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Robert Alda (born Alfonso Giuseppe Giovanni Roberto D'Abruzzo; February 26, 1914 – May 3, 1986) was an Italian-American theatrical and film actor, a singer, and a dancer. He was the father of actors Alan and Antony Alda.
Robert Alda. Actor: Rhapsody in Blue. Robert Alda's career began in vaudeville, as a singer-dancer. Graduating to performing on radio and in burlesque, he made a splashy film debut as George Gershwin in Rhapsody in Blue (1945).
- February 26, 1914
- May 3, 1986
Robert Alda. Actor: Rhapsody in Blue. Robert Alda's career began in vaudeville, as a singer-dancer. Graduating to performing on radio and in burlesque, he made a splashy film debut as George Gershwin in Rhapsody in Blue (1945).
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- New York City, New York, USA
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- Los Angeles, California, USA
May 5, 1986 · Actor Robert Alda--who scored successes as George Gershwin on film, as Sky Masterson on stage and as “M*A*S*H” star Alan Alda’s father in private life--died Saturday at his Los Angeles home...
May 5, 1986 · Robert Alda, the actor who created the role of the suave gambler Sky Masterson in the Broadway musical ''Guys and Dolls'' and who portrayed George Gershwin in the film ''Rhapsody in Blue,''...
Robert Alda was an Italian-American theatrical and film actor, a singer, and a dancer. He was the father of actors Alan and Antony Alda. Alda was featured in a number of Broadway productions, then moved to Italy during the early 1960s.
Biography. Read More. Darkly handsome lead, later an attractively graying character actor, a veteran performer in film, theatre and TV. Alda made his film debut as George Gershwin in the tuneful biopic "Rhapsody in Blue" (1945) and played the romantic lead in Robert Florey's stylish cult horror thriller, "The Beast with Five Fingers" (1947).