An extremely versatile character actor who easily oscillated between comedy and drama, Alan Arkin struggled... (Learn more)
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Alan Arkin’s Milestones
| Recorded albums and performed with folk singing group, The Tarriers | |
| 1958 | Off-Broadway debut, "Heloise" |
| 1958 - 1968 | Recorded four albums of songs for children with group, The Babysitters |
| 1959 | Joined the improvisational group The Compass Players at the Crystal Palace in St. Louis, Missouri |
| 1960 | Became a member of Chicago's Second City Group |
| 1961 | Broadway debut in the revue, "From the Second City" |
| 1963 | Delivered Tony-winning turn in Carl Reiner's "Enter Laughing" |
| 1963 | Screen acting debut in short, "That's Me" |
| 1966 | Feature acting debut, "The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming"; earned Best Actor Oscar nomination |
| 1966 | Off-Broadway directing debut, "Eh?"; credited as Robert Short |
| 1967 | Made short film directing debut, "T.G.I.F" |
| 1967 | Terrorized a helpless and blind Audrey Hepburn in "Wait Until Dark" |
| 1968 | Earned second Best Actor Oscar nomination as a deaf mute loner in "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" |
| 1969 | Directed Off-Broadway revival of Jules Feiffer's "Little Murders" |
| 1969 | Starred in Arthur Hiller's "Popi"; earned a Best Actor Golden Globe nomination |
| 1970 | Landed plum role in Mike Nichols' film adaptation of Joseph Heller's antiwar novel "Catch-22"; initial tepid response hurt his career; film has since acquired cult status |
| 1971 | Feature film directing debut, "Little Murders"; also acted |
| 1972 | Broadway directorial debut, Neil Simon's "The Sunshine Boys" |
| 1975 | Co-directed (with Clark Jones) George Furth's TV adaptation of his play "Twigs" (CBS) |
| 1975 | Directed episodes of NBC's short-lived series "Fay" starring Lee Grant |
| 1977 | Last feature directed to date, "Fire Sale"; also acted |
| 1977 | Portrayed Sigmund Freud to Nicol Williamson's Sherlock Holmes in "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution" |
| 1979 | Feature producing (executive producer) debut, "The In-Laws"; also acted; second film with director Hiller |
| 1981 | Teamed with Carol Burnett in the film "Chu Chu and the Philly Flash"; scripted by Arkin's then wife Barbara Dana |
| 1982 | Provided the voice of Schmendrick the Magician in the animated feature "The Last Unicorn" |
| 1985 | Won critical praise as James Woods' colorful dad in "Joshua Then and Now" |
| 1987 | Co-executive producer and star of short-lived ABC series "Harry"; also starred wife Barbara Dana |
| 1987 | Delivered an Emmy-nominated turn in CBS movie "Escape from Sobibor" |
| 1987 | Directed, "The Visit," the fifth episode of PBS' first original comedy series, "Trying Times" |
| 1988 | Co-wrote (with wife Barbara Dana from her novel) and co-starred with her in the PBS special "Necessary Parties" |
| 1990 | Offered a satiric turn as suburbanite in "Edward Scissorhands" |
| 1992 | Joined a heavyweight cast for the film version of David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross" |
| 1993 | Played a bitter ex-ballplayer in TNT's "Cooperstown" |
| 1995 | Appeared in "Jerky Boys: The Movie" |
| 1996 | Played George Kraft in film version of Kurt Vonnegut's "Night Mother" |
| 1997 | Offered a hysterically funny turn as hitman John Cusack's psychiatrist in "Grosse Point Blank" |
| 1997 | Played American ambassador to Brazil in the Oscar-nominated foreign film "Four Days in September" |
| 1998 | Played the family patriarch in "The Slums of Beverly Hills" |
| 1998 | Returned to the stage in the Off-Broadway play (also co-authored) "Power Plays"; also starred son Anthony, Elaine May and May's daughter Jeannie Berlin |
| 2001 | Headlined the ensemble cast of the A&E series "100 Centre Street" |
| 2003 | Cast in the FX mini-series "The Pentagon Papers"; received a Best Supporting Actor Emmy nomination |
| 2006 | Played a foul-mouthed grandfather with a taste for heroin in the indie comedy, "Little Miss Sunshine"; earned a SAG nomination for Best Supporting Actor |
| 2007 | Co-starred with Meryl Streep and Reese Witherspoon in "Rendition" |
| 2007 | Played an elderly handyman in director Neal Miller's character-driven comedy drama, "Raising Flagg" |
| 2008 | Co-starred with Owen Wilson in "Marley and Me" |
| 2008 | Played The Chief in the adaptation of Mel Brooks and Buck Henry's hit 1960s spy parody show, "Get Smart" |
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