Alan Arkin

Alan Wolf Arkin (26 Maart 1934 – 29 Junie 2023) was 'n Amerikaanse akteur, regisseur, komediant en musikant met ’n loopbaan wat oor byna ses dekades gestrek het. Hy was bekend vir sy rolle in die rolprente Edward Scissorhands (1990), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), Little Miss Sunshine (2006), en Argo (2012). Hy was van Joodse afkoms.

Loopbaan 
Arkin, wat van 10-jarige ouderdom af toneelspellesse geneem het, het aan verskeie drama-instellings studeer. Hy het die folkgroep The Tarriers saam met twee vriende gestig; Arkin het gesing en kitaar gespeel. Van 1958 tot 1968 het hy saam met die kindergroep The Baby Sitters gesing. Hy het ook in die operette Candide gesing. In die 1960's was hy ’n vroeë lid van die komediegeselskap The Second City.

Hy is bekend vir sy spel in prente soos The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966), Wait Until Dark (1967), The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968), Catch-22 (1970), The In-Laws (1979), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), Little Miss Sunshine (2006) en Argo (2012).

Hy is benoem vir twee Oscars vir beste akteur, vir The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming en The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, en een vir beste manlike byspeler vir Argo. Met eersgenoemde het hy een van net ses mense geword wat ’n Oscar-benoeming vir beste akteur vir sy eerste rolprentrol gekry het. Hy het dié prys vir beste manlike byspeler gewen vir Little Miss Sunshine, wat tot dusver sy enigste Oscar is.

Filmografie

Rolprente 
 1966: The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
 1967: Wait Until Dark
 1968: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
 1968: Inspector Clouseau
 1969: Popi
 1970: Catch-22
 1971: Little Murders
 1972: Last of the Red Hot Lovers
 1973: Deadhead Miles
 1974: Freebie and the Bean
 1975: Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins
 1976: The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
 1976: America at the Movies
 1977: Fire Sale
 1979: The In-Laws
 1979: The Magician of Lublin
 1980: Simon
 1981: Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
 1981: Improper Channels
 1982: The Last Unicorn
 1983: The Return of Captain Invincible
 1985: Bad Medicine
 1985: Joshua Then and Now
 1986: Big Trouble
 1990: Edward Scissorhands
 1990: Havana
 1991: The Rocketeer
 1992: Glengarry Glen Ross
 1993: Indian Summer
 1995: The Jerky Boys
 1995: Steal Big Steal Little
 1997: Four Days in September
 1998: Slums of Beverly Hills
 2000: Magicians
 2001: Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
 2004: Eros
 2004: Noel
 2006: Little Miss Sunshine
 2006: Raising Flagg
 2007: Rendition
 2008: Get Smart
 2008: Sunshine Cleaning
 2009: The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
 2011: Thin Ice
 2012: Argo
 2012: Stand Up Guys
 2013: Grudge Match
 2014: Million Dollar Arm
 2016: Naples '44
 2017: Going in Style
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Televisiereekse 
 1955: Captain Kangaroo
 1971: The Great American Dream Machine
 1979: Carol Burnett & Company
 1987: Harry
 2001: 100 Centre Street
 2006: History in Focus
 2012: The Hollywood Fast Lane
 2012: MSN Exclusives
 2018: The Kominsky Method

Televisierolprente 
 1975: Twigs
 1978: The Defection of Simas Kudirka
 1978: The Other Side of Hell
 1982: Two Guys from Muck
 1985: The Fourth Wise Man
 1986: A Deadly Business
 1987: Escape from Sobibor
 1988: Necessary Parties
 1990: In the Director's Chair: The Man Who Invented Edward Scissorhands
 1994: Doomsday Gun
 1996: Heck's Way Home
 2001: Second to None
 2003: The Pentagon Papers
 2003: And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
 2009: Premio Internazionale del Cinema Rodolfo Valentino. XXXII Edizione

Video's 
 1990: Havana: Featurette
 2003: A Look in the Dark
 2008: Wisdom
 2013: The Lowdown on Making Stand Up Guys
 2013: Stand Up Guys: The Stand Up Songs of Jon Bon Jovi
 2013: Stand Up Guys: American Muscle - The Stand Up Stunt Driving Scenes

Verwysings

Eksterne skakels 

 

Amerikaanse Jode
Amerikaanse komediante
Amerikaanse rolprentregisseurs
Amerikaanse sangers
Geboortes in 1934
Lewende mense
Amerikaanse manlike akteurs van die 20ste eeu
Amerikaanse manlike akteurs van die 21ste eeu