Alan Arkin

At 90 years old, Alan Arkin has this physical status:

Alan Wolf Arkin (born March 26, 1934) is an American actor, director, and screenwriter.

With a film career spanning seven decades, Arkin is known for his performances in The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966), Wait Until Dark (1967), The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968), Popi (1969), Catch-22 (1970), The In-Laws (1979), Edward Scissorhands (1990), The Rocketeer (1991), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001), Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Get Smart (2008), Sunshine Cleaning (2008), and Argo (2012). He has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor twice, for his performances in The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.

He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Little Miss Sunshine and received a Best Supporting Actor nomination for his performance in Argo.

Early life and education

Arkin was born in Brooklyn New York, on March 26, 1934, the son of David I. Arkin, a painter and writer and his wife, Beatrice (née Wortis), a teacher. He was raised in a Jewish family with "no emphasis on religion". His grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Ukraine, Russia, and Germany. His parents moved to Los Angeles when Alan was 11, 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.

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. Arkin attended Los Angeles State College from 1951 to 1953. He also attended Bennington College.

Personal life

Arkin has been married three times, with two ending in divorce. He and Jeremy Yaffe (m. 1955–1961) have two sons: Adam Arkin, born August 19, 1956, and Matthew Arkin, born March 21, 1960. He was married to actress-screenwriter Barbara Dana from 1964 to 1994: she appeared with him in segments of the TV show Sesame Street in the 1970s. They lived in Chappaqua, New York. In 1967, they had a son, Anthony (Tony) Dana Arkin. In 1996, Arkin married psychotherapist Suzanne Newlander, whose surname he adopted for his character Norman Newlander in The Kominsky Method. They live in Carlsbad, California.

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Career

Early roles and Broadway debut

Arkin was a founding member of the Second City comeback troupe in the 1960s. In 1957, he made his debut in a small role in the musical film Calypso Heat Wave. He appeared in episodes of East Side/West Side (1964), and ABC Stage 67 (1966). In 1961, he made his Broadway debut as a performer in From the Second City at the Royal Theatre.

David Kolowitz appeared in Joseph Stein's comedic play Enter Laughing in 1963. Howard Taubman of The New York Times gave the play a mixed verdict but praised Arkin's performance, calling it "a select specimen of a shrewd actor ribbing his trade." He was given the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play as well as the Theatre World Award for his performance. In Luv directed by Mike Nichols, he returned to Broadway in the following year as Harry Berlin. Arkin appeared opposite Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson in Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson.

Film work and stardom

Arkin is one of only six actors to be nominated for Best Actor for their first film appearance (for The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, 1966)). He appeared in Norman Jewison's comedy film The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming opposite Carl Reiner and Eva Marie Saint in 1966. The New York Times' Robert Alden praised Arkin's appearance, describing it as his "first full-length film appearance and a particularly moving performance." Arkin was given an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination and a BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer nomination for his work. He has also been named for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy at the Golden Globe Awards. He appeared in Woman Times Seven, a Vittorio De Sica sex comedy film starring Shirley MacLaine, and Terence Young's psychological thriller film Wait Until Dark starring Audrey Hepburn, the following year.

After Peter Sellers dissociated himself from the role, he appeared as Inspector Jacques Clouseau in the third installment of The Pink Panther franchise, dubbed Inspector Clouseau. Although Sellers' fans and critics were less enthusiastic about the film, Penelope Gilliatt of The New Yorker called it "an incredibly bad film, but Alan Arkin is still funny in it, particularly when he doesn't try to be." During the depressed period in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968), he appeared as a deaf mute in a small southern town during the depression period. He has been nominated for Best Actor and Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama, as well as the Academy Award for Best Actor. He has also been named Best Actor by the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor. Rita Moreno appeared in Arthur Hiller's Comedian Ida in 1969. In the New York City suburb of Spanish Harlem, a Puerto Rican widower is struggling to raise his two young sons. Arkin has been nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama.

People Soup, Arkin's first directorial debut in 1969, starred his sons Adam Arkin and Matthew Arkin. People Soup is a fantasy about two boys who experiment with various kitchen ingredients until they concoct a magical soup that converts them into different animals and objects, based on a tale he wrote in Galaxy Science Fiction in 1958.

Comedies and dramas

Capt. Arkin appeared in 1970 as Capt. In the Mike Nichols film Catch-22, John Yossarian appears. The film is based on Joseph Heller's 1961 book of the same name. Arkin co-starred with Bob Balaban, Martin Balsam, Buck Henry, Bob Newhart, Austin Pendleton, Martin Sheen, Jon Voight, and Orson Welles. Arkin was nominated for his work at the Laurel Award for his work. On the 1970-1971 season of Sesame Street, Arkin and his second wife Barbara Dana appeared together as a comedic pair named Larry and Phyllis, who resolve their differences when they remember how to say the word "cooperate."

Little Murders, his first successful directorial effort, was released in 1971. It's a black comedy film starring Elliott Gould and Marcia Rodd, about a teenager who brings home her boyfriend Alfred (Gould) to visit her dysfunctional family after a string of random shootings, garbage strikes, and electrical outages ravaging the neighborhood. In The New York Times, the film opened to a lukewarm review by Roger Greenspan and a more positive one by Vincent Canby. Roger Ebert's essay in the Chicago Sun-Times was positive, adding, "One of the reasons it works and is certainly a definitive representation of America's darker moods is that it isolates audiences, vulnerable and uncertain."

Arkin also directed Fire Sale (1977)

Arkin appeared in films of several genres, including the Vernon Zimmerman road comedy Deadhead Miles (1972), the Gene Saks version of the Neil Simon film Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1975), and the British mystery The Seven-Perspect Solution (1976). He appeared and co-produced the buddy comedy film The In-Laws in 1979. In a film directed by Andrew Bergman directed by Arthur Hiller, Arkin starred opposite Peter Falk. The film was a commercial and critical hit.

Arkin produced Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys on Broadway in 1975. He was nominated for Best Direction of a Play by the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play.

Arkin appeared in the Marshall Brickman comedy Simon in 1980, which received mixed praise but earned him a Saturn Award nomination. He appeared in three comedy films, Improper Channels, Chu Chu, and the Philly Flash opposite Carol Burnett, and Full Moon High in the following year. Arkin appeared on numerous television shows throughout the 1980s, including The Muppet Show and St. Germain. Elsewhere. Arkin appeared on the sitcom Harry in 1987, but it was cancelled after four low-rated episodes. Arkin appeared in Martin Sheen's television film The Fourth Wise Man (1985) and Eileen Brennan's.

Leon Felhendler appeared in another television film Escape from Sobibor in 1987. The film revolves around a mass escape from Sobibor's Nazi extermination camp. Arkin was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Film, as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series, Miniseries, or Television Film.

Arkin appeared in Tim Burton's fantasy romance Edward Scissorhands, starring Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder in 1990. Bill Campbell and Jennifer Connelly appeared in the live action Disney film The Rocketeer (1991), as well as the film version of the David Mamet play Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) starring Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, and Kevin Spacey. He appeared in the comedies Indian Summer and So I Married an Axe Murderer in 1993. Arkin appeared in the Rob Reiner film North the following year.

Arkin appeared in the film version of Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night, starring Nick Nolte, Sheryl Lee, John Goodman, and Kirsten Dunst in 1996. The following year, Arkin appeared in numerous films, including John Cusack and Minnie Driver, as well as the dystopian science fiction film Gattaca starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman. Barkin also directed Samuel Beckett Is Coming Soon (1993), and Arigo (2000).

In 2001, he appeared in the comedy America's Sweethearts starring John Cusack, Julia Roberts, Billy Crystal, and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Matthew McConaughey, John Turturro, and Clea DuVall appeared in Jill Sprecher-directed drama Thirteen Conversations About One Thing. The Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor was given to him for his work. He appeared in the television film The Pentagon Papers starring James Spader and Paul Giamatti, for which he was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie nomination. Antonio Banderas appeared in another television film the year before, And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself. Marty Adler appeared in the NBC sitcom Will & Grace episode "It's a Father, Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad World" in 2005.

Arkin appeared in a supporting role in the ensemble comedy-drama Little Miss Sunshine starring Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Paul Dano, and Abigail Breslin in 2006. Arkin was the sixth oldest winner of the Best Supporting Actor Award, and he received the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role as a 64-year-old grandfather with a keen eye for snorting heroin. Arkin said on receiving his Academy Award on February 25, 2007.

Arkin appeared in Rendition as a United States citizen in 2006–2007. Senator Senator George Willis and The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause as Bud Newman (Carol's Father). Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston appeared in the comedy films Sunshine Cleaning with Emily Blunt and Amy Adams, Get Smart opposite Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway, and Marley & Me starring Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston. He appeared in Rebecca Miller's The Private Lives of Pippa Lee and Raymond De Felitta's City Island the following year (both 2010).

In Ben Affleck's drama Argo, Lester Siegel, John Goodman, and Bryan Cranston, he appeared in supporting roles as a Hollywood agent. He was nominated for his fourth Academy Award nomination, his second for Best Supporting Actor, after losing to Christoph Waltz in Django Unchained. He was also nominated for the Golden Globe Award, the BAFTA Award, and the Screen Actors Guild Award. He was nominated for Outstanding Achievement by a Cast in a Motion Picture by the Screen Actors Guild. He appeared in the crime drama Stand Up Guys opposite Al Pacino and Christopher Walken in the same year. Steve Carell, Steve Buscemi, Olivia Wilde, and Jim Carnell joined him in the Comedy The Incredible Burt Wonderstone in 2013 with Robert De Niro, Sylvester Stallone, and Kim Basinger. He continued to appear in supporting films including the sporting drama Million Dollar Arm (2014), the Christmas comedy Love the Coopers (2015), the comedy Going in Style (2017) with Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine, and Tim Burton's Dumbo (2019).

Arkin was a voice on the internet from 2015 to 2016. In the Netflix animated series BoJack Horseman, Salinger is the main character. He starred opposite Michael Douglas in the Netflix series The Kominsky Method, for which he received two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series nomination, two Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series nominations, four Screen Actor Guild Awards, and four Screen Actor Guild Award nominations, from 2018 to 2019.

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