Alan Arkin

Also Credited As:

Robert Short, Alan Wolf Arkin
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Biography

An extremely versatile character actor who easily oscillated between comedy and drama, Alan Arkin struggled for several years as a theater actor until the early 1960s when he caught his first break by joining the famed comedy troupe, The Second City. With his career officially started, he made a huge impression with an Oscar-nominated performance in Norman Jewison's raucous Cold War comedy, "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming" …
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Job Title

Actor, Director, Producer, Writer

Born

Alan Wolf Arkin on March 26, 1934 in Brooklyn, New York, USA

LATEST CREDITS

The Magician of Lublin

Yasha Mazur

Freebie and the Bean

Bean

Last of the Red Hot Lovers

Barney Cashman

Love, Life, Liberty & Lunch

Lawrence

Popi

Popi

Raising Flagg

Flagg Purdy

Necessary Parties

Archie Correlli

Inspector Clouseau

Inspector Jacques Clouseau

The Slums of Beverly Hills

Murray Abramowitz

100 Centre Street

Judge Joe Rifkin

Chu Chu and the Philly Flash

Flash

Simon

Simon

Deadhead Miles

Cooper

A Deadly Business

Harold Kaufman

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

John Singer

Improper Channels

Jeffrey Martley

The Other Side of Hell

Frank Dole

Escape From Sobibor

Leon Feldhandler

Indian Summer

Uncle Lou

Four Days in September

Charles Burke Elbrick

Harry

Harry

Catch-22

Captain Yossarian

Two Guys From Muck

Louie

The Return of Captain Invincible

Captain Invincible

Coupe de Ville

Fred Libner