Alan Arkin: American actor, director, and screenwriter Alan Arkin died at his home on June 29, 2023 at Carlsbad, California, U.S. He was 89 years old at the time of his death. He was suffering from different heart diseases which was identified as the basic cause of his death. His death was confirmed by his sons Adam, Matthew and Anthony in a family statement on Friday.
“Our father was a uniquely talented force of nature, both as an artist and a man,” they said.
“A loving husband, father, grand and great-grandfather, he was adored and will be deeply missed.”
Alan Arkin
Alan Wolf Arkin was popularly known as Alan Arkin. He had a career span of more than 7 decades in the American entertainment industry.
Early Life
Alan was born in Brooklyn, New York, on March 26, 1934. He was born to David I. Arkin ( Father ) who was a painter and writer and Beatrice, a teacher who was his mother. Alan was raised in a Jewish family. Alan Arkin was taking acting acting classes since a very little age of 10 and was a good scholar at various drama academies. He had completed his education from Los Angeles State College from 1951 to 1953. He also attended Bennington College.
Career
He received various awards including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, two SAG Awards, and a Tony Award.
A college dropout, he moved to Chicago in 1960 and became an early member of the Second City improvisational comedy troupe, which he once noted had “literally saved my life”. His acting career began auspiciously on Broadway, appearing in the play Enter Laughing in 1963, which won him a Tony Award for best actor.
He became famous by appearing in films like 1966’s The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming and then The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, both of which saw him nominated for the best actor Oscar. He won a Golden Globe award for the former, a Cold War comedy. Moving into directing early on, he was nominated for another Tony in 1973 for his off stage work on the play The Sunshine Boys.
He received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor for his comedic role as the elderly irascible grandfather in the independent comedy Little Miss Sunshine (2006). He received Academy Award nominations for The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966), The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968), and Argo (2012). He received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his role in the Norman Jewison comedy The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966). He received two Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture along with the ensembles of Little Miss Sunshine (2006), and Argo (2012).
For his work on television, he received six Primetime Emmy Award nominations, including two nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for The Kominsky Method (2018-present). He also received four Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, and two Golden Globe Award nominations for his role in the series. For his work on the Broadway stage he received the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Enter Laughing in 1963 and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for The Sunshine Boys in 1973.
His last 2 films were Netflix film Spenser Confidential in 2020 and 2022 animated film Minions: The Rise of Gru, which was released to critical and commercial success. In September 2022, Arkin had been cast in the independent heist thriller The Smack, which was in pre-production prior to his death.
He has also written many books as an author like including Tony’s Hard Work Day (illustrated by James Stevenson, 1972), The Lemming Condition (illustrated by Joan Sandin, 1976), Halfway Through the Door: An Actor’s Journey Toward Self (1979), and The Clearing (1986 continuation of Lemming). He released two memoirs: An Improvised Life (2011) and Out of My Mind (2018).
Family
Alan Arkin was married thrice. He married his girl friend Jeremy Yaffe in the year 1955 and divorced her in 1961. They have two sons named Adam Arkin, born August 19, 1956, and Matthew Arkin, born March 21, 1960. In 1964 he got married the second time to actress-screenwriter Barbara Dana and their divorce took place in 1994. In 1967, they had a son, Anthony (Tony) Dana Arkin. Arkin married psychotherapist Suzanne Newlander in 1996.
Alan Arkin’s Net Worth
Alan Arkin’s net worth was reportedly $10 million at the time of his death. With Alan Arkin’s death Hollywood lost another legend.
10 Best Movies of Alan Arkin
1 – Catch-22 (1970)
2 – Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001)
3 – The In-Laws (1979)
4 – The Muppets (2011)
5 – The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter (1968)
6 – Edward Scissorhands (1990)
7 – Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
8 – Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
9 – Wait Until Dark (1967)
10 – Argo (2012)
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