Search results
Jun 30, 2023 · Alan Arkin was an actor known for roles in films including “Wait Until Dark” (1967) “Glengarry Glen Ross” (1992), and “Little Miss Sunshine” (2006), for which he won the Academy Award ...
- More Than 100 Film and TV Credits
- 'The Moral Centre of A film'
- Couldn't Afford to Go to Movies in His Youth
Arkin once joked to The Associated Press that the beauty of being a character actor was not having to take his clothes off for a role. He wasn't a sex symbol or superstar, but was rarely out of work, with over 100 television and feature film credits to his name. His trademarks were likability, relatability and complete immersion in his roles, no ma...
Arkin's career as a character actor continued to blossom when Mike Nichols, a fellow Second City alumnus, cast him in the starring role as Yossarian, the victim of wartime red tape in 1970's Catch-22, based on Joseph Heller's million-selling novel. Through the years, Arkin turned up in such favourites as Edward Scissorhands, playing Johnny Depp's n...
Other recent credits included Going in Style, a 2017 remake featuring fellow Oscar winners Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman, and The Kominsky Method. He played a Hollywood talent agent and friend of Douglas's character, a once-promising actor who ran an acting school after his career sputtered. He also was the voice of Wild Knuckles in the 2022 ani...
Jun 30, 2023 · Actor Alan Arkin, who passed away yesterday at age 89, had a 60-plus year career onstage, on TV and in films. His decades-long résumé earned him an Oscar (Little Miss Sunshine), a Tony (Enter ...
- Tom Tapp
Jun 30, 2023 · Print This Page. Oscar- and Tony Award-winning actor Alan Arkin has died. He was 89 years old. His son Matthew told The New York Times that his father, who suffered from “heart ailments,” died ...
Jun 30, 2023 · See More Videos. CNN —. Alan Arkin, the Oscar-winning star of “Little Miss Sunshine,” has died, his family announced Friday. He was 89. “Our father was a uniquely talented force of nature ...
- 3 min
As the Oscar-winning star of ‘Little Miss Sunshine’, ‘Argo’ and ‘Catch-22’ dies at the age of 89, Martin Chilton looks back at the life and career of an actor with exquisite timing ...
Jun 30, 2023 · Alan Arkin, Comic Actor With a Serious Side, Dies at 89. He got laughs and won awards on Broadway in “Enter Laughing” and in movies like “Little Miss Sunshine.”. But he also had a flair ...
