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- Born: March 26, 1934
- Son: Adam Arkin
- Won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in the film Little Miss Sunshine
- Won a Golden Globe Award for Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming
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Alan Arkin is an American actor, musician and author, whose long and varied career has included key roles in Catch-22, The In-Laws and Little Miss Sunshine.
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Biography
Arkin was raised in New York City and Los Angeles. His father, a set designer, was blacklisted as a communist during the Red Scare. Arkin's first on-screen performance, as "Lieutenant Rozanov" in the 1966 film The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming was nominated for an Oscar. He wouldn't win the award, however, until 2007, when he won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance as the rogue grandfather in Little Miss Sunshine. Although Arkin's acting career has far exceeded his other pursuits in terms of notoriety, he is also a childrens book author and a former member of the 1950s folk trio The Tarriers. -
Alan Arkin Quote
"I knew I wanted to act from when I was five, and I started studying seriously when I was six and seven. Not with anybody else, but I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did."Worldmind: Alan Arkin Interview (October 10, 1995)
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Alan Arkin on Amazon
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FROM THE SECOND CITY (ORIGINAL CAST LP, 1961) - $15.99
1961 ORIGINAL CAST LP (MONAURAL SOUND) FROM THE FAMED COMEDY IMPROV GROUP WITH MUSIC BY WILLIAM MATHIEU. STARRED ALAN ARKIN, BARBARA HARRIS, PAUL SAND, HOWARD ALK, SEVERN DARDEN, M...Amazon
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Four Days in September - $19.99
This captivating thriller -- based on extraordinary true-life events -- was honored with an Academy Award(R) nomination! Political terrorists, in a desperate bid to focus the world...Amazon
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In-Laws [VHS] - $4.97
This 1979 comedy is absolutely indispensable for fans of Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, or Andrew Bergman, who wrote the film's screenplay and went on to direct The Freshman and <i...Amazon
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The In-Laws - $19.98
Comedy about a dentist who gets mired in the bizarre intrigues of his daughter's soon-to-be father-in-law, who claims to be a CIA agent.Amazon
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Alan Arkin Questions
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How did Alan Passaro die? He was the stabber at the Altamont Speedway show in 1969. 3 AnswersAccording to Find a grave: He was found dead floating in the Anderson Reservoir with $10,000 in his pocket in 1985. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.c... read more -
who is Alan Clarke? 3 AnswersAlan Clarke (28 October 1935 – 24 July 1990) was a television and film director, producer and writer, born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England. read more -
Whatever happened to Alan Lancaster? 1 AnswerI think the very last thing he did was with John Coghlan at the "Unveiling the Bon Scott Statue" concert in Claremont, Western Australia in 2008 where he played... read more
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Alan Arkin Timeline
- Note: The majority of the links in this timeline are to IMDb, which has pop-ups.
- March 26, 1934: Born
- 1956: "The Banana Boat Song" with The Tarriers
- 1967: The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming
- 1967: Wait Until Dark
- 1968: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
- 1970: Catch-22
- 1992: Glengarry Glen Ross
- 2006: Little Miss Sunshine
- 2008: Marley and Me
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On Twitter Powered by Twitter
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Alan Arkin is hilarious as Grandpa Edwin in Little Miss Sunshine..."See, right now you're jailbait, they're jailbait. It's perfect."
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saw "sunshine cleaning" starring amy adams, emily blunt and alan arkin. i can see it was a good theme to make into movies but not my thing.
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Alan Arkin never disappoints. Brilliant actor.
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is watching some weird Holiday movie where Tim Allan is Santa, Elizabeth Mitchell is his wife and Ann Margret & Alan Arkin are her parents?!
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Celebrating SECOND CITY'S 50th with Alan Arkin, Mike Nichols and Elaine May, pioneers of that fabulous group also in SUNDAYS IN NEW YORK.
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