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Posted: 2016-01-28T14:01:52Z | Updated: 2016-01-28T18:26:44Z
SPECIAL FROM Next Avenue
By Josh Walker

Alan Alda is best known for playing Benjamin Franklin Hawkeye Pierce on M*A*S*H . Thats one great reason to admire the award-winning actor, but in honor of his 80th birthday on Jan. 28, we came up with nine more.

The Acting, for Starters

1. That time in 2005 when he played the questionable Senator Ralph Owen Brewster in Martin Scorseses The Aviator, going toe-to-toe with Leonardo DiCaprios Howard Hughes, and got nominated for an Oscar for it:

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