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Alan Arkin: Tony Award
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Alan Arkin has married and divorced three times, to Jeremy Yaffe, to Barbara Dana, and to Suzanne Arkin. In addition to the legacy engendered by his own career resumé, Arkin has fathered something of an acting dynasty; his three sons, Adam, Matthew, and Tony, are all gifted and accomplished actors, with Adam Arkin (Northern Exposure, Chicago Hope) maintaining a somewhat higher profile than his brothers. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
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Alan Arkin has appeared in more than 60 films and numerous plays, both on Broadway and off. His illustrious 40-year career includes the distinction of having either won or been nominated for every major theatrical award in this country and Canada. He has directed in every medium and written seven books for young people.
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Arkin evinced pronounced versatility by cutting dramatically against type for his next performance: that of Harry Roat, a psychopath who systematically psychologically tortures Audrey Hepburn, in Terence Young's Wait Until Dark (1967). A return to comedy with 1968's Inspector Clouseau (with Arkin in the Peter Sellers role) proved disastrous. Fortunately, Arkin took this as a cue, and shifted direction once again the following year, with his aforementioned portrayal of Singer in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter -- a gentle and beautiful adaptation of Carson McCullers' wonderful novel. For the effort, Arkin received a much-deserved sophomore Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, but lost to Charly's Cliff Robertson.
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Arkin made an impressive Sigmund Freud opposite Nicol Williamson's Sherlock Holmes in "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution" (1977) and roared all the way back to the top with Peter Falk in Hiller's "The In-Laws" (1979), scripted by Andrew Bergman and executive-produced by Arkin. Unpredictably wacky from start to finish, it cast him as a dentist who becomes involved in the bizarre intrigues of his daughter's father-in-law (Falk) and provided him comic flourishes similar to those with which he had made his name on both stage and screen. In the early 80s he acted in three movies that were family affairs, "Chu Chu and the Philly Flash" (1981, written by wife Barbara Dana with a part for son Adam as well), "Improper Channels" (1981, written by Adam) and Larry Cohen's teenage werewolf comedy "Full Moon High" (1982, starring Adam with a cameo for Tony). He ... turned in a terrific performance as James Woods' colorful dad in "Joshua Then and Now" (1985) and was particularly memorable leading an escape from a death camp in the riveting CBS movie "Escape from Sobibor" (1987).
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Arkin, who won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar, told PEOPLE after the show that he doesn't much like award shows. "I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?"
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