Alan arkin

Alan Wolf Arkin (New York, March 26, 1934) is an award-winning American actor, musician, and film and theater director who has behind him a prestigious professional career in both film as in television, literature and music.

Biography

Born in Brooklyn, New York, to a family of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants, Arkin launched his career with the play The Second City. That earned him his first role on Broadway as the lead in Carl Reiner's play Enter Laughing , which earned him the Tony Award, one of the most prestigious in American theater.

In 1998 he directed, starred in, and co-wrote with Elaine May the production of Power Plays at the Promenade Theatre.

His film debut came with the film The Russians Are Coming!, in 1966, for which he earned two nominations for the Best Actor Oscar and the Golden Globe. 1968's The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter also earned him another Best Actor Oscar nomination. In 2006 he won an Oscar, as a supporting actor, for his role in Little Miss Sunshine (2006), also nominated for Best Picture.

Arkin has written and directed two short films: T.G.I.F. (1967) and People Soup (1969). The former opened the New York Film Festival, and the latter received an Oscar nomination for Best Short Film.

He has starred in the highly regarded A&E series, Centre Street Courthouses (100 Center Street, 2001-1002), written and directed by Sidney Lumet. Among the actor's other television appearances are his Emmy-nominated performances in Pentagon Papers (2003), for FX, and Escape from Sobibór (1987). He guest-starred as the father of his real-life son, Adam Arkin, in Chicago Hope (1997), which also earned him another Emmy nomination, and he also appeared in Varian's War (2001), for Showtime, and in the HBO production, And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003), with Antonio Banderas.

He has also directed the television adaptation of the Broadway play, Twings (1975), with Carol Burnett.

Arkin has also written six books, all published by HarperCollins, the latest of which, under the title Cassie Loves Beethoven, was published by Hyperion. One of his first novels, The Lemming Condition, has been selling non-stop for twenty years, and has also been recognized by Book Sellers of America for having entered the the White House Library.

He is the father of actors Adam Arkin, Anthony Arkin and Matthew Arkin.

Alan Arkin in the movie Popi (1969).

Partial filmography

• The Russians are coming! (1966)
• Seven times a woman (1967)
• Wait Until Dark (1967)
• Inspector Clouseau, the king of danger (1968)
• The heart is a lone hunter (1968)
• Popi (1969)
• Trap 22 (1970)
• Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1972)
• Freebie and the Bean (1974)
• The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (Elementary, Dr. Freud1976)
• The In-Laws (1979)
• Full Moon High (1981)
• The Gulf of San Francisco (1981)
• Bad Medicine (1985)
• The fourth King Mago (1985)
• Escape from Sobibor (1987)
• Coupe de Ville (1990)
• Eduardo Manostijeras (1990)
• Havana (1990)
• The Rocketeer (1991)
• Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
• So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993)
• Indian Summer (1993)
• The Jerky Boys (1994)
• A boy named North (1994)
• Steal Big, Steal Little (1995)
• Four days of September (1996)
• Good night, Mother. (1996)
• A special killer. (1997)
• Gattaca (1997)
• Slums of Beverly Hills (1998)
• Jakob the Liar (1999)
• Blood Money (1999)
• My golden dream (2001)
• Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001)
• Covered lives (2002)
• Noel (2004)
• Firewall (2006)
• Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
• Santa Claus 3 (2006)
• Rendition (2007)
• Superagent 86 (2008)
• Sunshine Cleaning (2008)
• Marley " Me (2008)
• The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)
• City Island (2009)
• The Change Up (2011)
• Argo (2012)
• Stand Up Guys (2013)
• The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)
• Grudge Match (2013)
• Love the Coopers (2015)
• Going in Style (2017)
• The Kominsky method (2018)
• Dumbo (2019)
• Spenser Confidential (2020)
• Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022)

Awards and distinctions

Oscar Awards

Golden Globe Awards

BAFTA Awards

Primetime Emmy Awards

Awards of the Union of Actors

Satellite Awards

Tony Awards