{"id":33217,"date":"2023-06-30T18:07:51","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T22:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33217"},"modified":"2023-06-30T18:07:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T22:07:51","slug":"rip-alan-arkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33217","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Alan Arkin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Alan Arkin, the multi-award-winning actor, director and writer died yesterday of natural causes.\u00a0 Mr. Arkin was 89.<\/p>\n

Alan Arkin performed as an actor\/director on Broadway, an actor\/director\/writer for television and an actor\/director of feature films.\u00a0 In 1963, Mr. Arkin won a Tony Award<\/em> for Best Featured Actor in a Play<\/em> for his role in Enter Laughing<\/em>. In 1967, Alan Arkin won a Golden Globe Award<\/em> for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy<\/em> for his role in The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming<\/em>.\u00a0 He was nominated twice for an Academy Award for Best Actor<\/em>; and twice for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor<\/em>, winning in 2007 for his role in Little Miss Sunshine<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Some of Alan Arkin’s television appearances include: East Side\/West Side; Sesame Street<\/em> (5 episodes); Captain Kangaroo; Carol Burnett & Company; St. Elsewhere<\/em> (3 episodes); Harry<\/em> (7 episodes); Chicago Hope; 100 Centre Street<\/em> (12 episodes) and Will & Grace<\/em>;<\/p>\n

Some of Alan Arkin’s feature films include: The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming; Wait Until Dark; Inspector Clouseau; The Heart is a Lonely Hunter; Catch-22; Last of the Red Hot Lovers; Freebie and the Bean; The Seven-Per-Cent Solution; Fire Sale; The In-Laws; Edward Scissorhands; The Rocketeer; Glengarry Glen Ross; So I Married an Axe Murderer; Grosse Pointe Blank; Little Miss Sunshine; Stand Up Guys<\/em> and Grudge Match<\/em>.<\/p>\n

My first memory of Alan Arkin was his performance as Roat in Wait Until Dark<\/em>.\u00a0 He was sinister, scary and deserved an award for his performance.\u00a0 Another favorite is Mr. Arkin’s co-starring role with Peter Falk in The In-Laws<\/em>.\u00a0 I also loved his performance as Louis ‘Lightning’ Conlon the aged fighter\/trainer in Grudge Match<\/em>.\u00a0 I could list more films (Glengarry Glen Ross, The Rocketeer,<\/em> etc.), but it’s easier to just say that any production that Alan Arkin appeared in was better for having him on board.<\/p>\n

Our thoughts and prayers go out to Alan Arkin’s family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alan Arkin, the multi-award-winning actor, director and writer died yesterday of natural causes.\u00a0 Mr. Arkin was 89. Alan Arkin performed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,57,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-rip","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33218,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33217\/revisions\/33218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}