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Posted on 06/30/2023 8:42:03 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Alan Arkin, the wry character actor who demonstrated his versatility in everything from farcical comedy to chilling drama as he received four Academy Award nominations and won an Oscar in 2007 for “Little Miss Sunshine,” has died. He was 89.
His sons Adam, Matthew and Anthony confirmed their father’s death through the actor’s publicist on Friday. “Our father was a uniquely talented force of nature, both as an artist and a man,” they said in a statement.
A member of Chicago’s famed Second City comedy troupe, Arkin was an immediate success in movies with the Cold War spoof “The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming” and peaked late in life with his win as best supporting actor for the surprise 2006 hit “Little Miss Sunshine.” More than 40 years separated his first Oscar nomination, for “The Russians are Coming,” from his nomination for playing a conniving Hollywood producer in the Oscar-winning “Argo.”
In recent years he starred opposite Michael Douglas in the Netflix comedy series “The Kominsky Method,” a role that earned him two Emmy nominations.
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Oh, yes, The In-Laws, how could I forget that one.
Freebie and the Bean is a really good comedy.
And a great car chase sequence.
“The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!
He was fantastic in The Kominsky Method.
Also Freebie and The Bean, with James Caan.
R.I.P.
Didn’t John Phillip Law play in it?
Among others. Great cast: Jonathan Winters, Carl Reiner, Brian Keith, Paul Ford, Theo Bikel, Eva Marie Saint.
He played a scary psycho in that movie.
Richard Crena at least was halfway human.
Terrible news. RIP Alan Arkin.
He was also on several M*A*S*H episodes. RIP.
Memory Eternal!!!!
“He a big honcho”
RIP!
Agreed. Like the "swordfish scene" in Get Smart.
Max: "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
Chief: "I don't know. Were you thinking 'Holy s**t, holy s**t, a swordfish almost went through my head? If so, yes."
Here’s a link to the Variety obit (I always like to read those.):
It contains this wonderful quote from a review of “The In-Laws”, which is a hilarious movie: The New York Times’ Janet Maslin wrote: “I was laughing so hard at ‘The In-Laws,’ a wonderful new comedy of errors… that after a while I was crying. Then I was wiping my eyes. Then I forgot to take any more notes.”
Maybe I’ll read that, what is it called? I read Mel Brooks’s “All About Me” and loved it.
Absolutely perfect suspense movie.
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