Alan Arkin: Difference between revisions
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|1963
|1963
||scope=”row”| ”[[Enter Laughing]]”
|scope=”row”| ”[[Enter Laughing]]”
| Performer – David Kolowitz || [[Henry Miller’s Theatre]], Broadway
| Performer – David Kolowitz || [[Henry Miller’s Theatre]], Broadway
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|1964
|1964
||scope=”row”| ”[[Luv (play)|Luv]]”
|scope=”row”| ”[[Luv (play)|Luv]]”
| Performer – Harry Berlin || [[Booth Theatre]], Broadway
| Performer – Harry Berlin || [[Booth Theatre]], Broadway
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|1966
|1966
||scope=”row”| ”Hail Scrawdyke!”
|scope=”row”| ”Hail Scrawdyke!”
| Director || Booth Theatre, Broadway
| Director || Booth Theatre, Broadway
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|1972
|1972
||scope=”row”| ”[[The Sunshine Boys]]”
|scope=”row”| ”[[The Sunshine Boys]]”
| Director || [[Broadhurst Theatre]], Broadway
| Director || [[Broadhurst Theatre]], Broadway
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|1973
|1973
||scope=”row”| ”Molly”
|scope=”row”| ”Molly”
| Director || [[Alvin Theatre]], Broadway
| Director || [[Alvin Theatre]], Broadway
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|2000
|2000
||scope=”row”| ”Taller Than a Dwarf”
|scope=”row”| ”Taller Than a Dwarf”
| Director || [[Longacre Theatre]], Broadway
| Director || [[Longacre Theatre]], Broadway
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American actor, director, and screenwriter (1934–2023)
Alan Wolf Arkin (March 26, 1934 – June 29, 2023) was an American actor, director, and screenwriter best known for his performances on stage and screen. Throughout his career spanning over seven decades, he received various accolades, including an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Tony Award.
Arkin began his career on the Broadway stage, starring in Enter Laughing in 1963 for which he won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play, and the comedic play Luv (1964). For his work directing The Sunshine Boys, he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play in 1973. He gained stardom acting in The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966), Wait Until Dark (1967), The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968), Popi (1969), Catch-22 (1970), The In-Laws (1979), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), Grosse Point Blank (1997), Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001), Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Get Smart (2008), and Argo (2012). For his performance in Little Miss Sunshine, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.[1]
He was also known for his roles on television including his performances as Leon Felhendler in Escape from Sobibor (1987), and as Harry Rowen in The Pentagon Papers (2003) which he earned Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Series or Movie nominations. From 2015 to 2016 he voiced J.D. Salinger in the Netflix animated series BoJack Horseman. From 2018 to 2019 he starred in the Netflix comedy series The Kominsky Method, earning two consecutive Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series nominations.
Early life and education[edit]
Arkin was born in Brooklyn, New York, on March 26, 1934, the son of David I. Arkin, a painter and writer, and his wife, Beatrice (née Wortis), a teacher.[citation needed] He was raised in a Jewish family with “no emphasis on religion”.[2] His grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Ukraine, Russia, and Germany.[3][4][5][6] His parents moved to Los Angeles when Alan was 11,[3] but an 8-month Hollywood strike cost his father his job as a set designer. During the 1950s Red Scare, Arkin’s parents were accused of being Communists, and his father was fired when he refused to answer questions about his political ideology. David Arkin challenged the dismissal, but he was vindicated only after his death.[7]
Arkin, who had been taking acting lessons since age 10, became a scholarship student at various drama academies, including one run by the Stanislavsky student Benjamin Zemach, who taught Arkin a psychological approach to acting.[8] Arkin attended Los Angeles State College from 1951 to 1953. He also attended Bennington College.[9]
1960s: Early work and stardom[edit]
Early roles and Broadway debut
Arkin was an early member of the Second City comedy troupe in the 1960s.[10] In 1957 he made his feature film acting debut in a small role the musical film Calypso Heat Wave. In the early sixties he appeared in episodes of East Side/West Side (1964) and ABC Stage 67 (1966). He also made his Broadway debut as a performer in From the Second City at the Royale Theatre in 1961.
He starred in 1963 on Broadway as David Kolowitz in Joseph Stein‘s comedic play Enter…
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