Gender: Male
Born: 26th March 1934 (currently 78 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: 100 Centre Street,
HarryMovies: Catch-22,
Edward Scissorhands,
Eros,
Firewall,
Four Days in September,
Freebie and The Bean,
Glengarry Glen Ross,
Grosse Pointe Blank,
Inspector Clouseau,
Jerky Boys: The Movie,
Little Miss Sunshine,
Noel,
Slums of Beverly Hills,
The In-Laws,
The Return Of Captain Invincible,
The Rocketeer,
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming,
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause,
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution,
Rendition,
Bad Medicine,
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing,
Escape from Sobibor,
Jakob the Liar,
Get Smart,
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash,
Joshua Then and Now,
Fire Sale,
Havana,
Improper Channels,
North,
Coupe de Ville,
Sunshine Cleaning,
Gattaca,
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself,
Simon,
The Fourth Wise Man,
The Last Unicorn,
Necessary Parties,
A Matter of Principle,
Steal Big Steal Little,
Indian Summer,
Heck's Way Home,
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter,
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee,
Wait Until Dark,
So I Married an Axe Murderer,
Doomsday Gun,
Mother Night,
Popi,
The Defection of Simas Kudirka,
Terror in the Aisles,
Marley & Me,
City Island,
Big Trouble,
Hearts of the West,
Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins,
Last of the Red Hot Lovers,
America's Sweethearts,
Varian's War,
Little Murders,
Crossroads,
Raising Flagg,
The Pentagon Papers,
The Convincer,
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie,
Woman Times Seven,
Full Moon High,
The Magician of Lublin,
Deadhead Miles,
The Change-Up,
Argo,
The ConvincerAlan Wolf Arkin (born March 26, 1934) is an American actor, director, musician and singer. He is known for starring in such films as Wait Until Dark, The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Catch-22, The In-Laws, Edward Scissorhands, Glengarry Glen Ross, Marley & Me, and Little Miss Sunshine, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2006. He is the father of actors Adam Arkin, Anthony Arkin, and Matthew Arkin.
Arkin was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of Beatrice (née Wortis), a teacher, and David I. Arkin, a painter and writer who mostly worked as a teacher. Arkin was raised in a Jewish family with "no emphasis on religion"; his maternal grandfather was an immigrant from Odessa, Ukraine. The family moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles when Arkin was 11 years old, but an eight-month Hollywood strike cost Arkin's father a set designer job he had wanted to take. During the 1950s Red Scare, Arkin's parents were accused of being Communists, which led to David losing his job when he refused to answer questions about his political affiliation. David challenged the dismissal and was ultimately vindicated, but only after
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