Alda provides support, advocacy, and outreach for late-deafened, deaf, and hard of hearing, as well as their families. Our community is here to share unique experiences, challenges, and coping. In a career spanning seven decades on both stage and screen, he is best known for portraying captain benjamin franklin hawkeye pierce in the cbs wartime sitcom m*a*s*h (1972–1983), where he.

Despite his health struggles, alda has maintained his legendary sense of humor. He showed this when he was asked how he's doing in a new interview with people magazine.