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Alan Arkin in CATCH 22

Alan Arkin (1934- )

On March 26, 1934 Alan Wolf Arkin was born in New York City, New York.

He has, to date, married three times. His first marriage was to Barbara Dana in 1964 with whom he had one child. He remarried in 1955 to Jeremy Yaffe. They had two children during their decade of marriage. Recently Alan has remarried to his current wife, Suzanne Arkin. Alan Arkin is the father of Adam Arkin, Matthew Arkin and Anthony Arkin.

The beginning of his career consisted of baby steps. In fact, Arkin performed many cameos in hi youth including his cameo as a mild-mannered police chief in 1933's "So I Married an Axe Murderer", which he performed without billing. Eventually Arkin would join the St. Louis Missouri Theatre, The Compass Theatre, where he would attain his acting skills. He would move on to perform with the Chicago group Second City. In 1961 an experienced Alan Arkin had made a career for himself back home in New York with the Second City troupe.

After some credible success Arkin would join the Broadway stage, appearing in productions of "Enter Laughing" and "Luv". His performance in 1963's "Enter Laughing" won Alan a Tony for Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Dramatic).

Alan began his silver screen career in 1966. To date, Alan Arkin is one of only five actors to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his first screen appearance in 1966's "The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming" in which he starred as an abandoned Russian sailor.

The following year Alan starred in what was perhaps his darkest role; as the viciously intelligent psychopath Harry Roat who terrifies a defenseless blind women (Audrey Hepburn) in 1967's "Wait Until Dark". In 1968 Arkin would surprise audiences with his role in "Inspector Clouseau" after Peter Sellers declined to reprise the role a third time.

Two of Alan Arkin's silver screen roles were later adapted into a TV Series starring Hector Elizondo. The movies from which the characters were reprised were 1969's "Popi" and 1974's "Freebie and the Bean".

Originally cast to play Saul Bloom in Steven Soderbergh's remake of "Ocean's Eleven", Arkin decided to drop out of production. He was replaced by Carl Reiner.

In 1973 Alan Arkin was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Director (Dramatic) for "The Sunshine Boys".

Alan Arkin's many outstanding credits include:

THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING (AAN) (1966)
WAIT UNTIL DARK (1967)
THE HEART IS A LONEY HUNTER (AAN) (1968)
POPI (1969)
CATCH 22 (1970)
LITTLE MURDERS (1971)
LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS (1972)
FREEBIE AND THE BEAN (1974)
THE SEVEN-PER-CENT SOLUTION (1976)
THE IN-LAWS (1979)
BAD MEDICINE (1985)
HAVANA (1990)
GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS (1992)
NORTH (1994)
GATTACA (1997)
AMERICA'S SWEETHEARTS (2001)
THE NOVICE (2004)
FIREWALL (2006)

Alan Arkin in CATCH 22

Alan Arkin in THE ROCKETEER (1991)

Alan Arkin (playing two characters) in WAIT UNTIL DARK

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Alan Arkin in SO I MARRIED AN AXE MURDER (1993)

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Alan Arkin in EDWARD SCISSORHANDS (1990)

Alan Arkin in THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING, THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING (1966)

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