The Great Creators with Guy Raz

Alan Alda: The 87-Year-Old Legend on M*A*S*H, The West Wing, and Building Chemistry Using Humor and Brutal Honesty


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Actor Alan Alda played a starring role in two iconic ensemble TV shows, MASH and The West Wing, part of an award-winning career in television, film and theater that's spanned decades. He's also a writer and director. He talks with Guy about building chemistry in an ensemble cast, how he uses improvisational techniques in his acting and in real life, and how he is still taking on new roles at age 87, even as he copes with Parkinson's disease.

Links from the show:

Clear and Vivid with Alan Alda podcast

Alan as Hawkeye video compilation

Alan and Robert Alda sharing a scene in M*A*S*H

Alan and Martin Sheen on The West Wing

Alan on the Art of Science Communication

Alan interviews Malcolm Gladwell on Clear and Vivid

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