Up

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Gail Strickland guest stars as Helen Whitfield, one of the 4077's best nurses. What head nurse Margaret (Loretta Swit) doesn't know--but, alas, will soon find out--is that Helen is a closet drinker. As for the doctors, Hawkeye (Alan Alda) is cold-shouldered by the camp after one of his practical Read More

M*A*S*H: The Life You Save

Crew: Director, Teleplay By

Synopsis: After a near-death experience, Charles Winchester (David Ogden Stiers) becomes obsessed with his own mortality. This leads to an uncharateristic spell of introspection for the otherwise bombastic Charles. As for the other doctors, they have their hands full wrestling with a massive new-duty Read More

M*A*S*H: Communication Breakdown

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Everybody is anxious to hear news from home, but the only member of the 4077th in possession of stateside newspapers is Charles (David Ogden Stiers). To be sure, Charles will share the papers with his colleagues--but only after he reads them himself, from cover to cover, one edition at a time. The Read More

The Four Seasons

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Alan Alda, Carol Burnett, Len Cariou, Sandy Dennis, Rita Moreno

Synopsis: The Four Seasons follows the trials and tribulations of a group of middle-aged friends during a 12-month period. Alan Alda (who also directed) and Carol Burnett play a married couple who consider themselves paragons of sensitivity and sensibility. Alda and Burnett are the instigators of a series Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 10

Actors: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: Its ninth season shortened to a mere 20 episodes thanks to a Hollywood writers' strike, M*A*S*H returned to a full 24-episode manifest for its tenth season, which began in October of 1981. With the defection of series regular Gary Burghoff two seasons earlier, the starring-cast lineup was now Read More

M*A*S*H: Lend a Hand

Crew: Director, Teleplay By

Synopsis: Hawkeye (Alan Alda) again crosses the path of arrogant older doctor Anthony Borelli (played by Alda's father Robert Alda). With ample reason to dislike one another, Hawk and Borelli are none too happy when they are forced to collaborateon an operation in the field. Back in camp, B.J. (Mike Read More

M*A*S*H: Dreams

Crew: Director, Teleplay By

Synopsis: In this near-surrealist episode, everyone at the 4077th is suffering from the fatigue of a medical crisis. Unable to go to sleep for any great length of time, the staff begins taking little cat-naps. The result is a series of dreams and nightmares that are as bizarre as anything out of a Luis Read More

M*A*S*H: Father's Day

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Andrew Duggan guest stars as Alvin "Howitzer" Houlihan, the retired-colonel father of the 4077's head nurse Margaret Houlihan (Loretta Swit). When the old man pays a visit to the camp, Margaret falls all over herself trying to prove that she is worthy of her "Regular Army" dad. Naturally, things Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 09

Actors: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: After a late start thanks to a Hollywood writer's strike, M*A*S*H launched its ninth season on November 17, 1980. With the past defections of Wayne Rogers, Maclean Stevenson, Larry Linville and Gary Burghoff, Alan Alda (as Hawkeye), Loretta Swit (as Margaret Houlihan), Jamie Farr (as Klinger) and Read More

M*A*S*H: The Party

Crew: Teleplay By

Synopsis: Looking forward to the day that peace breaks out in Korea, B.J. (Mike Farrell) begins planning a postwar reunion party for the 4077th. The first step in this undertaking is to arrange (via long distance) a get-acquainted party for the relatives of the M*A*S*H staffers. Alas, an emergency Read More

M*A*S*H: Inga

Crew: Director, Teleplay By

Synopsis: Mariette Hartley guest stars as Dr. Inga Helversen, a gorgeous Swedish surgeon temporarily assigned to the 4077th. Hawkeye (Alan Alda) is smitten by Inga, but doubts that one so beautiful could be truly efficient in the O.R. Our hero's preconceived notions--and his ego--take quite a beating when Read More

M*A*S*H: Life Time

Crew: Director, Teleplay By

Synopsis: In an episode cowritten by M*A*S*H's medical consultant Walter Dishell), the 4077th must perform immediate surgery on a soldier with a severely lacerated aorta. With only 20 minutes to close the wound and restore circulation, Hawkeye (Alan Alda) and B.J. (Mike Farrell) must rely upon an aortic Read More

M*A*S*H: Guerilla My Dreams

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Hawkeye (Alan Alda) crosses swords with Lt. Hung Lae Park (Mako), a ruthless and determined ROK officer. At the center of the conflict is a wounded Korean woman (Huanini Minn), whose life Hawkeye is determined to save. But Park insists that the woman is an enemy guerilla--and as such must be Read More

M*A*S*H: Yessir, That's Our Baby

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A wartime fling between an American GI and a Korean woman has resulted in an abandoned infant. The gang at the 4077th realize that the baby will be shunned by the Koreans for being "mixed." Thus it is that the M*A*S*H gang dedicates itself to the difficult task of finding a good and loving home Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 08

Actors: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: Season eight of M*A*S*H was marked by the last of the series' major regular-cast defections. As the quietly resourceful and eerily clairvoyant company clerk, Cpl. Walter "Radar" O'Reilly, Gary Burghoff had been the only actor from the 1970 movie version of M*A*S*H* to carry over his role into the Read More

The Seduction of Joe Tynan

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Alan Alda, Barbara Harris, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn, Melvyn Douglas

Synopsis: Alan Alda wrote and starred in this tale about a big-time politician's struggles with his own morality and the corruption he finds surrounding him. He plays a U.S. Senator, Joe Tynan, who falls for a lovely lady attorney and has an affair that jeopardizes his marriage, and possibly, his career. Read More

M*A*S*H: The Billfold Syndrome

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Obsessing over the possibility of losing a future civilian medical position, Charles (David Ogden Stiers) vows never to speak to his colleagues at the 4077th again. Normally, Charles' silence would be a consummation devoutly to be wished, but Hawkeye (Alan Alda) and B.J. (Mike Farrell) cannot Read More

M*A*S*H: Major Ego

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Charles (David Ogden Stiers) saves the life of a wounded G.I. with an emergency heart massage. Never one to hide his talents under a bushel, Charles basks in the congratulations from his colleagues--even his friendly enemies Hawkeye (Alan Alda) and B.J. (Mike Farrell). But when a Stars and Stripes Read More

M*A*S*H: Dear Sis

Crew: Director, Teleplay By

Synopsis: In his annual Yuletide letter to his sister (the "Sister"), Father Mulcahy (William Christopher) recounts recent events at the 4077th. Mulcahy's missive is tinged with melancholy: As the war drags on and casualties pile up, he feels that his spiritual solace has been of little practical use to his Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 07

Actors: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: Now in its seventh season on the air, the irreverent military comedy series M*A*S*H continued to roll along like a well-oiled machine. The most significant change during season six, the introduction of the insufferable but brilliant surgeon Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester (David Ogden Stiers), had Read More

California Suite

Actors: Alan Alda, Michael Caine, Bill Cosby, Jane Fonda, Walter Matthau, Richard Pryor, Maggie Smith

Synopsis: Playwright Neil Simon turned to the hotel setting he used so successfully in his stage-play (later a movie) Plaza Suite to explore four more human dramas in his play California Suite, which was adapted into this quite successful movie. In the first episode, the divorced couple of Bill and Hannah Read More

Same Time, Next Year

Actors: Ellen Burstyn, Alan Alda, Ivan Bonar

Synopsis: Based on Bernard Slade's Broadway play Same Time, Next Year this film is about George, a married New Jersey accountant (Alan Alda), and Doris, a housewife (Ellen Burstyn). The two accidentally meet in a Californian country inn in 1951. The two have an affair, which they continue for the next 25 Read More

M*A*S*H: Hepatitis

Crew: Director, Teleplay By

Synopsis: Father Mulcahy (William Christopher) is laid low with hepatitis, forcing the entire camp to submit to antiobiotics injections. The man in charge of this mass inoculation is Hawkeye (Alan Alda), who has problems of his own thanks to a painful back ailment. Meanwhile, B.J. (Mike Farrell) undertakes Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 06

Actors: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: Season six of M*A*S*H was noteworthy for yet another defection from its regular-cast ranks. Long dissatisfied with the artistic limitations of the role of obnoxious Major Frank Burns, actor Larry Linville followed the lead of his former M*A*S*H colleagues Wayne Rogers and Maclean Stevenson by Read More

Kill Me If You Can

Actors: Alan Alda, Talia Shire, Walter McGinn

Synopsis: The story of "red light bandit" Caryl Chessman, previously dramatized in the 1955 film Cell 2455, Death Row (based on Chessman's own book), was adapted for television as Kill Me If You Can. In a radical departure from his usual duties as MASH's Hawkeye Pierce, Alan Alda plays Chessman, who in 1948 Read More

M*A*S*H: Fallen Idol

Crew: Director, Teleplay By

Synopsis: Taking the advice of his idol Hawkeye (Alan Alda), Radar (Gary Burghoff) heads off for a weekend of whoopee at the Pink Pagoda in Seoul. When Radar is wounded en route, Hawkeye is consumed by guilt, so much so that he is unable to do his job to the best of his abilities. The disappointed Radar Read More

M*A*S*H: In Love and War

Crew: Director, Teleplay By

Synopsis: Against not only his better judgment b