Bel-Air Home for ‘Hawkeye’
Actor/writer/director ALAN ALDA--probably best known for playing the surgeon, Capt. Benjamin Franklin (Hawkeye) Pierce, in the popular CBS series “M*A*S*H”--and his wife, Arlene, have moved into their newly built house in Bel-Air.
Alda gained stardom and several Emmy awards for his role on “M*A*S*H,” which aired from 1972 to 1983, but the 55-year-old native of New York, son of the late actor Robert Alda, has starred more recently in such movies as “Same Time, Next Year,” “California Suite,” “The Four Seasons,” “Crimes and Misdemeanors” and “Betsy’s Wedding.”
He and his wife, a classical clarinetist and photographer, have been married since 1957. They raised their three daughters in Leonia, N.J.
The Aldas’ new home in Bel-Air has been described as a two-story, 9,000-square-foot contemporary with Mediterranean overtones.
It has an indoor swimming pool, a large screening room, and “enough extra bedrooms to house their three daughters who visit from the East and other guests,” a source said.
The home--which has a master suite, a maid’s room, a guest bedroom and two offices that double as bedrooms--also has a tennis court, which gets a good workout from both Alan and Arlene Alda, who are avid players, sources say.
“The court was finished before the house was even started. So at least they were able to have a little fun while living through the long and laborious task of carving out the mountain to make room for the house,” a source said.
The Aldas were living nearby before completing their new residence, which was designed by architect Richard Martin and built by Tom McGrath Co., with interiors designed by Harriet D. Stuart.
English actress LUCY GUTTERIDGE has purchased a two-bedroom home with gardens in the Hollywood Hills.
Gutteridge starred in the TV special “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby,” the TV mini-series “Little Gloria . . . Happy at Last” and the movies “The Greek Tycoon,” “The Trouble With Spies” and “Top Secret!” to name a few.
She had been living between her Tuscan villa just outside Florence, Italy, and a flat in London but sold her Italian home to concentrate her movie and TV activities in Los Angeles.
Gutteridge paid about $500,000 for her Hollywood Hills home, where she lives with her daughter, Isabella.
“It’s the most idyllic country English cottage I’ve seen in years,” said Barry Sloane of Dalton, Brown & Long, who represented Gutteridge in her purchase.
Actress/sportscaster JAYNE KENNEDY, voted “Sexiest Black Woman in America” a couple of years ago by Ebony magazine, and her husband, actor Bill Overton, have put their Santa Monica townhouse on the market at $625,000.
“They’ve lived there for three years, but they want to buy a beachfront home in the Marina area with some land where their three young daughters can play,” said a spokesman for Fred Sands Realtors, which has the listing through Adrian Grant and Fiora Astin.
The four-level, ocean-view condo has four bedrooms in about 3,000 square feet.
Actor JOE SIROLA--who was in the ’89 CBS series “Wolf” and is the “voice” of Ford, GE and Mobil Oil in TV commercials--has sold 18 acres in Yucca Valley, a little community just northeast of Palm Springs, for $3 million. He bought the property for $250,000 in 1981, sources say.
Sirola--who will co-star as a recluse novelist in the Joy & Roses Productions movie “The Legend,” to be filmed this fall--sold the land to Wal-Mart, which plans to build a Wal-Mart store there.
Producer/writer GORDON DAWSON has put his ranch-style home in Studio City on the market at $1.75 million.
Dawson, executive story editor on the cable TV mini-series “The Black Stallion,” wrote for such TV shows as “Bonanza,” “The Rockford Files,” “Maverick” and “Independence,” a 1987 Movie-of-the-Week on NBC that he was also executive producer on.
His hilltop house, which has four bedrooms in about 6,000 square feet, also has a 1,500-square-foot den and a wet bar that seats 12 and overlooks the San Fernando Valley. “At night, the view from the master bedroom is a lake of lights,” he said.
The home also has a pool, spa, gazebo and gardens.
After he bought it four years ago, Dawson completely remodeled the home, built in 1963 and later owned by band leader Lawrence Welk.
Because his current assignment on the Family Channel’s “Black Stallion” requires extensive travel, he and his wife, Jane, decided that “it’s just too much house to spend so little time in,” he said. “The Black Stallion” is shooting in Paris and Vancouver, B.C.
Don Bozick of Douglas Properties has Dawson’s listing.
Cinematographer STEVEN POSTER, who completed principal photography on Mel Brooks’ “Life Stinks” and also shot Sylvester Stallone’s “Rocky V” and Patrick Swayze’s “Next of Kin,” has been doing some major work on his Hollywood Hills home.
He’s almost completed a $100,000 landscaping job, installing a new pool and deck, and he’s about to add a second story with a den, darkroom, bedroom and bath. By the time he’s completed, he will have expanded his house from 1,300 to 2,500 square feet.
