Alan Arkin

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Alan Wolf Arkin (March 26, 1934 – June 29, 2023) was an American actor, filmmaker and musician. In a career spanning seven decades, he received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Tony Award as well as nominations for six Emmy Awards.

Arkin performed in the sketch comedy group The Second City before acting on the Broadway stage, starring as David Kolowitz in the Joseph Stein play Enter Laughing in 1963, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. He returned to Broadway acting in the comedic play Luv (1964), and directed Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys (1971), for which he received a Tony Award nomination.

Arkin won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a foul-mouthed grandfather in Little Miss Sunshine (2006).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Cbignore</ref> He was Oscar-nominated for his roles in The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming (1966), The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968), and Argo (2012). He also acted in Wait Until Dark (1967), Inspector Clouseau (1968), Popi (1969), Catch-22 (1970), The In-Laws (1979), Edward Scissorhands (1990), The Rocketeer (1991), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001), Get Smart (2008), Going in Style (2017), Dumbo (2019) and Spenser Confidential (2020). Arkin also directed three films, including the comedies Little Murders (1971) and Fire Sale (1977).

His television roles included Leon Felhendler in Escape from Sobibor (1987), and as Harry Rowen in The Pentagon Papers (2003) for which he earned Emmy nominations respectively for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. Arkin voiced Schmendrick in The Last Unicorn (1982), J. D. Salinger in the animated series BoJack Horseman (2015–16), and Wild Knuckles in Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022). From 2018 to 2019, Arkin starred in the Netflix comedy series The Kominsky Method, earning two consecutive nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.<ref name="kominskyemmys">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Early life and educationEdit

Alan Wolf Arkin was born in Brooklyn, a borough of New York City, on March 26, 1934, the son of teacher, painter, writer and lyricist David I. Arkin (1906–1980) (co-writer of the hit Three Dog Night song "Black and White"), and his wife, Beatrice (née Wortis; 1909–1991), a teacher.Template:Citation needed The family lived in Crown Heights.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was raised in a Jewish family with "no emphasis on religion".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> His grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Ukraine, Russia, and Germany.<ref name="ArkinJournal07">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> His parents moved to Los Angeles when Alan was 11,<ref name="ArkinJournal07" /> but an 8-month Hollywood strike cost his father his job as a set designer. During the 1950s Red Scare, Arkin's parents were accused of being Communists, and his father was fired when he refused to answer questions about his political ideology. David Arkin challenged the dismissal, but he was vindicated only after his death.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Arkin, who had been taking acting lessons since age 10, became a scholarship student at various drama academies, including one run by the Stanislavsky student Benjamin Zemach, who taught Arkin a psychological approach to acting.<ref>Farrell, Barry. "Yossarian in Connecticut: Since Catch-22, actor's actor Alan Arkin finally stars as ... Alan Arkin" Life. October 1970.</ref> Arkin attended Los Angeles State College from 1951 to 1953. He also attended Bennington College.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

CareerEdit

1956–1969Edit

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Arkin in the Broadway play Enter Laughing (1963)

He started his career in the 1950s as a singer and guitarist in the folk group, The Tarriers.<ref name=":4" /> They had two hits in 1956–7: "Cindy, Oh Cindy" and "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)".<ref name=":4" /> They performed the latter in the 1957 musical movie, Calypso Heat Wave, and sang "Choucoune" in this too.<ref name=":5" /> Arkin went on to sing with another folk group, The Baby Sitters.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Arkin was an early member of the Second City comedy troupe in the 1960s.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 1957, he made his feature film acting debut in a small role in the musical Calypso Heat Wave.<ref name=":5">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In the early sixties, he appeared in episodes of East Side/West Side (1964)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and ABC Stage 67 (1966).<ref name="varietyobit">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He also made his Broadway debut as a performer in From the Second City at the Royale Theatre in 1961.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Arkin starred in 1963 on Broadway as David Kolowitz in Joseph Stein's comedic play Enter Laughing. Critic Howard Taubman of The New York Times gave the play a mixed review but praised Arkin's performance, describing it as "a choice specimen of a shrewd actor ribbing his profession."<ref name=TaubmanRvw>Template:Cite news</ref> For his performance, he received the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play, and a Theatre World Award.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The following year, he returned to Broadway starring as Harry Berlin in Luv directed by Mike Nichols. Arkin starred opposite Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

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Arkin in Popi (1969)

In 1966, he starred in Norman Jewison's comedy film The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming opposite Carl Reiner and Eva Marie Saint. Robert Alden of The New York Times praised Arkin's performance describing it as his "first full-length film appearance and a particularly wonderful performance."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> For his performance Arkin received a Academy Award for Best Actor nomination<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and a BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer nomination.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He also received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.<ref name="globes">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The following year he appeared in the Vittorio De Sica sex comedy Woman Times Seven starring Shirley MacLaine, and in Terence Young's psychological thriller film Wait Until Dark starring Audrey Hepburn.<ref name="guardianobit">Template:Cite news</ref>

In 1968, he starred as Inspector Jacques Clouseau in the third installment of The Pink Panther franchise, titled Inspector Clouseau, after Peter Sellers dissociated himself from the role. The film was not well-received by Sellers' fans and critics, but Penelope Gilliatt of The New Yorker called it "an incredibly bad film, but Alan Arkin is sometimes very funny in it, especially when he doesn't try to be."<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> That same year, he co-starred with Sondra Locke in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, playing a suicidal deaf mute.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Cbignore</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> For his performance, he received nominations for an Academy Award for Best Actor<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama,<ref name="globes" /> and won a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 1969, he starred in Arthur Hiller's comedy Popi opposite Rita Moreno. The film focuses on a Puerto Rican widower struggling to raise his two young sons in the New York City neighborhood of Spanish Harlem. Arkin received another nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama.<ref name="globes" />

In 1969, Arkin's directorial debut was the Oscar-nominated<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Cbignore</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 12-minute children's film titled People Soup, starring his sons Adam Arkin and Matthew Arkin.<ref name="People Soup ACMI"/> Based on a story of the same name he published in Galaxy Science Fiction in 1958,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> People Soup is a fantasy about two boys who experiment with various kitchen ingredients until they concoct a magical soup which transforms them into different animals and objects.<ref name="People Soup ACMI">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

1970–1985Edit

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With Shirley Knight in the TV special The Defection of Simas Kudirka (1978)

In 1970, Arkin starred as Capt. John Yossarian in the Mike Nichols film Catch-22. The film is a satirical black comedy war film adapted from the 1961 novel of the same name by Joseph Heller. Arkin co-starred alongside Bob Balaban, Martin Balsam, Buck Henry, Bob Newhart, Austin Pendleton, Martin Sheen, Jon Voight, and Orson Welles.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Arkin received a Laurel Award nomination for his performance.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Arkin and his second wife Barbara Dana appeared together on the 1970–1971 season of Sesame Street as a comical couple named Larry and Phyllis who resolve their conflicts when they remember how to pronounce the word "cooperate".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

He directed the black comedy film Little Murders, released in 1971 and later became a cult classic.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Written by cartoonist Jules Feiffer, it is a black comedy film starring Elliott Gould and Marcia Rodd about a girl, Patsy (Rodd), who brings home her boyfriend Alfred (Gould) to meet her dysfunctional family amid a series of random shootings, garbage strikes, and electrical outages ravaging the neighborhood. The film opened to a lukewarm review by Roger Greenspun,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and a more positive one by Vincent Canby<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> in The New York Times. Roger Ebert's review in the Chicago Sun-Times was enthusiastic, stating "One of the reasons it works and is indeed a definitive reflection of America's darker moods is that it breaks audiences down into isolated individuals, vulnerable and uncertain."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Arkin also directed Fire Sale (1977).<ref name="guardianobit" />

During the 1970s, Arkin starred in films of various genres including the Vernon Zimmerman road comedy Deadhead Miles (1972), the Gene Saks adaptation of the Neil Simon play of the same name Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1972) with Sally Kellerman and Paula Prentiss, the black comedy action film Freebie and the Bean (1974), the dramedy Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (1975) with Kellerman and Mackenzie Phillips, the 1978 TV prison film The Other Side of Hell (1978), the western comedy Hearts of the West (1975),<ref name="auto">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and the British mystery The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976).<ref name="indyobit">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="varietyobit" /> In 1973, Arkin directed the Broadway production of Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys. He received the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play nomination, losing to A. J. Antoon for That Championship Season.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 1979, he starred in and co-produced the buddy comedy film The In-Laws. Arkin starred opposite Peter Falk in a film directed by Arthur Hiller and written by Andrew Bergman.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 1980, Arkin starred in the Marshall Brickman comedy Simon which gained mixed reviews but earned him a Saturn Award nomination.<ref name="auto"/> The following year, he starred in three comedy films, Improper Channels, Chu Chu and the Philly Flash opposite Carol Burnett, and Full Moon High.<ref name=":1" /> He also voiced the magician Schmendrick in the 1982 cult animated film The Last Unicorn.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> During the 1980s, Arkin appeared frequently in various television programs including The Muppet Show and St. Elsewhere.<ref name="varietyobit" /> In 1985, Arkin starred in the television film The Fourth Wise Man starring Martin Sheen and Eileen Brennan.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He won Best Supporting Actor at the Genie Awards for his role as Reuben Shapiro in the 1985 film adaption of Mordecai Richler's semi-autobiographical novel Joshua Then and Now.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

1986–2001Edit

In 1987, Arkin appeared in the sitcom Harry, which was canceled after four low-rated episodes.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Also more importantly in that same year, he starred in another television film Escape from Sobibor portraying Leon Felhendler. The film revolves around the mass escape from the Nazi extermination camp at Sobibor. Arkin received nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film.<ref name="globes" />

In 1990, Arkin appeared in a supporting role in Tim Burton's fantasy romance Edward Scissorhands starring Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He also appeared in the live action Disney film The Rocketeer (1991) starring Bill Campbell and Jennifer Connelly, and the film adaptation of the David Mamet play Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) starring Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, and Kevin Spacey.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 1993, he appeared in the comedies Indian Summer and So I Married an Axe Murderer.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The following year, Arkin featured in the Rob Reiner film North.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In 1996, Arkin appeared in the film adaptation of the Kurt Vonnegut novel Mother Night starring Nick Nolte, Sheryl Lee, John Goodman, and Kirsten Dunst.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The following year Arkin appeared in the comedy Grosse Point Blank starring John Cusack as well as the dystopian science fiction film Gattaca with Ethan Hawke. In 1998, he starred in the lead role of Tamara Jenkins' comedy Slums of Beverly Hills with Natasha Lyonne. Arkin also directed Samuel Beckett Is Coming Soon (1993) and Arigo (2000).<ref name=":6">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=":1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

2001−2023Edit

In 2001, he appeared in the comedy America's Sweethearts starring John Cusack, Julia Roberts, Billy Crystal, and Catherine Zeta-Jones.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He also starred in the Jill Sprecher drama Thirteen Conversations About One Thing with Matthew McConaughey, John Turturro, and Clea DuVall. For his performance, he received the Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2003, he starred in the television film The Pentagon Papers starring James Spader and Paul Giamatti for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie nomination.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> That same year, he starred in another television film And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself with Antonio Banderas.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2005, he appeared as Marty Adler in the NBC sitcom Will & Grace in the episode "It's a Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad World".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2006, Arkin appeared in a supporting role in the ensemble comedy-drama Little Miss Sunshine with Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Paul Dano, and Abigail Breslin. His role in the independent film as a foul-mouthed grandfather with a taste for snorting heroin won him the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male; the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role; and the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. At 72 years old, Arkin was the sixth oldest winner of the Best Supporting Actor Oscar.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On receiving his Academy Award on February 25, 2007, Arkin said:

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In between 2006 and 2007, Arkin was cast in supporting roles in Rendition as a U.S. Senator Hawkins and The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause as Bud Newman, with Ann-Margret playing his wife.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2008, he appeared in the comedy films Sunshine Cleaning with Emily Blunt and Amy Adams,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Get Smart with Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, and Dwayne Johnson,Template:Citation needed and Marley & Me starring Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The following year, he appeared in Rebecca Miller's The Private Lives of Pippa Lee<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and Raymond De Felitta's City Island (both 2010).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In 2012, he appeared in a supporting role as Hollywood producer Lester Siegel in Ben Affleck's drama Argo with Affleck, John Goodman, and Bryan Cranston. For his performance, he received his fourth Academy Award nomination, his second for Best Supporting Actor, losing to Christoph Waltz in Django Unchained.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He also received nominations for the Golden Globe Award,<ref name="globes" /> the BAFTA Award,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and Screen Actors Guild Award.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=":2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He did receive the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.<ref name=":2" /> That same year, he appeared in the crime drama Stand Up Guys, opposite Al Pacino and Christopher Walken.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The following year he appeared in the comedy The Incredible Burt Wonderstone with Steve Carell, Steve Buscemi, Olivia Wilde, and Jim Carrey and Grudge Match with Robert De Niro, Sylvester Stallone, and Kim Basinger.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He continued to act in supporting roles in films such as the sports drama Million Dollar Arm (2014) with Jon Hamm and the Christmas comedy Love the Coopers (2015).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

From 2015 to 2016, Arkin voiced J. D. Salinger in the Netflix animated series BoJack Horseman.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> From 2018 to 2019, he starred opposite Michael Douglas in the Netflix series The Kominsky Method for which he received two Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series nominations,<ref name="kominskyemmys" /> two Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film nominations,<ref name="globes" /> and several Screen Actors Guild Award nominations.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

During this time, Arkin was cast in the comedy Going in Style (2017) with Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine,<ref name="varietyobit" /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and Tim Burton's Dumbo (2019).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Arkin gave his final two film-acting roles in 2020 and 2022. He starred alongside Mark Wahlberg and Winston Duke in the 2020 Netflix film Spenser Confidential.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> His final performance was voicing the character as Wild Knuckles in the Universal animated film Minions: The Rise of Gru, which was released to critical and commercial success.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In September 2022, Arkin joined Casey Affleck, Kathy Bates, and Teyana Taylor who had been cast in the independent heist thriller The Smack, which was in pre-production prior to his death.<ref name="smack">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Musical careerEdit

With Erik Darling and Bob Carey, he formed the folk group The Tarriers, in which Arkin sang and played guitar. The band members co-composed the group's 1956 hit "The Banana Boat Song", a reworking, with some new lyrics, of a traditional, Jamaican calypso folk song of the same name, combined with another titled "Hill and Gully Rider".<ref name="newsday">Lovece, Frank. "Fast Chat: Alan Arkin". New York Newsday. January 7, 2007.</ref> It reached No. 4 on the Billboard magazine chart the same year as Harry Belafonte's better-known version.<ref name=":4">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The group appeared in the 1957 Calypso-exploitation film Calypso Heat Wave, singing "Banana Boat Song" and "Choucoune". Arkin was a member of The Tarriers when they recorded "Cindy, Oh Cindy", which also charted.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

From 1958 to 1968, Arkin performed and recorded with the children's folk group The Baby Sitters.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He also performed the role of Dr. Pangloss in a concert staging of Leonard Bernstein's operetta Candide, alongside Madeline Kahn's Cunegonde.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 1985, he sang two selections by Jones and Schmidt on Ben Bagley's album Contemporary Broadway Revisited.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Citation</ref>

Personal life and deathEdit

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Alan Arkin with his wife Suzanne at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2012

Arkin was married three times; his first two marriages ended in divorce. He and his first wife, Jeremy Yaffe, had two sons: Adam (born August 19, 1956) and Matthew (born March 21, 1960). He was married to actress-screenwriter Barbara Dana from 1964 to 1994; she appeared with him in segments of Sesame Street in the 1970s. They lived in Chappaqua, New York. In 1967, they had a son, Anthony ("Tony").<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In 1996, two years after his divorce from Barbara, Arkin married psychotherapist Dr. Suzanne Newlander, whose surname he adopted for his character, Norman Newlander, in the Netflix series, The Kominsky Method.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Beginning in the late 1990s,<ref name = "Saving CBI"> Template:Cite news</ref> he and Suzanne maintained a seasonal home in Cape Breton Island in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.<ref name = "CBPost Obit"> Template:Cite news</ref> Arkin said that he "felt an energy in Cape Breton that [he] never felt anywhere in the world."<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> In 2019, Arkin recorded his vocal performance as Wild Knuckles in Minions: The Rise of Gru in a recording studio in Point Aconi, near his home.<ref name="Minion on the Mira"> Template:Cite news</ref>

Arkin died at his home in San Marcos, California, on June 29, 2023, at the age of 89.<ref name="varietyobit2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> His death was attributed to heart problems,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> of which he had a history.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

FilmographyEdit

FilmEdit

Alan Arkin film credits
Year	Title	Role	Notes	Template:Tooltip
1957	Calypso Heat Wave	Tarriers lead singer		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1963	That's Me	Template:Unknown	Short film; also writer	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1\|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1\|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1966	The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming	Lt. Rozanov		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1\|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1966	The Last Mohican	Mr. Ableman	Short film; also writer	<ref name=":0" />
1967	Woman Times Seven	Fred	Segment: The Suicides	<ref name=":0" />
1967	Wait Until Dark	Roat / Harry Roat Jr. / Harry Roat Sr.		<ref name=":0" />
1968	Inspector Clouseau	Inspector Jacques Clouseau		<ref name=":0" />
1968	The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter	John Singer		<ref name=":0" />
1969	Popi	Abraham Rodriguez		<ref name=":0" />
	The Monitors	Garbage man in commercial	Cameo	<ref name=":0" />
	People Soup	Adam	Short film; also writer and director	<ref name="People Soup ACMI"/>
1970	Catch-22	Capt. John Yossarian		<ref name=":0" />
1971	Little Murders	Lt. Miles Practice	Also director	<ref name=":0" />
1972	Deadhead Miles	Cooper		<ref name=":0" />
1972	Last of the Red Hot Lovers	Barney Cashman		<ref name=":0" />
1974	Freebie and the Bean	Det. Sgt. Dan "Bean" Delgado		<ref name=":0" />
1975	Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins	Gunny Rafferty	Aka Rafferty and the Highway Hustlers	<ref name=":0" />
1975	Hearts of the West	Burt Kessler		<ref name=":0" />
1976	The Seven-Per-Cent Solution	Sigmund Freud		<ref name=":0" />
1977	Fire Sale	Ezra Fikus	Also director	<ref name=":0" />
1979	The In-Laws	Sheldon S. Kornpett, D.D.S.	Also executive producer	<ref name=":0" />
1979	The Magician of Lublin	Yasha Mazur		<ref name=":0" />
1980	Simon	Prof. Simon Mendelssohn		<ref name=":0" />
1981	Improper Channels	Jeffrey Martley		<ref name=":0" />
	Chu Chu and the Philly Flash	Flash		<ref name=":0" />
	Full Moon High	Dr. Brand		<ref name=":0" />
1982	The Last Unicorn	Schmendrick	Voice	<ref name=":0" />
1983	The Return of Captain Invincible	Captain Invincible		<ref name=":0" />
1985	Joshua Then and Now	Reuben Shapiro		<ref name=":0" />
1985	Bad Medicine	Dr. Ramón Madera		<ref name=":0" />
1986	Big Trouble	Leonard Hoffman		<ref name=":0" />
1990	Coupe de Ville	Fred Libner		<ref name=":0" />
	Edward Scissorhands	Bill Boggs		<ref name=":0" />
	Havana	Joe Volpi		<ref name=":0" />
1991	The Rocketeer	A. "Peevy" Peabody		<ref name=":0" />
1992	Glengarry Glen Ross	George Aaronow		<ref name=":0" />
1993	Indian Summer	Unca Lou Handler		<ref name=":0" />
	So I Married an Axe Murderer	Police Captain		<ref name=":0" />
	Samuel Beckett Is Coming Soon	The Director	Also director	<ref name=":6" />
1994	North	Judge Buckle		<ref name=":0" />
1995	Picture Windows	Tully	Segment: Soir Bleu	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	The Jerky Boys: The Movie	Ernie Lazarro		<ref name=":0" />
	Steal Big Steal Little	Lou Perilli		<ref name=":0" />
1996	Heck's Way Home	Dogcatcher		<ref name=":0" />
1996	Mother Night	George Kraft		<ref name=":0" />
1997	Grosse Pointe Blank	Dr. Oatman		<ref name=":0" />
	Four Days in September	Charles Burke Elbrick		<ref name=":0" />
	Gattaca	Det. Hugo		<ref name=":0" />
1998	Slums of Beverly Hills	Murray Samuel Abromowitz		<ref name=":0" />
1999	Jakob the Liar	Max Frankfurter		<ref name=":0" />
2000	Magicians	Milo	Direct-to-video	<ref name=":0" />
2001	America's Sweethearts	Wellness Guide		<ref name=":0" />
2001	Thirteen Conversations About One Thing	Gene		<ref name=":0" />
2004	Eros	Dr. Pearl / Hal	Segment: Equilibrium	<ref name=":0" />
2004	Noel	Artie Venizelos		<ref name=":0" />
2006	Little Miss Sunshine	Edwin Hoover	Credited as Grandpa	<ref name=":0" />
	Firewall	Arlin Forester		<ref name=":0" />
	The Novice	Father Benkhe		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause	Bud Newman		<ref name=":0" />
	Raising Flagg	Flagg Purdy		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2007	Rendition	Senator Hawkins		<ref name=":0" />
2008	Sunshine Cleaning	Joe Lorkowski		<ref name=":0" />
	Get Smart	The Chief		<ref name=":0" />
	Marley & Me	Arnie Klein		<ref name=":0" />
2009	The Private Lives of Pippa Lee	Herb Lee		<ref name=":0" />
2009	City Island	Michael Malakov		<ref name=":0" />
2011	Thin Ice	Gorvy Hauer		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	The Change-Up	Mitchell Planko Sr.		<ref name=":0" />
	The Muppets	Tour Guide	Cameo	<ref name=":0" />
2012	Argo	Lester Siegel		<ref name=":0" />
2012	Stand Up Guys	Richard Hirsch		<ref name=":0" />
2013	The Incredible Burt Wonderstone	Rance Holloway		<ref name=":0" />
	In Security	Officer Riggs		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Grudge Match	Louis "Lightning" Conlon		<ref name=":0" />
2014	Million Dollar Arm	Ray Poitevint		<ref name=":0" />
2015	Love the Coopers	Bucky		<ref name=":0" />
2017	Going in Style	Albert Garner		<ref name=":0" />
2019	Dumbo	J. Griffin Remington		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2020	Spenser Confidential	Henry Cimoli		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2022	Minions: The Rise of Gru	Wild Knuckles	Voice	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2024	The Smack	Smack	Posthumous release	<ref name="smack"/>

TelevisionEdit

Alan Arkin television credits
Year	Title	Role	Notes	Template:Tooltip
1964	East Side/West Side	Ted Miller	Episode: "The Beatnik and the Politician"	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1966	ABC Stage 67	Barney Kempinski	Episode: "The Love Song of Barney Kempinski"	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1970–1971	Sesame Street	Larry	citation	CitationClass=web }}Template:Cbignore</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1978	The Other Side of Hell	Frank Dole	Television film	<ref name=":0" />
1978	The Defection of Simas Kudirka	Simas Kudirka	Television film	<ref name=":0" />
1979	Carol Burnett & Company	Himself	Episode #1.2	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1980	The Muppet Show	Himself	Episode: "Alan Arkin"	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1983	St. Elsewhere	Jerry Singleton	3 episodes	<ref name="auto4"/>
1984	American Playhouse	Flagg Purdy	Episode: "A Matter of Principle"
1985	Faerie Tale Theatre	Bo	Episode: "The Emperor's New Clothes"	<ref name="auto4"/>
1985	The Fourth Wise Man	Orontes	Television film	<ref name=":0" />
1986	A Deadly Business	Harold Kaufman	Television film	<ref name=":0" />
1987	Harry	Harry Porschak	7 episodes	<ref name="auto4"/>
1987	Escape from Sobibor	Leon Feldhendler	Television film	<ref name=":0" />
1988	Necessary Parties	Archie Corelli		<ref name=":0" />
1993	Cooperstown	Harry Willette		<ref name=":0" />
1993	Taking the Heat	Tommy Canard		<ref name=":0" />
1994	Doomsday Gun	Col. Yossi		<ref name=":0" />
1995	Picture Windows	Tully	Miniseries	<ref name="auto3"/>
1997	Chicago Hope	Zoltan Karpathein	Episode: "The Son Also Rises"	<ref name="auto4"/>
1999	Blood Money	Willy "The Hammer" Canzaro	Television film	<ref name=":0" />
2001	Varian's War	Bill Freier	Television film	<ref name=":0" />
2001–2002	100 Centre Street	Joe Rifkind	10 episodes	<ref name=":0" />
2003	The Pentagon Papers	Harry Rowen	Television film	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2003	And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself	Sam Drebben	Television film	<ref name=":0" />
2005	Will & Grace	Marty Adler	Episode: "It's a Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad World"	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2015–2016	BoJack Horseman	J. D. Salinger	Voice, 4 episodes	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2017	Get Shorty	Eugene	Episode: "The Yips"	<ref name="auto4"/>
2018–2019	The Kominsky Method	Norman Newlander	16 episodes	<ref name="auto1"/><ref name="kominskyemmys"/>

TheaterEdit

Alan Arkin theater credits
Year	Title	Role	Venue	Template:Tooltip
1961	From the Second City	Performer	Royale Theatre, Broadway	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1963	Enter Laughing	Performer – David Kolowitz	Henry Miller's Theatre, Broadway	<ref name="auto5"/>
1964	Luv	Performer – Harry Berlin	Booth Theatre, Broadway	<ref name="auto5"/>
1966	Hail Scrawdyke!	Director	Booth Theatre, Broadway	<ref name="auto5"/>
1972	The Sunshine Boys	Director	Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway	<ref name="auto5"/>
1973	Molly	Director	Alvin Theatre, Broadway	<ref name="auto5"/>
1998	Power Plays	Director/Co-Writer/Performer	Seattle (from March 12) Manhattan Theater Club, New York (May 1998–March 1999)	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2000	Taller Than a Dwarf	Director	Longacre Theatre, Broadway	<ref name="auto5"/>

Awards and nominationsEdit

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Throughout his career he received an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Tony Award. He also received six Primetime Emmy Award nominations. In 2014, Arkin received the Gregory Peck Award for Cinematic Excellence to honor his life's work at the San Diego Film Festival.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

BibliographyEdit

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ReferencesEdit

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Alan Arkin

Contents

Early life and educationEdit

CareerEdit

1956–1969Edit

1970–1985Edit

1986–2001Edit

2001−2023Edit

Musical careerEdit

Personal life and deathEdit

FilmographyEdit

FilmEdit

TelevisionEdit

TheaterEdit

Awards and nominationsEdit

BibliographyEdit

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

External linksEdit