Robert Alda

Robert Alda
Birth Name: Alphonso Giuseppe Giovanni Roberto D'Abruzzo
Born: Feb 26, 1914
New York City, NY
Career: 1945-1983
Countries: Italy
USA
Genre/Type: Action
Comedy
Drama
Mystery
Crime
Biography by Hal Erickson
Actor Robert Alda studied architecture at NYU, briefly working in this field until choosing show business. He started performing in vaudeville, and in burlesque as a tenor and straight man; by 1934, he was well established on radio. He made a spectacular film debut in Warner Bros.' 1945 biopic Rhapsody in Blue (1945), essaying the role of George Gershwin over the objections of director Irving Rapper, who'd wanted to hold off production until Tyrone Power was available. Alda did as good a job as possible, given the banalities of the scripts, though his piano-playing sequences are obviously faked and tricked up. Alda's starring career faded out rather quickly; he was more successful with second leads and villainous roles, and in the early 1960s became a fixture of Italian sword-and-sandal and spy films. Returning to Broadway in 1950, Alda created the role of Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls, winning a Tony Award in the process. In 1954, he starred in the syndicated TV series Secret File USA. Robert Alda was the father of Alan Alda, with whom he appeared in a poignant MASH TV episode of the late 1970s.

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Filmography

Movie/Film Released Rating Role Buy
Quincy, M.E.: Murder on Ice 1983 Actor [Starring]
Code Red 1981 Actor [Starring]
Quincy, M.E.: Jury Duty 1981 Actor [Starring]
M*A*S*H: Lend a Hand 1980 Actor [Starring]
The Dukes of Hazzard: The Runaway 1980 Actor [Starring]
Express to Terror 1979 Actor [Starring]
Greatest Heroes of the Bible: Moses 1979 Actor [Starring]
Laverne & Shirley: Shirley and the Older Man 1979 Actor [Starring]
Deadly Dust 1978 Actor [Starring]
Every Girl Should Have One 1978 Actor [Starring]
Perfect Gentlemen 1978 Actor [Starring]
River of Promises 1978 Actor [Starring]
Spider-Man Strikes Back 1978 Actor [Starring]
The Rockford Files: Three Day Affair With a Thirty Day Escrow 1978 Actor [Starring]
Quincy, M.E.: Hot Ice, Cold Hearts 1977 Actor [Starring]
Bittersweet Love 1976 Actor [Starring]
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Alda, an Italian American, was born in New York City, New York, the son of Frances (née Tumillo) and Anthony D'Abruzzo, a barber. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in New York in 1930. He began as a singer and dancer in vaudeville af...
Robert Alda died on on May 3, 1986

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