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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He was in a VERY good TV movie from 1987 called Escape From Sobibor. Rutger Hauer co-starred with him. About the only mass escape ever made from a Nazi death camp. Well worth finding and watching. Arkin played the leader of the Jewish prisoners.
Wasn’t he also the psychologist in MASH?
Escape From Sobibor is on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2Gtq4uTZrA
That was Allan Arbus.
One of my all-time faves. He played so many different characters with subtlety and and wit. RIP
One of my all time favorite movies....THE IN-LAWS......
He portrayed the flummoxed Russian Lieutenant Rozanov.
I loved him (and everyone else, for that matter) in The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming!
the detective’s boss in “so I married an axe murderor”... :-)
I can still hear him say "Whitaker Walt". A classic!!!
Wait Until Dark:
https://www.tcm.com/video/1027660/wait-until-dark-1967-movie-clip-atmosphere-of-mistrust/
‘Adam’ fascinated me years ago and I did a deep search. The logic and sarcasm were
Pure Gold.
That, IMHO, was one of the funniest comedies ever made. Serpentine Shel! Serpentine! RIP Mr. Arkin.
Argo.
Popi.
Thanks! I hope it STAYS on YouTube. If you want a movie where the Jews open up a can of whoop-ass on their Nazi captors, this is a movie for you. Watching the prisoners take out one SS officer after another is grimly satisfying. Arkin and Hauer really shined in this one.
He’ll always be Dr. Oatman to me...lol
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